Murder in Michigan

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Guns, however, make killing a lot easier and make killing lots of people at once much easier.

I disagree. It is only easier in the sense that it is quick. It is, by no means, an easy way of killing lots of people in the sense that you will almost always get caught if you open fire at a group of people or go on a shooting spree. Plus, people in the crowd can run away, so not everyone dies. Gas is much more effective and less traceable. You can't ban gas, can you? Oh, bombs are pretty good at that too. They destroy a lot of evidence and kill massive amounts of people. Your average Joe can build an effective bomb. Are we going to start banning every part of explosive devices? How about cell phones? They're popular with the roadside bomb crowd. Oh wait, we're talking about white people dying. We can keep our cell phones because only brown people and those asshole soldiers die from bombs with cell phones on them. However, guns have to go.

The thing is, I have never understood this argument. Killing a lot of people is not a difficult thing. The reason it is not done that often is that most people don't want to murder people. The whole want thing is the problem. It isn't the weapon, it isn't the victim, it isn't the setting, it isn't the phases of the fucking moon. The only reason why people kill people with guns is because those people want to kill people. Now, I don't think it is fair that people who have guns to protect themselves at home from intruders should have to now physically fight off intruders (who probably have guns or some other weapons) just because people attribute insanity to guns.

Do you think that nut-job in Arizona would have killed six people if he just had a knife?

Stabbing six people in the kidney actually doesn't sound that difficult. In fact, fewer people would run if you got them in the lung as well. There would be no warning shot or screams. Don't get me wrong, I am only stating a point here. The idea of hurting people makes me ill.

The fact is killing has and always be around, the gun just simplified the whole task and can turn one person into a crowd killer. If killing is a fact of life, why make it so easy for people?

Fire simplified the task. Swords simplified the task. Bombs simplified the task. Biological weapons simplified the task.