SkyCore
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I find those particular tools to be more use when I discover my wife has taken my truck for an oil change instead of doing it herself. Last time that happened, I had to drill the plug out and re-tap the hole. A .38 would have made a fair hole very quickly and then I would only have had to weld on a new boss.
Next time that happens, I'm going to save a lot of work...
You people really get hung up on the fact that the definition of the word "tool" includes firearms, don't you?
Tools are material objects used to exert greater force than the bare hands can apply themselves. Occasionally the little lady getting dragged off by a possible rapist is very happy to have a little .22 "tool" in her pocket or purse. Yes, I'm talking about a specific incident. She pointed her tool over her shoulder and applied enough force to not only make him let go, but he was never going to grab anyone again.
Another man was backing his car out of his driveway when a thug ripped open his door and tried to pull him out. That man's tool allowed him to remain in the driver's seat...all the way. He told the thug, who wasn't mortally wounded, that if he tried to get up that he'd use his tool again.
Then there was the nice case I read about in good old gun grabbin' Australia, where a little girl, nineteen or so, was attacked by a man with a knife trying to drag her out of her car. She didn't have a tool, so she suffered permanent scarring and the criminal didn't even get hurt.
Tools are handy things...when they're ready to hand. One cannot morally deny law abiding citizens the use of tools that you happen to be afraid of because the merely gives the people who are going to be violent a bigger edge.
It's not the law that makes a 90-lb woman the equal to a 250-lb would-be rapist, it's the one pound of steel and gunpowder and lead in her hands.
Oh cry us a river with pulling heart strings long enough to make a bungy cord to Mars. Please. The world is a crappy place where violence happens every single day. We already know that so cease the petty tear jerking.
If people want to refer to guns as "tools" I have no problem with that as long as the term is used honestly. The problem is the dishonesty in trying to compare them to freaking car keys and screwdrivers. The only good thing about such comparisons is they show what pathetic lengths some have to go to in order to make themselves feel better about drowning in fear. When a position can't be honestly defended it's time to change something.