RE: Noteworthy News
July 18, 2021 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2021 at 6:43 pm by Brian37.)
(July 18, 2021 at 6:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 18, 2021 at 6:04 pm)tackattack Wrote: You can’t connect a shooting to every other shooting? You just did, which I believe is Brian point. They are all shootings and involve guns, bad guys, and victims.
Funny thing is olb is trying to arm victims to make less of them (and hopefully kill the bad guy category) and Brian is trying to lessen the gun category to lessen them. They’re both striving for the same goal in different categories.
I think you’re being deliberately obtuse. Of course all shootings involve guns, but to claim that qualifies as a connection, when the topic is the phrase ‘isolated incident’ is tautological to the point of uselessness. Cancer is a disease - does that fact mean that all cancers are somehow connected?
Suppose that Joe in Seattle shoots himself in the foot while cleaning his gun. Further suppose that Jim in Miami shoots a clerk and two cops during a robbery. Other than the fact that both involve guns, what is the connection between the incidents?
Boru
Edit: Please note that Joe’s shooting didn’t invoke a ‘bad guy’.
Ease of access is the connection. If Jim in California smokes and Jim in Miami smokes, and cigarettes are widely available to anyone who wants them, there is going to be a higher rate of cancer. So if guns are as easy as purchasing candy, and unfortunately they are, it does not matter if we are talking about Chicago or Norman Oklahoma, the more guns available, the more guns used, the more opportunity for injury and death.