(February 23, 2018 at 3:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 3:34 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Slight amendment, if I may "Criminals with guns are [slaughtering people]."
He could just as easily have used a truck filled with fertilizer or pressure cookers filled with nails. But, oh well, black scary looking guns are scary and should be banned because they are scary looking and then once they are banned we can pretend that our lefty policies and libertine attitudes are not causing the break-down of families and subverting local social capital.
No, black scary-looking guns should be banned (from private ownership and public carrying) because they are deadly weapons with literally no other purpose, that maim and kill when used exactly as the manufacturer intended.
Let's indeed address all those other societal issues - but clean up the public streets as well, for fuck's sake. Are you afraid that you might end up with a more peaceful society by accident?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
