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DoubleDeuce

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4. If not killing what ??
Thu Dec 10, 2020, 10:16 PM
Dec 2020

If guns aren't made for killing, what are they made for ?? I own guns, I don't use them as paper weights. I used the .308 a week ago to kill a deer, that's precisely why I bought it......I don't know who you think you're bullshitting, guns are made to kill, and they are becoming more efficient at that purpose all the time. Why do members of the armed forces carry guns, why do members of law enforcement carry them.
In the case of the Orlando shooter, it wouldn't have been necessary for the police to shoot him had he not been armed himself. Perhaps the man who killed 58 people in Vegas only intended to kill 58, the other 500 who were injured were intentionally spared.....but, we both know that's not the case, the man fired over 1000 rounds from the window of his room on the 32nd floor into the crowd of 22,000 with the intent of killing as many as possible. That is inarguable.....the irony is, the Mandalay Bay Hotel and MGM Resorts were successfully sued by the victims families for $735 million. So, the people who rented the room to the man are more responsible for his killing 58 people than the company that manufactured the firearm, or the people that sold it to him. I get that the person who pulled the trigger is ultimately responsible for his actions, but pretending a gun is made for anything besides what it is made for is just silly.

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