Buying a rifle for your 14 years old son isn't really a good idea

[mrstickball]

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:

sapphi_snake said:

They shooter may be drunk. Aslo, there may be large vegetation in that huge backyard, so the person walking around there may not be seen.

Yes, I'm sure the danger of people getting blitzed and blind-firing into a forest on their property at night while it's foggy are a real concern.

You can't legislate the stupid out of stupid people. The same thing could be said for motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, off-road trucks, continue ad nauseum.

Except those don't have as a main purpose hurting and killing people.

Main purpose is entirely derived from what you want to use it for. I see tobacco and alcohol as being only useful for killing people, too.

I have to ask this question:

If the abolition of gun ownership was such a compelling thing to do - to save people from murders and all the evils of guns, then why do we not see any correlative evidence that stricter legistlation on guns has anything to do with crime rates?