Obama Admin Caves: ATF Halts Assault on Inalienable Rights

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o_O.Q said:

starcraft said:

I believe you're referring to rifles alone. According to this pro-guns article (which evidently counts on its readership being stupid enough not to actually click and read through the table it provides), for every person murdered with a knife or cutting instrument in the USA in 2013, eight were murdered with a gun.

 

oh my mistake i know that it is established fact that knives kill more than guns its just that its rifles in particular

oh and i disagree with your last point because again where do we draw the line if we state that the concern is the lives of citizens 

do we stop alcohol from being produced because it causes deaths, rapes etc? for example

"which evidently counts on its readership being stupid enough not to actually click and read through the table it provides)"

how is that evident? it states right there in the heading that its reffering to rifles

As others in this thread have said, a great place to start is intent.

Alcohol is a dual purpose product. The primary purpose of guns is to kill people. Alcohol causes a tonne of death and harm in a range of ways, and I am not defending it at all.

But its also irrelevant to the guns debate. Science proves that guns are enormously harmful to American society. How on earth is it relevant if alcohol is enormously harmful to American society? I am quite confident a 1 mile asteroid would be enormously harmful to American society, but the prospect of one hitting shouldn't mean we accept the enormous harm firearms do.

The article is clearly trying to intimate that guns are less harmful than knives - obviously that is an outright lie!