These threads are getting popular today so I thought I would share an analogy of guns that I have been thinking of for a long time.

In chemistry there is something called the "activation energy", the amount of energy required for a reaction to start. This can be viewed of as the ignition spark for your engine or grill. The fuel will eventually all oxidize into CO2 and H2O without this spark, it will just take a very very long time. If you add the spark, all of the fuel that is available will burn. If you increase the activation energy the reaction proceeds slower, lower it and it goes faster. I like to think of gun laws as increasing the activation energy where the reaction would be considered to be a shooting. Shootings will still happen, but there will be less of them.

Feel free to laugh art me, this is just my personal way of viewing the situation.

If you get rid of violent video games, the activation energy is basically infinite.

Do you always troll?

I forget, doesn't he actually say that in one episode?

Disperse the energy out more by letting everyone have their share of it, then there will be less shootings.

gun laws are more like canvas awnings that makes sure when a cartoon character jumps off a roof, he reaches the ground saftly, or panes of glass between you and your target hoping that if there is enough glass there that the bullet dosnt reach.


what we really need to be doing is stopping the need for the awnings or the panes of glass, your right though we need to increase the acctivation energy, unfortunatly though the only way to do that would be to make people more tollerant of each other.

Not going to laugh at you, to me what I described is more simple for me but that doesn't mean that it is for everyone else.

a more proper analogy would include catalysts. A spark is not a catalyst