Guns are not alive nor do they possess artificial intelligence. A gun is a deaf, dumb and blind object that needs a human to make it work. Liberals seem to think this deaf, dumb and blind object can run the human.
Humans are imperfect. Many of us occasionally become very angry. We also often misinterpret what we see, especially if we've been drinking alcohol or using (legal or illegal) drugs. Most of us are woefully unaware of the things that young children are capable of doing, such as climbing into a tall cabinet or quietly watching a grownup open a safe and memorizing the combination. We also suffer from bouts of depression, some due to external circumstances such as losing a job, others due to weird thoughts floating around in our heads.
Having a gun makes it far more likely that any one of these circumstances could escalate into a shooting, which at close range is very likely to result in serious injury or death.
The gun doesn't ruin the human. It just gives him the opportunity to do something he or his loved ones will regret.
Of the roughly 20,000 gunshot deaths of Americans every year, only about 3,000 are justifiable acts of self-defense. Half of the rest are suicides. As I've noted before, I believe that people should have the right to end their own lives. But if they have to do it by slashing their wrists in a tub full of warm water, or figuring out how to make a hangman's noose, or finding a roof tall enough to jump from, they'll have a reasonable amount of time to consider their plan and decide that they were having a bad day and it might be okay to see what happens tomorrow. But if a person has a fucking goddamned GUN in his desk drawer, it's all over in a minute or two, giving no chance for reflection.
The other gunshot deaths which are neither suicide nor self-defense are the most lamentable. Discovering that a child knew the combination to the safe. Killing a beloved spouse in a heated argument and regretting it forever. Killing a stranger who walks into the wrong house (read the sad case of teenager Caleb Gordley, whose house looked exactly like his neighbor's). Shooting a bear or a cougar and discovering that it only made him feel angrier and move faster.
As I said above, these categories of gunshot deaths outnumber genuine self-defense killings by
FIVE TO ONE. So anyone who insists that guns make us
safer is either an idiot, or a mouthpiece for the National Rifle Assholes. Oh wait: the latter category is just a subcategory of the first.
I would trace this reverse cause and effect to the PC approach. In the PC approach to life, an object's name alone has control over people. The word gun appears to be able to control liberals so they think the gun is in charge of the human, like all the other PC words. If I can call someone X or Y and sooth them or anger them, them any object name can be conditioned to do the same thing to them. This is more true of liberals. The conservatives are not wired this way, since they believe in character and self reliance. If sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can't hurt me, then the word gun; boo!, loses it power and magic.
Oh give it a rest! You argue like some Christian retard trying to convince us that the planet is only 6,000 years old.
one can get anything you want in the black market. If guns were made illegal, you could still get guns in the black market.
Guns are very expensive. And everything is
more expensive on the black market. Even today, most criminals steal their guns rather than buying them, especially the hoodlums who make life so difficult in our inner cities--for the obvious reason that their penny-ante crimes don't yield enough income to buy food
and guns. If honest people didn't have guns lying around (the NRA makes sure that no agency is allowed to count them, but at the very least 50 million Americans have guns and a large number of those have two or more), there wouldn't be as many available to steal.
Since the black market is more frequented by criminals, than honest citizens, and black market criminals tend to vote Democrat, then making guns illegal favors the democrat party.
Most people who use guns in the commission of their crimes are repeat offenders who have already been convicted of at least one felony. This means that they are ineligible to vote. Duh?
The leaders only need to condition the liberal minions with word games, so the word gun is abler to control their minds in the image of the fear; guns become animated.
Caleb Gordley, Trayvon Martin, the dozens of children in that New England school, the Virginia Tech students, the victims of the Beltway Snipers... These were
human beings, just like the other 17,000 innocent people who are killed by gunshots in this fucked-up country every year. They are not
WORD GAMES and you should be ashamed of yourself for using such insensitive language.
A member of my family--my favorite uncle--killed himself with a gun. The phenomenon is
so common that you are sitting there conversing with someone who's actually had the experience
! You should hope that it doesn't happen to someone
you love.
My parents didn't have the words to explain it to me. I wonder if you'll be able to explain it to your children. "Well kiddies, Poppa loves guns, and this is the price I make
you pay for that freedom. If you don't like it, then move to Hungary."