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Please don't all atack the Brits in this thread for nt understanding the US fetishisation of guns.
It is true, if you are determined to kill, you will find a way.
It is also true that access to guns increases the rate of killings.
Period.
Seriously, it's not opinion, it's not politics, it's fact. Where it is easy to get guns, more people kill themselves and others.
Many times people say things like "ban plastic bags then", but the fact is, if guns were harder to get hold of, total deaths would fall.
It is a specious argument to state that if there was not a gun the kid would still be able to kill her. He would, but evidence shows that all over the world when it takes more than just pointing and pulling a trigger, people kill less often.
Guns make death simple. When it is simple to do something, people do it who would otherwise not have done it.
The internet makes communication easier - we could all have pen palls, we could all write mimeographed fanzines and send them to each other in the post, but most of us didn't until email and blogging made it easy. Guns make death easy, and when people an reach for a gun as easilly as they can reach for an insult, they don't call names, they shoot each other.
I'm sorry to lose track of the OP.
The kid should not be tried as an adult, but whoever allowed him to have access to a gun should be tried for creating the situation.
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