RE: Yet another school shooting
August 23, 2013 at 8:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2013 at 8:10 pm by Brakeman.)
(August 23, 2013 at 7:12 am)Brakeman Wrote:(August 22, 2013 at 8:44 am)Napoléon Wrote: The design of a weapon/tool such as a gun directly impacts on how efficient a killing weapon it is and how easy it is to use.
You could argue that you could kill as many people if not more with a jumbo jet, but you're forgetting just how difficult it is to high-jack a jumbo jet, learn how to fly it and have the ability to direct it where you want when compared with, let's say... a pistol. That's why your analogy fails.
And if you want to use the car analogy instead, the same applies, except also car related deaths are by and large accidents, not someone wanting to go around intentionally killing school children.
All in all, the whole argument that you can use other things to cause as much damage as a gun almost always misses the point.
So in essence you are saying guns are bad because they are the easiest to use, as psychopathic killers are inherently extremely lazy? Hmmm..
The design of a weapon/tool .. efficient .. how easy it is to use. ..
You could argue that you could kill as many people if not more with .. difficult ..
Thus the implied point seems to be that killers will take the easy method and not the difficult method.
I don't always agree with that idea, but it has some validity. I just saw the comment as simplistic and overstated, not that I think it is untrue.
The 911 Hijackers had access to guns but chose a plane, Tim McVeigh had access to guns, but he chose a home made bomb. Neither of these invalidates your good point, but they do show that it has exceptions.
So seriously..
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