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Old 11-28-2006, 02:44 PM   #1
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Sorry if you had a problem with my spelling; it looks correct to me. Please bear in mind that in the sentence you quoted, "intent" is not a noun.
Yepper, you were right, I was wrong on that!

Anyhoo, I do agree that people kill people. I don't anthropomorphize weaponry any more than I do cars or trucks, or this chair my big butt is currently plopped in.

I just think it's harder to kill people if you are armed only with sticks and rocks. I bet those Columbine boys would have had a much lower "success" rate without semi-autos.

Anyway, I can't say anything that you won't refute, or that hasn't been said over and over in this Cellar. So, I'm going to keep the big butt seated and the big mouth shut and go find a funny thread.
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Old 11-28-2006, 07:00 PM   #2
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I just think it's harder to kill people if you are armed only with sticks and rocks.
It's harder to live if you have only sticks and rocks. That's why we've made better tools.
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Old 11-29-2006, 12:45 PM   #3
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I just think it's harder to kill people if you are armed only with sticks and rocks. I bet those Columbine boys would have had a much lower "success" rate without semi-autos.
They could have used modern revolvers or black powder pistols with the same level of effect, possibly higher level. A "semi-auto" is not a machine gun.

Columbine would have been far worse if the improvised munitions had gone off as intended.
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