why do people always say dont blame the guns blame the criminal?

Question

no matter how you twist it the bottom line is if there was no existance of guns 90% of the things that happened wouldnt happen

there'd be no robberies of any sort except maybe break ins when no bodys home

there would be like a 95% cut back on wars

think about it what was the person who invented guns thinking when he created it "ill create a weapon to use againts the people who dont have one" yes there are still other weapons but none more effective and easy to get than a gun

hell i never saw a person walking around with a missile launcher on his back thats for damn sure

no they dont have legs and shoot who they want but the damn legs wouldnt have anything to walk around shooting IF IT DIDNT HAVE A GUN

lets be serious who the hell is gonna rob a bank with a knife

yes objects only used for one purpose and thats killing

i know guns are an inadamet object but that doesnt mean nothing

if you wanted to stop a person from sitting down are you gonna take the couch away or cut there asses off????????????????????????????????????????????

Answer 1

There will never be no existence of guns.

Guns do not have legs, walk around and shoot who they please. They do not have brains.

Therefore, it's clearly the criminal's fault.

If guns were abolished, in your blissful utopian society, criminals would use knives, or bats, or brass knuckles, and then people like you would be calling for a moratorium on "all things which are sharp and pointy".

Answer 2

I think you'd be quite amazed at how many people have robbed banks with knives. The 9/11 hijackers used box cutters. How does that fit with your anti-gun philosophy?

I'm sorry to break this to you, but people who are depraved enough to use guns for crime will find other, deadly ways to commit crimes if all the guns were to miraculously one day poof into non-existence.

There was a little kid from a ghetto on some talk show one time who was asked what he thought about guns, and his reply was that he'd rather be shot once than stabbed 25 times. The hostess was sorry she had asked the question.

If you seriously want to prevent crime, you need to think of creative ways to do it that don't involve knee-jerk reactions like getting rid of all the guns. That will solve nothing, and in fact, will create more crime because if somebody is going to break the law in the first place, why not break one more law by having a gun?

Answer 3

Well, you have a point.

How many murders where committed in Japan as a result of guns last year? I think it was something like 50, now compare that to the USA.

On the other hand Look at the UK, there are knock down drag out bar fights every night in London. Do you think this would happen if people were allowed to carry guns?

I think the solution is being tougher on crime. If anyone commits a crime with a gun, they should get 25 years minimum, if they commit a murder with a gun, they should be killed with that same gun upon sentencing.

Answer 4

Look at Australia or the United Kingdom. They took the guns away from the law abiding citizens but the crooks and murders did not turn theirs in. As a result the crime rate in both these countries has greatly increase!

The second amendment allows us to be citizens. If all guns would be confiscated in the USA, we would be subjects and live at the whim of anyone in power.

There would be no cutback on war, wake up, guns do not start wars, people and politics do!

No robberies? Robberies would increase a thousandfold because the criminals would know that no one can oppose them when they break in. Do you think that getting rid of guns would stop the drug problem? Wake Up!

Florida has a right to carry law and crime against Floridians has decrease while crime against tourists has. The criminals target out-of-state people because they know they are not armed but avoid targeting someone who might be.

Answer 5

And what's your point? Guns can't be uninvented. People will have guns, and there's nothing that can be done about it. Wherever guns have theoretically been banned, it's led to increased bloodshed because the people who get rid of the guns are the people who should have them, and the people who shouldn't have them manage to keep or get them. I am not mechanically inclined. I don't even change the oil in my car. And yet if I wanted, I could make a gun this afternoon. Did it when I was a kid. And it's absurd to think wars would disappear. There were plenty of wars before there were guns.

Answer 6

a 95% cut back on wars, no robberies, no crime if guns didn't exist? If you would think back to a time when guns weren't around these things happened just about as much as the present day. Wars were fought with swords, catapults, and bows and arrows, people still got robbed and muged.
the invention if the gun just ment that you don't get to see the face of your killer up close.

Answer 7

Here's why. Before there were guns there were wars, robberies, killings, and all the rest. The tools were different but the results were the same.

95% cutback on war? The Romans conquered most of the 'civilized' world and they had no guns. How many guns did Alexander the Great, Atilla the Hun, and Gengis Khan have in their armies? Can you say ZERO boys and girls?

Answer 8

Well, considering guns have been around since the days when Christopher Columbus discovered America, I seriously doubt they are going anywhere. Even if the government banned firearms, criminals would still be able to get them through the black market illegally, just like they do now. Then law abiding citizens would be defenseless. I own a couple of guns, but they are to protect my home. because I'll be damned if some one wants to break into my home with the intentions of harming my family, and I can't do anything to defend them. That's just not going to happen.

Answer 9

Guns are inanimate objects. It takes a person to use a gun in a way that is antisocial. If you could take away the gun of an antisocial person he still would be antisocial.

Crime and robberies and all other forms of mans inhumanity to man were here long before guns were ever invented.
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Answer 10

If someone is intent on killing another person they will do so. Before guns people were stabbed, stoned or clubbed to death. Then there is poison too. Guns make the process faster and a bit easier but if one is going to commit murder it will be done one way or another. Remember guns have existed for only a few hundred years but humans have been killing each other for millions of years.

Answer 11

Your thinking has "some" merit, but not much. Guns were not made to kill humans, they were made to survive and get food. To answer the question in your title, If you put a million guns in a pile and surrounded the pile with people, not one person would be killed or hurt unless someone pulled a trigger. Crime would still be "alive and well". Look at all the computer scams. Bottom line is that it takes a human to pull the trigger. I have yet to see a gun standing trial for a murder.