I don't understand why some people try to wave off the destructive power of guns versus other potential weapons. Give either of those four-year-olds a large knife, or a hammer, or a large rock and the likelihood that they would have killed a grown woman or a fellow child is significantly reduced. Especially if it's accidental.
I'm not against gun ownership, though I never have (and almost certainly never will) own a gun. But I think it's fair to acknowledge the danger that guns in the home present, especially in a home managed by such irresponsible people.
I'm not against gun ownership, though I never have (and almost certainly never will) own a gun. But I think it's fair to acknowledge the danger that guns in the home present, especially in a home managed by such irresponsible people.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould