# Guns are not designed to kill people

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 6, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-are-not-designed-to-kill-people/471402 "2008-11-06T03:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-are-not-designed-to-kill-people/471402/252 "2008-11-13T23:10:44Z")

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While we’re waiting for evidence that general military service pistols did not exist during the Revolutionary War, let me pose a question:

Why do foreigners give a damn what we in America do with our guns?

I mean, with folks in Canada, I can understand; we have a ~3,000 mile common border, and could conceivably be a source of illicit arms to Canadian criminal elements via smuggling and such.

But England? France? Japan?

Why does it matter a whit to any country that doesn’t have a border with us what we do, domestically, with firearms?

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