Seems somebody at the Miami Herald wants you dead

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by theirontower

So this is my question to the people in the thread talking about guns being a direct reason for violence. This is not rhetorical, nor sarcastic. Do you think that violent crimes would have have occured if guns were not available? Do you think that if they had not had the access to firearms that they wouldn't have gone to a knife? Or somthing else?

Which is a point that's been brought up often in the other arguments here on this subject (the thread count surely exceeds a dozen by now)...and is never credibly responded to.

The problem of violence isn't weapons. Violence isn't caused by weapons any more than arson is caused by matches. Violence is caused by violent people. Liberals/progressives, whose philosophy is driven by identifying "victims" (and then grabbing power on the pretext of "helping the victims") prefer to reflexively relabel criminals as victims, while displacing responisbility for their criminal behavior onto inanimate objects, "society", "oppression" and "injustice". This ensures a steady supply of "victims"...