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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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On 12/11/2024 12:10 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 12/11/2024 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 12/11/2024 11:07 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2024 6:06 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reality is that ALL firearms are dangerious. [sic]
>>>
>>> John, are ALL firearms equally dangerous? Really?
>>>
>>> Of course not!
>>>
>>> The AR was specifically designed to be more dangerous to 
>>> the enemy than its predecessor. If that were not the 
>>> objective, there would have been no need for a new design.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That was 65 years ago. Designs have progressed.
>>
>> Also, although I haven't looked recently, for many years 
>> the #1 fatal round in USA was .22LR overwhelmingly.
>>
>> Without editing or rephrasing Mr Slocumb's comment, "all 
>> firearms are dangerous" in in fact obviously true.
> 
> John was using "All firearms are dangerous" specifically as 
> a defense of wide proliferation of AR-style rifles. Check 
> the thread. By ignoring that fact, his buddies are 
> pretending that all levels of danger are equally bad.
> 
> Ignoring levels of danger is beyond absurd. If you accept 
> that, you may as well extend the concept to straight pins, 
> stairways, sunburn and hell, everything else in the world. 
> And you may as well advocate for private ownership of 
> nuclear weapons.
> 
> (And I'll note that the gun fetishists here actually _have_ 
> tried to do that with other everyday items! I won't remind 
> people of their other chosen items, because that will just 
> set them off on other illogical chases.)
> 


Every farmer in my are has plenty of ammonia rich fertilizer 
and a few hundred gallons of diesel. Not one of them has 
emulated Timothy McVeigh. Not once.

Materiel is not volition.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971