>We have a genuine difference of opinion. For the life of me I can't understand how
more guns is supposed to be the solution to the problem.
Seems to me the issue has little to do with the number of guns, but more with who has them and what are they able to do with them. Laws don't effect the by-definition lawless. They are to a great extent protected by laws restricting the use of guns by the law-abiding. I think in this case, like in most criminal law, we need to shift all the risk onto those who choose to break the law, especially in ways that threaten the safety of others. You commit a crime with a gun - even if you forgot you had it in your pocket or it wasn't loaded or your didn't know your buddy was going to shoot the store owner - hey, sucks to be you.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
