Firearms and Life
OIKOS University, Oakland, California, April 2, 2012: Seven killed and three wounded; Tucson, Arizona, January 8, 2011: Six people killed and thirteen wounded (including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords); Virginia Tech School, April 2007 : Cho Seung-hui kills 32 people; Columbine High School, April 1999: killing 12 students and a professor; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, August 1966: ex-marine Charles Whitman killed 15 people and left 32 people wounded ... and if we don't do anything, this will continue.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest, easy to understand and implement.
Enouph is enouph ... we have to stop and put an end to any person to dispose of human life with a firearm easily acquired in a sports shop.
It is not easy, because here in the United States of America it is a tradition to possess firearms for personal safety, for your family and your property. We can see it in the history of the Old West.
THE PROPOSAL IS NOT TO ABOLISH WEAPONS AS SUCH, BUT TO MODIFY THE LETHAL CAPACITY OF DISCHARGE, CALL IT PROYECTILES OR BULLETS.
We have the technology and knowledge to do it ... we lack the political will to produce a law that has us all happy. It is a bit ahead in the future, but there we all will be sooner or later.
The idea is to defend ourselves, our loved ones and our property, neutralizing the intruder, but without having to take his life. Just as we do sports or hunting, without bloodshed.
Not so much as using tasers or stun guns, gas or rubber bullets, nets or other traps ... we can have "directed energy" weapons using controlled laser systems, which look like science fiction but already it’s been done, where it neutralizes the subject without using lethal force.
The "Electrical laser", for example, is an electro-gun that sends current along a plasma channel, which is an electrical conductor, laser induced.
Under this principle, TASER International has developed, in 2007, a long range, "wireless", electric shock gun, called XREP (eXtended Range Electro-Muscular Proyectile) with a range of up to 91 meters away.
I am sure that psychological studies can prove that the person who carries a firearm, not necessarily want to take the life of another human being (because if so, then this person should be behind bars) and generally what the person wants to defend, defend your family and property, but most often with fatal consequences.
More Information...
1. How Prevalent is Gun Violence in America?
2. The truth about guns, crime and violence
3. Guns and violence in America
4. Guns and Violence
5. Gun Violence Statistics
6. The Politics of Guns in America
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