Quote:
"firearms, unsafe."
Oh but they are, inherently: their sole intent is to kill or injure others.
Seeing as this thread started a bit tongue in cheek and was a reminder for people to be safe during their miitary common core skills (CCS) training, I find this quote from PTT somewhat amusing. Guns, just like cars/aircraft/boats/fireworks/chainsaws/etc... are unsafe if you don't know what you're doing or follow your training (like CCS which the thread is all about). Secondly, their sole intent is
not just to "kill or injure others", they can be used to:
1. Act as a visual deterrent and sign of authoriity.
2. Put food on the table.
3. Give an advantage to a smaller force threatened by a larger but lesser armed force (a bit like point number 1).
Why were guns used in the recent US attrocity in Newtown? Because you can buy them in WalMart. However, before getting all high and mighty about it, think whether the nut-job would have used other means to kill/main these innocent individuals - the answer is probably "yes" using arson, petrol bombs, nail bombs, chemical attack, mowing them down in a large vehicle, etc, etc...
So it's not really about guns, more like why do people get so f^cked up in civilised society to do such evil things? This is not an East/West thing either, there are evil b@st@rds around the globe from all societies.
Anyway, back to the intent of the thread - watch the video and when you do military CCS or climb in a jet/helo with pistol strapped to you,
don't be a dumb arse!
LJ