(January 13, 2016 at 1:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Do you think that parents are intentionally the cause for the most lethal maladies that affect us in the US......or do you think that they might be feeding their kids poison in tremendous quantities on accident? It;s easier because we like sugar...we will gladly open our mouths...and children rarely run from a candy bar. It's ludicrous...but so is the notion that killing is easy on account of the tool in a persons hands. We know this to be demonstrably untrue.
Sure, but that happens over the course of a lifetime. Pulling a trigger lasts much shorter and kills instantly.
Quote:I can say it because we've studied it and determined it to be conclusively true. The difficulty of killing exists and is overcome before a person pulls the trigger.
Do you have any links for that? I don't doubt the above, but I'd like to read more about it if you have any materials.
Quote:The beauty of a gun...in terms of lethality, is the quickness with which you can act after having overcome your internal objections...and the effectiveness with which a determined killer can end lives when he has a gun in his possession.
Exactly.
Quote:The regulations are -already- harsh. We simply fail to enforce them.
What could be done about it?
