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Is there any real difference? Like a trigger is a leading mechanism, but it's the combustion that fires the bullet?

• sokoloff 11y ago
  The cause (IMO) is a human who lacks self-control, anger-management, moral compass, or is otherwise broken in a way that causes/allows them to intentionally take the life of a fellow human. The gun/trigger/bullet/gunpowder/whatever is a mechanism of the murder, not the cause. (I'm not a rabid "gun nut" [nor even a gun owner], but blaming guns as the cause is just as fundamentally misplaced as blaming a baseball bat, knife, or rope, IMO.)
  • 1stop 11y ago
    But the facts don't reflect what you are saying. Removal of guns from a society lowers total murders, it doesn't just move those murders to some other weapon/cause. Look at Australia's crime statistics, or Canada, or Britain before and after serious gun control. They all show this to be true.
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