Gun Control & RKBA

Backtrack? Hardly, though I expect that attributing to the words others your own choice of sentiments, has won you many a battle in your own mind. Bravo.

I didn't say design was independent of use, I said that the amount of force applied and the target of that force was independent of (mechanical) design, by (mechanical) design.




Such a non-argument that you just had to reply, right?

Up to and including potentially lethal force? Sure. I've never said otherwise. But theres a whole lot of room between pointing a gun at someone that needs a gun pointed at them implying that 'bad things will happen if you come any closer to me in my home', and putting a gun against a known lethal point (head/heart) and pulling the trigger. That 'whole lot of room' is dependent on the user, by (mechanical) design.



Except it isn't a problem. Lethality is generally in the aim, and generally not simply in the firearm. I would say the amount of woundings you lot regularly like to bring up, is proof positive of that point. Had they been shot with weapons that were strictly and specifically designed to kill, they'd all be dead.

And, even the guns you mention, do not fail to project force when simply pointed and not fired.