Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 998744" data-attributes="member: 14668">Because at least 150 million gun owners didnt kill anyone or commit any sort of crime today.There is a knee-jerk assumption on your part which is typical of people who hate guns. That assumption...is that otherwise stable and well-adjusted and law-abiding people will automatically become bloodthirsty psychotics the moment a firearm is placed into their hands.This assumption is not true. A gun is an inantimate object that is incapable of acting on its own. It does not somehow impart evil tendencies or malicious intent upon the person who holds it. It does not cause crime and it does not cause domestic violence. It is merely a tool.I dont know if the majority of gun deaths are related to domestic violence or not. What I do know...is that the majority of gun deaths and incidents of domestic violence are also drug and alcohol related. And as I have stated before, alcohol abuse causes far more deaths than firearms do, yet if you tried to impose the same sorts of restrictions and background checks and general nanny-state foolishness on American drinkers, the public outcry would be deafening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 998744, member: 14668"] Because at least 150 million gun owners [I]didnt[/I] kill anyone or commit any sort of crime today. There is a knee-jerk assumption on your part which is typical of people who hate guns. That assumption...is that otherwise stable and well-adjusted and law-abiding people will automatically become bloodthirsty psychotics the moment a firearm is placed into their hands. This assumption is not true. A gun is an inantimate object that is incapable of acting on its own. It does not somehow impart evil tendencies or malicious intent upon the person who holds it. It does not cause crime and it does not cause domestic violence. It is merely a tool. I dont know if the majority of gun deaths are related to domestic violence or not. What I [I]do[/I] know...is that the majority of gun deaths and incidents of domestic violence are [I]also[/I] drug and alcohol related. And as I have stated before, alcohol abuse causes [I]far[/I] more deaths than firearms do, yet if you tried to impose the same sorts of restrictions and background checks and general nanny-state foolishness on American [I]drinkers, [/I]the public outcry would be deafening. [/QUOTE]

Verification