We hear this mantra over and over; unfortunately it's irrelevant to present circumstances because the Sandy Hooks and the Oak Creeks and Auroras and Columbines and Tucsons are not about "killing". Clearly they're not, since you can kill with blunt instruments, poisons, ropes, bombs or any number of other methods.
These incidents are specifically about massacre by strafing, which can only be done with a gun, and for those slayers who insist on instant gratification, the more automatic the better because it specifically serves that purpose.
Mass random murder is no more about murder than rape is about sex; it's about power. And until we get that, we're going nowhere.
You should try thinking. What gun did Timothy McVeigh use.
...but of course if you DID think, you'd be a conservative.
Way ahead of you. What McVeigh did was not massacre. It was terrorism. He wasn't even in a position to watch it happen -- that's a crucial difference.
Mass massacre with guns is done for the visual gratification of watching the helpless (there's the
power) run around bleeding and running for cover. That's what they're after; personal power -- that which they personally lack in life.
Terrorism by contrast is about committing some dramatic act whose impact is intended to move the hearts and minds of, or break the spirit of, a population. That's what McVeigh was doing. That's political.
The goal of the former is in the present and immediate and personal; the latter is long-term and ideological. Just because two different acts both result in death doesn't make them the same thing. Think about it. I'm talking about
motivations; you're playing with the semantics of the reprercussions.
Terrorism, murder and massacre all have different
motivations. That's why I keep saying, throwing laws at the problem is treating the symptom; the disease is the motivation.
Think about it.
But of course since I
do think, I'm not enslaved to your mindless labels.