14 Children and Teacher Killed in Texas Elementary School Shooting

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes, it does! Less people dying means society is safer, even suicides.

And there's a critical difference with your hammer analogy: we need hammers to build things. We don't need guns, or at least not beyond basic rifles for hunting and guns for jobs like security. Beyond those functions guns do society zero good.

Again you are making a fallacious jump with your logic. Less people dying by guns does not mean less people are dying.

We need guns to fight governments. This is so critical that it was the second amendment in the bill of rights. The critical part of the analogy is that blunt force trauma can happen via baseball bats and rocks, while murder can happen via vehicles and knives and propane tanks.