Of course a gun is designed to kill. that is it's sole purpose. There are the slight exceptions of guns specifically produced for target shooting, but outsida that, the vast majority are designed to kill..
This will be used a response to Larkinn as well as holds the same position.
How you can't see that that is 100% patent;y false statement is really amazing.
The user defines the purpose, period. If history had shown that guns were predominantly used for target practice, and only occasionally used to kill things, we wouldn't be haveing this conversation.
For the uneducated, here is a crash course in the function of a typical firearm. It has a barrel for the purpose of directing a prejectile. It also has a firing pin which brings us to the other instrument that without renders a gun completely uselss, the bullet. That a gun requires a bullet (which is what actially does the killing) alone invalidates teh argument that the purpose of a gun is to kill. When the trigger is pulled the firing pin is relased. The pin strikes the primer cap of the bullet, which ignites the gunpowder, which must expands due to the heat and pressure which causes the bullet to fire and being guided by the barrell.
As I said before, the purpose of bullet or shell can be many (sequay into crash course on ballistics.) Some bullets may be hollow points, or lead tipped all will react differently upon impact. So if you want to be accurate about this it is really the bullet with the purpose of killing and even then only specific bullets. Shotgun shells are teh best example of the wide variety of purposes bullets can have. A shotgun shell, unlike a bullet, isn't one projectile but many small BBs. The purpose of many smaller projectile over one is to cover a larger area. As an example a bullet may be a half a centimer in diameter. When it is fired from the gun and is fifty feet away it is still only half a centimer in diameter which is makes it difficult to hit a moveing object. So the shotgun shell was invented for that purpose. the instant a shotgun is fired the diameter of teh end of the shell is maye half an inch so that is the size of the shot pattern at the instant of firing. However once that bunch of BBs is say 50 feet away it has expanded to a diameter of maybe 2-3 ft. The draw back is the effective range a shotgun is only a fraction of that of a rifle or handgun. If someone shoots with a shotgun from a hudred yards away you will live to tell about it. If someone shoots you with a rifle from the same distance you probbaly won't.
Anybody who knows anything about firearms at all knows what a completely asanine thing it is to say that a guns purpose is to kill. there is only one wat a gun can kill and that is if person decides taht what they want it to do. Thus the person has decided it's purpose.