Whether a gun is held at your head or a phallus - the result is the same.
Both are obscene.
Victor, this is a curious statement. Would you be willing to explain the connection you have found between the two to me? You've said before that guns are designed for killing, and if this is so, then perhaps there is something to your connection and we can consider it done.
... So it remains a matter of this: what is it about guns that you believe is designed to kill people other than that, along with a variety of other objects, they can and are used this way? For example, would you make the statement above about a baseball bat? Perhaps not, but perhaps so, and if you feel the intuitive tug in both directions, then may I suggest the following resolution to the dilemma?:
A baseball bat by itself is not a killing object, but this function can be pushed onto it, say,
projected onto it. That is, the bat is not the killer, but our way of
seeing it, should we see it as an object used to destroy, is. Would you agree?
If so, it seems plausible the same may be said for a gun, which is a mere functionless mechanical assembly by itself, but is given purpose by the person using it according to
their purposes.
Now, there is an objection as follows, that a baseball bat is
made for playing baseball, while a gun is
made for killing. But, either object may be used for killing, or used for other purposes altogether. A gun may be used validly for sport, just as a javelin or a bow may be, even though both have used as a weapons. How then could the distinction about what they are
made for hold? How could it matter? Presumably, all these objects are made just to make money because they have market demand in peoples lives according to the purposes they give them.
Now, an extension of the argument above is valid too for pornography. A picture of a nude woman is by no means obscene. How could a human body be obscene? How, even, could human copulation be obscene? But it can be MADE obscene because obscenity can be projected onto it, because it is
seen a certain way. Pornography has nothing to do with content, and everything to do with perception.
Do you understand the implication?
If you see sin in the world, the sin is in your seeing, thus, change your seeing. It is a very fortunate world we live in that so little is required to eradicate sin! Namely this, it is gone the second you stop insisting it is there.