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Trying to blame inanimate objects for the behavior of people is misdirected animism. As you point out "people can use guns"...and they can also use bludgeons, poisons, explosives and edged weapons.
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As I said before, guns are the easiest and most efficient method of killing someone. Lets just give everyone the anthrax virus as well and see what happens.
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They can also use them for *good* purposes; note that most police carry firearms.
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And the US has a stockpile of nuclear weapons for *good* purposes too. It's called an arms race; if criminals didn't have guns then police wouldn't either.
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The common element is the people. The issue isn't what tools they have, it's what they do with them.
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Obviously no one thinks that guns shoot people without a person's consent, that is idiotic. But the fact that guns make killing people easier, that is what people are scared about. Everyone knows that you can get a knife and stab someone but it is a lot easier to shoot a person and if you take the gun away, people's lives may be saved because someone won’t go through more trouble to kill a person.
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If you were to blow up New York, would you blame somebody else for "letting you"? Or would you take responsibility for your own actions?
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How about we give a five year old a gun and say how evil your neighbor is and how happy you would be if he got killed and the kid takes the hint. It is all the kid’s fault right? Don't say, “well, the kid doesn't know any better” because adults act the same way so don't give me that bullshit.
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3,000 people died on 9/11; obviously the box-cutters were at fault.
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Actually the real analogy would be the planes were at fault since no one was killed directly by the box cutters but I get your point nevertheless. Once again, I speak for the majority when we agree that "guns" itselves aren't at fault for the killings but it is the convenience of it that is at fault. If we didn't have airplanes 9/11 wouldn't have happened. If it were harder to hijack airplanes 9/11 wouldn't have happened. If proper screening was used 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Catch my drift?