28 Dead After Shooting At Connecticut Elementary School

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(2012-12-17 02:56)Kenwood Wrote:  

Quote:Does anyone care? Nope. We pretend we didn't see it. We pretend we don't see anything. Whatever bothers us, we simply complain about it. What else can we do?

That's the ignorance many outsiders (like Europe) see from Americans. Americans like to live a happy, easy life. Whatever bothers them is either spewed out to a psychologist or locked away like nuclear waste. Ignorance means we refuse to learn what we don't like. (I don't need to explain that one) So, this means we turn to guns. With a gun, we can almost instantly remove a threat.

Of course, removing one means matching or overpowering that threat. If one has that power, they can be a threat. The idea behind removing guns, is to remove any possible threats. That would mean we would also need to remove any steak knives, thumb tacks, cars, plastic bags, alprazolam, dioxin, bicycles, textbooks, computers, socialization, people, religious texts, heavy machinery, motorcycles, forks, coffee tables, nightstands, lamps, lampshades, Internet, paper, writing utensils, glasses, gasoline, air fresheners, cleaning agents, nails, nailguns, drills, and high heel shoes (thin heel). Imagine all of the threats we encounter in our daily lives? Removing it doesn't end it. It only inconveniences the problem and makes it smarter. The threat is the external influences that make us who we are.

It's not the tool that's dangerous. It's what uses it.

Or cause a major gunfight involving many victims.

This kind of ignorance just makes me cry.

Let's say this guy didn't have this 'tool', he would get another one right? Most logical replacement I can think of is a knife. How long do you think it would take to kill 28 people by knife compared to a gun? And besides that there's also a higher posibility of protecting yourself, or taking the knife from him.

But noooo, the gun he had surely didn't cause this.

The difference between guns and other weapons is that a gun is dangerous from any visible distance, other weapons barely are. There will always be threats, but your guns laws make these threats more likely to happen and make these threats more dangerous.