when the set their own traps. They say that posession of whatever firearms enables them to become a mass killer.
I simply point out to women is that they have everything built in to become a prostitute and watch them go off like a skyrocket. It's a double edged sword, though because I make it fair and point out that men have the equipment to become rapists. That is assuming all parties are running with OEM equipment, of course.
The cool part about it is it is indesputable. It is a cold, hard fact.
One time I told a woman that everytime she picks up a knife to cook dinner with she becomes enabled to murder her husband, children and for that matter almost everyone else.
Needless to say, she fell into a double trap when she said she would never do such a thing. I pointed out that
The thing people seem to forget is that it isn't the equipment that does the killing. It's the person.
The local Gendarmes were training for active shooters the other day and someone pointed out that if you have to call the police for one it's already too late. True story.
Needless to say the Karens flipped out over that comment.
Along came someone with a little common sense that said if the schools did what they were supposed to do and watched the kids and didn't tolerate bullies and so on that the bulk of things would not even come up. She got a like from me.
The police are for the most part reactive. You generally call a cop after something has happened or often while something is happening. Most often they simply take a report and leave. One rarely calls a cop beforehand although people have called them to report suspicious activity and that probably helps to some extent. However a lot of those calls are worthless.
A cruiser slowly driving by some suspicious character giving him the hairy eyeball will probably stop him from doing evil. At the very least it will probably take whatever dastardly deed he had planned somewhere else. Still, that's fairly uncommon. Most police calls are after the fact.
Of course this is no excuse for departments to forego any kind of reasonable training. Police should be trained.
Still, it's not the gun that kills. The gun is only a tool like a hammer or a knife. It is a hard heart that kills.
Finally! Common sense! Pic, you are of course totally correct that it is desire to harm and not the tool used. If someone wants to kill somebody, they will, using a rock, an auto mobile, a rope, a knife or a gun. My dad had a pistol for 65 years and it never hurt anybody. It just took up room in his safe.
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