Blame the Object, Not the Person

There are 2 individuals and 39 guns that live in this house. Between the 2 of us we own 40 firearms, with one presently on loan. Of the forty guns none have hurt a single human being since coming to our home. None have been used to commit a crime or managed to commit a crime all by themselves. Not even the evil black rifles.

Now I must admit that 1 or 2 of the old bolt action military rifles might have been used as a weapon of war. It's possible that the SMLE, Mosin Nagant, Arisaka or one of the Mausers were a tool of human destruction. But I'm positive none did this all alone without human intervention.

In a society with the liberties we enjoy, and accept as being the way life should be, bad things happen at the hands of bad people. Removing those liberties have never helped eliminate the evil things that some men do. Historically this has been proven time and time again. Wishing it different will not make it different.

This shouldn't happen in this country, or anywhere else, but in a free society we're going to be subject to people like this. I prefer this to the alternative. - John Green, father of 9 year old Christina Green From Kevin

So why do some blame the gun for evil acts, when the facts prove different? They say that easy access costs lives when even recent history tells a different story. Every country that has restricted citizen access to guns, especially relative free societies, has experienced a surge in violent crime. Where guns are outlawed, genocide has frequently resulted. Violent crime rate here in the US has been decreasing while gun ownership has increased, and at an explosive rate the last 2 years.

I suspect that some just don't like guns or don't trust their own responsibility which is projected onto others.

Then others truly want to reduce evil acts, but just can't make it happen. They don't know what else can be done other than blame the inanimate object. What they can't understand is that if they had their way, they'd actually make it worse.