The function design of a gun has nothing to do with how it is used. Are guns not used by the police or the military for legitimate reasons? Or by hunters or or as a method to control certain animal populations from excess numbers that lead to starvation? What about self-defense, do I not have the right to defend myself and my family?
There are so many things that can be used to kill something, whether they were designed to do so is irrelevant. One does not ban knives, cars, or what have you merely because it might be used to kill. Similarly, one does not ban guns because it also might be used to kill, that is the sole responsibility of the person who uses it. And whether or not the gun is designed to kill is irrelevant.
Excellent observations!
People have been finding ways to kill each other since the beginning of time and even if all guns disappeared would only drive determined killers to shift to using crude but deadlier WMDs.
For example, earlier I showed where just one dollars worth of gasoline and some plastic was able to kill far more people than anyone with any sort of "assault weapon"(1)
This determined killer only wanted to kill one person, his ex girlfriend, but couldn't find a gun.
Enemies of the 2nd Amendment might consider this a "win" in that gun control stopped a death.
Unfortunately, determined killers will always find a way to kill and this determined killer succeeded in killing 87 instead of just one because he could not find a gun.
If the date of this incident is important, it only shows how much deadlier these crude, home made WMDs can be than "assault weapons"
Even longer ago than the previous mass murder was the deadliest school mass killing that has still not been eclipsed by any school mass shooting with any type of firearm took place (2).
This determined killer simply used a home made bomb to kill 44 people with 38 of them being students.
In almost 100 years, there hasn't been any school mass shooting to equal the carnage of that one home made bomb.
Determined killers are in no way hindered by existing gun laws but hoplophobes who are unable to grasp the basic reality that criminals, by definition, do not obey laws continue to demand more of the same failed gun laws.
Thanks again for your excellent observations,
(1). "Happy Land fire"
en.wikipedia.org
EXCERPT "González went to an
Amoco gas station, then returned to the establishment with a plastic container with $1 worth of
gasoline.[2][4] He spread the fuel at the base of a staircase, the only access into the club, and then ignited the gasoline.[5]
Eighty-seven people died in the resulting fire."CONTINUED
(2). "The 1927 Bombing That Remains America’s Deadliest School Massacre"
"Ninety years ago, a school in Bath, Michigan was rigged with explosives in a brutal act that stunned the town"
More than 90 years ago, a school in Bath, Michigan was rigged with explosives in a brutal act that stunned the town
www.smithsonianmag.com
EXCERPTS "In the end
44 people died, 38 of them students. It wasn’t the first bombing in the country’s history—at least eight were killed during the Haymarket Square rally in Chicago in 1886, and 30 when a bomb exploded in Manhattan in 1920. But none had been so deadly as this, or affected so many children."CONTINUED
