(08-05-2019 09:37 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(08-05-2019 09:14 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  The number 251 has been bandied about. I would like to see the source of that number and how it was compiled. Anybody who uses that number has to justify it.

I think most of us agree, the problem is not the guns, it is the gunmen.

I wonder what the mass shootings graph for the Prohibition years looked like?

Why not a combination of both?

Guns without gunmen are just inanimate pieces of metal lying around.

Gunmen without guns can, and often do, find other ways to express their hate/rage.

When I was on a grand jury, we investigated three murders. One used a single-shot .22 rifle. One used a rock. One used his bare hands. What do you want to ban/restrict/etc.?

The most heinous was the one with the rock. The gun and bare hands were just rage, the former alcohol aided.

The one with the rock was a death penalty case. I oppose the death penalty. But on that day, I voted "aye".

*BTW, the one with the rock could be included in some lists of "mass" killings, as there were two victims.