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In reply to the discussion: What if Gun Owners Paid a Tax to Help Defray the High Costs of Gun Violence? [View all]Orrex
(63,172 posts)And your intended purpose is subordinate to the gun's intended purpose.
A gun is intended to launch a projectile in order to damage or destroy a target, or else to carry the threat of damaging or destroying a target. All other post hoc uses are surrogate approximations of this intent.
You say that carry your gun for defense only, and I believe you, but that credible defense depends entirely on the fact that a gun is intended to kill.
A vehicle is intended to convey a person and/or cargo from one place to another.
It can be dismissed because it's a fallacious argument but also because it's a talking point straight out of the NRA playbook. We see their desperate effort to equate cars with weapons literally every single time someone gun-toting fuckhead shoots a bunch of people (i.e., every week).