Reply #88: You're right, that part doesn't make any sense. I just came back from my younger brother's

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funeral so I was not expressing myself well. What I meant to say is that every time there is another thread on DU about another killing with guns, it isn't long before someone jumps in to argue against all the posts decrying
guns to say that the victim or victims could just as easily been killed with _______ (and here they list several interesting but highly less likely ways to kill someone.) The inescapable fact that in the US there are 30,000 plus deaths involving guns each year. Not from drowning someone in a bath tub or hitting them with a base ball bat or shoving them in front of a fast moving train, though those happen sometimes. Those thirty thousand are Just plain old guns. Someone else then pops up and repeats that there are 30,000 plus deaths from auto accidents. But of course those are mostly NOT suicides or murder, just stupid drivers and laws of physics.
It is impossible to change human nature, but there would sure be a lot less successful attempted murders if there were fewer guns available to any damn person that was motivated to get one (or had one already in a drawer or by their bedside).
Just sayin'