RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
December 24, 2012 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2012 at 2:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Most guns are fired by humans (and most nails are similarly driven by humans- albeit humans holding hammers), though potentially other trigger pullers (and nail drivers) can be leveraged. In both the analogy and the problem invoked, it isn't the tool but it's divergent use by human beings that's a major problem.
I'm not so much arguing - as stating- that your statistics fail to implicate an inanimate object for crimes or actions for which human beings are clearly accountable. When people commit crimes, it is the people that need to be held accountable, not whatever tool they happened to be holding when they did so (if they want to off themselves, im not going to bitch about the method they chose to handle that - imho, that's their own business). To suggest otherwise is to offer up a convenient scapegoat. That, I would argue.
@Aractus, some jurisdictions require exactly that, licenses, permits, and registration. The vast majority of such regulations are primarily directed at handguns (an easy case, given the prevalence of handguns in crime) but some are all-encompassing. Mass is a good example of that. The right to bear arms limits the federal governments ability to maintain lists, to mandate permits, licenses or registration, it does not limit state (or city, or county) governments ability to do so in such a strict manner.
I'm not so much arguing - as stating- that your statistics fail to implicate an inanimate object for crimes or actions for which human beings are clearly accountable. When people commit crimes, it is the people that need to be held accountable, not whatever tool they happened to be holding when they did so (if they want to off themselves, im not going to bitch about the method they chose to handle that - imho, that's their own business). To suggest otherwise is to offer up a convenient scapegoat. That, I would argue.
@Aractus, some jurisdictions require exactly that, licenses, permits, and registration. The vast majority of such regulations are primarily directed at handguns (an easy case, given the prevalence of handguns in crime) but some are all-encompassing. Mass is a good example of that. The right to bear arms limits the federal governments ability to maintain lists, to mandate permits, licenses or registration, it does not limit state (or city, or county) governments ability to do so in such a strict manner.
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