What is the motivation...........

[poddster]

.........that compels people to attend major league football games at a stadium in their thousands?

[debra9275]

I would much rather go for a walk with you Erica than go to target practise

[poddster]

It helps me hold a camera steady and to improve my attention to detal in a picture 🙂

Can't you tell? 🙂

[*pepe]

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@*pepe wrote:

no you are not being logical at all, you are very myopic in your need to defend gun sports.


I am actually not anti gun - I am anti idiots with guns.

There is no escaping the fact that a gun is a deadly weapon no matter how well trained you are, no matter how carefu you are there is always the potential for that gun to cause death.

Again, you just keep comparing apples and oranges to support your stance.

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Pepe there is no escaping that a firearm CAN be a deadly weapon if that is the purpose that a person wishes to put it to, so can any of the items I have mentioned if a person intends to use them as a weapon, for instance a screwdriver is a tool until someone uses it to stab someone with, then it becomes a weapon.

By the way the legal term for a firearm is firearm and not weapon, it can be termed a weapon if someone uses it as a weapon, just like the screwdriver I described.

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i don't think the 3 year old that shot her mother wished for that firearm to be deadly - but it was.

You can dance around and play word games all you like but that will not change the fact that there does not need to be intent for a gun to be lethal.

[poddster]

It also goes to show that loaded firearms should not be left unattended there a toddler , or anyone, unauthorised can access them.

If the firearm was where it should have been, locked up in a safe and unloaded , the accident wouldn't have happened

The blame should be placed at the feet of the person who left a loaded firearm where a toddler could access it.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@poddster wrote:

A lot of people go on and on and on about the 'Guns cause injury and death, so lets minimise the number of guns and there will be less injury and death attributed to them", that may be. Now how about we also apply the same logic to motor vehicles and restrict their numbers, the same thing would apply, less injury and death attributed to cars.

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What a daft comment.

Guns are built to kill.

Cars are built for travel.

Guns cause injury and death..... because that's what they are built to do.

Anyone who considers shooting a work out is deluded..... and never played a real sport!

[j*oono]

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@poddster wrote:

It helps me hold a camera steady and to improve my attention to detal in a picture 🙂

Can't you tell? 🙂

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You should enter this weeks challenge.  The theme is twisted and that suits to a T.

[poddster]

Siggie, you best alert the Olympic Committee that they have included a sport in the Olympic Games that  is not a "real" sport.

I wonder if they will mow reclaim all the medals that Australia has won for that "not real" sport?

By the way the fact remains that even though most consider firearms dangerous, injuries and death in the dangerous SPORT of target shooting are by far less than in the safe sport of football.

I freely admit that firearms that are loaded and left unattended by idiot people can cause injury and death.

Leaving a firearm loaded and unattended is against the law, any person who does that has broken the law and is by definition a criminal.

Cars are built to travel yet they still cause injury and death far in excess of firearms.

By the way if you think that target shooting does not require a degree of physical fitness, you have never shot a match and you know noting about it.

If you doubt my statement do some research 🙂

[myoclon1cjerk]

I got a shoulder cramp once,employing the Alekhine Defence. 🙂

[softail-joanie]

i don't understand

[lloydslights]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
I got a shoulder cramp once,employing the Alekhine Defence. 🙂

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I broke a nail on the timer.

DEB