Guns, Guns, Guns

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. At least that's what the gun lobby tells me. I do think that it would be disingenuous to state that guns don't make killing exponentially easier, especially for multiple murders in one sitting.. They are less personal and quicker than any hand-to-hand method. To kill by firearm is cowardly, all one need do is point the barrel and squeeze the trigger. One need not soil their shirt with blood by thrusting a weapon into their victim.

No other legal weapon is as effective when committing mass murder. How many people in a crowd could be killed with a knife before the killer was overtaken by his potential victims? With two guns in hand, the shear fear injected into the masses would be enough to keep the crowds at bay. The ease of killing any who approached or tried to escape defines a scale of power projection unmatched by any other personal weapon. The number of mass murderers who committed their crimes in one sitting using hand to hand weapons attests to this fact: zero.

You may believe the NRA is right. You may believe in the Second Amendment. But beware: to allow firearms to be unrestricted in the U.S. will lead to continued disaster on scales of Columbine, Austin, and now Blacksburg. It's just naive to believe that situations can be easily controlled when a mentally unstable person gets ahold of firearms. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. But people with guns can kill lots of people. Unfortunately, they can kill lots of people pretty quickly.