Comment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz

Of course the tool itself can never have the “emotions or the brain power to decide when it should or shouldn’t discharge”
However the fact that you now run no risk of being injurured or killed yourself in a confrontational situation, merely by the possession of a firearm, means that in a heat of the moment situation, you are far more likely to attack using it than if you only had your hands and feet to fight with and even if you had a knife or a hammer etc. as those kinds of weapons/tools require you to get in close and therefore present you with a certain amount of risk. You can fire a gun from a distance and by doing so never put yourself in any risk.
Most murders are not planned they are heat of the moment things. Of course murders that are planned will happen anyway, regardless of whether we have firearms or not, but those kinds of murders are few and far between. Our murder rate would be drastically decreased if we didn’t have such easy access to firearms.