CNN news item about Pima County AZ GOP Glock pistol raffle...

Semantics....

Now this just silly.
Most mature, adult forum members understand my posted remarks.
Using semantics or insults does not change my opinion on the topic.

As for the Ford vehicle example, it's not quite the same.
As I also posted, Glocks are very popular in the US but to raffle off a Glock pistol so soon after the mass shooting is in poor taste.
 
The GOP raffling off a Glock is outrageous! :mad:

They keep talking about getting Americans back to work, revitalizing the economy, and then they go out and buy an Austrian pistol. C'mon. :rolleyes:
 
As for the Ford vehicle example, it's not quite the same.
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Why is is not the same? If the Ford explorer were the weapon used to mow down those people and the raffle was for a Ford Explorer, why would it not be the same?

In each case, the same tool of the crime would have served two entirely different purposes. One good and one evil.

The only reason I can imagine why one is insensitive and the other not is that we have been conditioned to blame one inanimate object for deaths, and not the other. In point of fact, automobiles kill twice as many innocent people as firearms.

But our rational mind won't allow the demonization of an object which is owned by nearly every adult in the population.

And our rational mind suspends that logic when it comes to firearms because we have been conditioned to consider them as somehow inherently evil, or representing evil.

ClydeFrog, you have been hornswoggled.
 
It is a bit tacky to raffle off a handgun from the exact same company that produced the firearm that murdered several citizens from your own community.
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I don't have a problem with it. It was the shooter, not the gun.
 
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