on Guns

taken from a thread on Gun Control,

You know what the problem with guns is? People pulling the trigger. That's the long and the short of it. Personally I consider the violence and abuse, the horrors humans commit on each other is the problem. Government and well reasoned people have endeavored to correct a lot of bias and behaviors, like littering and equality, but somehow we all have been a marked failure in civilizing everyone who needs to be civilized. You'd think after all this time, and all we know, that we could somehow apply some sort of civic peer pressure to the lessor beings among us to grow up. I think that's the ultimate answer to the gun question--maturity. Something that is evidently hard to produce in people.