IIIIITHE1IIIII on 31 January 2013
| HappySqurriel said: I would say he's right but that is because neither is a significant problem ... The real problem is the desire to harm other people and/or significant mental disorders that goes unrecognized and untreated. People who want to kill alot of people will find a way to carry it out in the absence of guns (I hear crashing a plane into a building was a touch successful), and will find a way to fantasize about it in the absense of videogames. |
I agree that the bolded obviously is a problem. But easy access to guns won't solve the problem. On the contrary, it makes things worse.
We don't have many guns here in Europe. Nor do we see a lot of depressed teenagers and adults crashing planes into buildings, or commiting mass murders using knives. Guns offer the easiest way of carrying out your killing needs.
Yes, making guns inaccessible to the average citizen without a special license would create a massive black market and possibly make things worse. But that doesn't stop them from currently being a problem.
