Why is it that the main objection concerning gun control

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142. Human nature

Guns are used every day to deter crime. Often the mere possibility or sight of a gun is enough to deter a would be criminal. Criminals hate victims that can fight back.

Timothy McVeigh murdered 300 people. He did not use a gun. All of the materials he used are still available for sale.

Al Qaeda murdered over 3000 people in a single day. The only weapons they had were box cutter knives.

The single worst school massacre in US history was committed using a bomb.

There was an incident in China a few days prior to the Sandy Hook Massacre in China. That guy did about the same damage while wielding only a knife.

The Red Sticks of the Muscogee Creek indians massacred Fort Mims without using a firearm.

In an enclosed space, like a classroom, any weapon is really just about as good as any other.

It isn't the weapon. The weapon could be a knife, a baseball bat, a sword, a bomb, a gun, or a large pointy stick the list is quite endless. The best tool in the world is of no consequence, it is the person wielding it that we need to worry about. The person is the real weapon, and a truly dangerous person is dangerous so long as they are still conscious and can still move a hand.

Personally, I think some of the video games and SSRI drugs combine to be the largest part of the problem. In the 1960s, the US Military changed rifle training to pop up human shaped targets which resulted in more soldiers firing at their human shaped enemies in combat, video games do almost the same thing but repeat it over and over and over again with no real safeties. The side effects of SSRI drugs are known to cause psychotic and sociopathic behavior. Combine these two items and you have a potentially deadly cocktail. It won't effect every single person that takes these medicines and plays video games, but it will effect some.