White House releases photo of Obama firing gun

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36. the lethality of the weapon is the only point

It goes to the lack of intellectual honesty of gun 'enthusiasts' that they try to obfuscate into technical discussions of weaponry.

If current weapons had the lethality of a musket then there would be no discussion.

Everything flows from the increased efficiency of the kill count by the minute.

Nothing shows this clearer than the bizarre

A lot of things can be considered lethal. A firearm used as a club can be just as lethal as one used to fire projectiles.

Try and beat 10 people to death within a minute.

This is why talking to gun 'enthusiasts' is like talking to a child.

Lethality doesn't mean that something can be lethal but how many people can be killed in rapid succession.

But this is, typically, how discussion degenerates among gun 'enthusiasts', which is not to be confused with gun owners. I meet with about 300 hundred law enforcement individuals in their homes in a year. Virtually none of them are 'enthusiasts'. They don't have guns displayed, they have every weapon secured, and while some may actually enjoy the target range almost none of them put it into the 'ten most interesting' things that they do. They don't obsess about their guns, they don't have gun fetishes and they don't go on the internets trying to pick fights with people who are sick of living in a country that has this level of violence.

By the way I lived overseas for 20 years and spent a lot of time with gun owners overseas, especially in Switzerland where, as you know, there is a gun in almost every house, and they think you 'enthusiasts' are fucking nuts (that's their words). At that time they had to keep their ammunition under seal and every year present it to the police to account for all of the times that they discharged their weapons, oh and the Swiss equivalent to the NRA has no problems with all of the regulations.