Guns Do Not Kill People, People Do
by People all across the country are lobbying against our right to own guns. For those that want to ban guns, they ought to lobby for banning knives and automobiles, too.
If you want the right to bear arms, and you want to have guns in your house as a parent of a small child, you need to show them proper technique for using them. Explain they are never to be pointed at or even near a person. I should not have to explain the 100 laws of gun safety to any adult who already has a gun in their home, and therefore, I won’t.
My father took me in the backyard with a .22. He set up a glass bottle and shot it. Watching the glass shatter into thousands of pieces as a five year old child, believe me, I understood. If you can’t take the time to teach gun control to your children than you do not deserve to keep guns in your house, especially unattended and outside of a lock box.
The people lobbying against guns should be lobbying against the people who are behind the gun when it is fired, not the gun itself. A gun could never hurt a fly without a human to load it, cock it, and fire it. If you fight to ban guns, I invite you to throw away every sharp object you own and never go near an automobile again. It is hypocritical to fight for the ban on guns when there are thousands of other things that threaten our lives every day that have the same ending result as a gun.
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Post CommentAlystar
On January 28, 2009 at 8:08 am
So by the logic of your argument all weapons are fair game yes, because its the human element that does the killing? missiles.. rocket launchers.. H-bombs.. because if everyone is completely rational and sane all the time we’ll all be fine yes? (almost eliminating the need for guns but.. anyway). In a utopian society it’d be fine but our world is far from utopian.
Its about harm minimisation I think rather than restricting freedoms, the less guns the harder it is to kill others, knives and cars would have hardly cut it at Virginia tech or Columbine.
Ronni Dee
On February 8, 2009 at 2:38 am
The entire point is that guns do not kill people. Bullets do not kill people. It took the guy who killed my dad time and money to buy the gun, buy the bullets, and make a plan. If we ban everything that could be used to harm someone then we would have NO freedoms at all.
Sanity doesn’t eliminate the use of guns. Personally, I enjoy target shooting etc. If people didn’t misuse the items, and use them in their intended manor this crap going one everywhere wouldn’t be happening. The need for missiles etc. came because of the insane need to fight with each other.
I am not discussing large weapons like missiles, my father wasn’t killed my a missile, it was a gun.
Parents could have stopped VT and Columbine, as well as the local schools here that you don’t hear about. The bottom line is that guns do not kill people without an idiot behind them. If there were no guns they would find other methods of harm. So once again, you are blaming the gun.
Furthermore, those unaffected by a gun shouldn’t be rallying against something they don’t understand.
ronnidee
On February 8, 2009 at 2:46 am
I guess you would euthanize all dogs to stop dog bites, too? Maybe ban personal use of lighters, matches, and other portable flammable items so that no one’s house would be burned down? Ban pocket knives so that no one’s car tires are ever slashed? Maybe, just maybe, ban the egg so that no one’s car will be ‘egged’ and thus eliminating the chance of teenagers who like to throw eggs off of overpasses onto cars, thus scaring the crap out of them and causing an accident? Then, ban the hose so no one would ever have to deal with someone stealing their heating fuel or gasoline? Rope can be no more, therefore no one can hang them self?
Seriously now, get real. Ban the gun and you will create even more problems. There will be more homemade devices used in the televised horrifying events around the world, and then you would even hear about the ones in small towns like the one I live in. Currently you don’t hear about it because no one cares about the little towns, take away the gun, and the new innovative crap the idiots come up with will make small towns around my area famous.
tt
On February 25, 2009 at 9:06 am
your wrong.
Shytot
On May 13, 2009 at 11:06 am
Then all drugs should be readily available, because it’s not the drugs that kill people people kill themselves, so like guns,
we can not blame the drugs.
Shytot
On May 13, 2009 at 11:15 am
We should also allow anybody to buy as much dynamite as they want
because it’s not the dynamite that kills people it’s the person who sets the dynamite off,
so let’s have a free for all and sell atomic bombs to whoever want’s to buy them,
ridiculous? of course it is, if I could not get my hands on a gun I couldn’t kill someone with it,
and why do I single out guns and not umbrellas? because guns were designed ONLY to kill.
BIG LOVE
On July 15, 2009 at 4:45 pm
i know what ur sayin playa we live around danger everyday a knife and cars can absolutely can end in death but how many people get in a car and say ima kill sumone wid this car knowing they pay for tha damn thing and knifes are as dangerous as guns but what is the real purpose for a gun? sports maybe? shooting birds? protection?…… either way violence occurs. an automobile is used for getting around wid out walking? transportation? a knife is used for cutting wires? cutting food materials? cutting wood? i dont approve of of banning guns but i don’t know what tha purpose of guns are i mean i use them at times to flex and s*** and my grandfather was assassinated due to a drive by
wut is tha point of having a gun in possession?