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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (107752)4/5/2009 8:56:30 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 540952
 
You hear me wrong. I'm not talking about safety- I'm talking about psychological ease. It's just much simpler to pull a trigger than to do other things that might be necessary to murder someone.

Parents rarely saw their kids heads off, but they often shoot them. That's not to say parents never saw a kid's head off, but it's infinitely easier to just shoot them. You can even cover their head with a pillow so you don't even have to see their little face. No getting around that.

And as for the defensive use thing, it's a bunch of anecdotal hooey for the most part. That's not to say it might not work- but hey, we don't really know. I once saw a guy coming over the wall of a condo where I was babysitting. I took a large kitchen knife and the phone and stood at the sliding glass door (locked and closed) talking to the police. Did the knife scare the guy? Probably not- he just wanted an empty house to burgle. But that would get classified as a defensive use of a firearm if I had had one. Hooey.

And I'll tell you one more thing for free. Psychological research shows that watching something happen lights up the same path as doing it- and most of us have watched thousands of gun murders on TV and in the movies. We've watched fewer kinds of other types of murders- so the pump is probably primed to encourage us to kill with guns. Another reason they are probably psychologically much easier to kill with.
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