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Violence still happens but the magnitude would be reduced. It's a lot harder to kill people with things that aren't guns. If it was as easy then soldiers would
by hellllllllooo 8y ago
Violence still happens but the magnitude would be reduced.
It's a lot harder to kill people with things that aren't guns. If it was as easy then soldiers would primarily equipped with "knife, or acid, or poison, or fists". The army chooses guns as the primary weapon are they are clearly much more effective at killing.
- leereeves 8y agoThe army doesn't use poisons (chemical weapons) because they are so effective, and so horrible, that their use is unthinkable. Remember the outrage when Syria did use poison?
- hellllllllooo 8y agoSo you're suggesting this is the main/only reason poison isn't the primary weapon provided to infantry for most military situations? Interesting.
- leereeves 8y agoDon't try to intentionally misrepresent me. You know that's not what I said. I'm saying that if the army shared the goal of mass shooters - to kill as many people as possible indiscriminately - guns would absolutely not be their weapon of choice; and if the army switched weapons from guns to poison, the magnitude of violence would be amplified, not reduced.
- hellllllllooo 8y agoI was discussing what solders carry as a primary weapon but since you brought it up why don't "mass shooters" regularly use chemical weapons now instead? Could it be because they're regulated and not readily available to civilians?
- leereeves 8y agoProbably because they think, as you did, that "it's a lot harder to kill people with things that aren't guns." Fortunately that means they use guns instead of more dangerous weapons.
- stevenicr 8y agoNot sure there are any good ways to prove it at this point, but I think that part of the appeal is the mass media coverage. You get instagram famous, news at 9 and news at 5 and 10 and 11 TV famous, you get facebook famous.. and the debates about guns and the interest groups and the people who want votes and those who want money and power - they all keep your name in the news for longer than most stories in a cycle. Then when you trial date comes up it all goes on again - so these people see the fame that others have gotten - and how people have loathed them and feared them, and their shots are heard around the world. Not so much the case when someone mixes bleach and windex.