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In reply to the discussion: Guns kill, they're designed to kill, they have no other use [View all]beardown
(363 posts)20. Must not be designed very well.
USA has 300 million guns. 30,000 deaths a year. Numbers may be out of date as I let my subscription to Angry Ammosexual lapse last year.
And don't even get me started on javelins, discus, shot put, and the hammer ball and cord. All designed to kill and nothing else and yet they hardly bring down a fatality every several years. Swords are the worst. In every pawn shop and advertised on TV nightly and only a trickle of fatalities and those mostly only happen while they are being cleaned.
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Guns kill, they're designed to kill, they have no other use [View all]
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2016
OP
Cops aren't trained to kill, they're trained to shoot until the threat is neutralized.
GGJohn
Feb 2016
#9
You really need to talk to somebody about those unfounded fears of inanimate objects
DonP
Mar 2016
#23
Will you call out the person I responded to about the idea that inanimate objects will save his
MillennialDem
Mar 2016
#24
That's also likely that I never meet you. Do you plan on attacking me or my family?
MillennialDem
Mar 2016
#27
I think duckhunter thinks I did, but could be wrong. That said, what I said
MillennialDem
Mar 2016
#38