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by RoddaWallPro 16 days ago
I have a really hard time with this argument because I'm _positive_ 99.99% of bullets fired in the US are NOT being fired to kill things. So I see people this arguments and its like, hm, interesting. Interesting that the overwhelming vast majority of the use of this thing is NOT the use that you are claiming it is used for. Doesn't hold up.
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micromacrofoot 16 days ago
Small arms are one of the greatest scourges of machinery humanity has ever seen. It doesn't matter how many bullets have been fired. Their circulation has, and continues to, cause endless chains of suffering in nearly every corner of the world.
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XorNot 16 days ago
The vast majority of bullets fired from most guns would be military training.

And even the military would acknowledge that a lot of the bullets they fire in a war aren't really intended to kill people specifically either.

And yet none of that makes this bizzare attempt to argue guns aren't designed and intended as lethal weapons any less ridiculous.

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