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Explain to me how it's possible to do the same amount of slaughter in the same amount of time with a knife or baseball bat. Someone please explain this. As I understood it took less than 20 minutes.
I'm sick of the fucking knife and baseball shit.
Enough already.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The guns used were designed for one purpose: Hunting Humans.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)There is lots of rational reasons to use in the debate. Posters who just make things up look stupid.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)not more than 5. This from a timeline of first 911 call to the time police arrived.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)But the argument they make (those comparing knives and bats) is specious; a red herring.
If we want to talk about mass murders, lets talk about poison in the water system, a dirty bomb, fire bombs.
To a resourceful evildoer, these could take many lives and, possibly, with less effort than with guns.
Availability of guns and ammo certainly makes it easier, and what we can do to suppress these acts needs to be done.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)to distract ourselves with hypotheticals while having a conversation about guns is a diversion.