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The gun is still a problem. Its just only half the problem. A mentally ill person with a knife is still bad but an order of magnitude less so.

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The gun is as much the problem as the truck used in Nice. Killing a lot of people is easy.

With the right tools. Arguably unrestricted vehicle access should not be available in densely populated areas. They are basically mass murder machines even with well intentioned drivers.

I was about to disagree with your neighboring comment and point out that you were being inconsistent, but it turns out you weren't.

I disagree with your worldview in this case, but want to let you know that I respect you for having a well formed and reasonably consistent opinion. I only wish that everyone else who voted took the time to think things through half so thoroughly - the world would likely be a much more functional place.

Welp, that shark wasn’t going to jump itself...

But now all you’ve done is cut off the beaks of the chickens in the farm, so they can’t blind each other, the chicken are still in a very, very bad mental state.

Even a fairly healthy society will have a few bad actors. The solution is to provide care for people so the majority do not want to cause harm and then prevent needless ability to cause harm so the occasional crazy person isn't able to do much damage.

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