coined a snappy but senseless phrase that says people do the killing, not the gun, and unintelligent people accepted a nonsensical statement. Just because a person pulls the trigger does not cancel out the fact that the bullet from the gun killed someone. Guns kill. If there were no guns, would people use knives? A few would, but you have to get close to the person and that is risky. No guns in the country would save millions of lives over the years. YOU might get killed in the next few years, but your grandchildren would live longer when all the guns were finally irradicated. We know getting rid of all the handguns already in America could take two generations.
Don't be so selfish Americans! Think of your grandchildren! Let them live in a peace that you will never know personally.
(I know I am talking to a "brick wall" in many cases, and people who don't care about anyone but themselves.) But I say again, give your grandchildren a break, or even your great grandchildren!
2007-09-20 14:16:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Guns are tools, and tools can be used responsibly or irresponsibly.
To me, the underlying problem is while we have wonderful rights (which I fully support), there needs to be a balance of responsibility. Our culture seems to be about avoiding responsibility, from the corporate level to the street, from the right to the left.
2007-09-20 14:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So we eliminate guns, but people can still make bombs, incendiary devices (like flame throwers), use knives, swords or axes to kill others. This does not take into account that anyone willing to break the law could still obtain them.
It's best to solve the *real* problems when tackling them not just an apparent symptom.
2007-09-20 14:26:48 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you want an answer, or did you just want to vent? I don't see a question mark anywhere. Well, here I go, falling for the rant again: Sorry...too many Americans have already fought and died to keep the right to bear arms, along with all our other rights, that the founders of this country thought were appropriate for us. I think we would be downright fools to give up this right in the face of the evil and upheaval facing us today. So....no dice. Thanks for the two.
2007-09-20 14:25:58 · answer #3 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Still another 2
2007-09-20 17:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by Jax Cop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, that's quite a tirade. I could add more thoughts, like "ted kennedy's car killed more people than 99.9% of firearms owned in the U.S". I could show you that more gun control means higher violent crime rates, sighting studies on gun control in UK and Canada and australia, where violent crime has skyrocketed as more and more gun control has been forced on the people. I could show you the FBI statistics that show places like Washington DC with strict gun control and the highest homicide rate in the US, I could list literally thousands of cases where private citizens have succsessfully defended their lives or the lives of others with legally owned firearms, I could show you that the supreme court has ruled that Law enforcement is under no directive that says they even have to come out to help you if you call, which leaves you helpless to defend yourself or protect your family without a firearm, I could cite individual cases ranging from school vice principles saving students by getting his firearm from his car and holding the armed intruder at the school until police finally arrived, to senior citizens who without their firearm would have been beaten to death by career criminals the bleeding heart liberals keep releasing to pray on the helpless, I could explain to you that I have watched my firearms collection carefully for the last 30 years, and I have yet to see one of my firearms load itself, sneak out of my gunsafe and run down the street attacking anyone, I could explain to you that I have saved lives thru the use of my firearms, in fact, I could go on for days with facts and real stories of firearms doing good, I could tell you that my children learned the safe handling of firearms from age 8 on, or that my grandchildren are learning the same lessons now, I could explain to you that a criminal will use any means to accomplish his goal, but that for many, the weak, the elderly, the outnumbered have need of that firearm to defend themselves or their families from harm, I could tell you that as a former police officer, I welcomed law abiding citizens to have their firearm. But I still don't think giving you the truth will sway your rabid and misplaced hatred of firearms. I pray that you never face a situation where you needed a firearm to defend your family, and that because of others like you, there was none available. As for me, I have faced that situation many times, from both 2 legged and 4 legged attackers. I'll put my faith in god, my trust in my family, and our safety in one of my firearms in the hands myself, my wife or my sons and daughter. And lastly I could tell you that without any doubt that it really is people who kill, sometimes they do it with a firearm, other times with a knife, a car, a club, a shoe, an ink pin or any of a thousand other instruments that they can use. But I still don't think you'd listen
2007-09-20 14:44:11 · answer #5 · answered by randy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋