Then they would just choose another weapon. The weapon is not the problem it’s the people who use them. If you were able to keep them from obtaining firearms ( you can’t) you would just make them less efficient.
So we have collective responsibility but not collective culpability. Yeah, I'm sure we could parse that apparent contradiction and make some sense of it, but we aren't really doing much of anything and haven't done much of anything. We all know a change needs to happen. Perhaps more kids will have to die until we are adequately motivated. Then again, maybe their lives are a fitting price for our freedom to bear arms?
I'm not particularly eager to see schools turned into machine gun nests, but I think you're being unrealistic if you think it would be "much easier" to remove weapons from America than to put guards into schools.
Yes if there’s a resource officer on the scene to stop them. You are opposed to them. And actually a person with an edged weapon 21 feet away from you can travel that distance and stab you before you can draw your weapon and get off a shot. If they take out the security first (if there is any) then they can attack people for however long it takes the police to arrive. Let’s say 10 minutes, how many people could they stab in a crowded classroom with one door?
I agree. I'm saying we have both, as reason would lead one to assume.
Culpability is mainly a legal idea. Responsibility is much more philosophically broad.
@public hermit said “. Then again, maybe their lives are a fitting price for our freedom to bear arms?” So it comes down to you only see one solution to this problem, take guns away from law abiding citizens.
Less efficient = Fewer deaths
Stab are wounds less likely to be fatal than a round coming out of an AR15 or similar "assault style" weapon.
Sure unless the attacker knows a little bit about anatomy.Less efficient = Fewer deaths
Stab are wounds less likely to be fatal than a round coming out of an AR15 or similar "assault style" weapon.
Gunshot victims require much more blood and are more likely to die than other trauma patients
In a new analysis of data submitted to Maryland's state trauma registry from 2005 to 2017, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that gunshot victims are approximately five times more likely to require blood transfusions, they require 10 times more blood units and are 14 times more likely to...medicalxpress.com
It’s true there are far more people killed in the US by firearms than from knife attacks in the UK per year but 57 percent of gun deaths in the US are suicide and we don’t know how many are accidents but death from firearms dwarfs death from knife attacks, I’ll give you that. If you could take away all guns you could reduce the number of victims but you can’t. Criminals will be the only ones with guns if you succeed in passing laws that outlaw guns and like your comic strip says that’s not likely to happen.
