[Moneyguy1]

legion

Please read my other post about the difference between impersonal and personal methods of killing. You sometimes come off like a broken record or at least someone who will never even consider an alternative point of view. Far easier to pull a trigger than hit your adversary over the head with a hammer.

Guns do not make people kill. The ease of killing with a gun is the point. I am not against firearms; just a bit more rational about the uses to which they can be put, and far less emotional about the subject. A box cutter has a purpose: To open packages; an ice pick has a purpose; to chip ice. A wood chipper was dsigned to reduce brush into mulch. All of these, granted, can be used for mor nefarious purposes. However, a firearm makes a poor box cutter, a terrible ice pick but a modestly usable wood chipper. The firearm has, like the tools you mention, a specific purpose. Define that purpose in relation to other tools and you do arrive at the conclusion that the NRA slogan is empty and meaningless.

I was a marksman in the service; I rspect firearms and understand their basic purpose. Unfortunately, too many people revere them as some form of holy object rather than a tool with a specific range of purposes.