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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
If you waved your hand and all 300,000,000 guns in America suddenly vanished, the lunatic in the doctor's office would have simply whipped out his knife and murdered the Doctor.
So you pass "common sense" knife control, and suddenly all the knifes disappear -- and your lunatic in the doctor's office whips out his club and bludgeons the doctor to death.
So you pass "common sense" club control, and the lunatic chokes the doctor with his bare hands.
Is it starting to sink in yet?
Here's a better idea. What if we passed "common sense" LUNATIC control -- like we had when we were kids and the lunatics were kept in lunatic asylums and the murderers were simply executed?
There weren't any fewer guns when we were kids. Heck, in my Oklahoma hometown, every pickup had a rifle in the gun rack in the window. We just had fewer lunatics and murderers.
How about we try that again?
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Some might say that people who have rifles in the gun racks in the windows of their pickups are the lunatics. Maybe if they were all put into asylums, no one would need a gun to defend themselves in the first place, hm?
Also - knives have purposes other than killing people or animals. You can't fillet a chicken with a rifle. You can't trim your hedges with a Colt 45. You can't scrape a few errant drops of dried paint off the floor with a pistol. You can't perform surgery on a patient with a machine gun.
What can you do with a gun? You can - fire at a target. Or you can use it as a club to beat someone or something over the head. I suppose you can use it as a paperweight. But mostly - you can fire at a target. Whether the target is a person, animal, or a non-living inanimate object set up to see how well you can hit it - it involves a bullet, and bullets exist to cause damage, destruction, and death.