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Originally posted by banzairx7
I agree with everyone but the gun one, the last part of it really. Killing someone with a gun is a much more disconnected than say killing someone with a bat. With a gun you pull the trigger done, it takes more than one hit with a bat.
Have two people get in an arguement. Imagine one scenario where there is a bat on the table between them. Now imagine another with a gun in between. In one of these scenarios the likely hood of someone ending up dead is a lot higher. Hint: it's not the one with the bat.
May be more disconnected. But it still takes some thought. I have hunted all my life and every time I have pointed a gun at a living creature I have to make a conscious decision that I myself am responsible for. If I choose to do the same with a person, I am responsible. In the scenario you mentioned above no one ends up dead if no one picks up the gun. A person has to make a decision to take a life. The gun does what it is told. There is the other option to be stupid with the gun and someone gets killed. That is the responsibility of the idiot, not the gun.
