>>>It was the gun that made him kill children. Remember - the gun is to blame.
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>>No, but it was the guns that made him able to kill 20 children so quickly. Yes, he might have arrived with other weapons if he'd had no guns, but it's unlikely that he would have killed so many before the police arrived.
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>>I acknowledge that someone determined to kill is likely to find a way to do so. Can you at least acknowledge that guns provide an easier way than almost anything else?
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>They do. They also provide a way of defending against someone intent on killing me or my family.
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>Aircraft, trucks, fertilizer, gasoline, natural gas, dynamite, ammonia, etc all provide ways to kill lots of people very quickly. Ban them.

The difference between all those items and guns is that all those other items have uses other than harming living things.

Tamar