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Originally posted by JimmyTheHutt
I'd have to disagree with you on the points you raise regarding guns. Firearms, to be used effectively, require a GREAT DEAL of training. If you do not know how to use the tool, you will use it wrong and pay the appropriate it cost. Professional shooters (military, police, etc) train to use firearms incessantly, to be sure that they have the necessary skill to make it an effective tool. The statistics of most firefights state that they occur within a distance of 8 meters, with no hits scored. This is because the shooters are not well trained in the use of their tool. For a firearm to be effective, a large effort must be put into learning to use it, just as in martial arts.
Like any lethal device, be it hands, feet, knives, swords, or whatever, firearms are potentially very harmful to the wielder or others. Regardless of what the tool is, it must be used with precision and focus to be effective. People get beaten to death everyday, without the assaulter intending to do so. It is not the tool which is the danger, it is the person using it.
Veritas en Lux!
Jimmy The Hutt
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Perhaps I am phrasing incorrectly. Let me try again.
A mugger with no skill can rob unarmed people with impunity. Even knowing martial arts, without a gun I would probably go along with whatever a gunman wanted. Someone with a gun can kill people just by pulling a trigger - it's too easy. I'm not talking about an 'effective tool,' I'm talking about walking up to a nice couple on the street and covering the walls in their brains from point-blank.
A child could never beat a man to death, but a child can easily shoot a man to death.
Regardless, I can see your point, and it makes sense. But there is something that bothers me about how a gun can make murder so casual and easy. It takes real effort to beat or stab a man to death, and it's never a sure thing. I could kill someone with hands or swords, but I've had years of training - years that have taught me discipline and respect for what I am now able to do. The punk on the street corner with his dad's pistol can kill someone much more easily than I could, and he hasn't had a minute of training, nor any respect for others or even a real idea of the consequences of pulling the trigger in someone's face.