More political sh!t
This is the text that I used to reply to someone on Facebook, when I came across him ranting about how "guns don't kill, killers kill".
I could go out and find the websites that detail the scientific studies about the relationship between gun laws (and gun culture) and shooting deaths, and about how these things compare between countries that have strict regulation and those that don't, and I could present all that information to you.
I could compare the statistics about shooting deaths, related to a tool that has no other use than to cause injury[1], and automobile deaths, related to a tool that has a specific alternate use but sometimes causes injury due to carelessness or lack of skill, and again explain how the figures change when one looks at a country with firearm regulation versus one with the NRA.
I could talk until I'm blue in the face about the differences between the armament available at the time the Second Amendment was written, when thirty seconds per shot was fast, and modern weaponry, when thirty shots per second is easy to achieve.
I could do these things, but I'm not going to bother, because I don't think you care and don't expect you to listen. (Also, educating you is not my job.) I'll just say that I hope you do not ever have to personally suffer what the victims of the Pulse shooting -- both those who were shot and those who love, and loved, them -- are suffering now. In part, that's because I would not wish that kind of pain on anyone; the rest of the reason is that I'm afraid of the way someone who feels the way you do about guns would react.
Good night, everyone.
[1] omimouse would prefer the word 'death' to the word 'injury' here. I am not going to argue with her -- or anyone else -- about it; I'll just say that I respect her right to disagree.
I could go out and find the websites that detail the scientific studies about the relationship between gun laws (and gun culture) and shooting deaths, and about how these things compare between countries that have strict regulation and those that don't, and I could present all that information to you.
I could compare the statistics about shooting deaths, related to a tool that has no other use than to cause injury[1], and automobile deaths, related to a tool that has a specific alternate use but sometimes causes injury due to carelessness or lack of skill, and again explain how the figures change when one looks at a country with firearm regulation versus one with the NRA.
I could talk until I'm blue in the face about the differences between the armament available at the time the Second Amendment was written, when thirty seconds per shot was fast, and modern weaponry, when thirty shots per second is easy to achieve.
I could do these things, but I'm not going to bother, because I don't think you care and don't expect you to listen. (Also, educating you is not my job.) I'll just say that I hope you do not ever have to personally suffer what the victims of the Pulse shooting -- both those who were shot and those who love, and loved, them -- are suffering now. In part, that's because I would not wish that kind of pain on anyone; the rest of the reason is that I'm afraid of the way someone who feels the way you do about guns would react.
Good night, everyone.
[1] omimouse would prefer the word 'death' to the word 'injury' here. I am not going to argue with her -- or anyone else -- about it; I'll just say that I respect her right to disagree.