Getting rid of guns will require one. Or a police state. Take your pick.
We don't allow children to play with matches, either, or power saws. Yet no one advocates getting rid of these useful and dangerous tools. If you look at your own analogy, applying the same logic, in order to prevent drunk driving, we should get rid of cars, when we should be getting rid of alcohol, something that worked so well in the 1920s.
You forget, I live near farm country, where graceful four-legged vermin called deer calmly graze in fields of grain. Not to mention groundhogs, which are only appreciated in Punxatawny. Without guns, these and other pests will destroy valuable crops on family farms, which we still have around here. Bow hunting is a damn difficult and inefficient alternative for the deer menace, and handguns are used for the smaller burrowing pests. Except for my one friend, a pyrotechnician, who uses dynamite.
Meanwhile, please note that Churchill advocated constructive action, not fingerpointing. He begged America to send him guns, which our grandparents did, by the boatload, even before Pearl Harbor.
Don't even get me started on Mother Teresa, who believed that pain was a necessary precondition to redemption of the soul, and therefore disapproved of using drugs to reduce it.
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When you get your magic wand working, you will have to let me know.
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- It is such a relief to know that guns didn't kill these kids.
- Two very different statements. But they have the same effect.
- If we can accept the coming healthcare mandate then seeing your neighbors house searched should be easy. n/t
- Now there you go: reasonable suggestions.
- After reviewing all our comments below, methinks we are all missing the obvious.
- Outrage is very satisfying.
- Well, first, it's dereliction to not express outrage even if a solution can't be seen (yet).
- Sympathy vs. outrage.
- As you point out they are not mutually exclusive. However, outrage can be constructive.
- When you get your magic wand working, you will have to let me know.
- We both have the same goal.
- Please disregard that hiccup. If it's in our genes...
- If it's in our genes, and we
- We both have the same goal.
- When you get your magic wand working, you will have to let me know.
- Some perspective:
- As you point out they are not mutually exclusive. However, outrage can be constructive.
- Sympathy vs. outrage.
- Well, first, it's dereliction to not express outrage even if a solution can't be seen (yet).
- Stand on Zanzibar-- John Brunner, (1968)
- Second Amendment Pornography.
- Re: It is such a relief to know that guns didn't kill these kids.