srinath wrote on 03/24/13 at 14:46:27:We've gone over this a 1000 times.
It's not the guns that are the problem, it's the people with the guns that are the issue. If more attention was paid to those that have went on those shooting sprees and addressed the problems with them long before it got to that point then the shootings would never have happened.
OK lets try this one more time ... if you didn't have guns at all, but the rest of society was the same, we'd still have these nuts kill people ... yes, they'd need to use knives or baseball bats or ping pongs. OK So lets try the most lethal ... knife - It takes 10-30 sec to kill someone via knife. Someone else may hit them with a baseball bat and end it before there is a 30 body pile up. I'd say a 3 body pile before everyone gets out of his reach. Maybe another 2 before he's clobbered with a pipe.
Nothing but a gun can put a 30 body pile before we get to hit him with a baseball bat.
So since I cant remove all the guns from society, I proposed the $100 in cash per bullet tax. Why ? there is so much bullets out there, no one will lock em up. That makes the guns and bullets a huge liability. With a $100 bullet tax payable by cash only we get all the bullets locked up, cos now they have 300,000 worth of bullets. Lock em up.
No one said the crazy crack heads are not the problem. Guns make the bodies pile up faster before they are stopped.
Cool.
Srinath.
I completely disagree here. The next best thing they would use would be IED's aka improvised explosive devices. The materials to build such are easier to get and build, and will cause more devastation and body count then any handgun would.
Your idea on a $100 per bullet tax is just plain stupid. You do that then only the rich would be able to afford to be able to stay proficient enough to actually defend themselves and the average Joe wouldn't be able to because of that tax. To be able to actually use your firearm in a defense situation requires regular practice.
So with this information what would your next tax be, $100 per ounce tax on diesel fuel and $100 per ounce tax on fertilizer? Well that would just drive the prices up on all things consumer related to the point that no one would be able to afford to buy anything at all.
When someone is out to take people down on a massive scale they will use the tool that is available and easier to get, take the bullets or guns away they will go to explosives, which are easily made from lots of stuff that just can't be taken out of circulation. The only real solution is not taking the tools away, it's addressing the real underlying problem.
Another thing that would be effective is poisons which are easily available in the schools themselves right in the chemistry classes. If the kid just paid a little attention in his/her chemistry class they could do quite a bit of damage with what is available right on the school campus. The tools to do a large body count is available all around them. If they are intent on doing it, they are going to do it by what ever means necessary regardless of what tool they have to end up using to get the job done.
I live in a very small town and even the school where my children go have a very well equipped science lab and chemistry lab that has all sorts of stuff that can be easily used to make all sorts of improvised mass devastation and deadly weapons with just a little bit if paying attention in class or some knowledge of a computer and how to use Google.
I could go on and on here with all the ways that the mass killings could be accomplished at schools with just stuff that is available at the schools themselves, but it would probably still not sink in with you from all the posts I've seen from you on this topic.
The quickest way to extinguish a fire is to attack it from the base and not from the top of the fire or even from the side. When the powers that be open there eyes and see that they are just trying to fight the fire from the top and sides and only clearing part of the "food" for the fire, then and only then is when we will start to see some real headway in getting these issues stopped. Granted there will always be some crazies out there, but as responsible up-bringers of the generations to come we have the obligation to make sure that we keep them in line and learn proper morals and what is right and wrong.
R.F.