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by dontstealmyname 4939 days ago
Yes but the horrible truth is guns have a higher mortality rate than all the other killing methods you listed. Also there is a lot more physical effort in killing someone with a knife, rocks or bearhands and it its more likely that you can fend someone off or dodgy whats being throw at you. I don't think its as easy to dodgy a bullet.
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Try dodging a 100kg man armed with 5kg rock. I had to do it once while wandering the streets of a big South American country. If I had a gun I certainly would have not killed the bastard as just waving it should've solved the situation. Instead I had to keep cool, pull a Jedi mind trick, and literally run for my life. Yeah, guns kill. So rocks too.

Again, how do we stop all this killing?

Either way, I think we should start by banning cars. People kill much more people with cars than with any other tool. Maybe except for voting, but that's another matter.