Definition of two words.

[tripleblessed]

Every time someone brings this up YET AGAIN, it is more tiresome than the last. Where do people here think their food comes from? Without kilted soldiers winning the world for the Crown, how many would even be here? If it is not being USED to maim or murder a person, it is not a weapon. Period. Underlined.

What is even more tiresome is that these same individuals go on and on about various whiskies and beers, raving about their virtues and subtleties. If you will actually read your history and check the numbers, you'll find that year in and year
out, alcohol kills more people than weapons. Alcohol destroys more families. Alcohol causes more crime. More than
forty years of healing practice and ministerial counseling has made that very clear, even if I hadn't grown up seeing family lost to it. Yet no one calls for banning photos of bottles and drinking glasses. In the US, often cited as a violent country but actually comfortably down the list, more people die from hands and feet than from long guns. No one calls for cropping body parts out of pics so that focus is on the kilt being worn.

No reasonable adult condones violence, but hiding one's head in the sand is not going to eradicate millions of years of
fairly hard-wired behavior. We must, as thinking adults, focus on what is real, and how to help ourselves be more
aware, not less. We must all grow up. Harsh words, yet I doubt most who need to hear those five words do not
often peruse this forum.

People have existed for a long time before photos of weapons existed, but that lack did not prevent a single death.