About Guns
So a friend of mine posted a video that showed something about more guns don't kill more people per capita in the US than less guns. I call bs to start. But I didn't want to answer with a knee jerk reaction, so I thought about it and then responded with this:
Personally,
I am not a fan of guns. I don't own one, but since I live in Texas, everyone
thinks I own one, and so nobody will bother me. I also have two big
dogs, and if you come into the house before I can get out the back I'll
probably clip you pretty good with an
aluminum baseball bat or a hammer- hatchet, and when you're down I'll
stab you with a skein of blowgun darts tipped in curare... It would be
hard for me to go crazy and kill my family with that stuff. Very
different if I had a gun, got blind drunk, and imagined my family were
bad guys... That is what happens a lot. People with guns tend to die by
gunfire a lot more than people without guns. And people with guns seem
to kill or hurt a lot more people than people with broken bottles, or
cars, or knives. Guns just allow people to be removed from the act by a
step or two.
I do understand hunters, i do understand protection. I'm
not against guns per se, I just am not a fan.
And I wish simple laws
could be changed. If I go into a gun store and ask for a rifle and they
call the FBI and the green light comes on, I don't think I should be
able to change that order to "I think I'll change that order to include
1000 .50 caliber sniper rifles, 5,000 AR-15s, and 150 30-30s. Oh, and
toss in 10,000 rounds of ammo for each gun, won't you?" which is totally
legal. And then I can sell those personal guns to anyone I want,
including felons, so long as I do not know they are felons, or to people
who will take them to foreign countries, so long as I do not know they
will take them to foreign countries. I thing that sort of stuff is
completely crazy, but I've done it as a reporter and never been blinked
at--though I always cancelled the sale before paying.
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