Mass shooting Las Vegas

[Puppyroach]

EricHiggin said:

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.

There are still weapons where the main purpose is to kill animals, but most weapons today have the specific purpose of being a defense against or, mainly, to cause harm to other human beings.