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In reply to the discussion: Go gun control!! Chinese teenager kills eight people in an effing KNIFE ATTACK RAMPAGE. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)97. zero sum
I don't know. How do you think it's going? I think the biggest mass killing in Europe was in Norway last year and In the US was Colorado this year. Not too many knives there. Hmm, now when was the last mass killing by melee weapons in the UK? Was there one?
compare population and other factors. In Europe, he would have been checked into a mental health facility.
Check it all out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#Other_notable_incidents
There is so much irony here. Americans supposedly place the highest value on human life, yet fail in so many ways. Guns in the streets, a for-profit healthcare system, capital punishment. And to support the idea of more guns in the street, the absurd notion that without them we will be swimming in the blood of crazy knife killers. It just gets crazier by the day around here.
I missed where anyone said that fewer CCWs would be more blood. But, the idea that fewer guns would mean fewer deaths ignores the complexity of the issue. It would be a zero sum. A life saved would be off set by one taken.Edit history
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Go gun control!! Chinese teenager kills eight people in an effing KNIFE ATTACK RAMPAGE. [View all]
Zalatix
Aug 2012
OP
Sure, after we tell the 9500 or so who are killed here each year by guns. nt
auburngrad82
Aug 2012
#104
If you are unable to understand the difference between how a knife works and how a gun works
CBGLuthier
Aug 2012
#7
How many would this kid have killed if he'd had the Aurora guy's guns and ammo?
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2012
#11
Why pay money to post on a forum where the owner makes advertising dollars NT
Trunk Monkey
Aug 2012
#67
Intent of post is obvious to any rational person. I think poster makes a good point.
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#19
No kidding. Why did they call what they invented GUNpowder if they're not going to also invent GUNS?
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2012
#26
You think Chinese want to be like America allowing armed yahoos to walk around in public,
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#18
yes people are violent. Lets make their violent episodes easier for them.
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2012
#30
Not often, but you guys can add it as another rationale to strap guns on before venturing out.
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#32
Are you afraid their soldiers will invade us, or someone will attack you with a knife?
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#42
Can't post rationally to people who have irrational fears and need guns to quell them.
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#46
Can't post rationally to people who have irrational fears and need to control people to quell them.
Ashgrey77
Aug 2012
#75
Tell the OP how irrelevant his post is interms of gun proliferation here.
Starboard Tack
Aug 2012
#72
thankfully, he couldn't get guns or there would likely be lots more dead people....
mike_c
Aug 2012
#51
Old-school non-gun weaponry can be just as deadly, it makes no difference to the victims:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2012
#100
The only ridiculous thing here is your laughable attempts at counter arguments.
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#93