An Answer To A Question On Facebook
Jun. 3rd, 2010 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxSomebody just asked the inevitable question "Isn't it time we banned guns?"
Here's my reply.
We can't. Thousands of legitimate users need them. Landowners, Olympians, vets ... Hells, you could even argue for the need for them in pest control.
The thing is, these are the most responsible people in the world. The Home Office profile out these kinds of people, looking for signs of mental instability or a past record of violence. Those who are granted the license to carry arms are the most sane, solid, sober, normal, responsible people in Britain, with a huge responsibility on their hands.
Nice, quiet, normal people, not like strange, occult-minded mutant mutts like me. Men who keep themselves to themselves, do their jobs, wouldn't say boo to a goose.
Just like Derrick Bird was nice, sane, solid, average, mainstream. One of the norms.
You could try and ban guns completely, and you still won't stop people from getting their hands on them and going spree killing. And the worst thing? If you're looking at freaks like me as the future potential spree killers ... you're all looking in the wrong place.
I am really eating my words. 48 hours ago, in my Tony the Electrician rant, I said that civilised people don't up and start killing people on a whim. Fucking Hell, was I wrong.
Here's my reply.
We can't. Thousands of legitimate users need them. Landowners, Olympians, vets ... Hells, you could even argue for the need for them in pest control.
The thing is, these are the most responsible people in the world. The Home Office profile out these kinds of people, looking for signs of mental instability or a past record of violence. Those who are granted the license to carry arms are the most sane, solid, sober, normal, responsible people in Britain, with a huge responsibility on their hands.
Nice, quiet, normal people, not like strange, occult-minded mutant mutts like me. Men who keep themselves to themselves, do their jobs, wouldn't say boo to a goose.
Just like Derrick Bird was nice, sane, solid, average, mainstream. One of the norms.
You could try and ban guns completely, and you still won't stop people from getting their hands on them and going spree killing. And the worst thing? If you're looking at freaks like me as the future potential spree killers ... you're all looking in the wrong place.
I am really eating my words. 48 hours ago, in my Tony the Electrician rant, I said that civilised people don't up and start killing people on a whim. Fucking Hell, was I wrong.
