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Originally Posted by Za Rodinu
Nobody in his right mind will suggest guns are sentient or have decision powers. It's more of a matter of convenience. If I for a number of reasons go berserk and decide to murder my family and a few neighbours too and shoot myself in the end, it will be much more expedient if I have easy access to a gun of a decent calibre and sufficient ammunition; I will be able to do much more limited damage if all I can use is a bread knife.
How big would the butcher's bill have been if the Columbine boys had been able to procure only two nail clippers, a swiss pocket knife and a crowbar?
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The answer is simple. Those two sicko boys who did the murders at Columbine were hell bent to do as much damage as possible and had to steal their weapons from their parents in oder to do so. All the time as I was gropwing up, I had easy access to all the guns my family owned. My brothers and I used to go to where they were kept and we would simply look at them and pick them up etc--never playing with them as ""we were tought better"" and all we were doing; was simply looking at them.
Once in awhile, my father took us out to go shoot bottles and paper targets and we had our fun with them. I also grew up having BB an dPellet Guns. I used to nail a bag full of plastic toy soldier to the backyard fence and shoot them to bits. This of course, was not thay I was trying to practice to shoot people--we simply had nothing else to shoot at, except the fence itself. It used to piss off my father to have to go back there and pry out all the BBs stuck in the fence--but he accepted that as they really did no damage and we kept out of trouble.
Anyway, back to those columbine murderers: They were dead set to kill as many as possible. They could still hav ekilled many with said Butcher Knives as those have very large blades. Just try to stop some jerk from using full force in slashing at you with one of those baby's and you will lose your hand or whatever. Also, if they did not have those, then I suppose they could have grabbed a few large Screwdrivers from their Father's tool chests.
At any rate--you AINT going to stop jerks like these mentioned unless your very lucky or unless you have better weapons (or more) than they do. There would have still been several people killed at columbine regardless of what weapons they chose.
Also, if someone is armed, unarmed bystanders are not likely to intervene. I forget the term that Law Enforcement uses that lables that.