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A gun is not a car.
One can jump out of the way of a car, because it isn't faster than the speed of sound.
Got any more brilliant fucking insights about tools meant for specific purposes?
No, I don't need a brilliant insight to know that your analogy was false.
A car is a tool. It moves humans and goods from spot A to spot B. A gun is a tool to convert living critters into dead ones. They are not the same and comparing the two, like in your example, won't work.
Yet I can kill people with both, someone's being disingenuous (it's you)
Bananas and the sun both appear yellow to me. Are bananas and the sun the same thing?
Two things can have something in common and not be the same. Guns are not cars. You can personally attack me all you want but your analogy will still have failed.
Man, you're not even clever enough to fake being.
And another personal attack.
It's because I don't respect you whatsoever.
Depends, got any other false analogies to be taken down?
A gun is a deadly weapon. Its purpose is to kill. It has no other purpose, therefore it is not a tool. That's firearms training 101. If you don't know that, your opinion isn't worth listening to because you don't know the literal first thing about wielding one.