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[Tommy_Carcetti]

229. Homicide does not equal murder.

Homicide is the taking of a human being's life by another human being. Whether that is justified or not.

The NRA and other gun lobby groups are not going to advocate use of guns for murder. But they have defended use of guns in the taking of another's life presumably in the act of self-defense.....the problem is, what is and is not self-defense is not always cut and dry and one man's justifiable homicide is another man's unjustifiable homicide (see Zimmerman, George.) Moreover, the culture of "they're all out to get you so you better be armed" is way too prevelant amongst these groups.

I guess if the NRA advocated for the use of guns only in the context of competitive target shooting that would be one thing. But that's not the case at all.

As it relates to handguns versus other guns, the NRA and similar groups have taken it upon themselves to advocate for the use of all types of guns: handguns, rifles, gauge shotguns. Hence, guns are to be considered as a whole, and not as a subset. Not to mention that they all techinically do the same thing in the end: they shoot bullets into a target, either living nor non-living.