[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]The issue was, is, and still is, the lethality of the weapon. If you keep wondering if inanimate objects can somehow act on their own, you will be unable to see this simple fact. Mass murderers choose firearms over knives, clubs, etc., because they are much more lethal and have a much greater 'acting' range (at a distance). If you continue to believe that guns do not shoot bullets a greater distance than you can throw a knife or club, and do not impart an injury of a much greater magnitude, then you will again be stuck believing nonsense. You, of course, did not answer the question about choosing a knife over a gun in a fight against someone with a gun, because you do not want to answer (because you do not have an answer that would not make my point). Why do you think mass murders choose a firearm both for their attack and for their defense when someone tries to stop them? Do you deny this greater firepower and it's action at a distance does not embolden them? Blinding yourself to these things does maintain your point (but leaves you blind to the reality of the situation). What you are constructing for yourself is a dodge, a ruse you are playing on yourself to justify unlimited ownership of weapons of mass murder. You have not introduced a single idea other than to state, incorrectly, that lethality of a weapon is irrelevant. In that you are wrong. My 'isolation' is only from those who join you in this self-delusion for their own selfish purposes. At this point discussion is silly.[/citation]
To wrap this thing up: I would choose a gun over many other methods because it's the one I'm most proficient with as well as easily accessible. Take away all the guns, then you've got the knives. Take away all the knives, then you've got things like the old bow and arrow. Take that away, then you've got blunt objects. Take away that, you you've still got other things like gas, fire, explosives, poisons, and so on. You cannot ban everything and anything that "may" pose a threat to ourselves as human beings. My point to this: where there's a will, there's a way as the saying goes. If an insane individual has made up in their mind that they've had it with ________, then they will look around and see what's available to perform what they had in mind. That individual will look around and ALWAYS find something to be able to kill someone else with. As with what unoriginal1 said as well, when you ban something, the enormous underground or black market has proven to be VERY resilient. So where does that leave those that abide by the same laws created to ban these very items from those people that have no regard for human life or laws that will no doubt still find some way to access that supply line?
I'm telling you that lethality of a weapon is irrelevant because just about everything around you can be used as a weapon. Is a gun more dangerous than a knife? Absolutely, but the box cutter example for the 9/11 airplanes is a VERY valid point. Without those knives being considered the catalyst, would the planes have been hijacked and later crashed to kill those thousands? That's debatable due to the fact of what I'm saying about banning everything "lethal". No guns, no knives (not that criminals abide by laws anyway), so they would have probably just utilized something else further down the list to get the job done. Then would we try to ban that next as well? However, it's not the airplane's fault, and it's not the box cutter's fault, it's the fault of a group of masterminds that came together with a devious plan to inflict as much harm and death as possible. Oklahoma City and the 93' WTC incidents are other lessons where guns aren't the only way to get the job done.
If you would like to see how well all this gun banning would work for the US, just read how Australia and the UK are doing as far as the level of overall violence (robbery, rape, assault, B&E incidents, trespassing, etc.) is concerned after their bans. After the guns start disappearing, then down the road, we can all work more on things like this to protect us from ourselves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_legislation
Did you know the UK are now working to ban kitchen knives over six inches and the point must have a large enough radius because now assault with large pointed knives have become such a problem after their magical gun ban? How ridiculous must it travel before people flip-out over being so overly legislated down upon and turned in to an absolute nanny state?
There are those within this world that you cannot take the evil out of, are deemed clinically insane, enjoy the suffering or harm inflicted on others, power hungry, and some that just simply want to watch everything in front of them burn. You want to find a real solution? Figure out what to do with these individuals and how best to remove them from the rest of society, then you've fixed a large portion of the world's problem!
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram