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Originally Posted by valo403
I don't think there's a particular number, but the point is quite clear, the absence of a firearm drastically reduces the number of casualties in an incident that shares a number of the same characteristics.
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I would also argue that someone attempting a killing spree with a hand-held weaepon like a knife would be much easier for the authorities to stop and detain than a person with a gun. And, not that I codone this sort of thing, it would make it easier for the odd regular citizen(s) to stop the killer.
I don't know that anyone is arguing that eliminating guns would stop people from killing each other, but the fact that it is much easier to kill multiple people (much less one person) with a gun than any hand-held weapon. AND I would argue that guns make it psychologically and physiologically easier on the killer to take someone out. IE shooting someone versus stabbing them to death is much less personal and messy for the killer. I believe this would instantly cut out quite a few killers who seem to think life is a video game.
Some people would still snap and find ways for mass murder to happen (like bombs or the like) but, to my knowledge, possessing those types of things isn't legal without some pretty strict licensing. Obviously people can make bombs and such on their own, but there's really not a lot you can do about that.