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(04-30-2011, 01:57 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: a gun is a tool of my trade.
but it is a weapon.
i do not recall having to take screwdriver qualification at the academy. on the screwdriver range. with the screwdriver instructor. 
the reason for that is we do not generally cause people to die by the use of screwdrivers. sometimes, but not usually. we do not need to be licensed to carry wood planes. or saws.
this entire thread is one of semantics.
a rose by any other name...is still a rose 
The discussion wasn't about weapons or weapons training it was about classification of the gun as a tool.
so sorry you missed the point.
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(04-30-2011, 01:14 PM)Duchess Wrote: (04-30-2011, 01:12 PM)Cracker Wrote: It's still a fucking rock.
Yeah...and a gun is still a fuckin' firearm.
and a firearm is still a tool designed to make our frail assed life forms more capable of surviving, we may be the smartest, but we are for damn sure the weakest link of the anilmal world. tools are essential to our survival.
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(04-30-2011, 02:22 PM)Cracker Wrote: (04-30-2011, 01:45 PM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote: The only issue I have with IMaDick is his resorting to name calling and character assassination when he thinks it will help him win his arguement. Oh, and his polarizing an issue with inflammatory rhetoric, but lacking any evidentiary foundation or probative value...other than that his statements are readable...
This is a matter of perspective. I see OP in EXACTLY the way you see dick. Who is correct?
Take a look at 'ImaDick's #40 post and see he has proved my point. I have seen supportive evidence in what you assert about O.P. too.
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(04-30-2011, 03:23 PM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote: Take a look at 'ImaDick's #40 post and see he has proved my point. I have seen supportive evidence in what you assert about O.P. too.
Don't expect to be the only one with an opinion.
stop fucking whining.
I just hope the panties were your own and not some you swiped from the local self serve laundry.
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(04-30-2011, 01:49 PM)thekid65 Wrote: Bottom line..Tool=general catagory that can contain almost an infinite amount of items. Weapon=a subcategory of tool.
I agree with this but I would have spelled category correctly.
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Dick:
so sorry you missed the point.
i didn't miss the point. i made the point. this question is one of semantics. nothing more.
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No it's not semantics, it's general classification.
Firearms are tools, those who use them are varied just like the purposes that they are used for.
technical yes, semantics no.
Tool-Mechanical Machine-Firearm.
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