That's one of the arguments the gun control crowd likes to use. They point out that there are people who at the time don't have criminal records and are able to buy guns legally and do so and then at some point after that cease to be law abiding and use their guns to kill people. That is why guns should be harder to get legally, according to the gun control crowd."but, but KILLERS shouldn't be able to buy guns legally!!!"
That's right. The shouldn't, and they can't. Period.
"but, but, this killer did!!!"
No, he didn't. He wasn't a killer when he bought the gun legally. He was a law abiding citizen (otherwise the gun sale couldn't be legal) the same as you, or I, or anyone else, who later TURNED KILLER.
The same can be said about knives, hammers, axes, rat poison, automobiles, trucks, chain saws, and gasoline (arson), and baseball bats. But, when a knife, a hammer, an axe, rat poison, an automobile or a truck, a chain saw, a can of gasoline, or a baseball bat is used, the focus is on the person who committed the crime rather than an immediate rush to ban or heavily regulate the [___] that was used. Whatever [___] is, it's an inanimate object, an instrument, a tool. [___] didn't commit any crime ... it was used by a person to commit a crime.PhotonGuy said:That's one of the arguments the gun control crowd likes to use. They point out that there are people who at the time don't have criminal records and are able to buy guns legally and do so and then at some point after that cease to be law abiding and use their guns to kill people. That is why guns should be harder to get legally, according to the gun control crowd.
The idea that any person walking down the street could be a powderkeg of potential violence betrays a certain grim outlook about human nature.They point out that there are people who at the time don't have criminal records and are able to buy guns legally and do so and then at some point after that cease to be law abiding and use their guns to kill people.
The same can be said about knives, hammers, axes, rat poison, automobiles, trucks, chain saws, and gasoline (arson), and baseball bats. But, when a knife, a hammer, an axe, rat poison, an automobile or a truck, a chain saw, a can of gasoline, or a baseball bat is used, the focus is on the person who committed the crime rather than an immediate rush to ban or heavily regulate the [___] that was used. Whatever [___] is, it's an inanimate object, an instrument, a tool. [___] didn't commit any crime ... it was used by a person to commit a crime.
It's much more difficult for people in Europe to have guns than it is in the U.S. Result: Look at the carnage in Europe over the past year (or so) wrought by people driving cars and trucks into throngs of people. And now that's coming to the U.S.
Guns have uses other than killing people, target shooting for instance, and hunting. And as for killing people, there are other things that can be more effective than guns at that even if that is not their intended purpose, gasoline for instance.This is because, in part, the anti-gun crowd perceives all those things as having legitimate uses by normal people outside of killing or doing harm to other people. This is not a belief shared by the anti-gun crowd concerning guns, which are perceived to be for the sole purpose of killing
Does anyone know if the synagogue is/was a gun-free zone? Either by state law or by its own policies?
Instead, the synagogue relied on armed volunteers to occasionally sit in the lobby, according to Goldstein. But as time went on, Goldstein said he felt an attack was less likely and it was less urgent to secure armed volunteers. “It’s been six months and nothing happened,” he recalled himself thinking before Saturday’s attack. “You start getting complacent.”
There were no armed volunteers positioned in the lobby Saturday when a gunman barged in, as about 75 congregants waited for services to begin on the last day of Passover.
Do you think they care about the families of the victims?