ST Alpha - "Access to guns certainly allows people with the disposition to use them but first you have to want to use them" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 156

In response to "i don't know why people don't want to believe it is *just the f-ing guns!* -- nm" by Andie

Access to guns certainly allows people with the disposition to use them but first you have to want to use them

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Sep 16 '13, 10:18

and that takes a certain level of "crazy"

Responses:

sure, but crazy people without a gun aren't shooting and killing multiple people. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 10:19 18
- Which is why attention should be paid to both sides of the equation - oblique Sep 16, 10:21 17
  - taking away the crazy person's guns is an important step, though. -- nm - loosilu Sep 16, 10:27 15
    - they still have access to pressure cookers. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 16, 10:44 14
      - *compares the number of people killed by an exploding pressure cooker, with the number killed by guns* - znufrii Sep 16, 10:46 13
        
        sure, because guns are easier to get than building a pressure cooker bomb - groiny Sep 16, 10:48 12
        
        I'm not sure how you think that proves a point... -- nm - znufrii Sep 16, 10:51 7
        
        if a crazy person wants to do bad shit, you think limiting his access to a gun is going to stop him? -- nm - groiny Sep 16, 10:53 6
        
        it's a completely different thing to go up to a person and stab them until they are dead and then go on to stab more people. -- nm - zork Sep 16, 10:56 2
        
        I think you and I should not discuss this topic at all. - groiny Sep 16, 10:58 1
        
        I admittedly screwed up -- nm - zork Sep 16, 11:00
        
        in some, if not many cases, definitely. - znufrii Sep 16, 10:55
        
        no. but it limits what he can do easily and quickly. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 10:53 1
        
        I think very few one these incidents "happen quickly". nm -- nm - groiny Sep 16, 10:55
        
        Your basic argument is "Americans are crazier than other people" -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 10:49 3
        
        I am not sure where the blame lies, but we are sure more inclined to do shit than most. -- nm - groiny Sep 16, 10:51 2
        
        i don't know if that's true. i don't think Americans are crazier than anyone else, i just think you make it easier to harm others. -- nm - Andie Sep 16, 10:52 1
        
        ^^^ and this is a Canadian saying this. -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 10:54
  - No one's saying that mental health issues don't need attention. But it's ease of access to guns that differentiates the US from the rest. -- nm - Roger More Sep 16, 10:25

Post a message top

Access to guns certainly allows people with the disposition to use them but first you have to want to use them

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.