One person manages not to shoot up the people around her and has guns -- therefore guns are safe.I think that generally, inanimate objects only become lethal when humans choose to use them lethally. That goes for both guns and hammers. And for that matter, cars, baseball bats, paring knives, lengths of pipe and bricks.
But I'm going one step further back, to the repeated claim that guns are designed and engineered "for murdering", and I'm wondering how it is that a ten year old child can use three different "killing guns" in as many minutes, and despite seemingly having mastered the aiming part, and the pulling of the trigger, and despite having at least two people only metres away from her, she didn't manage to murder either of them.
Did nobody have the heart to tell her that those guns weren't designed to shoot those clay targets?
And if a child could use all three of them safely, what excuse does any adult have (other than the excuses they give -- "I was mad", "he didn't signal his lane change", or "he dissed me")?
Yesterday I saw a cat. It was black. I saw a second cat today. It was also black.
All cats are black.
Someone murdered someone with a gun somewhere. Another person murdered someone with a gun somewhere.
Guns are for murder.
Another straw man for the straw man army.
Most of these Guns are for killing -- some perhaps animals -- some perhaps military -- and yes some to kill people. Nobody said all guns are for murder.