If Guns Could Kill

A 1600 word essay examining the catchphrase "guns kill." To state that “guns kill” is to remove individual people entirely from the realm of morality. Promoting guns as the cause of violence effectively eliminates people from the causal loop. It transforms people from moral beings responsible for their freely chosen actions into irrelevant carriers of the supposed true enemy, the inanimate gun.

The essential, fundamental question we must focus upon is: Are we to have a society in which the conditions exist that permit each of us to make our own ethical choices or do we accept a culture in which the very foundation necessary for ethics of any kind is denied us?