It is worth keeping some simple facts in mind. A gun is a device expressly designed for killing things. It is a tube fitted with mechanisms engineered to project hard objects as forcefully as possible, the aim being to pierce and fatally damage the bodies of living creatures. As technology has improved - note the word improved - so the efficiency of guns, their power, range, accuracy, and general murderous effect, has soared. The ease with which birds and beasts, men, women and children can now be blown into sudden oblivion is breathtaking. If a murderer had nothing but his hands, he could kill only a few on a single outing, if lucky. But a victim might fight back, and win. What a limitation, a frustration, for the poor murderer. But with a Kalashnikov - joy! - all such frustration vanishes. In a few seconds, dozens of human beings can be left twitching and bleeding on the ground, their possibilities, hopes, loves and endeavors abruptly and arbitrarily obliterated, their families drowned in shock and grief. How satisfying for the murderous of mind; how fulfilling; and all thanks to those who make and sell guns. -A.C. Grayling
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:09:19 +0000
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