12-20-2014, 01:32 PM
Trains and other automobiles do have operators, licensed in using those machines. I think a kid playing on the train tracks and getting run over, despite personnel that work in the trainyard designed specifically to keep that from happening, is very analogous to a kid that's trying to pull a gun on cops and gets shot. However, there's another thread dedicated to that discussion.
For the more on-point thread topic of gun control... USA was pretty much founded on the fact that just about anyone should be allowed to own a gun. If you put the power of "gun control" in the hands of those that gun ownership is designed against, then you negate the point. An armed populace is a country that has the power to rebel.
Now, personally, i don't want psychopaths with paranoid delusions walking around packing... but with the way society treats "mental health," I'd say 75% of the country could be diagnosed with ADD, Anxiety, antisocial PD, or any other myriad of "mental problems." My point stands that statistically more people die from automobiles than guns every year. People that think guns are the problem are delusional. There's VIOLENT people in the world. You can go to a gas station and have enough explosive material to kill anyone you want for like 10 bucks. You can't solve violence by taking away weapons. I don't see MADD lobbying for prohibition and the repeal of automobiles.
For the more on-point thread topic of gun control... USA was pretty much founded on the fact that just about anyone should be allowed to own a gun. If you put the power of "gun control" in the hands of those that gun ownership is designed against, then you negate the point. An armed populace is a country that has the power to rebel.
Now, personally, i don't want psychopaths with paranoid delusions walking around packing... but with the way society treats "mental health," I'd say 75% of the country could be diagnosed with ADD, Anxiety, antisocial PD, or any other myriad of "mental problems." My point stands that statistically more people die from automobiles than guns every year. People that think guns are the problem are delusional. There's VIOLENT people in the world. You can go to a gas station and have enough explosive material to kill anyone you want for like 10 bucks. You can't solve violence by taking away weapons. I don't see MADD lobbying for prohibition and the repeal of automobiles.