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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Oooooh... god, the short hairs on the back of my neck just twinged. 
No, it's called responsibility... something a lot of Americans like to push off onto inanimate objects because they can't handle the concept that responsibility is a behavior. How can we explain this? I grew up around free access to guns and look at my body count: 0.
It doesn't matter if it's a gun, bro. A failure in parental responsibility is the same for all inanimate objects... whether it is over an unlocked gun cabinet, your Xanax and Vicodin stash in the bathroom, car keys lying on the end table, Internet usage while you're not around, the liquor cabinet when you go out of town, your failure to check Johnny's room for dime bags, etc. |
No one is arguing that many responsible people own guns and dont commit crimes.
No one is arguing that murders are not committed by other means.
But as stated by myself and others, the widespread availability of guns in America causes some deaths. Some people are killed who would not be killed if guns were not widely available, evey year, every month, every week.
I say again that if you try and deny this you are simply protecting yourself from an uncomfortable truth. You, and the country, must judge if the freedom to own guns and the benefits to those who use them responsibly, is worth the lives it costs.
You might use the same arguments for speed limits. Without speed limits, many of us would still drive safely and responsibly. But do you really suppose that if there was no speed limit applied, there would not be more deaths on the roads?