It isn't necessarily guns and bombs that decide the fate of a revolution, else there would still be an East Germany and a USSR and a Warsaw Pact.

Exactly, they did it without guns. Oftentimes that works better.

Indeed. India is a prime example.



I agree in principle that the only thing that protects us from the government is the military. If the government sent troops into American neighborhoods, no small arms are going to help us. Only the troops disobeying unlawful orders would. But, I could be an insurgent with a weapon. Whether I and others like me could win is irrelevant. For us insurgents, we are free, and trying to win back our country.

Great point! Cars are tools...a means of getting from point A to point B. Cars are also used for recreation and sport. Is it possible that in the wrong hands it can be used as a weapon?...Absolutely! A case in point; A few years back in Houston, TX I believe, A married doctor was having an affair. The scorned wife followed the doctor and his mistress to the hotel. When the doctor and mistress were leaving, the wife ran doctor down (in a Mercedes ironically) and killed him. At that point, the car was no longer a tool…it was a weapon.

A baseball bat…it is a tool used in recreation to hit a baseball. That same baseball bat can easily be used against a human as a weapon. That same baseball bat can have lethal consequences. Do we band all baseball bats?

A kitchen steak knife…it is a tool used to cut your rib eye or t-bone steak. That same steak knife can easily be used too murder someone at which point it is no longer a tool…but now a weapon…and when used in this manner it can have deadly consequences. Do we band all steak knifes?

A pillow…a fairly benign object…used to comfort the body while sleeping. This same pillow can be used to suffocate a cheating spouse. At that point it becomes a weapon with fatal consequences. Do we band all pillows?

I can go on and on…but I think you get my point.

The bottom line is…a gun is a tool. A tool used for hunting, recreation, and self defense…which are all valid and legal reasons to own one. A gun is a firearm…not a weapon…it can not be considered a weapon until it is used against a human being. The anti-gunners are the way they are out of fear and ignorance. I say fear and ignorance because most anti-gunners have not been exposed to guns on a regular basis. Most have not been taught safe and proper use of a firearm.

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Here's a little information on the biggest threat to our guns, and Canada's LARGE involvement.

Watch both videos.

Try killing 32 people on a campus within minutes with a car, baseball bat, pillow or a steak knife. Guns are much more dangerous "tools" and they are a weapon anytime they're used to threaten another human being or kill another living creature, not just human beings.

Guns are not nearly as dangerous as some diesel fuel and fertilizer.

Given a gun-free zone campus…a lecture hall with 300 students…a truck, some barrels, fuel, fertilizer...and a few other legal components (I refuse to mention here)…heck we can even throw in the baseball bat, steak knifes, and pillows…there are your 32 + people.

The point is…anything (not just guns) in the hands of someone intent on doing harm can be potentially deadly. So is the answer to band all these items? I think not.

Who's talking about banning anything? And how often does someone blow up a building in the US? The last incident I recall was the Oklahoma bombing in 1995. On the other hand major school and workplace shootings (especially of the suicide variety) occur several times a year in this country. It's much easier to just slip a gun or two in your pants than haul a bunch of barrels with fuel and fertilizer undetected.

A gun is a weapon whose purpose is to kill or wound. A gun has no benign function. Everything else you listed has a purpose other than killing or wounding.
It has nothing to do with cars, and can't be reasonably compared to a car in any fashion.

A gun has neither benign nor malignant function and it has no purpose. A gun cannot threaten and a gun cannot set a people free and a gun cannot enslave anybody. A gun could sit loaded and cocked and ready to fire for years and years and harm nobody. It could be pointed at a bathtub full of orphaned babies and it would be no threat to them whatsoever.

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Depends on the size of the crowd, and the size and speed of the vehicle.


It's a useless argument.
Sissies are afraid of guns and the responsible people that use them, and responsible gun owners don't understand the sissies because the sissies make absolutely no sense.

Nuff said, case closed.

A gun absolutely has a purpose. Anything manufactured or produced by a human being has a purpose.

Wrong. The so-called "sissies" are afraid of guns in the hands of criminals and they have every right to feel that way, given our high crime rate.

They are already there. Nothing you say or do can stop that. Might as well defend yourself. That or wait for 911 which is pretty much there to fill up the paperwork so you can claim insurance.