A firearm is simply a tool. A tool is simply a means to an end, the ultimate end is Human Life. We must understand that a fear of tools is simply irrational. An employee of the Healtheast Care System in St. Paul was afraid of an image of several firearms on a coffee cup used by one of the security guards. A customer at a supermarket was afraid of the light of a bar code scanner touching her groceries. A firearm and a bar code scanner are simply tools. There is no reason to fear them. Alcoholism wasn’t caused by a supply of alcohol but by the alcoholics. The Holocaust wasn’t caused by a supply of Zyklon-B, but by the beliefs of the perpetrators. Zyklon-B was developed and marketed as an insecticide. The Oklahoma City Bombing wasn’t caused by a supply of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, but by the beliefs of perpetrators. 9/11 wasn’t caused by airliners and box cutters but by the beliefs of perpetrators. Any horror wasn’t caused by the tools that were used but by the beliefs of the perpetrators. There's simply no reason to fear a tool.
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