Wade Zabel wrote:
guns are part of our culture
Stoning women to death for adultery is part of some countries' culture. Should we just leave it that way? Or should we accept that "it's part of our culture" in and of itself is not a justification for anything, ever?
Wade Zabel wrote:
and remember, for every shooting like the one in Colorado there is a couple thousand families with guns who have never hurt anyone.
So what do they need them for?
Wade Zabel wrote:
also, lots of people are hunters and more shoot guns for sport.
Like I could give a fuck about them.

Anyone who NEEDS a gun for their JOB could surely get a permit for it. Anyone who WANTS a gun for their HOBBY can suck it up and find a new hobby.
Wade Zabel wrote:
and if you outlaw them complety, well, worked so good for drugs and alcohol, right?
Stupid analogy. The uses and effects are utterly different (Humans have been getting high since we lived in caves; it's a basic drive of our species. Owning weapons that can take out a room full of people in seconds? Not so much. And it's pretty hard to kill a cinema full of people with a bag of heroin), not to mention that drugs ARE illegal in the US, and so is alcohol in a lot of counties - they didn't solve those problems by legalising them either, did they?
Obviously, if the U.S. made private ownership of guns illegal, some people would still get hold of them and some people would still murder people with them. Note that that is SOME people, as in a few. Not the thousands per year they currently have. People make a similar argument about knives, and how knife crime would surely increase if guns were harder to get hold of, but again: pretty hard to kill a cinema full of people with a handful of knives.
I know you like gangsta culture, Wade, and probably think guns are very cool. They're just not
necessary, is all, and the U.S. will continue to suffer massacres like this until people start to admit that.