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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The will cannot drive the action without the tool.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Then it will be something else.

Mind I'm not defending the free-guns-for-all policy so dear to a sadly large part of americans, I'm just saying that the tool is not the real issue, that one would be the finality of the action and the fecklessness, the morbidly carelessness and yet horrible thoroughness, attached to the though of ending or seriously harming another person. That one is a cultural problem, and very deep.

Sure guns were instrumental to spread and nourishing such culture, but if it wasn't the gun then the will to kill would have been manifested through the next available tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What next tool are you talking about?

Guns are specifically designed to kill people as quickly and efficiently as possible and at great distance. Take that tool away and you put some serious limits on the will to kill.