This year, about 12,000 Americans will be shot to death. It's a staggering figure, and even though lawmakers have continued to pass gun-control laws to try to bring the number down, they have not significantly reduced the murder rate. Indeed, for the last decade, guns have steadily remained the cause of about two-thirds of all homicides.
Gun manufacturers insist that these deaths are not their fault, preferring to pin the blame on criminals and irresponsible dealers.
Say what? The manufacturer of a legal machine is responsible for it's use?
So... Ford and Honda are responsible for drunks who use their cars to kill people?
Spoons are responsible for people eating too much ice cream?
This is the sort of idiocy those of us who support the right to keep an bear arms just scratch our heads at. Firearms are machines, not demon infested imps which act independent of human will.
Blaming the tool for the user's actions just leads to the same action being performed with a different tool.
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