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Birth Control Works10/03/2017 8:47:18 am PDT

re: #196 Citizen K

As Eddie Izzard said, “The NRA says ‘guns don’t kill, people do’, but I think the gun helps.”

The point isn’t ‘blaming the tool’, it’s that said tool in the hands of the wrong people makes a dangerous situation deadly, and makes a deadly situation into a potential massacre. It’s a catalyst, and it literally has no other purpose than to damage and maim things. There’s no other use for a gun than to shoot things with the intent to kill.

As a point:

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Citizens can own/use firearms. Only the Military can own/use weapons.

I don’t know the history of this, but it was taught at the Firearm’s Safety Course I attended.