sorry to butt in.. "guns don't kill people people do" so it's a argument of clichés like most politicized arguments become. I agree that more people have guns that probably should based on their intelligence, mental stability, etc. However, the real problem, to me, are the fomenters, the media, the babbling nabobs of AM radio, the internet (we get what we pay for), and to a large extent religion and the way it isolates itself from science and rationality. These are the problems. The rest of it is just stuff. Stuff is here to stay. If we want to survive we need to wise up and see the problems, get involved in making progressive changes, fact check ours and others facts, don't support those that capitalize on human frailties and stupidities. We should use our considerable economic power to support a rational government as it was meant by the founding fathers. We have a common enemy in the oligarchs and the blathering religious meatheads. Let's unite around that change things for the better. Understand that humans will make mistakes no matter how sanitized you try to make the world. We've been killing each other for no good reason for millennia. That's not going to change overnight. If there weren't guns, we'd use swords, clubs, stones, our fists and feet-- and we have.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus