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In reply to the discussion: WaPo Article Contends "Zero" Correlation Between State Gun Laws and State Homicide Rates [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Be it suicide, homicide, mass shooting, or a curious 2 yr. old, it is the GUN that makes it impossible to change one's mind after that impulsive instant when the trigger was pulled.
It is a fact that greater availability of an instrument that makes it easier, faster, and in most cases less physically risky to the shooter = more deaths. Does anyone really not know this when they shoot targets?
The most honest firearm fundamentalists make it clear that they want quick and easy access to efficiently kill. The only way to accept the belief that such qualities are desirable is to consider the risk and obvious results of widespread availability negligible.
The fact that people undeniably want to be able to kill with ease can only be glorified and defended by ignoring facts and truths related to the intended design and ultimate effects.
The resistance to efforts to regulate guns dismisses the reality of the design, the sole purpose, and the inevitable results. If that doesn't work, blame people with mental illnesses and then write many off as irrelevant to the data.