The Brady Campaign gets their hands slapped - a victim's family gets punched in the face

[beevul]

35. Did you use your shoes to write that post?

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Or your shorts? Or your shirt?

How about your watch.

No? But you are (presumably) WEARING THEM.

Beevul's contention was that no body armor was used by holmes, not that the body armor itself had stopped a bullet or helped him escape injury (which it indeed might have).

No james. beevuls contention, is that unless he was shot while wearing it, whatever body armor he may have been wearing was not in fact USED, in spite of being worn.

If holmes was wearing a watch, did he USE it during the shooting, if he did not stop to check the time?

I say no.

I say the same thing about the body armor. He had it in his possession, but it was not "used".

Full Definition of USED


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: employed in accomplishing something

The clear purpose of body armor, is to mitigate gun fire. Presumably he chose them for the purpose of mitigating gun fire. He never accomplished that, because he was not actually shot at and hit. Therefore the body armor was never used, in spite of being worn, any more than his watch was if he did not check the time during the shooting.

The body armor was never employed, in spite of being worn.

You may as well make the argument he used the lint in his pocket too.


On edit: I (maybe wrongly) presume you know that wearing say, a watch, and USING a watch, are not the same, and that you can tell the difference between the two.