Re: OT: Climate Change



John Larkin wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:
Robert Latest wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Suppose the professor at VPI, who held the door against Cho while
students escaped out windows... suppose he had a handgun?

Well, maybe 10 dead instead of 32. But while we're supposing... I prefer to
suppose that the crackpot hadn't had a gun in the first place: No deaths, or
just himself, quietly in his dorm room.

Then he would have used a knife, a club, a bomb, or anything else.
You can kill with a claw hammer, a chain saw, or cordless drill. The
choice of weapon won't deter the mentally decapitated when they are bent
on killing. In fact, he may have even killed more people with a knife,
with proper planning.

I disagree. Guns are romanticized, efficient, dramatic, and seductive.
Knives don't let you go BANG and kill people from 20 feet away. Bombs
and poison don't let you SEE them dying. That's why we have such a
powerful gun lobby but no knife lobby to speak of.

How many video games let you kill people with knives or poison?

John, you are a beacon of sanity amongst your compatriots.

Also, how many Hollywood films portray knifings and poisonings positively ?

Graham

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