Naomi - // the gun, although in the wrong hands is capable of killing, that is not what it is specifically designed to do and it is not its sole purpose. //
I repeat, yet again, that it is exactly what it is designed to do, and I have never said that it was it's sole purpose.
// Whether or not it kills depends upon where it is aimed…. and that is the choice of the person who wields it – pretty much as the sharp knives I have in my kitchen drawer are, in the wrong hands, very capable of inflicting death. Guns per se don’t kill people any more than knives per se kill people. People kill people. //
A cliché, and again, failing to address the point - guns were, and are designed to kill people, that is what they are designed to do, and that is what they do.
I think you completely undertand the point I am making, but since I have never in your entire time on the AB ever known you to admit that you were wrong, or that you have been convinced against your original view.
I think you are unwilling to admit that I am right, partly because it goes against your nature, and partly because you don't like to admit to me that you are in error.
You are clearly going to continue to repeat and dissemble, so I will bow out of this section of the debate.
I fully expect a response saying that I can 'think what I like' - but the evidence is here on the thread for anyone to read - have a another look through, and see if you can admit that your notion that guns were designed to shoot at 'targets' does not detract from my point, even though you want to wriggle round it with semantics about the use of the word 'target'.
Guns were conceived and designed to kill people - it's a fact, whether you wish to acknowledge it or not.