(July 8, 2011 at 1:31 pm)Shell B Wrote: I agree. Are we going to start banning kitchen knives, gasoline, matches, etc.? The fact of the matter is, if a person is going to kill another person, he or she will find a way. Murder has been around long before guns. You might argue, well there is more murder now. That is true, but we have an insane population now as well. If we keep going this way, we're all going to go Easter Island, guns or no guns.
True, murder has been around long before guns and people will find other ways to kill each other. Guns, however, make killing a lot easier and make killing lots of people at once much easier. Do you think that nut-job in Arizona would have killed six people if he just had a knife? The fact is killing has and always be around, the gun just simplified the whole task and can turn one person into a crowd killer. If killing is a fact of life, why make it so easy for people?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
