Guns don't kill, people WITH guns kill. Isn't that much more honest than the misleading motto that people kill

Question

without admitting that they do it with guns?
For the hardnuts, sure there are other ways to kill, but they are not as easy and as cowardly as pointing a gun FROM A DISTANCE. As someone else pointed out, most murders are done in an emotional outburst when a gun is handy.

Answer 1

The gun lobby, like other special interest groups spend buko bucks on think tanks to dream up these catch phrases, and then they can count on conservative talk shows on radio and TV to get the message out and the mass media reliably repeats this nonsense over and over again.

Money talks, and despite the rhetoric, guns in homes are 37 times more likely to kill a member of the household than an intruder. We are living in an age of spin, double speak, and propaganda.

People seem to be driven by greed more than by personal integrity, but that's nothing new. The media and government have always catered to wealthy special interests. However, I think we are in an age of naivity, where people actually would like to believe the official story. Perhaps we need to do a better job of teaching history.

Answer 2

not every person that has a gun is a murderer so that statement is correct; if you want to kill and want a gun bad enough to do it , you will find a way, legal or otherwise; to make every person a murderer is ludicrous. A crazed person will find a way and method and there is no stopping that; gun control may slow him down a bit but in the long run, the black market and people willing to make money illegally will sell him one. Growing up in the 60's , boys played cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians , they had play machine guns and play knife, play grenades etc but that didn't make them killers or more violent; what makes kids violent and into violent adults is the lack of believing in something more than yourself, to have parents who are struggling to buy a big house and great cars and want it all; the children are left alone more; when I was a child few Moms worked and households lived simple lives but happier; people were connected and not forced to seek communication through my-space; face-book, live journal etc; now a screen is between them and other humans. People don't get together with extended families, cousins, friends etc, in the older days Sunday was a day of rest and family ; you had family dinner and conversations with people face to face

Answer 3

No it is not. You are a fool if you blame the tool. Will you start charging auto makers and people who brew for drunk drivers?
All common bullets are less than 1/2 inch across and a fricking car is 6 ft wide or better. Which has a better chance of hitting someone with a damn fool in control? Get an education about physics and volunteer to ride on a rescue unit and see hos many runs are for gunshots and how many are for car wrecks then the one that gets more people hurt is the one you need to jack your jaw about.

Secondly: The first and second Continental congress agreed that the Federal Government had no authority to have a standing army in time of national crisis the militias were to be Federalized and each militia man was required to provide his own weapons. Do not take my word research it for yourself.

Answer 4

Guns don't have minds to kill. People have the minds to kill. Take the person off the street with the mind to kill and there's one less killer on the street.

Answer 5

You know, I'm beginning to like you. I don't know if you believe the stuff you are questioning or if you are doing it for the debate that comes from it...none-the-less, my answer to this one is:

People kill...a gun cannot jump from a shelf, load itself, aim itself, and shoot itself - there must be the human factor involved.

Whether it is a gun, knife, car, pillow, hammer, or a bottle of pills or whatever other means - those items are nothing more than a tool used by the person to commit the killing.

You could have a pile of loaded guns sitting next to a pile of knives - and not a single one of them will kill a human being - without direct interaction from a human being.

Answer 6

People do kill, and it doesn't matter if it's with a gun or something else. A mere object can't do anything by itself. Also objects do not make decisions, people do. People need to stop being ignorant little crybabies (PC nothing) and take responsibility already.

Answer 7

True, so the thing that has to be dealt with are the people not the guns or knives or forks etc.

Gun control or eradication is wrong. People learning to control themselves and becoming educated about the proper use of guns is what needs to take place.

Good question!

Answer 8

I agree. This also brings to mind the controversery about violence resulting from video games, movies, songs. It's a bunch of bullshit from people who want to put the blame on something other than the truth.

Think about this Nursery Ryhme
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?

Should we ban that story because it suggests violence against the poor innocent mice? All they did was chase the farmer's wife, they did not harm her.
Did the mice live after their tails were cut off? Probably not.

You can smother someone with a pillow, should pillows be outlawed?

Answer 9

3 things that kill people- words, guns, and people. 1st one directly or undirectly. 2 nd one directly with human intervention. 3rd directly.

Answer 10

I agree. The weapon/tool used for killing can't kill someone by itself, a person has to be there to use it to kill with.