18 Dec 12, 07:21PM
(18 Dec 12, 03:17PM)MorganKell Wrote: ****ers will get their shit legally or illegally IT DOESNT ****ING MATTER. The mistake is in believing that change is possible. Take away guns for the law-abiding citizens out there. GOOOOOOD IDEA. Because that will stop the Black Market from providing!
The shooters at Columbine, Virgina Tech, and now at Sandy Hook were not criminals. They were not gangsters. They weren't mafia. They were sickos who, without access to guns, would have been powerless to do anything. They were seemingly ordinary people who would never have been able to obtain guns illegally. They had no connections to any arms dealers. Had these people simply not had access to the guns that they did, they would not have been able to go on the rampages they did.
The problems with guns is that they take away some of the shock and guilt of killing someone. If you stab someone to death you need to physically stick a knife into them over and over. To shoot someone you just pull a trigger. You can distance yourself from what you are doing.
These people would not have gone on these rampages if they didn't have easy access to guns. Would they have stabbed someone? Maybe. Probably. But they wouldn't have walked into schools and killed dozens.