FUCK THE NRA.

[the devil]

261. Victims, aren't we all?

I never said or implied that we didn't need police officers. We would still require police officers to deal with crimes that don't involve firearms (traffic violations, stabbings, rapes, etc.). What I did say is that there are a lot of gun owners who have never been victims of any kind of violent crime who have guns in their possession to protect them. Why do they have them?

Because Fox News and their ilk continue with the idea that "if it bleeds, it leads" and people believe the crime rate is going up. Check the statistics...the actual statistics, not the ones provided by the NRA or Fox, and you'll see that, in most cases, violent crime rates are dropping across the United States. Sexual assaults appear to be the anomaly, but I think that's more due to the fact that women who are assaulted are more likely to report than they used to be. At least, I would hope that is the case.

The police and the military should be allowed to carry guns. They have significant hours of training in order to do so, and I'm not talking an hour a week at the gun club. They are trained to deal with the weapons they carry and some have the resources to deal with the psychological effects afterward. Hunters should also have guns. They know what a rifle is used for, and they also know that if they were to use it against a person, that is just one more strike against hunters being able to have access to firearms. Ask any hunter from Canada about using razor tipped crossbow bolts. They were legal until someone used them to kill a woman in Ottawa. Then the government banned them. Did it hurt hunting in Canada? No, it only took one thing away.

I have little to no faith in humanity. In my lifetime I've seen people do things to other people because they gave them a dirty look. Or because they had some money or other possession. Or because of the color of their skin, the god they choose to believe in, the person they happen to love...there are so many reasons. And not one of those reasons is a good reason.

If I have to make a bomb, where there's a chance I'll blow myself up in the process of making it, maybe I'll think twice about making that bomb. If I'm going to stab someone, I'm going to have to look them in the eye and ask myself if I think it's worth it. Guns make it too easy to end someone else's life. I don't have to look you in the eye. I can shoot you from far away and feel nothing. As long as it's pointed in the right direction and in good working order, I won't hurt myself either.

I am finding one argument (and, no, it isn't yours) ridiculous...and that is that cars kill more people than guns. Cars serve many purposes, like taking people to and from work. Take a car to work and nobody looks at you. Take a gun to work...you leave in handcuffs. Guns are meant for killing... When someone drives into a mall, or a mosque, or a school, and starts running over people in an attempt to kill multiple people, then we can talk about taking cars away.

People need to turn off their televisions and stop living in fear.