A genuine question for gun regulation supporters.

[krispos42]

9. I'm not a supporter of a strict environment of regulation

However, I would imagine that part of the reason is that we can't simply focus on one thing (say, food safety) and abandon all other problems that cause injury or death, because those problems will grow into huge unmanageable problems.


Part of it, too, is that some things are intentional,and some are accidental or statistical. I know that each time I put food in my mouth, there's some kind of tiny chance it has something wrong with it. But, what's wrong with it will be accidental. Undercooked burger, cross-contamination, mom didn't rinse off the cutting board enough after cutting up raw chicken, a rat pooped in a vat of peanut butter, etc.


When guns are misused, it is conciously and with deliberation and intent. I am going to rip away the sanctuary of your home with raw, brute force. I am going to shove this loaded gun in your face and demand your wallet, your car, your family jewels. You are going to be helpless before me, because I have the gun. And if I decide to shoot you so there are no witnesses, or to rape or beat you or your child simply because it amuses me, then you're at my mercy and helpless. This is far more terrifying and physically, mentally, and emotionally scarring than getting sick after eating at Jack-in-the-Box.


I believe that many people that support a strict regulator environment do so because of their vision of a good and just society. I believe it includes a nation where physical violence is always unacceptable, and that tools designed to be used to commit lethal violence are not available to anyone. By not having the tools around, people are unable to train with them, study them, or acquire a mastery of their use. Such skills are dangerous because they enable the mental framework of taking human life, and that mentality will lead to violence. People that think about taking human life every day, and the people that will carry weapons in anticipation or preparation of doing so, are thus far more dangerous to society because they are inured to the social stigma of being non-violent in all matters.