Criminal Deeds

[eppie]

A 6 year old, or many adults don't stand much of a chance (unarmed) against a 230 lb raving sociopath with a knife, or baseball bat either.

So what you (and the NRA) actually say every adult who is able to use a gun better than the next man has the right to defend himself?
Well also the guy who is not really very good at aiming has the right to defend himself but we all know this is a bit of a wax nose because he will get shot anyway.

Of course I agree with the fact that also a 230 lb raving sociopath with a knife can kill lots of people but we were talking about the right to bear arms and defend yourself.

The scary thing is that with a gun you kill more people, quicker in a less personal way and you (if your mad at the world) have a very easy way of not having to face the wrath of other people because you can very easily kill yourself with it. For knifing yourself to death you need extra courage that most of us don't have.


In Belgium a few years ago Kim de Gelder went into a daycare center and stabbed two toddlers to death (an a teacher). He was mad at the world and wanted to make as many people suffer the worst way possible (by having their kids killed). He wanted actually to do this in a few more daycares. Now there were 3 victims....if this guy had a gun, probably 10s more.
The gun is not the cause, but it helps to make things worse.