(B2431) wrote in
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From: "Simon Robbins"
Date: 4/29/2004 3:44 PM Central Daylight Time
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"B2431" wrote in message
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Where did you get that idea? There are entire categories of
competion
using
handguns (ever heard of the Olympics?) and many hunter use them as a
greater
challenge than long guns.

Yeah, but that's like suggesting martial arts, though used for
competition are designed for anything other than giving someone else a
severely bad day. Tell me, did Colt have competition in mind when he
developed the revolver? We've turned many dangerous activities into
sport, but that doesn't disguise their original intention.

Si

He didn't say "original intention," he said "only purpose" and Colt
did make target pistols.

Let's make an analogy to what you suggest. For thousands of years bows
and arrows have been weapons of war. Today they are primarily used for
competition or entertainment with some people using them for hunting.
If a weapon's orininal intent is to kill people then we should also
ban archery and the javelin from the Olympics.

Around the world thousands of people are killed with knives. Shall we
ban them from the kitchen because of them?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired


A baseball bat is a club,which originally was designed to kill.
There goes that sport.The entire "designed to kill" argument is just a
meaningless dodge,anyways,to demonize guns.

What matters is the intent of the person using that item.

And killing is not always a bad thing.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net