Bill,

You need to read Capt JG's comments, above, carefully. Obviously, lots
of things could be used to kill people (a typical NRA argument, of
course) but guns are by far the most effective and most used medium.
Accordingly, they should be regulated more closely. The use of guns
should be regulated at least as sensibly as the use of an automobile.

Jim




Bill wrote:
Or fertilizer and gasoline. 168 Timothy McVeigh.

And how many people were killed in the US by the use of fertilizer or
gasoline last year? And, what percentage of murders in the last ten
years involved the use of fertilizer or gasoline?

Jim


You're missing the point. It's not that fertilizer and gasoline
should be banned it is simply that people that wasnt to kill other
people will always find a way. If they want to kill a lot of people
they don't need a gun. Several people in this thread have tried to
use the VT shootings as the biggest example for why guns should be
either banned or more heavily restriced, because a gun allows you kill
more people than a knife or club, but the McVeigh example shows that
it doesn't take a gun to kill a lot of people, in fact without a gun
and just some basic ingredients you can kill many more than with a
gun. Had McVeigh run out and tried to shoot people he may have gotten
a pretty high number but not 168. I'm not saying that he should have
used a gun because it would have been better for the people but just
illustrating the point that people are dangerous and inventive.