The burden of the Intellectual

[Kasz216]

MDMAlliance said:

Kasz216 said:

Most guns... aren't made to kill people, some are made to kill animals, Some handguns are made to wound people for self defense... but most are made for sport shooting. 

The only guns specifically designed to kill are ones modified to take special amunition or your bigger combat arms.   Handguns CAN kill, but aren't primarily designed for it.  While hunting rifles and shotguns were obviously not made.

They're like Bows.  Most are made for practice or hunting and target practice, though you could kill a guy with one.

I agree with only half of this statement, while the part where you said handguns "can kill" but they are used more for "self defense" I absolutely disagree with.  If handguns were made to just wound people, they wouldn't have been made to kill so easily.  Handguns are a powerful weapon, made with the intent to kill.  A more worthy self defense is the martial arts, which can be used to kill people but for a good few of the martial arts it is meant for self defense.  Those who use handguns for self defense are only making the problem worse.  

Do you know someone relativly trained in the martial arts?  If so, I would suggest challenging them to a sparring match, where you use a highlighter in place of a knife.

What you'll probably find is, that martial arts, are highly overrated in popular depictions in media. 

 

Additionally, another good test is to take someone who is 5 foot 2, and a black belt... and pit them against a 6 foot 6 person. 

 

Marital arts aren't adequete to deal with weapons, or people of a larger size.

 

Additionally, weapons and martial arts when equal, always give advantage to the bigger man.

A gun is as useful to a 5 foot man as it is a 7 foot man however.

Guns have the stopping power they do, because such stopping power is needed.

Whether they kill or not is dependent on the ammo.