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If more guns is the answer to the mass shooting problem then...?

is more alcohol the answer to the drunk driving deaths problem?

NRA logic, not mine.

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bmovies60 - If you put a gun in a small mans hands it makes him feel bigger, in a weak mans hands it makes him feel stronger, in an impotant mans hands it make him a man. Guns change the basic psychology of those who are holding the. You are stupid if you can't see that.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Strange logic isn't it? The GOP's rationale never ceases to amaze me. Their answer to paying down the debt is less taxes and their answer to Gods Curse on America (the second amendment) is to arm teachers.

  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Many schools in the US have police officers assigned to them aren't they the same as armed guards.....

    In a not perfect world only the good guys would turn in their guns and we would be helpless and at the

    mercy of the bad guys.Too bad we will never know if a police officer was assigned to that school how many lives could he have saved. Drugs and drunk driving have been against the law for years and that does not help.

    Having a gun will not help all the time but being defenseless will never help..

    We could use the money we give to countries that hate us,our children are more important!!

    Isn't it better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it!!

  • imgram
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Good analogy. Both make about the same sense.

    What is needed, is mental health care, available anytime. Mass shooters are troubled people enraged. They are at a point in their life that if they had somewhere to go, someone to talk to about what is bothering them, these murders could be averted. But they make a horrible choice instead.

  • 8 years ago

    another NRA myth , when a crazy gunman goes on the rampage the first person he ( or criminals) shoot are the armed guards and any other armed person, as normal people always have to hesitate before shooting someone the crazy guy always has the edge , reagan, kennedy, RLK, MLK etc were all surrounded by highly trained armed guards and they didn't help at all

  • 8 years ago

    " If more guns is the answer to the mass shooting problem then...?

    is more alcohol the answer to the drunk drivingdeaths problem?"

    You drink alcohol, you get drunk. You carry a gun, it doesn't alter your body chemistry one bit.

    Guns aren't a mind altering substance. Alcohol is. Bad analogy.

    "NRA logic, not mine."

    No, not NRA logic. Your strawman.

  • 8 years ago

    Horseshit.

    99% of gun-toting Americans are good citizens. I have a concealed carry permit. Which would be better when I visit my local school should an indident occur:

    - It's a no-gun school zone so I couldn't wear mine

    -I was armed and could do something to put the bad guy down

    Which would have the better outcome?

  • 8 years ago

    Bad people should not have guns, good people should have guns. Pretty simple. So yes, more armed good people and less armed bad people is the answer. Disarming the good people isn't the answer. Anyone who's logic dictates that disarming the good people is the answer is a complete idiot.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No idiot. Alcohol can not be used for defense. A gun can be used to defend yourself from some crazy person looking for fame and glory by shooting innocent people.

    If the were a real person they would have barricaded them self in the house after shooting mom and had it out with the cops.

  • 8 years ago

    Yeah, it does seem like Backwards Day, doesn't it? Similarly, if you want to prevent teen pregnancy, stop providing birth control. And if you want to fight poverty, give more money to the rich.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    So banning guns to the public is the answer...because that worked so well in Chicago and Norway.

    I wouldn't go so far as to call that 'liberal logic' because facts are they have none.

    Libbies should look up stats on switzerland and a certain town in georgia.almost all civilians there own guns and the crime rate is miniscule.

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