### device | instrument | weapon:

Gun
* DO kill children
  - people, too
* Most guns already have an internal trigger-locking mechanism called a safety.
* Most guns are used by police officers
  - valuable and some, such as handguns, can be used in carrying out crimes
* Most guns have barrels
  - bullets
* Some guns also use compressed air
  - can shoot through objects
  - come with holsters or extra magazines
  - eject nails by detonating an explosive cartridge placed directly behind the gun barrel
  - emit light
  - have greater explosive capability than others of the same caliber
  - kill gorillas
  - use gases
* Some guns use in death
  - shoot death
* allow even the weak and elderly a chance to defend themselves against crime
  - people to create a lot of damage quickly and cheaply
* also prevent injuries to good people and protect billions of dollars of property every year.
* are a bad influence, they are responsible for making people do bad things
  - necessary part of society
  - part of the world
  - pollution problem
  - product, sold for profit like any other
  - sad fact of life in American culture and are a major topic in modern journalism
  - sort of tool just like a screwdriver or a chisel
  - totem of power for the powerless in our society, a way of solving problems
  - weak persons way of fighting
  - about power and control, the ability to use violence to achieve ends
* are also good for people
  - the weapon of choice for troubled individuals who commit suicide
  - an instrument, just as baseball bats, kitchen knives or golf clubs are
  - both articles of commerce and articles that can be used to restrain commerce
* are common in most homes
  - rural households
* are dangerous in the hands of men, even if the men happen to work in the government
  - weapons designed to kill humans and animals
  - designed with one purpose, to kill stuff
  - everywhere in our society, and cause an incredible amount of death and destruction
* are evil and kill people
  - to some, because of the violence that they create
  - for keeping power where it belongs, with the people
  - guns, lasers are lasers, death screams are death screams
  - illegal in Mexico
  - inanimate objects
  - instruments of killing, and they are instruments of death
  - legal to manufacture and safe when used properly
  - loud and the noise can cause hearing damage
  - most effective when thrown like spears
* are one of the leading causes of violent injury and death in California
  - most commonly stolen items in rural Washington communities
  - only a tool used to commit malicious acts
* are part of everyday life for many of our children
  - the culture in the Norfolk area
  - powerful items, and children want to learn to use power
  - present in cities, towns and rural areas
  - products like any others, and trade for guns is the same as any other form of trade
  - protection from the government
  - responsible for many accidental deaths in the home every year
  - status symbols necessary to inner-city life
* are the great equalizer between the sexes
  - instrument or agent driving the youth homicide epidemic
  - leading cause of death for youth in California
  - liberty teeth of the Bill of Rights
  - main weapons used by armies
* are the most common and effective means of suicide
  - means of suicide amoung males
  - murder weapon, and their use is growing
  - weapon in successful homicides and suicides
  - second leading cause of death of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four
  - tools for survival
* are the weapon of choice by husbands who kill their wives
  - for juvenile homicide offenders
* are used by officers
  - virtually the only unregulated consumer product in the United States
  - why people can confront each other with signs and bullhorns in public
* are, in a sense, the last line of defense against crime and violence.
* can and do kill people.
* can be a natural curiosity for children
  - as small as pistols , or as large as gatling guns
  - expensive, bulky and dangerous
  - lethal to women, in particular battered women
  - do good, or evil, depending on whose hands they reside
  - have many different sizes of barrels
  - rust quickly
  - save a life or take a life, but weapons are often the deciding factor in a war
* continue to rank second only to cars as a cause of death by injury.
* do have an individuality.
* do kill and they kill at a very high rate
  - people - needlessly
* don t kill people.
* dont kill people, people kill people because they know they can get away with it.
* enable children to qualify as grownups without aging
  - self defense and deter criminals
* fire bullets
  - projectiles
* give women a fighting chance against crime.
* have basic features
  - safety features
  - less anonymity than knives, bats, swords, etc
* help offset the strength differential between male criminals and female victims.
* hurt and kill people.
* includes bases
  - eyepieces
  - fulcrums
* includes gun barrels
  - chambers
  - muzzles
  - readsides
  - triggers
* kill a child every two hours
  - everyone from babies to senior citizens
  - fewer people than cars
  - in real life
* make noise
  - people less violent
* often symbolize sexual energy.
* only promote violence and crime.
* play a frequent and fatal role in male violence against women
  - large role in suicides as well
* pose a danger to children of any age.
* possess a similar seductive glamour, especially to children.
* prevent crime and save lives in schools too
* protect people from criminals and from the greatest criminal of all, a dictator
  - the rights and freedoms of the individual
* remain the most common method of suicide for children.
* represent a major part of the youth violence problem.
* stored for years in high humidity environments remain rust-free.
* used for punching holes in earlobes are inappropriate for other body parts.
* work on deer.
+ Barrel (weapons)
  * A 'barrel' is a part of a gun. It is a long metal tube that the bullet goes through after it is fired. Guns can have many different sizes of barrels. Usually, longer barrels mean that the bullet will hit the target more often. Barrels usually have spiral grooves on the inside called 'rifling'. Barrels with grooves spin the bullet around faster as it exits the gun. This makes the bullet even more stable and more likely to hit the target.
+ Fallout (video game), Combat: Roleplaying video games
  * The player and other characters in 'Fallout' can attack with their fists, with hand-held weapons like sledgehammers, with thrown weapons like grenades and with guns. Guns can be as small as pistols, or as large as gatling guns. There are even energy weapons, such as lasers.
  * Guns are very effective weapons. Guns fire bullets at a very high speed, which is much more deadly than an arrow or spear.
+ Gun, Use of firearms: Firearms
  * Guns are the main weapons used by armies. In modern armies every soldier has a firearm as part of his or her equipment which they are taught to use and keep in good working order. Guns have been used by armies since about 900 AD when the Chinese began using cannons. Long barreled guns called muskets, that could be carried and used by one person, were used in China by the 1300s. Guns were not an important weapon in European armies until the 1600s.
+ Suppressor: Firearms :: Sound
  * Suppressors are most often added to the gun barrel, usually by screwing the silencer onto the end of the barrel. Some guns have a built-in suppressor.