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Originally Posted by yoyowhoawhoa3
Let me first say I agree gun laws should stay the same as they are. With that said, that is the dumbest defense. Guns make killing someone a lot easier. It is a lot more personal to stab someone, beat them to death, hang them, whatever. Anyone can close their eyes point and click. The murder rate would drop tenfold if guns were outlawed. Aside from the mental aspect of a gun vs another weapon, it is also easier to take a life than any other weapon easily available (no bombs). Drive by's with blow darts?
I enjoy people shooting each other, I just think youre attempted defense was dumb.
The facts don't support your argument. It is not as easy to shoot people as you think. People kill each other with Personal Weapons (ie hands and feet) more than any other weapon. The FBI keeps statistics for murder by weapon. People were actually far more bloodthirsty and bellicose before firearms. Your thoughts are logical and reasonable to believe, just incorrect sir. There just is not an emotional distance in using firearms that you imagine. If anything the opposite is true. Consider the frequency of genocide in pre-history and early history, for example. After the world wars only the mutually assured destruction of thermonuclear weapons gave people unprecedented peace. In a phone booth knives are enough to provided mutually assured destruction. If you are planning to commit strong arm robbery, it is easier to do in England, and it should not be shocking that it is done far more there than it is done in Alabama. The death penalty ironically is no deterrent to crime at all. The public having legal access to firearms does not change murder rates one way or another. People that are homicidal are going to kill if they can. Please, look it up.
Consider this, the place you are as a ratio of population, most likely to get murdered is prison. There are no murders by firearm there. People are very creatively murdered by improvised weapons, if any, and up close and personally. I wonder how you would explain this with the expectation that eliminating firearms would actually reduce the murder rate by 10,000 times?