[keithr]

"flipper" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:30:27 +0000, Eeyore
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flipper wrote:

People do killing, not inanimate objects.

Guns make it FAR easier and less 'messy'.

Try strangling someone or knifing them to death as opposed to shooting
them.

Poisoning is neater and beating someone to death is handier, you don't
even need to buy ammo. But a gun removes the 'brawn' advantage and
gives, for example, women a fighting chance.

Btw, since the only time I'd be 'trying' one of your proposed methods
is in self defense I much prefer the '"FAR easier and less 'messy'"
alternative.

Poisoning is kind of slow, it takes a long lasting hate. Pulling a trigger
is infinitely easier that beating someone to death, and thats the problem
with guns it is so darned easy for a simple argument to escalated to a body
on the floor. At which point of course quite often the person with the
smoking gun realises that that is not what they intended at all, one person
is dead and another has their life ruined just because it was so easy. The
majority of murders are not commited by "Baddies" but by family members or
others with close ties to the deceased.

Keith