[Barry the Sprout]

A bit of an odd thought just occurred to me... This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just people supporting the gun lobby in general. As far as I can see we have this for logic:

1. Whatever we do, people will kill other people. This is bad.

2. Murder is written into the human spirit and is not affected in the least by society, therefore we must accept the fact that people will always be killed. No possible actions taken by society as a whole will stop it. This is bad.

3. Not all people have to be like this, most are normal. Some are evil, they are the ones who will always kill others. We can do nothing to stop this, except kill them. If we kill them, this is good, because the act of killing someone is inherently ambigious and human life is not essentially sacred.

4. So whilst we can do nothing to stop murders, and more happen when we have guns readily available statistically, we should legalise guns as all that stuff I said earlier about not being able to stop it was nonsense. If we were armed everywhere we went then we would have nothing to fear, so there actually is a cure for murder, it isn't really inherent in humanity after all. This is bad, but only because it invalidates itself as a viable argument...

So, as far as I can tell, this is what the pro-gun argument boils down to:

The human race is essentially violent and destructive, we can do nothing to stop this violence as it is inherent, so we should make getting hold of dangerous weapons much easier as that would make everyone much safer.

Great, just great...