Reply #13: Now That I've Been a Wise Ass, I'll be Serious [View All]

[madddog]

It's fairly obvious this guy violated the absolute first rule of gun safety...making sure of your target. You can argue all you want about whether he should have had the gun or not, but the gun didn't leap off the table and shoot the woman by itself. This is a tragic situation, and will by used by the usual crowd as fodder for why all guns should be banned, I'm sure.

People die every day from negligent use of cars, boats, planes, farm machinery, etc, but I don't see anyone talking about a "quagmire" and trying to ban them all.

Of course, if we try to apply logic to this argument, the fact that murder/violence took place for millennia PRIOR to the development of the firearm is an annoying fact that we'd have to overlook, isn't it? People have been killing each other for thousands of years...I guess if we really want to get serious about crime, we need to ban CRIMINALS!