The guns used in the Orlando night club mass murder were as innocent in the crime as the victims themselves. The weapons themselves committed no crimes. For the record, all weapons are inanimate objects. They are incapable of harming anyone on their own. Only when a weapon is in the hands of the wrong person are they a threat to anyone.
When an individual or group of individuals, let’s say jihadists, is intent upon harming others, the choice of weapon used to accomplish that goal is irrelevant. The Boston bombers used pressure cookers from the kitchen to kill six and injure 280 others and the common thread between that incident and dozens of others like it is not the pressure cookers, it is the Muslim’s who were intent upon attacking unsuspecting innocent, defenseless Americans in a soft target “gun free zone.”
Yet, no one is calling for new laws regulating pressure cookers or suggesting that all Americans should register their pressure cookers with the federal government. According to FBI final reports, the Boston bombers were “motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs,” and they learned how to build their bombs from an online Al Qaeda web site based out of Yemen.
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