19th April 2007, 10:24 PM
Any total of 'lives saved' could be little but hypothesis and dependent on so many factors.
It's very possible that if even one other Virginia Tech student in Norris Hall had been carrying a gun, fewer people would have died on Monday.
The major failure of the anti-gun crowd is that they offer no solution for the problem of the major black arms market in America, where anyone wishing to circumvent the law can get himself a gun as long as they have the money and they know where to look.
And of course, as said before, the idea that banning guns will make society safer and more peaceful is oversimplistic, because guns aren't a root cause of violence, and believe it or not, but violence and the crime of murder predate the advent of gunpowder. Hell, marksmanship used to be a course you could take in school. Perhaps if proper firearms training was something easily accessible, a lot of accidents would be prevented.
It's very possible that if even one other Virginia Tech student in Norris Hall had been carrying a gun, fewer people would have died on Monday.
The major failure of the anti-gun crowd is that they offer no solution for the problem of the major black arms market in America, where anyone wishing to circumvent the law can get himself a gun as long as they have the money and they know where to look.
And of course, as said before, the idea that banning guns will make society safer and more peaceful is oversimplistic, because guns aren't a root cause of violence, and believe it or not, but violence and the crime of murder predate the advent of gunpowder. Hell, marksmanship used to be a course you could take in school. Perhaps if proper firearms training was something easily accessible, a lot of accidents would be prevented.
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