It’s not the gun

[opsspec1991]

This is one of the reasons I never say the shooters name! That's what they want. They love the fame before they kill themselves. They feed on it like the media feeds on guns! On the same day as the Sandy Hook shootings, a man in China stabbed and killed 22 children! Would the media coverage of it been different if the shooting didn't happen on the same day, maybe. But the media loves the guns! Or loves to blame them and get them banned. They love then so much, that they stand on the graves of the dead before they are buried to sell their point. Look how many times people like, Piers Morgan did it. They blame the gun! Why?
When someone kills with a knife, hammer or bomb, they blame the person and not the tool. Why blame the gun and not the person who planned the attack for weeks, months or years? It doesn't sell, until they can try and blame it on the Tea Party, mental illness or bullying! But when the truth comes out, they cover it up and blame the gun, the NRA, the gun stores.
Most shooters were criminals before the shooting happens! They have stolen the gun, killed for the gun, made bombs to use with the gun! The Sandy Hook shooter was a criminal long before he started shooting. The real blame should always fall on the shooter, the killer, the murderer. And that's what we don't hear,... they are murderers! The gun doesn't hurt anyone until the criminal learns how they can get what want by using it!

 

[sdprof]

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[SR9]

More people in America are murdered with hammers that guns. 23% more in fact.

 

[Fireshot]

Regarding the latest attacks that are being trumpeted as a recall to defend the anti-gun cause, consider this. First point, the attacker did use multiple "tools" to carry out his heinous acts. He used a knife and a vehicle as well as a gun in his attack. Secondly, this was a planned and deliberate attack.

If we try to use other acts that cause death to innocent people, we are at a disadvantage to find a comparison that will not be rejected as insignificant. Some wonder why drunk driving is not fought as fiercely by our lawmakers as the gun issue.

Although I agree with the analogy of the comparison to drunk driving as a social atrocity, the public is accepting of the act without the outrage guns endure. I think it is partly due to the overall social acceptance of alcohol as a non lethal vice coupled with the lack of a planned malicious intent to cause personal harm to someone. Most people don't get drunk with the intent to get behind the wheel of a 2000 pound weapon and cause death to someone.

When comparing deliberate intent to kill using a tool, people don't see any of the other uses guns have besides their killing ability. They don't recognize the non-lethal sporting or competition uses. Other tools used as weapons have a presumed lesser lethal "normal" use such that they are dismissed as being considered lethal. Knives, hammers & bare hands cause more deaths than the "menacing attack rifle" but they are benign in their perceived use as a weapon. Knives are for food prep, hammers build constructive things & where would we be without our hands.

The anti-gun constituents in public and media jump to sensualize gun violence because of this perceived sole use as a tool of death while barely mentioning or completely ignoring other tools used as weapons for exactly these reasons.

Until society recognizes this, understands and accepts the difference between the a gun in the hands of law abiding citizens and a gun in the hands of those intent on devastation, the battle for gun rights will proliferate.

 

[CharlesMorrison]

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Sent from behind Enemy Lines.

 

[gfrlaser]

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There is no doubt anymore that fame is a catalyst. Wish someone knew the answer.