Do handguns make it too easy to kill someone?

I don't know how it could get much easier. Full auto handgun with exploding rounds?

No, bt they make it easier to defend yourself.

Killing people is easy even without guns

If someone breaks into my home, they better be prepared to meet their maker. I would rather shoot to kill someone from 10ft away than have to beat them to death with a baseball bat or slit their throat while being inches away from them.

It's easier to pull a trigger than to beat someone up.

It does, however, make it easier to kill the destructive little varmints I catch in my live-trap.

This question is too vaguely worded. Different interpretations of it could result in different answers.

Well to some people. Me personally, I don't like the thought of that..

no, you don't need a gun you can kill with your finger if not your hand with the greatest of ease there are a few pressure points in the body you can poke with your finger and kill

Though there are many other ways:x

No, People kill, guns do not. Billions of firearms killed nobody yesterday.

No more so than articles of clothing, knives, blunt objects, or automobiles...

Guns don´t kill people other people do!!

guns do help PEOPLE kill others but even without guns you can strangle someone with your hands. Weapons have nothing to do with killing.

There are all kinds of ways to kill someone

I was taught to see the world thru the eyes of an assassin. When you enter a room: find at least three escape routes (five are better), and at least 10 weapons to do the job (20, if possible), keep your back to the wall at all times.

Everything is a weapon, even a sheet of paper.

Uh, yeah. Aren't they primarily used of doing that? Such, you can have a gun for self defense but I believe the statics are higher in the KILLING arena.

that gun is no more than a paperwieght without a person to pull the trigger.

if quick tempered and bold enough to squeeze the trigger..it's a done deal before you know it!

well you wont get far with a water pistol

Though I have a gun, in self defense I would probably use a karate skill to kill.

If you want someone dead it's usually easy to find an opening to do so even with just common household objects hell it don't take much skill to grab a knife from the kitchen and stab them when they're not expecting it. Guns are just like knives they're tools if your afraid of people with guns there's a simple solution, buy a gun yourself.

If you can aim
I guess yes it does

In most the wild west towns you had toturn in your guns when you entered the town. The shootout at the ok Corral happend because the cowboy refused to turn in their handguns while they were in town.

With or without a gun, I would have a very tough time killing another human being; even if I had to do it.

A gun is a tool. PERIOD

Any idiot can point a gun and pull a trigger.
It takes skill and training to do that with a knife, sword, axe, mace, bow and arrow, spear, kunai, shuriken and even explosives.

It takes skill and training to use a firearm effectively as well only people with little experience with firearms think it's easy especially if your talking about in an actual combat situation.

Especially handguns!!

No question about it.

people make it wasy to kill people.

No, of all the 'everyday' weapons available, hand guns, specifically, make it easier to kill another individual ... it almost encourages it.

let me repost it and see if you will read it. people make it easy to kill people. you want to stop the kiliing then keep people away from people.

You keep your belief(s) and I'll keep mine.

find me the gun charged with killing anyone

I presume you're one of those second amendment "enthusiasts" -- so, try to concentrate on something other than "the gun" -- such as the question being asked (you may wish to read it again) ... and my opinion is that yes, handguns make it (way) too easy to kill another individual ... the reason being two-fold: their unfettered availability (both legal as well as illegal) to virtually any "nut", as has been shown time and time again, and the ease of their concealment ... and, while other weapons are equally available, the vast majority of our daily homicides and suicides are committed with handguns

BLOCKED!!!! ... is that the best you can do???? .... ROFLM(F)AO ... I've noticed previously that you "gun nuts" cannot offer an argument other than "the gun is king" and then attempting to disparage anyone who doesn't share your opinion ... how pathetic you are.

thanks for showing not a single gun has been charged with murder. you want to run that is fine. you . i am done with you libs that get so scared that theyh need to run from the issues and my comments. at no time did i mention the 2nd amendment seeing you are an ignorant lib too scared to deal with my comments enjoy your ignornt lib life

A firearm is only a tool. If a person wishes to kill that badly, any weapon would do. If Holmes had a bowie and a tomahawk, he'd would still be able to kill a good number of people. In a confined space, people would fear a knife probably more than a gun. Remember he had all set up his apartment to blow and kill some more.

The simple fact is the weapon didn't do the killing but the person behind it. A gun is a tool just as a knife or a car or a hammer or a baseball bat but all are lethal if used wrong.