Google "people shot this week" .

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219. By design guns are meant to damage, injure and kill

It does not matter whether it is a target, a bird or a man, it will damage or injure or kill

Guns are very effective at killing, indeed they are probably the most effective personal device for performing that function. Swimming pools are not very effective at killing which is why the military arms its troops with guns and nor swimming pools.

Guns only kill "at a lower rate" if you look at gross figures, in exactly the same way that aircraft are "the safest form of transport" in terms of passenger miles but promptly loose their title when you consider "passenger hours".

The argument made by persons here has been that because guns kill so "few" it is not worth loosing the precious right to keep and bear arms.

If you point out that by that argument ownership of nuclear weapons by responsible should be allowed under the 2nd because they have harmed far fewer people than cars or guns or possibly even swimming pools you are accused of being silly or exaggerating.

When you point out that the seeming infrequency of deaths cannot justify the ownership of a device which was designed only with the intent to damage or injure or kill you are accused of only being interested in numbers, or ignoring the lives saved or fixating on numbers.