| From: | Watcher Spirit horbach@*****.uni-mannheim.de |
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| Subject: | Value and so on.... |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:36:08 +0200 |
Get it straight. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Anyone who says differently is fooling themselves. You will never
eliminate the part of our society that turns kids into killers by simply
banning guns.
While this is true, it has been quoted ad nauseam and is by now mainly a
way to be witty without saying anything of importance.
Of course people kill people, not the weapons themselves. Up to now that
is the logical result of weapons being crafted by people as tools to aid
in the killing of other people. However that saying completely ignores
the fact that people often get enraged or otherwise unhinged for trivial
reasons. It´s part of human nature. Since it seems to be part of the
"coding" to react to fear, anger and similar feelings with violence,
readily available weapons increase the potential danger of these
feelings. What is more, heavy projectile weapons create risks for
bystanders. While there is always the danger of getting killed by an
angry opponent even if he is armed with nothing but a stone, the risk
for those not involved is far smaller then it would be if he were armed
with a gun.
Of course the underlying problem will not be eliminated by banning or
restricting guns, but would it be sooo bad to reduce the bodycount a bit
while working on the reasons (it could take some time ya´know...).
Just my 0.2,
Watcher spirit
