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I have been trying to think about why the gun thread evoked such an emotion.

To me guns and other weapons are tools. The core issue is all about "intent" and personal responsibility for that intent. To a hunter, a gun bags his next meal. To a killer, it is the dispatching of his next victim, but it is still only a gun. In fact, shooting a gun really accurately is a martial art.

I can see that the associated glamour and machismo that gets attached to guns is the real problem, and to a certain extent, fear based associations. So I can see that it is distracting from the forums main goal and anyway there are a huge number of other places that have more and higher quality debate about guns.

For the record, I have shot all manner of different projectile weapons at targets and it is huge fun, and a real challenge to do it well. But then I like martial arts as well. None of that makes me negative or a bad-person with bad-vibe issues.

The other thing that occurs to me is about knives.

You need a knife in your survival kits. Simple - if you think you need a survival kit, then you need an appropriate knife. I am sure this will be discussed at some point in the prepper sub-forum - and that must happen. I would appeal for the moderators to allow that discussion.

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