Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year

Re:Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year by cpr on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:40PM (#553467)

This is patently false.

Guns are beautiful machines made by men.

Some people collect cars, others hand-painted Easter eggs.

Guns are quite collectible totems qua beautiful machines.

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Re:Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year by klump5 on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:46PM (#553482)

Ergo: "gun collecting is demonstrative of collecting behavior, rather than treatment of the gun as purely a tool".

You appear to contradict your statement that "Guns are just tools".

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Re:Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year by cpr on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:54PM (#553498)

And there are no tool collectors? I also collect beautiful tools. (E.g., old timber-framing drills.)

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Re:Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year by klump5 on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @05:58PM (#553500)

There are tool collectors, but they are demonstrating "collecting behavior".

In Boy Scouts we were taught to respect and appreciate guns as the very dangerous tools they are. I can personally only agree with your original statement: Guns -are- only tools, and should only be treated as tools.

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