Stephen King on US gun contols.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by August

There's a few holes in that idea. First off the biggest group of buyers is not necessarily most buyers and second "training to kill" is not killing and finally most military weapons are never used to kill anyone.

OK, you got me there

That's like saying that because the Air Force are the biggest buyers of Aircraft then the main purpose of Aircraft must be used for killing or training to kill.

The air forces aren't the biggest buyers of planes, and the first plane wasn't built to kill someone.

[August]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

The air forces aren't the biggest buyers of planes,

Oh really, who has more planes than air forces?

and the first plane wasn't built to kill someone.

Maybe not but it was almost immediately marketed to the military by Wilbur and Orville Wright so the airplanes military uses must have been in their mind while they were developing it.

In fact the first airplane passenger fatality ever was Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the US Army who had been sent out to evaluate the airplane for use by the Army. This happened in 1908. Wilbur was injured but survived the crash.

With a decade the aircraft after that was being used by several nations to kill people and very efficiently so whether it was designed for the purpose or not it was what it became most useful for.

[Cybermat47]

^^^^

Can't argue with that

Still, I reckon that while banning semi-autos would make America a safer place, the better thing to do first would be to improve mental health care.