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Why so much focus on the tools and not the problem? Crazy people will use whatever to harm others. Should we ban literally everything that could be harmful? Guns today, knives tomorrow, how about no more acid or cleaning supplies, then no more cars either since you can drive a truck through a crowd, right? I think addressing the underlying cause would be much more effective. A gun in a society full of healthy people…
What if the tool in question is _made_ for killing? If you think it's just as easy to kill a lot of people with a knife as with a gun, you're in for a surprise.
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> robust gun education made mandatory for everyone as part of their primary education. Nineteen children have received a particularly final form of gun education as part of their primary education yesterday.
Indeed they did, and it is horrible! The surviving ones are seriously impacted as well. I need to make an edit: Basic education on the way to adulthood. I did not intend to reference this current event. I just heard about it tonight.
I'm sure if Russian cruise missiles were dropping on American schools every few weeks, killing dozens of pupils, something would be done, and yet in this case everyone rushes to collaborate with the enemy and ensure they're armed.
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Indeed they did, and it is horrible! The surviving ones are seriously impacted as well. I need to make an edit: Basic education on the way to adulthood. I did not intend to reference this current event. I just heard about it tonight.
However, nothing to be done, right? I'm sure if Russian cruise missiles were dropping on American schools every few weeks, killing dozens of pupils, something would be done, and yet in this case everyone rushes to collaborate with the enemy and ensure they're armed.
You could ban guns today and they will still be around for the next few hundred years. It's natural to search for answers in times like these but sometimes there just aren't any.
I live in the UK and very few people have guns, even the police are not routinely armed. Yet, we still have these kind of events from time to time. You could ban guns today and they will still be around for the next few hundred years. It's natural to search for answers in times like these but sometimes there just aren't any.
The US shooting epidemic is far more deadly than the Troubles was, an actual paramilitary civil war.
The US has spent far more effort trying to ban abortion than to deal with school shootings.
"What the people wish for" You imply the wish is for there to be no guns. The hard fact is that simply is not true. Americans have a wide range of opinion on the matter ranging from no guns, through various scenarios where there are guns and various ownership scenarios and regulations, and through to gun ownership being basically unfettered. Sidebar: The US currently is not a fully Democratic nation! It is a Republic…
> robust gun education made mandatory for everyone as part of their primary education. Nineteen children have received a particularly final form of gun education as part of their primary education yesterday.
Why so much focus on the tools and not the problem? Crazy people will use whatever to harm others. Should we ban literally everything that could be harmful? Guns today, knives tomorrow, how about no more acid or cleaning supplies, then no more cars either since you can drive a truck through a crowd, right? I think addressing the underlying cause would be much more effective. A gun in a society full of healthy people…
Because the tools are part of the problem. Tools aren't neutral, availability influences use, policy influences mentality, and so on.
Why so much focus on the tools and not the problem? Crazy people will use whatever to harm others. Should we ban literally everything that could be harmful? Guns today, knives tomorrow, how about no more acid or cleaning supplies, then no more cars either since you can drive a truck through a crowd, right? I think addressing the underlying cause would be much more effective. A gun in a society full of healthy people…
> Why so much focus on the tools and not the problem? Because the tools are part of the problem. Tools aren't neutral, availability influences use, policy influences mentality, and so on.
After the modern crane technology was invented there are exponential increased in the number of high rise buildings including the skyscappers.