Why aren’t more mass murders carried out with bump stocks, then, instead of just the one? Why aren’t there more IEDs when gasoline is sold on every corner? Why is the flying of private aircraft (small or large) as weapons still an insanely rare event? Why don’t we see hundreds of mass stabbings with knives?
It turns out that most people do not want to harm or endanger others.
We don’t need technological restrictions. Laws and education are more than sufficient, as is presently being demonstrated every day in our society.
Our society entirely breaks down without trust. People do not want to hurt you. Move in the other direction.
We don’t need technological restrictions. Laws and education are more than sufficient, as is presently being demonstrated every day in our society.
Yes, these events are rare. The vast majority of people are not murderous sociopaths. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take prudent precautions agains those who are, or simply against otherwise good people who may be careless.
Sure, you can do bad things with gasoline. But it's not that easy, you need a lot of it to do significant damage. And you can't just jump in a plane, their use is strictly regulated for precisely the reasons we're talking about. To do bad things with an airplane, you still have to be in it to boot, which cuts down the number of potential bad guys by a couple of orders of magnitude. And there are lots of stabbings, but if you're going to do a mass attack, guns are so easy to get here in the US that it makes no sense to do so. Mass stabbings only happen in places where guns are tightly regulated, and it's worth noting that the death toll is (predictably) much lower than in a mass shooting with semi-automatic weapons.
We clearly do need restrictions on the availability and use of potentially destructive technology, which is exactly why we already have them in many cases. That need is demonstrated every day in our society.
It turns out that most people do not want to harm or endanger others.
We don’t need technological restrictions. Laws and education are more than sufficient, as is presently being demonstrated every day in our society.
Our society entirely breaks down without trust. People do not want to hurt you. Move in the other direction.