To Be Totally Honest, The "Guns Don't Kill People" Argument Makes Zero Sense And Completely Misses The Point
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To Be Totally Honest, The "Guns Don't Kill People" Argument Makes Zero Sense And Completely Misses The Point

Nobody is saying that the gun is jumping out of its safe in your home, loading itself with bullets, and strolling down the sidewalk to the nearest school, looking for victims.

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To Be Totally Honest, The "Guns Don't Kill People" Argument Makes Zero Sense And Completely Misses The Point
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"Guns don't kill people. I've never seen a gun walking down the street by itself, killing people."

You've heard this before. Maybe you came across it in a Facebook debate. Maybe your Republican relative continuously posts ugly memes about it.

Maybe you've seen this lame meme or something like it:


Or, hey, maybe you've said it yourself.

With all the tragedy that America has gone through (most especially the trauma that the victims, survivors, and their family and friends have experienced), you'd think that, eventually, this argument would stop showing up.

Nobody is saying that the gun is jumping out of its safe in your home, loading itself with bullets, and strolling down the sidewalk to the nearest school, looking for victims, so you're not at all clever for that reply.

The point, my friend, is that the act of murder would not be as fast and easy for the killer if they did not have a gun in their hands, especially an AR-15.

People you call "liberals" with venom in your voice aren't jumping out of their seats and taking advantage of a tragedy to push their "leftist agenda." The reality here is that they see a problem (people with guns kill more people in a shorter amount of time) and they are tired of the inaction in response to the problem.

We just don't want any more people dead because someone (mentally ill or otherwise) got easy access to a gun and decided to use it for their own sick purpose. We don't want to take away YOUR guns or your rights to that gun.

We want more regulation to ensure that the wrong people don't purchase a gun in 15 minutes and take it out the shop door with them with intent to kill innocent people.

Please, just find some sympathy within your heart. No, this effort isn't about guns at is core. It's about stopping evil people from doing horrific things. And they happen to choose guns more often than not to do so, hence the amazing energy towards trying to prevent another mass shooting.

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