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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sean: [QB] ^And I agree completely. I personally plan to own a wide selection of guns someday, but I have no delusions that the government is coming to take away "arsenal". Hopefully, society will never let that happen. And I will [i]always[/i] keep my guns secure. It's dumb not to. I would argue though, that a gun is a tool. Ask any frontiersman 150 years ago, and he'd tell you that his gun is a tool, not a weapon. Yes, it is perfectly valid for self defense, but the primary purpose of a gun was to provide food. In that use, it is a tool. People still use guns for that reason to this day. Knives and guns really only seem to be classified as a weapon when used against humans. But so are other tools. A screwdriver is a tool until I shove it into someone's gut. Maybe it has to do with how a person is exposed to them. If you're raised with the idea that a gun is only used by criminals and cops, then it's a weapon. But I was introduced to guns as tools for hunting, and trained with them under that ideal, and only later accepted that they were also a tool I could use in my own defense if necessary. So I see them as a tool first, and a weapon second. Just a different frame of mind, I guess. I even see a modern gun as a work of art. Hard to explain, but there's a certain beauty to most guns, regardless of age (and I should have been more specific when I referenced the peacemaker...modern replicas are available, and they are no more functional in today's modern society than the older ones are. Just as beautiful though). I treat my knives with the same attitude. My finely crafted Buck stockmans are just as beautiful as my more modern Spyderco knives. They are beautiful in their own way, [/QB][/QUOTE]
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