Quote:Gun deaths? Are you once again implying that other deaths aren't as important? What point is lowering gun deaths when people will just find other ways to kill? It didn't take a gun to kill and maim people in Boston. It didn't take a gun in Oklahoma City. It didn't take a gun in Austin.


 

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_25334...fatalities

It didn't take a gun on 9/11, either, but that's besides the point.

 

If you want to kill someone, a gun is the easiest, cheapest and most convenient way to do it.  If you want to kill a lot of people, a big gun with a large capacity magazine is the way to go.

 

In this country, we make it very very easy for crazy people to get guns.  We do this because there is a very small but extremely vocal group of gun owners that say, ad nauseum, that any restriction on the ability to carry firearms is unconstitutional.  And they are particularly sensitive about making sure crazy people can get guns because most of them have been called "nuts" in the past themselves.

 

I really don't mind professionals like soldiers and policemen having guns.  I don't want to run around in a nineteenth century wild west town where everyone is armed to the teeth, but I'm comfortable enough with the average citizen having a firearm in the house.

 

It's just that in the U.S., we do a terrible job of keeping guns out of the hands of the insane.

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