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How can a gun owner on this forum say:
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Religion is undoubtedly the primary cause for the wholesale slaughter of billions of people in the history of the world from the Crusades to present day. People with conflicting views on GOD attack each other - kinda ironic if you think about it.
When all of us know that it isn't the guns that kill people, somewhere down the line they made the choice to kill. No matter how little input they had, they chose to depress the trigger, stab or whathaveya. Ideas are no different.
Easily: Guns are tools used to carry out a desired action, typically murder/death. The gun doesn't CAUSE the action of murder, it just happens to replace a different tool, be it a sword, axe, club, etc. Guns don't shape underlying moral behavior - sure they shape the battlefield, but not the underlying behavior.
Religion is a belief system which shapes moral behavior and YES, is the root cause for wholesale slaughter of billions of people. Religious zealots have violently imposed their beliefs upon others since the dawn of religion through present day. I'm here in Iraq, in part, because some religious screwjobs threaten world security.
One other point that is important to make for the PROGUN crowd: Despite all of the deaths from people using guns (whether for good or evil intent), the mosquito is responsible for more human deaths than all guns combined.