The fact is that there would be a whole lot of people alive today who are not – because of guns.

Dry that out and fertilize Saskatchewan please.

Guns are not the problem. People are. Do you seriously believe that, denied firearms, assholes in some gang, or crazy people wouldn’t kill others in horrible ways?

here’s a hint and a half: most of the worlds terrorists don’t use guns that much.

I know you aren’t so stupid as to actually believe that if, 14 days ago, you had waves a magic wand and removed all firearms from the planet that there wouldn’t be dead and injured people in Toronto, and dead people in Colorado right now.

Let’s not forget the Atlanta Olympics, and countless suicide bombers who managed to make do with some explosives (homemade or otherwise) and handsful of nails and ball bearings. Those things are more-or-less illegal too, and it didn’t stop them. A bit of homemade sarin gas was good enough for the Tokyo subway, and Tim McVeigh made do with a homemade truck bomb to kill 10x as many people as anything that’s happened in the last week.

You can’t legislate crazy.

The devil is what do we do about it? I don’t have an answer.

Start dealing with the roots of crime? Punishment for crimes where people are injured? Honestly, I don’t know where to start either, but you can bet that hassling legal gun owners is absolutely NOT going to solve any problems.

The guns they used in Toronto were already illegal.

You anti-gun crazies who think the tool is to blame really piss me off. You want to save lives? Ban automobiles. Legally owned automobiles kill more people in North America than all firearms crime with all guns, legal or otherwise. Hell, forget all automobiles… more people die on motorcycles and bicycles than die by firearms. Obviously, legal ownership of these things is highly dangerous to the public.

In Canada, knives kill more people than guns. Knives are legal. Better ban them too. From now on, you only get to use a nerf bat in your kitchen.

How about we spend time, effort, and money dealing with eliminating crime rather than wasting time, effort, and money making more people into criminals.