Good Guy With Gun Tries To Kill Neighbor’s Barking Dog, Shoots Wrong One

[Straw Man]

71. Individual tragedies are not a scorecard for public policy.

Seriously. Today we have a grandfather in Florida who decided to shoot to death his daughter and her 6 children.
I beginning to wonder where I might start to draw the line.
Do you have a line? A limit? 100 a day? 1000 a day?

How many alcohol-related deaths before you want to ban alcohol? Currently we're at 88,000 per year. It's a serious question. You can skip all the cant about "what guns are designed for." Public health is public health, n'est-ce pas?

What is the answer? As long as guns are popularized as "problem solvers", then some people with guns will use them to solve problems.
There needs to be a radical change in how guns are characterized. "Personal Protection Device" does not cut it.
"Deadly Weapon" does.

Guns are either problem solvers or problem creators, depending on who wields them. They are always deadly weapons. Fools will be fools, and no amount of "characterization" will change that.

Tools are ethically neutral; it is the use to which they are put that defines the moral quality.