BDM wrote:
But I counter that with then everyone lives in fear the people near them, plus how early do you give a person a gun? 15? 10? How long before someone needs to defend themselves? How do you prevent some teenager either with a gun or with his father's gun he stole from following his angst and shooting several students before a teacher had the time (and GUTS) to blow away said student.
The idea is that having a gun gives you power, when everyone has an equal amount of power the situation becomes less of a "oh I'm going to go do this" because whats the point? Someone can take a knife to school and do the same thing now, but they don't because they don't have a big advantage over their peers. Besides that, guns are already easily available in plenty of places, and school shootings are rare anyway. I doubt people would be encouraged to go shoot some students up if they had no hope of doing anything more than minimal damage.
As to age...well, why not 18 or 21? Lets debate that later, though.
BDM wrote:
plus we all become weak, because mearly shooting a gun takes little to no strength (excluding those with nasty kick-back) and many would become lazy with the idea of excersize
Uh wait, you mean we arn't already with cars and sofas and television?
I mean honestly, everyone can already buy a gun, if they'd become lazy because of that they're lazy already. I don't get the logic here. "I can kill people with my gun, thus I don't need to exercise"?
BDM wrote:
And ANOTHER thing about guns in general. A gun is a VERY easy tool to commit suicide with. I can honestly say that teenage depression/angst (depressangst?) drove me to thinking about suicide a little, and I thought several times, "if there was a gun here, quick and painless, i'd do it..."
Thats just mental stuff speaking, if you want to commit suicide quick and painless jam a knife into your eye, same deal etc., someone who wants to commit suicide will commit it, someone who really doesn't but feels depressed will find excuses not to.
I don't think it'd make more suicides occur, though the success rate might go up.
-MiB