You think he made vague threats? No, the FBI fucked up on this case. It was plain to see. He posted many pictures of guns. He made specific threats. I'd love for you to find any post on this message board that's similar to saying "I'm gonna shoot up a school" while showing a bunch of guns to other people..
Yeah, but the point is that many products are used for purposes other than intended. While you say a firearms intent is to kill, the vast majority of people who buy firearms arent doing so to commit murder, but rather as a tool in self defense. Other use is for sporting purposes, and even others use it for hunting.
Whoa.... nice paraphrase! I only said it would suck to get to work at half the speed. In the same breath I also said it was an outstanding point which wouldn't make a lot of sense if I agreed with the vomit you just cast onto the thread.
Take a deep breath, you are way too high strung.
I'm pretty sure the factor is dwarfed by the fact that the guns are there and available to buy in the first place. It is not my habit to shill for my country, but in Canada a 19 years old on medication and attending a mental health clinic would never, ever have been able to just waltz in a shop and buy an AR-15 plus ammo. So his mental state remaining the same, he is immediately far less dangerous. Yes, he could have used a knife and such, but that's a lot less lethal than a gun, and doesn't have the same fetishistic connotations that pushes some of these assholes to act.
That doesn't mean there are no shootings in Canada. There are. But per capita, there are far fewer of them. Zero risk doesn't exist, but that does not mean the nation needs to look at butchered children and tell themselves throwing more pills and shrinks at the problem will solve it, while in some states any idiot can buy a semi-automatic rifle for a couple hundred dollars.
Killing someone in self defense isn't killing them any less then killing them when committing murder. Point remains that a gun is a tool made to kill stuff from a distance, while cars are made for transportation. Even though you can kill a person with a car, it wasn't explicitly designed to do this, unlike a gun.
"Sporting" shooting is nothing more then a glorified version of shooting practice (guess what they practiced for), and hunting is still killing.
To compare the two is a false equivalence, nothing more, nothing less.
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Ego-centrism of people defending status quo
https://imgur.com/gallery/HoBtk
Ludicrous to have a prevalence of guns without safe storages in place for them. Oh no, repeating the discussion every week is much better ratings and continues to make security an easy profitable business to be in.
If you knew the candle was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
You do agree with me, though. You agree that reducing the speed limit will reduce death. You called that an outstanding point. Then you said it's a terrible thought because your commute will be longer. Your time is more important to you than random people's lives.