{"id":1447,"date":"2026-04-26T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:31:41","slug":"guns-dont-kill-people-then-return-it-and-get-your-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/guns-dont-kill-people-then-return-it-and-get-your-money-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns don&#8217;t kill people&#8230; then return it and get your money back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days when GoComics still allowed comments on posts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2002\/11\/25\">this cartoon<\/a> got some interesting responses. First the usual defence of guns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Guns don&#8217;t kill people. People do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which got a considered response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If guns don\u2019t kill people, but people kill people, isn\u2019t it then logical to not give people guns?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and better yet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the past 30 years about 3,500 Americans have been killed by terrorists in the entire world.<br \/>\nAbout 3,500 Americans are shot by Americans in America every 7 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem is not terrorists. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It is other Americans.<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/featureassets.gocomics.com\/assets\/8e3a96f025770132a011005056a9545d\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, 25th November 2002<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days when GoComics still allowed comments on posts, this cartoon got some interesting responses. First the usual defence of guns: Guns don&#8217;t kill people. People do. which got a considered response: &#8220;If guns don\u2019t kill people, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/guns-dont-kill-people-then-return-it-and-get-your-money-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}