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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
There is undoubtedly a mess right now in the US. How you fix it, I honestly do not know. I'd love it if people would stop murdering one another at inexplicable rates. (even if those firearm related rates are at the lowest in 30 years) Regardless if its with firearms, knives, bats, fists, or your sick of grandmas incessant crying so you push her head down in the tub and wait for the thrashing to stop. How the murder happens doesn't matter.
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Pretty much where your argument (and the general pro gun argument) falls apart. How the murder happens, DOES matter. Baseball bats are used for sports, knives are used to cut things (not people), fists are used to bump when the Flames score, and bathtubs are used to bathe. Guns have one explicit purpose, which is to kill (and target practice is just practicing killing). It is not a tool with any other useful primary purpose. Murderers are much more effective with a gun than anything else you mentioned.
So the first part of finding the solution is to acknowledge that a gun is NOT like any other tool, and must have a special set of rules around owning and operating it. Until Americans acknowledge this simple fact they will get nowhere with common sense gun controls.