Guns: how much longer will it take ....

I thought guns and ammo had to be separated and locked up, with the gun unloaded.

Yes, and the same can be said of alcohol.

MontereyJack wrote:

Jesus would be appalled

Good afternoon!

Part of the reason people call parents like this 'gun nuts' is because they implicitly think the weapon can be left lying around for a 6 year old to find and play with. Morons.

Or they obviously teach their 6 year old 'no one is allowed to take your guns from you under the 2nd ammendment, and if they try...' (ie. morons).

The same with people who are murdered with any other kind of weapon as well.

When other countries have mass shooting the government does something about it.

Won? You just lost Illinois.

A. Alcohol deaths are either self inflicted; or

B. Where alcohol imposes deaths on others is on the roads, and that is heavily regulated; and

C. You cant purposefully use alcohol as a weapon of mass murder.

Good article by Paul Auster on the damaging effect of guns.

Apparently 82% of all gun deaths in the world occur in the US.

We have strong laws against murdering people. Also against manslaughter and negligent homicide.

I found this bit of that article the most interesting. It suggests gun owners are getting more extreme in their desire to own guns:

Quote:

Cars are a necessity of civilian life in America. Guns are not, and as more and more Americans have come to understand that, the percentage of households that own guns has been dropping steadily over the past 50 years, from half of them to just below a third, and yet the number of guns currently owned by Americans is larger than ever before – which means that fewer and fewer people are buying more and more guns.

Guns protect us from harm by criminals.

You're right, children are being butchered every day by the NRA.

Schools are being shot up every week.

Thank God our children are protected from NRA filth.

What? Are you going to bring smoking, over-eating, etc. into the mix now? This topic is about GUNS, not any other forms of killing. Stay on topic.

A national registry, among other things, is required for the good regulation of the keeping an bearing of arms in the US.

Around 50% of suicides in the US are self inflicted if I remember right.

But there are also differences between firearms and knives - mostly related to distance, capacity numbers per individual, capacity against someone armed (say with a baseball bat, crow bar or other similar implement), and capacity against persons fleeing.
It is the differences that result in people seeing them differently, and treating them differently.