Guns don't cause crime

A friend of mine posted a really stupid photo (I could editorialize here and say, "are there any other kind?") of Ted Nugent waving two of his automatic weapons with the caption "If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective."

This is one of the propaganda tricks of the gun lobby. It goes right along with "Guns don't kill people; people kill people."

This is just stupid because it misses and sidesteps the obvious: People WITH GUNS kill people. Yes, people kill with knives, poison and any number of other assorted weapons. But only guns are designed to kill. They have no other real purpose.

Guns don't "cause" crime. No one ever said they did (except the gun lobby propaganists). Guns just make it easier for people to frighten and intimidate other people. And guns make more crimes deadly. 

This is written by a person who has been robbed at gunpoint - me. Without the guns the people in the black ski masks were pointing at me, there would have been no robbery. 

So, no, the guns did not "cause" the robbery. They just made it possible.