RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
August 13, 2013 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2013 at 4:24 pm by Chas.)
(August 13, 2013 at 4:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:So outright banning guns will solve nothing but keep them out of lawful citizens.
You know something? That's a canard. I'm far less worried about "criminals" with guns than I am about some nut with a gun. It's not the "criminals" who buy a gun at fucking WalMart and leave it lying around loaded so that their 2 year old can use it to blow his/her head off. It's those precious "law-abiding citizens" who repeatedly do that kind of stupid shit.
Ten times as many people are killed by motor vehicles - mostly by people doing stupid things that cause collisions. We need to work on the stupidity, the ignorance, the mental disease, the carelessness, the lack of responsibility of the people in this society. Y'know - the actual problem.
I'm all for rational approaches to gun ownership, but keeping guns out of the hands of crazy people requires addressing the problem of why we have crazy people roaming free - undiagnosed, untreated, uncared for.
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