Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Make Gun Companies Pay Blood Money [View all]petronius
(26,602 posts)exactly what I'm saying. Guns are designed to propel a projectile, and the purpose is up to the end user. But, 99% of guns are not manufactured with the intent to kill, purchased with the intent to kill, used to kill. (And I'm sorry, but hunting related killing is irrelevant here, no matter how much you want to try and drag it in with cries of "redefining."
So, since neither you nor the manufacturer gets to determine the intent, that must be derived from the current context, and in the current context it's false to say that "99% of guns are made to kill." But like I said, I understand the appeal of that rhetorical framing.
And again, the critical question from the topic of the OP is still that of shifting responsibility - which the "99%" claim fails to address anyway...