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    Default Is A Thing Still A Weapon When It Is Not Being Used As A Weapon?

    For examples:

    A knife can be used to cut veggies and steaks. It can also be used as a weapon.
    A baseball bat can be used to hit home runs. It can also be used to collapse a face.
    A bow and an arrow can be used for entertainment. Like practicing targets and hunting. It can also be used to do something like this.

    A dildo can be used as a pleasure. It can also be used to beat someone to death, depending on it's size.
    A gun can be used as a pleasure to relieve stress. Used to practice targets and hunting. It can also be used to put a bullet in BulletBob's head.

    Add more to your heart's content.

    Also discuss my title.

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    An object may be either created as a weapon or weaponized after the fact.

    Hip Hop music may not have been created as a weapon, for example,
    but it has inflicted may horrific headaches in people my age,
    and we can assume that in some instances,
    it may have been on purpose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    For examples:

    A knife can be used to cut veggies and steaks. It can also be used as a weapon.
    A baseball bat can be used to hit home runs. It can also be used to collapse a face.
    A bow and an arrow can be used for entertainment. Like practicing targets and hunting. It can also be used to do something like this.

    A dildo can be used as a pleasure. It can also be used to beat someone to death, depending on it's size.
    A gun can be used as a pleasure to relieve stress. Used to practice targets and hunting. It can also be used to put a bullet in BulletBob's head.

    Add more to your heart's content.

    Also discuss my title.
    The bagpipe was classified as weapon of war by the king of England for awhile.

    Anything can be used as a weapon. Coins, poker chips, a spoon, a piece of paper, a hand, an elbow, a leg, a shoe, chemicals...anything.

    Some objects are designed to be used as weapons. A sword, a gun, a bow and arrow, etc. These devices are used as weapons not only against people, but also against animals and pests.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    The bagpipe was classified as weapon of war by the king of England for awhile.

    Anything can be used as a weapon. Coins, poker chips, a spoon, a piece of paper, a hand, an elbow, a leg, a shoe...anything.
    Even a hat!


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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    For examples:

    A knife can be used to cut veggies and steaks. It can also be used as a weapon.
    A baseball bat can be used to hit home runs. It can also be used to collapse a face.
    A bow and an arrow can be used for entertainment. Like practicing targets and hunting. It can also be used to do something like this.

    A dildo can be used as a pleasure. It can also be used to beat someone to death, depending on it's size.
    A gun can be used as a pleasure to relieve stress. Used to practice targets and hunting. It can also be used to put a bullet in BulletBob's head.

    Add more to your heart's content.

    Also discuss my title.
    A gun can be stored in a room/nightstand on the other side of the house, yet the felon can still be in 'constructive possession' of said weapon...........take that for what you will.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    A gun can be stored in a room/nightstand on the other side of the house, yet the felon can still be in 'constructive possession' of said weapon...........take that for what you will.
    Yeah I read about that. I also read that in some states wives of felons cannot have guns around in their houses. Crazy.

    Just too crazy that they cannot defend themselves and their families because somebody made a boo.

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    Well, in England...

    Carrying this on you in public is a felony, and no one under 18 can buy it.



    On the other hand, you can freely buy and carry one of these because it isn't a "knife" but a "saw."


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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Well, in England...

    Carrying this on you in public is a felony, and no one under 18 can buy it.



    On the other hand, you can freely buy and carry one of these because it isn't a "knife" but a "saw."

    isn't it amazing how governments never have to make any sense?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    isn't it amazing how governments never have to make any sense?
    If anybody is devoid of any sense, it's you.
    Lock Him Up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    If anybody is devoid of any sense, it's you.
    Insult fallacy. Contextomy fallacy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Is this thing a weapon?



    Also discuss my title.
    I assume the "thing" you're referring to is Rambo? Yes, much like Chuck Norris, Rambo is always a weapon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirthinksalot View Post
    I assume the "thing" you're referring to is Rambo? Yes, much like Chuck Norris, Rambo is always a weapon.
    LOL. Good point. Never thought of that.

    Like in the movie Con Air, Nicholas Cage was sent to prison for being a weapon himself.

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    A gun can be used for a hammer. A rifle can be a pry bar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    A gun can be used for a hammer. A rifle can be a pry bar.
    Make sure there are no bullets in the chambers.

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