More Gun Control, Please
When guns are too readily available, people use them too readily, with nary a regard for the consequences. Ultimately, it’s true that humans are the ones to blame for their actions; not the guns. But when society makes an action too easy to execute (such as using guns to kill people by making them too easy to get), then it bears some responsibility for what happens too.
Humans are typically not very good at controlling their passions (like anger or vengeance for example). So the degree of gun control employed should, at least, take this fact into account. We should not give them to just anybody; particularly to those with “short fuses” and radical leanings. Further, many humans routinely get stoned or drunk, and so, are not thinking clearly much of the time, and also tend to be prone to emotional meltdowns. I don’t think they should have guns either.
Again, while I agree that humans (not guns) are the real killers, guns clearly simplify killing for someone predisposed to kill, and the easier an action is to accomplish, the more people end up accomplishing it. So, if we make guns easier to obtain, then more people will obtain and then use them. Is this really what we want as a society — more people using guns?
Indeed, many more of us would kill if we could kill easily. In fact, a gun will kill if placed in the wrong hands (the hands of a would-be killer), and given how angry so much of society seems to be these days, I’m just not comfortable with everyone toting a gun around. So I’d ask our congress for more (not less) gun control, please.