Baths kill more Japanese then guns kill Americans

[Pholus]

165. No problem. Sadly, you're doing the same thing.

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Now I restricted my choice to two devices because of an interminable thread above talking about how cars are lethal weapons based on a old failed attempt to use a car in an assassination. Hilariously, my opposite number seems oblivious to the fact that his cherry-picked incident made my primary argument for me. The target of the assassination lived, so irrespective of the death of bystanders the choice of the tool was not correct for the goal of the user.

Adding additional choices would merely confuse the issue even more without getting at the core. I like your addition though.

So what *is* the best tool for the job? My claim is that to kill someone improvised weapons are a poor second choice, reserved for cases like your prisoners where they are restricted to a limited number of options in which case "necessity is the mother of invention." Ask your prisoners if they'd rather have their bathroom bazooka or a gun.

As far as "why do you believe that a law will stop a criminal" the answer is: it doesn't and you are not understanding the purpose of laws by asking that question that way. Laws are a pledge to follow a set of rules in return for the benefits of a civil society. They are a contract. For most people, they form a deterrent but obviously they do not for a handful of sociopaths. In that case, laws become the mechanism to deprive the benefits of society from the violator.