Re: From My Cold Dead Hands

In article <Xns9A796BBE5C0genewardsmithsbcglob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gene Ward Smith <gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don Bruder <dakidd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:uqqdnfuudMVAN2TanZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:

So, essentially, what you're saying is that if somebody
uses a
monkey-wrench to bash someone's skull in, the company that
made the
monkey-wrench is to blame?

What? You aren't?!?!? Why not??? It's *EXACTLY* the same
thing...

Of course it isn't, since the wrench is not manufactured for
that purpose, whereas the gun is designed to drill people
with lead.

Out of curiosity, were you being deliberately stupid, or was
this an accident?

Somebody here is being deliberately stupid, but it certainly isn't me...

Hint 1: A gun is designed to go "bang" (Usually - some guns, either by
intent, or as an unintentional but welcome side-effect of their
mechanism, don't produce a significant "bang") and deliver a projectile
to a target at a high rate of speed. Nothing more, nothing less. It
operates precisely as designed when the gun goes "bang" and the path of
the projectile intersects the location of the target chosen by the user
some relatively small amount of time after the user activates the firing
mechanism.

Hint 2: A target is anything that happens to occupy space along the
flight path of the projectile during the time of the projectile's
flight.

Hint 3: Under normal circumstances, guns don't go "bang" and deliver a
projectile to a target until an operator (who by so doing, implicitly
assumes all responsibility for whatever result occurs) activates the
firing mechanism.

Hint 4: The maker of the gun, exactly like the maker of the
monkey-wrench, has no control whatsoever over the use its product is put
to by the operator, nor does it have any means of (or obligation to do
so) evaluating either the skill or intent of the operator - For that
matter, it may not even know a particular operator exists when it makes
and eventually sells the product.

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