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What you say is true but I would observe that media failure to manufacture stories about tools being used for their intended purposes is hardly remarkable. Dog bites man isn't news but man bites dog is news. Similarly, a baseball bat being used to bat a ball or a carving knife being used to carve a turkey isn't news. When a bat or carving knife is used to attack a person it is news. By analogy, using a gun as a tool for its intended purpose, defense of persons or property, isn't news since that is the intended function of the tool. On the other hand, a gun used to rob a store or pistol (or revolver) whip a man is news since that is not the purpose for which the tool is manufactured.
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