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originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: ScientificRailgun
Totally agree with you there. No point at all in attempting to ban guns in America. Not gonna happen. Ever.
Just talking theoretically here though, it's better to have a society with no guns than to have a society where everyone has a gun. Surely no one can disagree with that. It's a damn shame America got so enamored with guns early on, in my opinion - too late for us to fix the situation now. All we can do is try to keep the wackos and the weirdos and the retards from getting them.
originally posted by: hudsonhawk69
a reply to: Answer
My Grandfather always said that "one doesn't need a gun until one needs a gun very much!". Now that being said I believe in a humans right to bear arms. nothing more and nothing less...
originally posted by: kaylaluv
It's a damn shame America got so enamored with guns early on, in my opinion -
originally posted by: hudsonhawk69
a reply to: Answer
My Grandfather always said that "one doesn't a gun until one needs a gun very much!". Now that being said I believe in a humans right to bear arms. nothing more and nothing less...
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: ScientificRailgun
Have you trained with that wakizashi?
originally posted by: Answer
why do people think they need a gun?
Carrying a gun won't make you safer.
You're more likely to be shot with your own gun.
If you're living in a place so dangerous that you think you need to carry, you should move.
People who carry guns are just paranoid.
People who carry guns are compensating for something.
People who carry guns just have a secret desire to kill someone.
originally posted by: Involutionist
a reply to: Answer
So, basically what you are saying is: If you live in America -- it makes sense to have a gun.
I have been all around the world, and honestly, if I lived in America, I would own a gun as well.
I have never held a gun in my life to date.
Your links clearly indicates it is the cultural environment (society) that influences such ideologies. Here in Canada and in Germany where I lived for a while, the question: Why do I need gun? never arises.
Again, I can understand by the stories provided in the links why one would feel compelled to have a gun AND right there is the crux...
originally posted by: TKDRL
a reply to: Involutionist
Plenty of guns in canada outside the metro areas. It's way easier to get a long gun in NB, than it was in NY, and I don't gotta register them here. I like the government not knowing what kind of arsenal I have.
I have been all around the world, and honestly, if I lived in America, I would own a gun as well.
I have never held a gun in my life to date