Analysis and Argument: Guns and Killing
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They say that, "guns don't kill; people kill."
Is this true? Argue both sides from a cause and effect perspective.
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Brief analysis and argument on the topic, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Reasons and examples offered.
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The cause is an action or event that is responsible for the effect - an outcome. Analyzing the cause and effect on this issue is simple: where is the cause (the act of killing or the gun or the person holding the gun) and where is the effect (the act of killing or dead people)?
If the Effect is dead people, then the gun does kill the person, when it is used as a tool for killing. However, if the effect is the act of killing, it is also true that people are killed (by other people) by multiple other means, often without the use of a gun (poison, drowning, beating using various implements, including bare hands, suffocation, stabbing, auto ...
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