Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5446929-20131218032650/@comment-8435644-20131220180649

If you leave a gun in a sealed, locked room for 15 years, and no human touches it, that gun won't kill anything. But, give that gun to a human, and you automatically create someone that can kill another person. Since we can't ban humans, we think that banning inanimate objects will solve the problem. If we ban guns, there will always be another weapon that people will use. Murder will always exist, although guns themselves don't have to. Here are some real mass-murders that didn't involve a gun: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/29-0