Gil223
Regular Member
"I don't blame the economy, I blame guns." This was the comment made by the mother of a convenience store clerk in Aurora, CO after her son - the clerk on duty - was shot during an armed robbery (Surveillance video of the shooting and robbery below)
http://www.9news.com/news/article/265711/339/Store-clerk-grateful-to-be-alive-after-robbery-shooting
The unthinking - and the ignorant - always seek to put blame on the gun, an inanimate object. Yet the gun is just a tool - a tool misused by those who are too lazy to work a job themselves, so they use that tool to relieve others of their earnings. Punishing the gun, or more accurately the law abiding owners of guns, would simply result in the use of other "tools" to commit crimes. So, just to be sure, let's also ban machetes, knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, lumber, spear guns, axe handles, hammers, screwdrivers, anything pointy and cars while we're "making the public safer". I'm sure there are many other things that could be incorporated into that list of evil tools. I have a unique idea... let's put the blame on the criminals, and start doubling their "minimum mandatory" sentences when they use a firearm to facilitate the commission of any crime. If they fire that weapon during the crime, increase the minimum sentence to 15 years. Further, if the projectile they fired should strike anybody - 25 years minimum! Just my thoughts. Pax...
http://www.9news.com/news/article/265711/339/Store-clerk-grateful-to-be-alive-after-robbery-shooting
The unthinking - and the ignorant - always seek to put blame on the gun, an inanimate object. Yet the gun is just a tool - a tool misused by those who are too lazy to work a job themselves, so they use that tool to relieve others of their earnings. Punishing the gun, or more accurately the law abiding owners of guns, would simply result in the use of other "tools" to commit crimes. So, just to be sure, let's also ban machetes, knives, baseball bats, golf clubs, lumber, spear guns, axe handles, hammers, screwdrivers, anything pointy and cars while we're "making the public safer". I'm sure there are many other things that could be incorporated into that list of evil tools. I have a unique idea... let's put the blame on the criminals, and start doubling their "minimum mandatory" sentences when they use a firearm to facilitate the commission of any crime. If they fire that weapon during the crime, increase the minimum sentence to 15 years. Further, if the projectile they fired should strike anybody - 25 years minimum! Just my thoughts. Pax...