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Originally Posted by Daniel_
Please explain how, in the absence of a gun, a child can shoot someone?
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To take it further...
Political arguments aside, I don't see how anyone can deny that in countries with easy access to firearms there are more murders and more suicides.
It is not even true to say that if there was not a gun the murder would certainly have happened because the kid could have used a knife or a brick.
In every case I have ever read about, making guns harder to access leads to a fall in the total number of deaths : by accident, by murder and by suicide.
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People jump off bridges and out of windows, take overdoses, even kill themselves by stepping into the path of a train or into traffic.
While almost half of all suicides is by firearm(by far more men than women use this method), the second most used method is suffocation. So perhaps we should outlaw plastic bags....
And while I can see that it would be a lot harder to go on a knifing spree than a shooting one(although people have done just that), the idea that it is the gun that did the act is like saying my frying pan made dinner.
In any case involing a violent death,we need to stop blaming the tool used and put it where it belongs-the person that used the tool.