Puppyroach said:
Well, cars are heavily regulated and you usually need to take a number of lessons to show that you can even manage driving and if you get a license and still drive like a maniac, you can loose the license. Also, you can't take cars wherever you want and businesses take precautions to avoid crazy people driving into businesses and such. So yeah, if you want to regulate weapons as heavily as cars, many problems would be solved. Except that tiny issue with weapons having the specific purpose of causing harm.... |
Weapons were never purposed to cause harm against other humans initially. They were meant to cause harm to the animals that needed to be killed for food, but those same weapons were looked upon as defense against predatory animals. When times were tough, and stealing became somewhat necessary, that's when the human intruders would take those same weapons and use them to cause harm to other humans with resources that were needed for the intruders to survive. That eventually led to the defending humans creating better weapons to ensure their own safety, which would eventually lead to those new weapons being copied or out done by even better weapons that the intruders would use.
Once an intelligent being learns that using a weapon to take something from another being can be done without all that much risk, especially in a group, then they naturally want to keep doing that, because it's much easier than doing the work necessary yourself. Why not let somone else do all the work, then just steal from them (and kill if necessary)? It's sad but true. Most people don't understand this today, because around the world, most people aren't even close to this desperate in terms of food, so there is little reason to think that way. Sure, there are some places that don't have things as easy, and those are typically the places you see with much more crime, especially when it comes to death and injury.
It's not just guns either. Even a cell phone falls under the same reasoning. Initially, that cell phone allowed you to call an ambulance immediately, which saved your life, where as someone else who couldn't make it inside to the home phone, ended up dying. That cell phone aloud some businessman to make faster decisions leading to them making more money than their stone age landline competitors. Some people would say that's just life, others would say in reality, your using a "weapon" of sorts against other people, leading to your benefit, and their loss.
Everything in the universe will always eventually take the easiest path, if it can, and everything will do what it must to survive, if necessary.
