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Originally Posted by Ninja Dodo
But the point is, they could scarcely have done it if there was no trigger to pull. The fact that some people can own a gun responsibly is no excuse to allow the rest the same opportunity.
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Right. Because prohibition did such a great job of ending drinking problems in America too.
Yes, the gun may have been the most immediate cause of those deaths. But the gun isn't what caused those kids to want to kill in the first place. Even assuming an ideal world where you
could have total control over who has a gun, you still wouldn't be solving the problem. Those people still would have found a way to kill because that's what they wanted to do. You don't kill somebody just because there's a means of doing so available. You kill somebody because you want them dead. And there are thousands of objects that can be lethal in the hands of somebody who wants to kill. If you want to take away the weapons rather than dealing with the actual cause, we'll all be living out our lives in a Howard Hughes-like state of fear and paranoia.
Whether or not people have guns is irrelevant. If you really want to solve the problem you should be looking at what made these people want to kill in the first place. Why do we have the only society on the planet where people feel so helpless that they have a need to take a gun into work and blow away a few of their colleagues? Why is the number one cause of death in America stress related heart disease? Why do people in our culture consider murder to be a viable solution to their problems? Those are the questions we should really be asking. Once we've answered those, whether or not we have guns won't really matter.
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