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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gun violence is about math.  If an overwhelming majority of folks whether they are nuts or not have access to a weapon easy to use to kill, statistically, deaths are going to rise.  I mean you can't really escape crime.  But you put a gun in a criminals hands, people die.  Put it in an unstable persons hands, people will die.  Depressed person, will die.  Etc, et al.  It's simple math.  If however you entrust a protocol by which all who have guns must abide by like mandatory training, safe storage, limits on use, it will help a great deal for numbers to fall.  Ultimately however, it will still be high because statistically, it doesn't matter what the equation is, logically you will end up with a mathematical reality.  It will be better than no adjustments but come on, if is what it is.  There's no way going back to where we were. It's not just about the nuts having access. [/quote]

“Gun violence.”  Another catchy phrase. What about hammer violence; screwdriver violence; pipe violence; wrench violence; acid violence; gasoline violence; knife violence; sword violence; machete violence; crowbar violence; truck violence; car violence; insecticide violence; boiling water violence; hot grease violence; etc.; and my personal favorite, toilet tank cover violence?

Why don’t we hear about how all those other inanimate objects are constantly self-activating to do violence, but guns somehow have a mind, volition and locomotive capacity of their own.

Criminal violence is committed by criminals. Not inanimate objects. [/quote]

You mean like in the UK, where your kitchen scissors are the moral equivalent of a machine gun nowadays?

Isn’t the inverse true?  If guns were not specifically problematic in their lethality, we would be hearing more about criminals using knives, screwdrivers, and the like to kill people, but we don’t.  Guns are the weapon of choice, which illustrates their problematic usage.[/quote][/quote]

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