“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” What do you think about this phrase?

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MrOracle · Accepted Answer

It's self-evident. A gun is just a tool - no different than a hammer or a pipe wrench or a drill, or even a car. By itself, it's completely harmless. A loaded gun can sit on a shelf for a thousand years and will never hurt anyone. A gun is only dangerous in the hands of a human, and while a gun is more efficnent, plenty of tools are deadly in the hands of a human.

If I poisoned someone, no one would blame poison, they would blame me. If I beat someone to death with a baseball bad, no one would blame Louisville Slugger, they would blame me. If I ran someone over with my car, no one would blame Ford, they would blame me. If I stabbed someone 15 times and killed them, no one would blame knives, they would blame me. If I cave in someone's skull with a brick, no one talks about banning bricks. So why is it that if I shot someone, many people would be blaming the gun, and not the murderer who wielded it?

The answer to that is self-evident, but it's also inconvenient to those who blame the gun: it's politically motivated, rather than being a rational decision. Those who blame the gun do so because they don't want people being able to defend themselves with deadly force - and the reason they care is because they very much want to control people with force that THEY control, and don't want people to be able to resist that control. Most don't realize that almost none of them will be among the elite who will be making the decisions - rather, they'll be among the slaves who have no control over their lives and no way to assert their rights. They imagine themselves being in control - being the elite - but they won't be. The person who will be in control will be someone who is utterly ruthless, and it won't go well for them.

Friendlybro79 · Accepted Answer

It's flawed. Guns don't kill people... people kill people with guns is more accurate.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

If people kill people then it's illogical to give them the tools to make it really easy. What moron thought hey let's make a weapon any idiot on a bad mood can use to kill someone 50 yards away and make them available to people you wouldn't trust with nail clippers.

petitedollbabee · Accepted Answer

True. The gun doesn’t load, aim and fire itself.

godfatherfan · Answer

There are many guns that were never meant to be in the hands of civilians. The USA constitution states "right to bear arms". It does not say "right to access to every gun ever made ever". No civilian needs an assault rifle. None.
Getting the first gun should be really hard. Then easier to add guns. But I have seen that if you put up some simple things like taking classes and mandating a certain amount of time at the range (like they do with CPL's), that many don't bother. They also need very tough laws to hold people who get the gun responsible for them, regardless of who uses them. If you allow the wrong person to use the gun, it is on you.
And I am a hunter and a concealed weapons permit holder. not just some person that doesn't like guns.

Shoichiro · Answer

What kills people when an earthquake hits? Using the same logic as the phrase means that we can't answer this question, despite the answer being obvious.

It is clear that falling debris or other inanimate objects are killing people in an earthquake. Therefore, guns kill people in the same way. A human can use a gun to kill people. This does not need to be a complex issue.

I think the point of the phrase is that a gun on its own won't kill anyone (which is an argument for gun ownership), but it seems redundant to point that out since we are only concerned with the cases in which a human has the gun (which makes it significantly easier to kill people obviously).

phraseology · Answer

I think a lot of people got distracted by the guns and ended up getting killed by the experimental vaccine. See how that works... Media: Be afraid of the guns... Hyper focus on guns... Live in fear... meanwhile they stroke your ego and give you this shot and tell you it's safe and effective and people start dropping like flies all over the world...

Daniela1982 · Answer

A person can use anything to kill another. Guns just make it easier and less personal, like using a knife or an ax.

onedarkcloud · Answer

It is the same when people use cars a two-ton bullet to run over people who go the wrong way on a highway and drive drunk it is not the gun that kills, it is the person behind the gun the same with cars. Cars do not kill it is the driver behind the wheel that kills with a car. guns do not decide to kill it is the PERSON behind the gun who kills

Kaneki05 · Answer

It's a throw away line to ignore the damage a weapon could cause.
Here let me change it for you 'Nukes don't kill people, people kill people.' so let's give everyone nukes and not think about the damage that would cause.

katiesmuff · Answer

It's an absolute fact as there has in all modern time been one incident where a gun jumped up by itself and shot someone. Always some human forcing that gun to fire.

lightbulb27 · Answer

false, guns do kill people... there are accidents.  somewhat true in other ways and guns that hold a lot of bullets at times, kill more than was possible back when a gun was a single shot. note

jshm2 · Answer

It's a stupid overgeneralisation, meant to invoke a reaction.  People aren't shooting bullets out their hands, and as many people die from knife crime as well.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Highly logical. Dad had a rifle in the corner for decades and, never once did it sneak out of the house and kill somebody but, I kept an eye on it just in case!!

Agape93 · Answer

Stupid. It's the bullet and cavitation that kills. Humans have the intent, the gun carries it out, the bullet does the damage

Anonymous · Answer

if it's not guns, then it's knives, if it's not knives, then it's fists overall the problem isn't the weapon but the mental health of those who wield it

Surely · Answer

As Daniela1982 said. I either have the laziest guns around. Or I have taught them to behave and not to go around hurting people without just cause.

goaded · Answer

It's stupid. Yes, guns don't kill people, but people with guns do, and it makes it a hell of a lot easier.

DrPepper12 · Answer

It's vapid, obfuscatory, flippant and vacuous. It's a cop out for ammosexuals with no relevant or rational arguments.

exitseven · Answer

It is true. My guns just sit there until I pick them up.

Anonymous · Answer

>>>>>

Dargil · Answer

True, of course. Cars don't kill people. Bad Drivers kill people.

Staximus · Answer

Saying a gun killed somebody is like saying a pencil wrote a sentence. Both require somebody's hand to make it happen.

Adel50 · Answer

I don't see anything wrong in this statement.

DaBiggestBird · Answer

Sounds correct, it doesn’t take a lot of brain cells to make that out.

Twalli · Answer

I'm sure the 4 people (yearly average) shot by their gun while nobody is holding it would argue against it.

Anonymous · Answer

Why don't you tell the truth about the wokeness?

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Yeah, and that’s why most people shouldn’t have guns

Anonymous · Answer

Well it’s true , I’ve yet to see a gun get up and shoot person by itself.

Anonymous · Answer

99% true. I say 99% because there is that 1% where a gun is faulty and goes off by itself at the right time.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I think the phrase is a cop out

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Demagogic. PEOPLE with guns kill people !!!

Anonymous · Answer

That is a fact.

seeyounexttuesday · Answer

100% accurate.

Anonymous · Answer

Ignorant.

Pterodon · Answer

The truth

jimmy2 · Answer

True statement

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