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jlf1961 -> RE: At "least" 27 People killed in Texas church (11/6/2017 9:19:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
IMO, if we could figure out why some people decide to kill other people, we'd be so much further ahead than blaming the tool used.
Well, part of the reason is probably because he loved guns a little too much.
He "loved guns a little too much," so he decided to shoot people? Wow. That's a completely fucking stupid comment.
And on top of your truly sad physical deformity, you're a completely fucking stupid person.
He posted a picture of his gun on facebook, calling it a 'bad bitch'... he was practically sexualizing the thing.
He was attracted to the gun because of its destructive potential, because of how its potential to cause death made him feel powerful.
The whole point of owning a gun is to kill or otherwise disempower other living things, for whatever reason.
I'm sorry if this is too difficult for you to understand.
First thing, I have heard men (and women for that matter) refer to cars, trucks, bikes and other non human objects as a 'bad bitch.'
Secondly, you are right, for the most part, point of owning a gun is to kill, however the point for 99.9999999% of gun owners is not to kill a human being.
And as for the question, why does someone go out and kill someone, well its been going on since the first cave man figured out that fixing a rock to a chunk of wood is better than trying to kill something with its bare hands.
Gunpowder was invented by the chinese and was originally used to in festivals and whatever to scare off evil spirits and demons. Then one bright, industrious individual figured out that if you attached those rockets to arrows, they go further and really do a number on enemy troops.
From rocket propelled arrows it went to cannons, to hand held firearms.
Of course, crossbows were developed to punch through plate armor worn by knights and men at arms.
Bottom line, humans are predators, they will kill for sport, food, or because they wake up one day and decide they are going to kill a bunch of people. And they use whatever they have to do it.
Guns were available to Jack the Ripper, he chose a knife, Albert DeSalvo used nylons to strangle his victims, Timothy McVeigh built a bomb.
And this guy used a rifle that is not sold in any standard gun retailer since it was specifically designed and marketed to law enforcement.
But of course, the anti gun folks are screaming 'gun,' when the real question is, how did a man denied on a back ground check come into possession of a gun that is a) not marketed to the general public and b) he got it after a background check showed he was prohibited from purchasing a gun in the first place.
Hell to modify a standard rugar AR type rifle to fit that police model would run a few grand, just for the add ons.
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