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Posted by: Vgnut117
Posted by: family chief
I would like to see a firearm which just magicly kills people without any ammunition or outside help.
I'd like to see people with basic thinking skills. There's a serious cultural issue with guns in the United States that doesn't exist in its Western counterparts. People kill people. No -blam!-. The problem is there's a bloc so aroused by gun ownership that to even make such a no brainer statement like the mentally ill should be kept away from guns becomes controversial.
Hell gun ownership per capita is higher in Canada believe it or not. Yet gun violence per capita is nowhere near the U.S. Part of that is that people that shouldn't have guns in Canada don't get to have guns! It's frankly shameful that this fetish blocks much much needed measures to combat the rampant gun violence culture in the U.S.
Would it have stopped this from happening? I don't know. But if all you see in this statement is a man suggesting guns magically kill people then you need to start questioning if your brain is on.
BOB COSTAS:
"Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.
The man came out and said that handguns themselves 'tempt', 'exacerbate our flaws', and 'bait us'. I don't know about you, but that sounds like he's making the gun into an anthropomorphic item that has influence over people. That is absurd.
As for your statement about gun activists somehow wanting to keep mentally-ill able to buy weapons, that's preposterous. That why on the ATF 4473 form that everyone must fill out when buying a gun, specifically asks if a buyer is/has been mentally ill. That's why , in addition to that, background checks are done on everyone to stop such a sale from taking place.
I will concede that parts of the culture in the US do abuse the rights given to them by allowing the populace to arm themselves. This , however, should not be grounds to limit everyone elses rights. Something must be done, but what that something is remains under heavy, heated debate.
That being said, blaming an object on human acts and emotions is asinine. The handgun didn't cause this, the human behind the trigger did.