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Guns do not kill people.
How can you argue?
Copyright Findawish.com
02-16-06
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Richard Chaney's real problem is that he
went hunting with a shotgun in the first place. There is a common
thread among responsible people and it can be summed up pretty well like
this: "Do not put yourself in bad situations." It's not that
big of a deal someone was shot with stray pellets from a shotgun.
Most people have no idea what happened and just think being shot is a big
deal. They don't know the difference between a shotgun and a rifle
or a pistol, or a machine gun or an automatic weapon, semi-automatic,
side-by-sides verse over and under weapons...therefore they should have no
opinion of this matter at all. People do not go to an engineer when
they need surgery on their foot. People shouldn't look to
non-informed people for opinions either. The big deal is that the
Vice President of the United States was the person who shot someone with
the stray pellets from a shotgun. That sucks. Anyone else that
isn't in your immediate family and who cares. No one cares when
someone falls off a bicycle either. When George Bush and John
Kerry fall off during their campaigns for president...people care.
That's just funny.
If you are asking "wasn't it Dick Chaney
who shot someone"...I rest my case.
I have three friends who have been shot
accidentally. One was shot with a rifle when he was hunting
(survived...he was shot in the butt) by a hunter (this is a funny story
actually...my friend was relieving himself, the guy thought he was a deer,
shot, the bullet hit my friend's buck knife and when through both of his
butt cheeks -- not funny he was shot but funny after the fact). One
friend was shot in the leg by my best friend with a .22 rifle when he was
disassembling it. The craziest accident was my friend who was
hunting elk in Idaho (where he lived) and was shot in
the chest with an arrow by a California hunter. No one I know was
killed.
I have friends who claim that they have
friends "who's horses were shot out from under them" during hunting season.
How frightening. How extremely
dangerous and outrageous. We must do something about these
degenerate country people who insist on killing things for "sport."
Who insist on using guns that kill people. Those possessed,
uncaring, very witty and sly guns that just jump into people's hands and
shoot people because guns kill people.
Wait...did someone mention killing
things for sport? Is that the real reason people do not like guns?
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Let's look at this argument that guns kill people. People are going
to argue about this all day long but they are wrong if they think guns
kill people and that really is the end of the story. Leave a gun
sitting by itself and it doesn't kill anyone. What else kills
people. Cigarettes kill people, right? Wrong. Cigarettes
do not kill people. Knives? Cars? When a person is
killed in a car accident is the car cited? Does the car go to jail,
get sued; is the person driving responsible for the car like a parent is
for a child? The car is usually totaled when someone is killed so
maybe you can argue the car is dead and has no rights. The bottom line is that
people who say guns kill people are not holding people responsible
for their actions. Why is it that spoons can kill people but they
aren't blamed for "killing people?"
People who argue that guns kill people can't see a reason as to why people
need guns in the first place. Let's take a look at a couple of
things people do not need in the first place.
Cigarettes. People do not need cigarettes. There is not a
single reason that cigarettes should exist. But, unfortunately, they
do and people buy them by the trillions and they smoke them by the
trillions and they die by the tens of thousands (and I have seen figures
much larger though I doubt their source) because they do smoke them.
What are cigarettes purpose exactly? To clog your lungs and give you
a buzz or alter your reality in such a way that you can escape your
natural reality. What a reason for cigarettes to exist.
Alcohol. Not the medical alcohol, but beer, wine, and so on.
There is no reason to have alcohol. But, unfortunately, alcohol
exists and people buy alcohol by the gallons. Drunk people kill or
mangle innocent people by the tens of thousands by getting into cars and
running into people. Most domestic violence involves alcohol.
Homelessness involves alcohol.
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What are the chances? I always ask this, its the
geeky nerd in me I guess. According to MSN (liberal here so liberals
who want liberal facts can use them...so stop emailing me about not giving
liberal statistics -- though no one has called me conservative either --)
there are 850 hunting accidents in the US a year. There are roughly
300 million people in the US (if I remember right this number should
be reached in October of 2006 or so). There are roughly 20.6
million hunters in the United states. The chances of being in a
hunting
accident are 1 in 24,235. Your chances of being struck by lightning
is 1 in 3,000 (according to Fox news). Does that mean there are 1000
people a year struck by lightning?
I think I'd rather go hunting when there isn't a lightning
storm.
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Although "Take guns away from citizens and only
criminals will have guns" is a bumper sticker and some-type of NRA,
guns-rights slogan it does make sense. The founding fathers of the
United States felt so strongly about guns that they wrote the right to
bear arms in the the founding documents of the United States. I've
heard the argument that "things have changed, we don't need guns anymore,
we have grown as a society..." I think that these arguments are short
sited and kind-of egotistical. Don't you think that other societies
grew as well? Our forefathers' fathers (maybe one more generation
back) owned guns. Eventually, guns were taken away and nothing good
happened from it. Their society grew and matured as well and they
too thought times have changed and it would be a great idea to take away people's guns. We
talk about learning from the past and doing what's right but society is
one great big cycle of hypocrisy and stupidity. Take away guns and
society will restart itself again with guns or weapons like them...maybe
under a new nation, maybe as a civil war, maybe not. It may take 10
years, maybe 100, maybe 1,000. The USA is not that old in the grand
scheme of societies.
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Give the right person a spoon and he'll kill someone (look at our
prisons). This fact doesn't mean we have to ban all spoons.
Right? They ban them in prisons where there aren't guns. The
criminals do not have guns so they kill with spoons...so we ban spoons and
they kill with plastic, so we ban plastic so they kill with...OK you get
it. My keyboard could understand by now.
Take away guns and guns will still be used in crimes...only the sane and
law abiding people will not have guns. You can not take the
invention of something so simplistic as a gun and remove it from history
by removing the product of the invention. Nuclear weapons are an
example of the other side of the coin...they were invented but, at the
moment, are hard to produce. The fact they were invented means
eventually they will be easy to produce. Where there is a will,
there is a way.
The bottom line of the owning guns question is related to all aspects
of life. People are greedy, they are self-serving and power hungry.
Those in power in society will always benefit themselves first. No where in
the world is there an example of country that is not power hungry.
Until this basic principle is bred out of humans in our evolution,
violence and all problems we see today will continue and a whole new set
of problems will set in.
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Don't email me if you think I am bashing people who smoke or drink
alcohol or use knives or spoons. Facts are facts. Also,
interesting how some people think that churches are the source of
unselfishness...have you seen the articles on churches in the papers
recently? Churches can be just as bad as government because it is
more personal.
Before you send any other comments, remember this too: Stupidity
is not in the eye of the beholder. Stupidity is believing that you are not
stupid like the rest of us. And yes, I am doing something about it.
I am posting my opinions for public comment which evokes public thought.
Things may get worse through this "public thought process" but at least
they are changing.
My Pledge
As you may notice in the many articles to come, I absolutely can not
stand people that have an opinion about something they know very little
about or didn't take the time to research before giving their opinion. I
pledge that I will not write a single article about a subject that I don't
know enough about to see several sides of the issue. If you think I am
missing something,
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