"Tools" not "Weapons"

[POLICESTATE]

Guns are tools, and like any tool they can be used as a weapon. Just a thought.

[jfifer]

Pew pew pew. Not too many mass shootings happen with screwdrivers and the anti's need to screw stuff too.

[stormvet]

I would agree, every job I ever had since I was old enough to shave consisted of firearms being the main tool of the trade.

[toby]

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[Dannicus]

Guns are tools, and like any tool they can be used as a weapon. Just a thought.

Guns are simultaneously tools and weapons.

[POLICESTATE]

Everything we use is a tool, and anything, tool or not, can be used as a weapon.

Comment about mass shootings are not done using a screwdriver was funny.

In any case, chinese folks will take a kitchen knife and stab up a dozen children, so like any tool if you employ something in an efficient manner you get better results.

[Loubot10]

We practice to be ready for defense, compete because we're good in practice, which leaves only use in defense or offense as a weapon. What other thing is a gun for that it could be called a tool?

We could argue that it's a tool for hunting, but the majority of rifle owners don't hunt and even fewer hunt with a handgun.

[negolien]

[The Gleam]

Guns are tools, and like any tool they can be used as a weapon. Just a thought.

Ever since watching "Army of Darkness" (was originally to have been called "Medieval Dead") I prefer the term:

"Boom Stick".

[russ69]

Guns are simultaneously tools and weapons.

A gun is a weapon only when used as one. My kitchen knives are not weapons either but they can be used as a weapon if needed.

[POLICESTATE]

On the one hand I can shake someone's hand, or hand them a cold glass of water on a hot day, bandage a cut, play a musical instrument.

On the other hand I can choke somebody out, or punch them in the face, or push them off the edge of a cliff.

BAN HANDS.

Hands can be used as weapons, thus they are weapons.

That is the logic we are confronted with.

[jfifer]

Ban brains. Lets just start the matrix

[CoopsDad]

Guns, like other tools, are force multipliers. It's the only tool I know that allows a 110-lb woman to be the physical equal to a 220-lb man.

[SilverTauron]

Guns are tools, and like any tool they can be used as a weapon. Just a thought.

Wrong.

A firearm is designed, ultimately, to kill. That is the entire point of its existence, and its the reason I and millions of other people across America trouble ourselves to carry one.

The 2nd Amendment does not guarantee the right to keep and bear tools.

[POLICESTATE]

Wrong.

A firearm is designed, ultimately, to kill. That is the entire point of its existence, and its the reason I and millions of other people across America trouble ourselves to carry one.

The 2nd Amendment does not guarantee the right to keep and bear tools.

This is the best counter-argument I have seen so far. The entire intent of this particular tool is to be a weapon and that makes logical sense to refer to it as such.

It was just a passing thought earlier today.

Too bad we have so many people in America today that seem to believe the 2nd Amendment does not guarantee the right to keep and bear arms either.