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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
can't assign blame to an amoral object like a car, a bottle of alcohol or a baseball bat. But when it comes to gun crimes, where a similarly amoral object was used, the response is to blame the gun and to call for a ban. Imagine how fast people would have been shouted down if they called for knife control after Matthew de Grood stabbed five people to death in Calgary's worst mass murder. Or how fast people would stop listening after people called for a ban on alcohol after each drunk driving incident. The attitude is that "since it doesn't affect me, I don't care if 2 million people are affected".
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Yes other things can kill people, but these other things do not have the sole purpose of being used to kill. A gun isn't there to prepare your dinner, take you to work, or drink on a patio on a warm weekend. The primary reason a gun exists -- to take life. An object with that express purpose needs to be far more closely regulated than the items you mentioned.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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