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Originally Posted by pittpa
Are you suggesting that nothing is a weapon until it is used with malicious intent, and righteous intent to harm is not withing the definition of malice?
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I would say yes. That rock on the ground, a crow bar or my Glock are just inanimate objects. They become weapons when I decide to use them to cause harm. "Malicious intent" is my own wording. Yes, willfully using
an object (not firearms, specifically) to cause harm is malice.
my point was that firearms, like all
things, are incapable of causing any harm without human manipulation. Place blame on the human, not the object used.
We need to remove firearms' association to 'weapons.'