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Originally Posted by knox
This has nothing to do with what ifs.
I was ill, if I had succeeded in getting hold of a gun I would be dead.
Not if, fact.
Same thing with some people who are are also helpless in their instinct/desire/urge to kill, when they get hold of a gun, they do kill.
Most people aren't fit to have such destructive power.
Otherwise the US would be saying: it's ok for other countries to have weapons of mass destruction, it's just their RIGHT to defend themselves.
But that's not what they say, is it? Because the mere existence of such threats is a threat.
Do you see the contradiction there?
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it is a TOUGH subject indeed knox.
and it touches on other very heavy tough subjects.
The US government actually DOES say that it is Israel's right to have WMD's (hundreds of thermonuclear weapons provided by the USA)
then they say it is NOT Iran's right to have them. The US GOVENRMENT is straight hypocritical all the time it seems.
Just like what I mentioned earlier about federal minimum sentences for crack cocaine, where 5 grams use dto get you 30 years MINIMUM, whereas 5 grams of powdered cocaine (loved by rich powerful white folks the world over) got you 5-10 years, if that.
the double standards are evident.
and for every depressed individual that does not use a gun to end it, because guns are not available, there will be another human being who died becauise he/she did not have a gun to defend themselves. that is the complexity of real life.