RE: Oakland School Shooting
December 1, 2021 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2021 at 8:01 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(December 1, 2021 at 7:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(December 1, 2021 at 7:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It's not ease of access (as least not primarily). We've been over this.
Boru
Agreed - I can walk upstairs right now and pick up a pistol or a shotgun. I don't want to.
For these things to happen there has to be intent as well as access.
Exactly. If access were the issue, then the outcome of owning a gun would lead, more or less directly, to shooting someone. It doesn’t, so it isn’t.
Now let’s all take a few minutes for 37 to completely misunderstand that statement.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
