2006-10-06 16:13:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Guns are inanimate objects. Do trees kill people? Kitchen knives? Pencils?
Get this right, and please try to understand: guns are not inherently dangerous. They are machined chunks of metal and wood and plastic. Human beings load them, point them and operayte the mechanisms that make it work.
PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! Sometimes, it is justified.
2006-10-06 16:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by Thorbjorn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both. The gun, a non living object by itself can not kill a person though. I have yet to see a gun, sitting on a desk or in a box, stand up, point to a person or persons and fire a shot fatal or otherwise.
So, it would have to take a human being to pick up the gun sitting on a desk or in a box to point the gun and shoot said person or persons fatally or otherwise.
If the gun had never been invented, I am sure some other object would be used to kill.
2006-10-07 00:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People kill people, of course! If a person in the US, or other countries, for that matter, wants to kill someone, they immediately think of a gun. That is because of the availability of guns. If gun control were more strict, would it decrease murder? I think it would for a while, but then people would change their way of thinking. They would become more resourceful, using knives and drugs, etc, and murder would soon increase again.
2006-10-07 00:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by friedokra99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like you to think for just a moment.
Did anyone ever kill anyone else before guns were invented?
YES ! In fact the Catholic church had the Inquisition, and what about the crusades. King's armies went to battle with knives swords, bows and arrows, catapaults, mace's, battle axe's, chains, bola's, gurrats. Even a wood club, and throwing rocks.
People were boiled in oil burned at the stake, hung, drawn and quartered, drug behind a horse till dead, drown, beheaded.
The real count dracula who's name was "Vladmire" was also know as Vladmire the impaler. Would use wooden poles to impale his living victims and have them stuck in the ground with the person up in the air slowly dieing.
Guns have only made killing cleaner, and faster.
Remember King Henry the VIII ?
:o)
Jerry
2006-10-07 03:06:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People kill people. It's not the gun's fault.
2006-10-06 23:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by J.D. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My pistol is sitting beside me as always. It has yet to fire itself after have owning it for over five years.
Basic Physics: For an object a rest remains at rest unless acted upon by on outside force.
There are so many different tools that you can use as a weapon to kill someone, shoot a person can be killed by using your bare hands.
It takes an overt action by a person to commit murder
2006-10-07 01:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guns by itself cannot hurt people; sadly, guns makes it more convenient for people to kill more people faster and deadlier.
2006-10-06 23:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by DAX 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's actually men (and women) who's hands pull the trigger and aim on someone else that kill people. Inanimate objects can't do it!
2006-10-07 01:20:14 · answer #8 · answered by Jomaxee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually people do. Very few guns operate without human mediation.
2006-10-07 00:37:27 · answer #9 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people kills people man! gun are made by human how can they kill us
2006-10-06 23:23:02 · answer #10 · answered by saladin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋