Reply #77: No uptick in killing

[Caliman73]

Just an uptick in reporting. Any killing/death is an utter tragedy. They happen because some people do not know how to deal with their aggression, anger, hurt, despair, etc...

For all those that keep saying "no guns/ no killing" You need to re-read human history and information about prehistory. Our species has been around for 200,000 years. Guns have been around for about 900 of those years. That is .45% of the time on earth. We wiped out our nearest human relatives the Neanderthals about 20,000 years before the invention of guns. Rome conquered the known world and fell to the Barbarians about 700 years before guns. In all that time killing has been plentiful. Guns have facilitated killing for those who's intention it is to do so. No one can argue against that point. Taking guns away will not ever, ever stop killing. I don't think anything will. What can decrease crime and killing is addressing social problems and raising everyone's standard of living. Taking away guns from people who are not inclined to motivated to kill others is like taking away all cars because some people drive fast or drive drunk (which kills many times more people than guns do every year).