Originally posted by MRRiley Clavius... I't not really a joke. It is satire intended to point out that just as banning cameras (possession of which is not constitutionally protected) would not stop pedophiles, banning guns (possession of which IS constitutionally protected) will not prevent criminals from using guns.
Pedophiles would simply use illegal cameras just like murderers use illegal firearms.
I know they would just use other cameras. The metaphore is faulty, because the use of the pictures (no matter how disgusting and wrong) will not end in the children being hurt. (Not on this scale anyway.) The use of any gun however, will always result in killing or wounding.
Moreover, I seriously doubt that the boy that did the killings last week, would go through all the trouble of getting a gun from an illegal source. If he wouldn't have had any access to his moms guns, then this wouldn't have happened.
Why can't some people grasp that a gun is a tool for killing. And that it was used exactly what it was intended for last week.
Originally posted by MRRiley Faulty humans are the problem... not faulty tools!
Very true, in many ways. And the only way to solve a problem is by solving the cause, not the symptoms. So the faulty humans supporting public gun access should be addressed. They are directly responsible for incidents like the one last week.