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 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:50:40 -0500, penny  wrote: 
  
 >On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:02:50 GMT, 10x@telu€s.net wrote: 
 > 
 >>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:03:16 -0500, penny  wrote: 
 >> 
 >>>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:15:27 GMT, 10x@telu€s.net wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:35:29 -0500, penny  wrote: 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>Aspirin is a "curative" medicine. It has a use and its use is 
 >>>>>sometimes to stop pain.  You can't stop pain with a gun. A gun has no 
 >>>>>use other than to kill or maim and create lots of pain. It's like a 
 >>>>>knife has a use , actually a lot of uses.  One of its uses is that you 
 >>>>>can peel a potato with it.  But, you cannot peel a potato with a gun. 
 >>>>>A gun has no uses. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>Many folks have pototo guns that can make a mashed potatoe very 
 >>>>quickly.... 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>So Lone Ghost was right!  Well , in that case let's change the example 
 >>>I used with him to get my point across. 
 >>> 
 >>>You cannot use a gun to drive a car, to ride a bike, or to clean your 
 >>>teeth. 
 >>> 
 >>>I won't believe it if I ever see a gun with a toothbrush attachment on 
 >>>it's handle. 
 >> 
 >>Penny, you are absolutey right, and you don't see a tooth brush  or a 
 >>bike, or an automobile, that can shoot a bullet. 
 >>Each has it's use and place in society as do firearms. 
 >>A firearm is a basically a very smiple single cyliner heat engine. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >You are half way to agreeing, 10X.  Now let's see you take that step 
 >that will bring you the whole way. 
 > 
 >The difference in the objects you mentioned is that the gun is the 
 >only one that is intrinsically an object that only shoots and kills. 
 > 
 >The others are essentials to everyday life whereas the gun seems to be 
 >only essential to people like you who live in or on the fringes of 
 >predatory food chain areas,  or where specified animal depopulation is 
 >the order of the day, or where animal pests are a serious problem on 
 >your property in the country. 
 > 
 >But still don't forget its intrinsic purpose is only to shoot and 
 >kill, whatever it is that is shot and killed. 
  
 The intrinsic purpose of any firearm is to fire a bullet. What it hits 
 is usually the decision of a human. Of the hundreds of millions of 
 bullets fired from guns in Canada each year, very few are aimed at 
 humans and even fewer hit humans. 
  
 >Do you think we've actually clinched it! :-) 
  
 Haven't you figured out that gunshot wounds are an extremely rare 
 event outside of Toronto? 
  
 >Whew! 
  
 Yes, indeed! 
  
  
  
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