Views on the death penalty and gun control

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In theory you'd probably still be alive for around five seconds afterwards, and the last thing you'd see is your headless corpse.

i can't remember if it was in the book "how we die" [dr. sherwin nuland MD] or someplace else, but i remember reading that getting one's head cut-off would likely be a painful thing, in that you'd feel sharp pressure [from the impact of the blade on your spine] and your head would go BANG! onto the ground with painful bone-breaking force. in addition, you'd likely feel intense "pins and needles" pain [that would feel like your whole body was being shocked even though that is merely an illusion as the body was no longer attached] as that is how your brain would interpret the sudden absense of your body below the jawline. you would also likely experience the worst headache of your life, albeit briefly. there are much better deaths out there.

the point that i made, was that the process of getting the various pieces of the ammo assembled into something readily usable would be harder and so would slow down gun violence even if a bit. the point the other poster made was that if it was only crossbows, it would be harder to do the sorts of criminal acts that crooks now use firearms to do. all we can do at this point [in america, in any case] is make it a bit harder for the crook to do what he or she does, to throw up some roadblocks for them, existential speed bumps, as it were.

When you put it like, that - I guess so.

Firing squad then (seems quick enough).