11/13: Destroying Pakistani firearms

[jaguar]

jag clearly knows little about what he's saying, and hasn't really thought very much about it beyond what he's been told in school, other than to hope the evil guns go away.

oh get over it. The simple statement i made which you seem to be determined to muddy to obscurity is that a heavily armed society will result is more deaths than a relatively lightly armed one. Its like saying that no more people will die in a nuclear war than a conventional one - heavier weaponary generally does result in more deaths....That is the purpose of it after all.

Since you want to talk down to me....

More shots fired does *not* equal more people dieing, because that "reasoning" glosses over *who* is shooting and why.

Actaully - i don't see why thats relavent, apart fomr target shots etc the more shots fired at people statisticly is going to result in more deaths... Irrispective of whether those peopel are "goodies" or "baddies" more people will die. That tends to be the result of esclations in weaponary, we're much better at killing people than we were 500 years ago because OHMYGOD we have better weaponary.

While it is very hard to remove high powered weaponary from a society as soaked with it as the US to argue that if everyone is equally heavily armed noone will get hurt really is a bit silly...

Not sink to being patronising or anything.