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Originally Posted by Marcia Karp
Shaun:Are you sure about the number? Dozens must mean at least 24. The reality is bad enough.
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Alright, the actual number was 22. So not dozens, but tens.
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A man with hands or a rope or a knife can kill and maim and that is terrible. A man with a gun can massacre and that is terrible multiplied.
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A man with a bomb belt can massacre scores. A man with a rocket launcher can massacre hundreds. A man with a warhead can massacre thousands. A man with a nuke can massacre millions.
These are orders of magnitude, but the lowest common denominator of all of them is the
intent to kill people. Do you truly think that all, or even many of the massacres, slaughters, genocides that have been perpetrated throughout history would
not have happened in the absence of guns? Again, I agree that the easy accessibility of a firearm in the U.S. more easily enables such atrocities, but it still comes down to the basic premise that if someone wants to harm countless people, he will find a way to do it.