West Virginia man fatally shoots wife and himself while kids watch

[billh58]

11. You are assuming,

incorrectly, that it is just as easy both physically and emotionally to pull a trigger from a distance as it is to walk up to within inches of someone and repeatedly stab them with a sharp implement. Statistics prove that having a gun in the home increases the odds of suicide and the murder of a family member many times over.

The economy, or mental depression, or any number of other factors may be the underlying cause of any family tragedy, but a gun is specifically designed to quickly and efficiently kill yourself, or a another human being. It has also been shown that many people survive stabbings and cut wrists, whereas gun shot wounds to the head or a vital organ are more often fatal than not.

The attempts of the NRA and its apologists to frame the health hazards caused by the obscene proliferation of guns in this country as anything else (mental illness, economy, gangs, etc.) is as big a lie as "the Democrats are coming for your guns." Yes, a gun is an inanimate object -- until it is picked up and used for the specific purpose it was designed for: to efficiently kill something or someone.

This Group is for the discussion of how to reduce the number of guns on our streets, gun violence, and to make gun owners more responsible and accountable for the guns that they own. Anything that detracts from that discussion and attempts to justify the use of a gun in the commission of a crime is not in line with the purpose of this Group or its SOP.

We don't want to "do away with guns." Unlike the NRA and its apologists however, we want to make them much more difficult to obtain, sell, transfer, and keep.