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If only she'd had a gun she might have been ok.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34450841
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If the parents of that boy would've been responsible human beings , they would've locked away the gun as it's required .Originally Posted by MidlifeCrisis
: when a drunk driver kills an innocent -- do you blame the car , or the idiot behind the wheel !!?
I do what I want. I cannot do otherwise.
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This one was Canada, as it happens, but in the US it is a sickness that I don't think they will ever cure. I have had angry debates with lots of Americans, and people who are balanced and sensible about everything else lose all reason when it comes to gun control. The answer is screaming at them but they won't see it.
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I see an 11 year old boy shot dead an 8 year old girl with his father's shotgun because she wouldn't show him her new puppy...crazy shit
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U.S. gun control. now there's an oxymoron.
and moron is a synonym for NRA
Cassandra (06-10-15)
So, that's it? Acceptable loss? The parent's fault? Sad but lets move on?
Comparing gun control to vehicular manslaughter is not a very fair comparison, but if you wish to do so lets try:
You can, and it will soon become the car's fault. It is going to happen that cars will be fitted with alcohol detection systems, such that the car is immobilised and will not start if the driver is intoxicated. Driver-less cars are here now too and will become the norm in the coming decades.
How to stop a person driving drunk? Engineer in and mandate controls that stop the car from being driven when the driver is intoxicated. Or remove the driver from responsibility during operation of the car. These are technically possible and will happen. This is a real possibility to reduce drunk driver murders down to ~0.
How to stop a person from shooting a gun at the "wrong person"? Introduce some test for mental health, or stupidity - though I find these will be difficult for most guns to do "on-the-fly" (sarcasm). Another option is to remove high risk guns from circulation. People will always be stupid and mentally ill. People will always get irrationally angry and act impulsively on emotional response. Very, very difficult to design a gun that will compensate for that. Or a human that won't have these flaws.
Best to try and do some sane and reasonable measure to stop nutjobs letting fly with automatic weapons in a cinema or a school. If he had a hunting knife, or a bolt action rifle, would his civil liberties be in any way impeded? He'd still be able to hunt and defend himself, he just couldn't kill 25-50 people in a matter of seconds.
bettercallsaul (06-10-15)
On one note I like the idea of an intelligent population posing the threat of an armed revolution against the government. It'd be oh so nice if the people government were living in constant fear of their citizens.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
~Thomas Jefferson
On the other hand though, that doesn't really work in practice given them in the wrong people's hands and well.... you know how that turns out.
gun lobby is to rich and powerful so I dont think they will ever control it in US and its getting near as bad here with the gangs
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