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In reply to the discussion: David Hogg shares fellow students plan for gun control on Twitter [View all]yagotme
(4,135 posts)Be it by gun, baseball bat, 9 iron, car, or swimming pool. Life is full of risks. If you want to ban all guns, well, then let's not stop there. We want to stop deaths, right? Ban swimming pools for private use. Must pass background check/mental stability check and swim qual to use public pool. All vehicles on road are to be armored with 2" thick steel. No vehicle will exceed 30 MPH speed. Ban drugs and alcohol. Severely restrict knives. No knife over 6", or less that 2". Background checks before ownership. Fill out federal paperwork and wait for many days before receiving knife from store. All knives must be kept under lock and key. Limit on 6 knives per household. 18+ to buy plastic knives. (If you think I'm joking, see Britain's knife laws.) Ban bathtubs. Shower stalls only. If it costs you big $ to refit your bathroom/house, oh well. It's needed to stop deaths, not to worry about your pocketbook, as a previous poster noted. No more skydiving. No more skiing. No more mountain climbing. No more trampolines.
I could go on, but I know I'm falling on deaf ears, and I will be ridiculed as in "All those things are different, because."