I enjoy the simplicity of that statement, if only things were that simple. Guns are awesome things, they really are. They're fun to shoot, no doubt about it. Also, when you hold one, you get a sense of the power in your grasp. Consider it, this mechanism in the palm of your hand can almost immediately end lives. That's a really, really powerful thing. In the right hands, it's a tool to protect in the wrong hands it's a tool to destroy. I would wager that So people do kill people, but they do it with guns. It's a tandem thing.If you left a gun on a chair, at no point will it ever decide to just shoot. Someone has to pull the trigger.
My guess is that if there was no gun on that chair, there are many people that have killed that wouldn't have. What I mean is that the gun itself is the impetus for destruction. The argument from the NRA types is always, well cars kill too or people can use a knife.. but that sense of absolute power doesn't come with a car or a knife. Guns though, they make you feel like a little god. Most of us humans come equipped with a governor that moderates our faux-god- tendencies, but some of us don't and it takes certain devices to set them off. Chairs don't set people off... guns do.