Originally Posted By: dnewton3
Yes - I started this; it's in introspective of how the human condition ignores facts and focuses on emotions.
Most of you whom know me realize I'm all about facts, data, proof. This isn't about "politics"; I am NOT IN ANY MANNER blaming either party, talking about socio-sub-groups, or advocating for policy one way or another. I would argue, however, there is a general sense of "good" and "evil" in the world; always has been. Murder is murder the way I see it. Murder, by criminal legal definition, is the intent of killing someone in an unjustified manner. It is no more or less murderous when any particular tools is used.
Did cro magnans blame the stone?
Did the Mayans blame the spear?
Did the Gentiles blame the sling?
Did the Aztecs blame the lance?
Did the Cherokee blame the arrow?
It only seems that very recently in history did blaming a particular object come into a popular position. Why? What changed that in the last several decades, that we've displaced blame from people to tools?
I find the story-line interesting and perplexing all at the same time; hence - I'm stumped.
It's up to the reader to decide how he/she interprets the story as well.
My initial post was sort of tongue-in-cheek; poking fun at the Brits via the Monty Phython analogy. It's OK - I know some Brits very well; they'll see the humor in it, even if others here do not.
All of those weapons you listed are not capable of killing dozens of people in minutes. This has only recently (as in, within the last 100 years) been an issue because only recently we had the technology to make such weapons.
NOBODY is trying to ban ALL guns, despite what the NRA and other gun-nuts would like you to believe. Just the military-grade ones that the average citizen has no business owning. Fully automatic guns are already essentially banned for civilians, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. Now I know that the AR-15 is not the super-dangerous annihilating machine the media makes it out to be, and I'm not so sure that it deserves to be banned. However, it unfortunately seems to be the weapon of choice for most of these school shootings, so people want to see them go away.