The difference between knives and guns

[TaraJo]

Both sides are going about it wrong...we must focus on mental health rather than on a band-aid solution, but Americans tend to ignore issues until after it is far too late to make a difference. American society is reactive instead of proactive.

That would be tricky. Are you suggesting our mental health state should be taken into account when it comes to who can own/use/carry a weapon? If so, that's going to cause a lot of problems with healthcare privacy laws.

Or are you suggesting we just have better mental health care in general? As good as that would be, what do you do with people with mental health issues they refuse to treat? I mean, if you have a deeply religious paranoid schitzophrenic and they may very well think their delusion is a message from God and that any attempt to treat them is Satan interfering. And what are they going to do if "God" tells them to go shoot up a daycare center?

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Really if I wanted to kill someone, I'd probably just use my bare hands...want to chop off my hands? Go ahead.

How long do you think it would take to kill one person with your bare hands? Ok, maybe you could sneak up on that first person and strangle them, but from there on, killing someone with your bare hands is NOT easy. The human body can take a real beating and still survive.

But, then, if we're saying killing someone with your bare hands is the same as killing someone with a gun, why does anyone need guns? I mean, if you can kill with your bare hands, can't you defend yourself with your bare hands? Or hunt with bare hands?