Thread by @JuliusGoat

If somebody wants to commit a violent crime, you can't stop them from trying.

But the gun makes it a lot easier for them to succeed.

*man tears up 5 miles of highway with a rented front bulldozer*

Everyone, Very Emotional/Stupid: "Wow. We should make it a harder for people to get bulldozers."

Me, Smart: "Um, bulldozers don't rip up highways. If somebody wants to rip highways up, they're going to try."

"Um, it's *already* illegal to rip up highways. But sure, go ahead, blame the bulldozer."

"You know what else rips up highways? Ice. I suppose we should ban water, too, right?"

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a bulldozer is a good guy with a bulldozer."

"If everybody drove a bulldozer, then the other bulldozers would have stopped him."

"I have a bulldozer. I just wish I'd have been there when that guy started tearing up the highway."

"I need my bulldozer to protect myself from the government in case of eminent domain. They tear down MY house? I'll tear down the capital building."

"If you make bulldozer ownership illegal the only people who will have bulldozers are the people who want to tear up the highway."

"This isn't a bulldozer problem. It's a mental health problem."

"I'm a lawful bulldozer owner who isn't a danger to anyone and never has been, and if you try to take MY bulldozer I will run you over with it until you are a paste."

"If you got rid of all the bulldozers, then that guy would have torn up the highway with a sledgehammer, or a knife, or a roof rake, or his bare hands, or he would have built a bomb."

"We need bulldozers to be easy to get and unregulated. If I don't have a bulldozer in front of my house, what am I going to do when some crazy shows up with a bulldozer to tear down my house?"

"Have you SEEN how many bulldozers there are ... in CHICAGO??"

"My dad and I used to go out to the woods with our bulldozers and knock down trees, literally the only bonding experience a father and a son can have. If you make highway barriers specifically designed to prevent bulldozer entry, I'm worried a little part of America will end."

"The rogue bulldozer driver was a registered Democrat."

"CONVENIENT that the "bulldozer driver" decided ALL BY HIMSELF to "tear up" a part of the "highway" that was last updated by Google maps satellites in *2012.* DON'T BELIEVE THE MEDIA LINE ON THIS ONE.

Visit my page at TruthEagle dot Facebook dot ru."

"I can't believe you're using this highway destruction to push your anti-bulldozer agenda while the road crews are still fixing it and commuters are still experiencing hours of congestion and delay. Do these bulldozer-hating communists have no shame???"

"A bulldozer can't rip up a highway. A bulldozer is just an object. Ripping up a highway takes a PERSON to DECIDE to rip the highway up."

"Read a book and learn something. The first thing the Nazis did was take away the bulldozers. Then they built a racist wall that could not be torn down, because the PEOPLE had given up their RIGHT to bulldozers.

"Uh, not our kind of good racist wall. The bad Nazi kind."