Is the purpose of guns in general to kill?

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Are guns designed to kill?

The statement makes too broad of an assumption.  It implies that this is the most important reason why guns exist in our society.  Guns can be used as tools to make sounds (like in a race), to shoot at paper for entertainment and to hunt.  You cannot make the broad statement that guns are designed to kill and maintain logical integrity.  

The purpose of a gun is to accelerate a projectile from zero velocity with respect to the gun to a certain velocity (such as 1200 feet per second) in a controllable vector (meaning you can control the direction)

This is a universal and correct explanation of the purpose of a gun as a tool.

None of my guns are meant to kill.  They serve the purpose of entertainment and sport and to protect my family and if I had to protect my family my objectives would be 1. to stop the bad guy and 2 try not to kill him.  In fact, such a large fraction of guns in our society are meant for entertainment and other functions than killing that to describe guns in general as being meant to kill is irrational.

That would be like saying the only purpose of the motorcycle is to jump ramps or the only purpose of the car is to ram things.

I know it is a difficult to escape the constant brainwashing of the media about guns, but an intelligent, open minded person should be able to take this in, adapt and learn.

No matter what your emotions tell you what the purpose of an object is, the real purpose of an object is based on what that object is used to do most of the time.  Today tens of thousands of guns were used for other purposes than to kill while only 80 or so were used to kill here in the US.  Making the purpose of guns in general to be entertainment and not killing. Please rec this so people outside the gun forum can see it and join in the discussion