in which I ramble about guns

[threeplusfire]

I've been thinking about this site for a few days now. They lay out their arguements well, and I tend to agree. I'd like to say something, but I don't know what yet. The site contains a large number of by images both hilarious, chilling and thought provoking.

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Re: here we go...

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

I would agree about the capacity for good and evil, but only within the scope of the human mind. All following statements are of my opinion on this:
I believe people have an equal capacity for good and evil and how they are conditioned and how they are exposed to the world influences much of how they lean (negating pyschoses for the moment). The life experience builds up systems of internal checks and balances and if nothing more tries to keep the capacities balanced. Decisions, then, are fundamentally based upon quick interpretations of what interior signals tell us. Our concept of rationality is inherently a balance, and decisions create a construct of our logic through precedent. Some people therefore feel that being cruel and in need of power is rational, and their logic has been skewed through series of unbalanced ideas and deicisions stemming from not maintaining a healthy capacity of good and evil.

Maybe a gun's purpose is not inherently evil, but the hands the weapon falls into are influenced by whatever state of being the "rational" human is in. So, people do kill people. However, the ultimate aim (no puns) of a gun is... what? To hammer down nails that are sticking out of the hardwood? To open beer cans? To shoot things. Targets are one thing, but it's practice for the real deal. Unless a gun owner plans on shooting out tires and nothing else or any other inanimate object, the general purpose of a gun is to injure to the point of death some living being. I concede that sometimes it may perhaps be warranted in extreme situations, but I still tend to think that the human populace is generally good at heart, in mind, and does wish for coexistence. It's difficult to pry my ideal away from my education on the matter. I'm talking in circles and will let myself rest up a bit mor before coming back to this.