Of course we're violent creatures, but guns are so readily available and so easy to use, it's so hard not to use them when you have one.
So, that argument is wrapped down into
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people. (which a lot of us tried really hard to avoid, I noticed)
Then, I guess we don't need guns. We just need to protect against people.
As stated by the undead George Washington himself here.
credit: Marvel NOW!: Deadpool #2
I'm sorry but we've been over this argument so many times, guns are weapon designed to kill efficiently, it's easy to use and easy to access.... blah blah blah and so on and so on.
Let's see some other argument made in this thread.
- The 2nd Amendment guaranteed my rights to....
Let me stop you right there. The 1st Amendment also give you free speech but a death threat can still get your ass in jail. Every "rights" is regulated, guns are no exception.
We're not talking about crime or violence in general. We're talking about gun violence, which goes up when you have more, you know,
guns. It's a strange logic that is brightly illustrated as
credit already in the picture
- People are getting guns illegally, banning and stricting guns will rob us of our protection
Well, shit. If the criminals will always get guns illegally, WHY DON'T THEY ? You don't hear much about fully-automatic guns being used lately while they were once used by criminals. The government banned them and POOF they practically disappeared as your national problem. Turns out that when they outlaw machine guns, the outlaws didn't have them!
- We need guns to protect our home and properties and our loved ones.
Then I hope you have 22 disposable family members, because statistically, that's how many you'll have to go through before you kill an intruder.(Note: An Arthur Kellerman study showed it's 22 times more likely a family member will be killed by a gun in the home than for the gun to be used to ward off an intruder, Journal of Trauma, 1998)
Also, some other interesting studies of Arthur Kellerman
- Now, I know when I start talking about legislation, people will start
differentiating between guns and assault weapons because they aren't really used in the army and all that.
Well, guess the people killed by guns didn't really die because the weapons they were killed with weren't really assault weapon. Hey, that actually make sense !.... Is it ?
Oh and my favourite argument.
- "It's not fair to punish law-abiding, responsible gun owners because some whack job goes on a shooting spree!"
I guess it's fair to let those children at Sandy hook got butchered because it might inconvenience some people ? How far have we come on the road of morality....
So, what ? Do we wait around for another shoot-out ? This anti-gun advocate pathos thing you think they're using is strangely outdated since the very first US school shootout.This isn't the use of pathos anymore, this is another wake-up call from the last time we knocked snooze on this topic.