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You can also be killed by a baseball bat, garden shears, or a plastic supermarket bag. Why do you consider a gun carried by someone as part of his job 'big sca

by tsotha 15y ago

You can also be killed by a baseball bat, garden shears, or a plastic supermarket bag. Why do you consider a gun carried by someone as part of his job 'big scary'?

williamcotton 15y ago
Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings which is somewhat terrifying. Also, it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag.
- anamax 15y ago
  > Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings Citation needed. Since they're not that effective at that "specific purpose", either their designers are incompetent or that isn't actually their "specific purpose". (And no, "what are they designed for if not killing people?" isn't actually an argument, evidence, etc.)
- mc32 15y ago
  >it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag. How many accidental gunshots vs. how many accidental incidents of accidental suffocation caused by supermarket bags? Bags killed over 2000 infants btwn 1980 and 1997. Accidental firearm deaths about 1000/year. So, you are right. But it's not as though accidental bag suffocation is insignificant and brushed aside as minimal.
  - janardanyri 15y ago
    So maybe infants should be more scared of plastic bags than firearms. I'm pretty sure that the commenter in question is not an infant, and thus has little to fear from plastic bags. (Does this really need to be stated?)
    - bdunbar 15y ago
      The commenter in question is afraid of a little girl with a gun. So .. me _might_ well be afraid of plastic bags.
- bdunbar 15y ago
  Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings I had, for a number of years, a .22 target pistol. Made for the specific purpose of punching small holes in paper. You _could_ use it for killing people, but you'd have to work at it. That aside, being terrified of a thing seems like a sad way to live. I'd be more afraid of a person with intent to harm, than the specific tool he uses.
  - tsotha 15y ago
    That's how I feel exactly. Over the years I've been places where there were no guns, and places where pretty much everyone was packing. The most terrified I've ever been was a place where nobody had a gun, and I would have been overjoyed to see an armed policeman at the time.

by tsotha 15y ago

You can also be killed by a baseball bat, garden shears, or a plastic supermarket bag. Why do you consider a gun carried by someone as part of his job 'big scary'?

williamcotton 15y ago

Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings which is somewhat terrifying. Also, it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag.

anamax 15y ago
> Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings Citation needed. Since they're not that effective at that "specific purpose", either their designers are incompetent or that isn't actually their "specific purpose". (And no, "what are they designed for if not killing people?" isn't actually an argument, evidence, etc.)
mc32 15y ago
>it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag. How many accidental gunshots vs. how many accidental incidents of accidental suffocation caused by supermarket bags? Bags killed over 2000 infants btwn 1980 and 1997. Accidental firearm deaths about 1000/year. So, you are right. But it's not as though accidental bag suffocation is insignificant and brushed aside as minimal.
- janardanyri 15y ago
  So maybe infants should be more scared of plastic bags than firearms. I'm pretty sure that the commenter in question is not an infant, and thus has little to fear from plastic bags. (Does this really need to be stated?)
  - bdunbar 15y ago
    The commenter in question is afraid of a little girl with a gun. So .. me _might_ well be afraid of plastic bags.
bdunbar 15y ago
Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings I had, for a number of years, a .22 target pistol. Made for the specific purpose of punching small holes in paper. You _could_ use it for killing people, but you'd have to work at it. That aside, being terrified of a thing seems like a sad way to live. I'd be more afraid of a person with intent to harm, than the specific tool he uses.
- tsotha 15y ago
  That's how I feel exactly. Over the years I've been places where there were no guns, and places where pretty much everyone was packing. The most terrified I've ever been was a place where nobody had a gun, and I would have been overjoyed to see an armed policeman at the time.