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> All the "counter examples" you give are everything but "easy". Nonsense. There's nothing hard about renting a truck and driving it into a crowd. > Bigger v
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
> All the "counter examples" you give are everything but "easy".
Nonsense.
There's nothing hard about renting a truck and driving it into a crowd.
> Bigger vehicles aren't as easy to get a hold of or drive.
Nonsense.
https://www.uhaul.com/ https://www.uhaul.com/
https://www.pensketruckrental.com/ https://www.pensketruckrental.com/
Also, the Happy Land perpetrator literally walked down to the corner gas station and bought a gas can and a gallon of gas. No waiting. No ID. No background check.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoYet, somehow all of these methods get used orders of magnitude less than firearms to commit mass murders. Both in the US and elsewhere. The US isn't really my standard. In sane jurisdictions you actually need a special license for bigger vehicles. And those still aren't as easy to control as smaller cars, so I suspect you highly underestimate the difficulty involved in committing mass murder with a vehicle. Sure it's not impossible, but pulling a trigger is one heck of a lot easier. People who try to commit amok runs with cars or trucks actually do get stuck quite often.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoYou keep shifting the goalposts -- your original post specifically mentioned the US. The issue here is that you think the problem is "this guy has a gun" rather than "this guy wants to kill a bunch of people". It's like trying to combat alcoholism by banning shot glasses. I think we're done.