Its been several days since the horrific tragedy that occurred in Newton. But where do we go from here? Of course at first glance the right course of action seems like it would be to ban guns. Clearly they were to blame for this tragedy, right? Well let's think about that for a minute. If guns had been banned when Adam Lanza decided to go on his rampage on Friday, would that have stopped him? If he was fully intent on going on a killing spree, would he not have found different means of his mass murder? Perhaps he would have brought knives instead, or blunt objects like baseball bats. The point I'm trying to make, is that anything can be used as a weapon for killing. To ban guns for the sole reason that people can kill other people with them is (while definitely well intentioned) simply farfetched. To bans guns for that reason, then we'd have to ban knives. We'd have to ban baseball bats. We'd have to ban pillows. We'd have to ban belts. We'd have to ban tall buildings. Look at this tweet I noticed before I wrote this.
If cars are causing more deaths than guns are, then why are we focusing on guns? The answer is not to ban all of these items that happen to be able to be used for killing, because the fact of the matter is that almost everything can be used to kill. What we need to do is figure out what is making these people want to go out and kill. Because if we can't do something about preventing the desire to kill, its going to be pretty hard to stop them no matter what we ban.Reality Check tonight.... instead of banning guns more guns should the U.S. move to ban cars?The numbers show it would save more lives
— Ben Swann (@Fox19BenSwann) December 19, 2012
(PS, if you want the numbers regarding that tweet, follow Ben and see the new Reality Check that he'll release tonight about it.)
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