heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 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. Is that an official statistic? Even on this board you have people who are constantly talking about defending themselves from some unknown enemy, the government, etc. I would argue that once you've decided to become a gun owner, some part of you becomes really attached to the idea of using it for a variety of purposes. quote:
ORIGINAL: jlf1961 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. You are talking about a lot of different scenarios here that have no bearing on mass shootings. Obviously during war, weapons are going to be used. This wasn't an act of war, it wasn't a battle... it was a senseless slaughter. Serial killers usually don't slaughter tens or dozens of people in a few minutes... they do it in secret. This definitely wasn't a secret. quote:
ORIGINAL: jlf1961 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. I think they are screaming 'gun' because 27+ people were killed by a gun. There is no 'real' question. There is a series of questions, all of them totally relevant.
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