(December 23, 2012 at 10:58 am)Aractus Wrote:Then maybe you would like to explain why multitudes more die in traffic accidents each year than by hunting accidents, or why more people die annually from alcohol related deaths than all the drug and gun related deaths combined....Surely if all drivers were driving responsibly and all consumers of alcohol were drinking responsibly there would be 0 traffic related deaths and 0 deaths by alcohol, correct?....but we weren't talking about accidental deaths were we?(December 23, 2012 at 10:48 am)A Theist Wrote: "massacres will still take place using bolt-action rifles, shotguns and handguns...The public shouldn't have automatic or semiautomatic assault rifles, and taking them away is a step in the right direction, but the entire gun-culture in America needs to be addressed."...Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people and wounded another 800 people in the Oklahoma City bombing by using a mixture of a common farming fertilizer and racing fuel....there's no gun culture to address...the left looks naively just to more regulation on guns as if that's the cure all to end violence...what needs addressed is what would motivate a person in the first place to commit murder like this, as well as the mental state and the environment impressing an unstable person...this rush to heavily regulating, and or banning guns without addressing the other factors isn't going to solve anything...Then perhaps you'd like to explain why each year in the USA 80-90 people die in hunting accidents? Surely if all the hunters were using their guns correctly and responsibly there would be 0 hunting deaths, correct?
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