;-) RE: [at-l] Guns

[nealb@midlandstech.com (William Neal)]

I was going to "not list post" but considering.... ;-)

Granted bullets do the killing.  But a thrown-by-hand bullet is probably
less dangerous than a thrown pebble.  It takes a gun to shoot a bullet.  So
it is easier to use linguistic shorthand and say guns kill when it is
actually the combination of Man + Gun + Bullet that kills.  Then you have to
add in the fact that there has to be somebody to be killed and there has to
be a propellant to cause the bullet to rapidly go down the barrel.... ;-)

And Mosquitoes are "animals".  Anything that is not a plant is an animal --
except for a few microscopic things that fall in between or are something
else (like viruses).  Fish are animals.  Insects are animals.  Cows are
animals.  And knowing people (especially some hikers ;-) ), people are
animals.

William, The Animal Turtle

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Steinkamp [mailto:shane@theplacewithnoname.com]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:00 PM
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [at-l] Guns


> Guns are incredibly dangerous, but doctors are 9000
> times more likely to kill you than gun owners.

This is the kind of falsehood that makes me crazy.  Guns aren't dangerous at
all.  In fact, in their entire history, guns have killed very few people.
No one, as far as I can tell, has ever been shot with a gun.  Bullets, on
the other hand, have been rather lethal...

> Mosquitoes are the most deadly animal known to man.

Another lie.  Mosquitoes aren't animals, they're insects.

> Government scientists have even found that "water is
> the most deadly substance known to man."

Good old dihydrogen monoxide...

> What is it that Jim says, Oh Yeah Walk softly

Nap time...

Shane