text: I didn't say it was the same thing as a calculator, I said it was no different in its nature as an inanimate object as a calculator. A firearm is inert. It lacks any agency. Absent human malice or negligence it cannot cause harm, with human good intent it can prevent or mitigate harm.
  
  To assign agency or malice, or even to fear, the inanimate and inert, is simply not rational. Human maybe, but not rational. And reason must trump emotion.