I would rather argue that people will murder even without guns.
That's certainly true, but beside the point. My argument is that by allowing people to carry guns you are only making it easier for people to kill other people. You aren't helping them or improving their lives in any other way (as is the case with say allowing people to drive cars even though more people die in car accidents than school shootings). Of course hunting is indeed an exception, but only a minor one and we're not just talking about hunting rifles.
You are saying a home made bomb would probably be worse. That's probably true but a home made bomb is also much more difficult to get a hold of than a gun (at least so it seems is the case in the US). Keeping guns in schools to prevent angry teenagers from blowing them up seems to me like sinking a ship to prevent it from catching a fire.
I don't own a gun and neither does anyone in my family. Still we don't seem to be having much trouble staying alive. Perhaps guns aren't all that necessary anymore since we have super markets to buy food from. OTOH, if I wanted to murder someone I'd bet a gun would be much more useful than anything I could buy at a super market...
<bitter irony> Now, as far as hunting is concerned, I don't know where you live, maybe it's a third world country or something, but people around here only become hunters if they consider it an interesting sport (like fishing). It really doesn't help much to keep people alive anymore.However, it probably played a big part in keeping people alive in prehistoric times. That's why most cavemen nations had an amendment to their constitutions making it illegal NOT to bear arms, right? </bitter irony>
Anyway, is hunting the reason you Americans have the 2nd amendment?
Hence we got a million people marching on Washington to ban guns, when lightning strikes and airbags both killed more children that year than school shootings.
That's very interesting but you seem to have missed a few facts:
There is no known way to stop lightnings from happening
Airbags are placed in cars to SAVE lives and so far they have probably saved more people than they have killed or injured
Guns on the other hand have never been used for anything other than killing people. In fact that's the reason guns are made for: killing human beings. The reason people were marching to ban guns is that doing so would easily prevent more school shootings. Sure, there may be only a few teenagers dying in schools but it's so easy to save them, much easier than banning cars as you suggest.
Of course I don't expect to convince you. After all a few teenagers dying is so inconsequential. Who cares. Let them kill each other, right?
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That's certainly true, but beside the point. My argument is that by allowing people to carry guns you are only making it easier for people to kill other people. You aren't helping them or improving their lives in any other way (as is the case with say allowing people to drive cars even though more people die in car accidents than school shootings). Of course hunting is indeed an exception, but only a minor one and we're not just talking about hunting rifles.
You are saying a home made bomb would probably be worse. That's probably true but a home made bomb is also much more difficult to get a hold of than a gun (at least so it seems is the case in the US). Keeping guns in schools to prevent angry teenagers from blowing them up seems to me like sinking a ship to prevent it from catching a fire.
I don't own a gun and neither does anyone in my family. Still we don't seem to be having much trouble staying alive. Perhaps guns aren't all that necessary anymore since we have super markets to buy food from. OTOH, if I wanted to murder someone I'd bet a gun would be much more useful than anything I could buy at a super market...
<bitter irony>
Now, as far as hunting is concerned, I don't know where you live, maybe it's a third world country or something, but people around here only become hunters if they consider it an interesting sport (like fishing). It really doesn't help much to keep people alive anymore.However, it probably played a big part in keeping people alive in prehistoric times. That's why most cavemen nations had an amendment to their constitutions making it illegal NOT to bear arms, right?
</bitter irony>
Anyway, is hunting the reason you Americans have the 2nd amendment?
That's very interesting but you seem to have missed a few facts:
- There is no known way to stop lightnings from happening
- Airbags are placed in cars to SAVE lives and so far they have probably saved more people than they have killed or injured
Guns on the other hand have never been used for anything other than killing people. In fact that's the reason guns are made for: killing human beings. The reason people were marching to ban guns is that doing so would easily prevent more school shootings. Sure, there may be only a few teenagers dying in schools but it's so easy to save them, much easier than banning cars as you suggest. Of course I don't expect to convince you. After all a few teenagers dying is so inconsequential. Who cares. Let them kill each other, right?