That isn't what it exclusively does, but they are used for that very purpose a lot more than a lot of people are comfortable with. Quite frankly, there's no other real use for them in this day and age. Hunting has become pretty obselete what with retail supermarket chains and the like. People do still hunt, and I'm not here to preach against hunting, but you'd be hard-pushed to find a group of gun owners who all go hunting. I have a few friends with 2-2s (is that how you type it?), and they went hunting once, hated it, and just use them to shoot in the back yard. And considering one of them has pointed a loaded, non-safetied rifle at my head (not just mine), my points about guns seem very valid - no matter how carefully you vet things, and how "safe" you make owning a gun, it's still going to be very dangerous for the large majority.
You would write it 22, or .22. It is the size of the bullet. The real problem in that situation is that your friends are, apparently, unsafe idiots who should not have firearms.
It's really too bad about hunting.. Makes me wish there were around 5.95 billion less people so hunting was still a viable survival strategy in more areas.
You can visit almost any small farming area, or just a town in a rural area really, a place where guns are a part of everyday life. Probably 99% of the time there's never been an accidental death by firearm. Honestly, if you take out America's large cities, we're one of the safest countries in the world.
Just too bad we have something like 90% of the worlds serial killers, but that's another story.
, your gun laws work so good. now only a few people have guns. too bad they are the criminals. 