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In reply to the discussion: Fuck it! I'm sick of pro gun arguments and advocates. [View all]chuckingrocks
(2 posts)Hi Lint Head and others,
I'm totally sick of this crap too... I'm new to DU, but I have a blog, chuckingrocks.com, and I just wrote about this. Here's and excerpt:
If someone wants to kill a lot of people, a gun is almost always their best choice.
Yes, there are many other ways to kill people: a hammer, a knife, a car, a bomb, etc. But almost anyone can go out and buy a gun and bullets and start shooting peoplein many states, on the same day. A bomb would have to be builtusing parts that are highly monitored by various federal agencies; using a car would take certain, specific conditions; and a hammer? A knife? Seriously? Comparing a high caliber, semi-automatic rifle to a hammer, or a even a knife for that matter, in terms of deadliness, is pretty damned absurd. Last time I checked we dont send our soldiers into battle with knives and hammers.
So after the tragedy yesterday in Roseburg, I dont want to hear: if were going to restrict guns, why not knives, hammers, etc? Thats a dumb thing to say. Were dont have people killing or injuring twenty people at a time with hammers or knives. Theyre doing it with guns.
And I dont want to hear the old saying that guns dont kill people, people kill people. Wrong. When people kill peopleespecially in this countryits usually with a gun. Yesterday, people were killed with guns. In fact, unless we concoct some sort of contrived hypothetical situation, what happened yesterday could not have happened without guns.
Finally, I dont want to hear, as Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said at the last debate, that passing more gun laws wont matter, because criminals wont follow those laws anyway. That is the most idiotic thing anyone ever thought up. Of course criminals will break lawsthats how we know theyre criminals. We have laws so we can penalize criminals for doing bad things. We have laws to prevent criminals from committing crimes. We have laws that make it more difficult to commit a crime. We have police officers and a court system to enforce the law. Laws are the basis for a civilized society. That someone running for President doesnt understand this is horrifying, and anyone who repeats Rubios line is an imbecile.
Full story http://chuckingrocks.com/guns2015/
Cheers,
Chuckingrocks