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10/13/2015 4:04:56 AM
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Regardless of your position on gun control, your statement is stupid.
Guns are designed to kill.
The vast majority of knives are designed to cut butter.
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*majority of knifes that are bought are designed to cut butter Just like how the majority of guns bought in the US aren't designed specifically to kill innocent people.
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Edited by jay p: 10/13/2015 4:59:29 AM[quote]*majority of knifes that are bought are designed to cut butter Just like how the majority of guns bought in the US aren't designed specifically to kill innocent people.[/quote] All guns are made to kill. Almost no knives are made to kill. You can be willfully ignorant if you wish, but guns are made specifically to kill. Almost all knives are not.
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Just because something is made to kill doesn't make it a "killing machine" There are a lot of guns that are bought in the US, and haven't killed anything. And back to my original argument, knifes were first designed to kill things, you can't deny that
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[quote]Just because something is made to kill doesn't make it a "killing machine" There are a lot of guns that are bought in the US, and haven't killed anything. And back to my original argument, knifes were first designed to kill things, you can't deny that[/quote] You are purposely ignoring the obvious ridiculousness of your own argument, much as you criticized the OP for doing. Fact: all guns made are designed for killing. Fact: the overwhelming majority of knives made are not for killing, but for some other purpose. You are being as willfully ignorant as the person you are critiquing.
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Attacking my character isn't going to do you any good OP is trying to argue that guns are made to murder, he literally said "murder machines" I was saying that knifes are just as much murder machines as guns, because neither of them are actually made to murder things. to kill =/= to murder
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[quote]Attacking my character isn't going to do you any good[/quote] I'm not attacking your character, I'm attacking your argument. I don't believe you to be dumb, even if your argument is. You are being blinded by your own bias, just as you rightly pointed out the other person is. Is calling a gun a murder machine a little ridiculous? Of course, because murder is a particular type of killing that is weighted by our laws and ethics. But you can't compare modern knives to guns based on the idea that knives were "initially designed to kill and cut things." No one is talking about the first caveman's knife, just as no one is talking about a revolutionary war-era musket. Guns are meant to kill. That is their function. The same is not true of knives, therefore it's a false equivalency. I'm not arguing that all guns should be banned, nor do I think labeling them as "murder machines" is intellectually honest, but your comparison isn't valid.
