Sorry, but I hate the 'guns don't kill people, people do' argument.
Of course people kill people, but the argument tends to suggest that guns are not at 'fault', and therfore are okay.
Guns are horrible things and make killing so QUICK & EASY.
Shooting & killing someone from a 'distance', simply by pulling a trigger is, to a certain extent, 'detaching' the offender from the actual act of killing, and in turn making it 'easier'.
Not that it's right, but to bludgeon, stab or beat someone to death requires a lot more effort & time, and greatly increases the chances of getting caught.
To summarise, guns make it FAR TOO EASY, and therefore the number of murders/deaths are gonna be so much greater!
> I know what you meant. I firmly believe that US should
> look very closely at their firearm legislation but not in
> the way the pussies in the Labour government did when they
> thought they could trade on the emotions of the British
> public to earn a few Brownie points. The Swiss prove that
> a country can have high firearm ownership and low firearm
> crime rates.
> Guns don't kill people. People kill people. That is the
> issue that the US needs to look at, but even if it is
> addressed I fear it won't completely prevent a similar
> event in future.
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> Will
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> > I did not mean that banning handguns would end the
> > problem, but it might give the police/security services an
> > easier time preventing such tragedies if they have laws to
> > back them up rather than to immobilize them??
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