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originally posted by: JameSimon
Portugal, my home country:
Extremely difficult to get guns. Some hardcore criminals have them. Public doesn't. No recorded school shootings, no massacres, violent homicides are a fraction of the ones in the USA (per capita). You only need good guys with guns because you're gun nutters.
originally posted by: DAVID64
originally posted by: GBP/JPY
Cool outcome for the normals......we can open carry now so we don't need a permit or a license..right in my front pocket with the shorter clip.....XDM by....Springfieltd
( deep breath ).....MAGAZINE!! NOT "CLIP"!
I'm better now.
Carry on.
originally posted by: JimNasium
originally posted by: DAVID64
originally posted by: GBP/JPY
Cool outcome for the normals......we can open carry now so we don't need a permit or a license..right in my front pocket with the shorter clip.....XDM by....Springfieltd
( deep breath ).....MAGAZINE!! NOT "CLIP"!
I'm better now.
Carry on.
Perhaps He is typing about His 'long gun'? Whacha got for a pistol?
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: JBurns
All this is such common sense... when you have seconds and the police are minutes away, the only way to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.
Now if only the left in this country could be brought up to speed on it.
Of course, those self-proclaimed intellectually superior citizens can't understand the simple phrase "shall not be infringed", so probably not.
Kudos to the gentleman... who knows how many he saved.
originally posted by: JameSimon
Portugal, my home country:
Extremely difficult to get guns. Some hardcore criminals have them. Public doesn't. No recorded school shootings, no massacres, violent homicides are a fraction of the ones in the USA (per capita). You only need good guys with guns because you're gun nutters.
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: JameSimon
Portugal, my home country:
Extremely difficult to get guns. Some hardcore criminals have them. Public doesn't. No recorded school shootings, no massacres, violent homicides are a fraction of the ones in the USA (per capita). You only need good guys with guns because you're gun nutters.
LOl Portugal has 10 million people .. Greater Los Angeles has 19 million. One city here has twice as many people.
Then we still got New York and Chicago, san Diego, phoenix. Seattle, Houston, Dallas , Atlanta, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Buffalo, Boston, Tulsa , Oklahoma city, Indianapolis , Kansas City, St Louis, Miami, Jacksonville, Nashville, San Antonio, Honolulu , Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
And so many more.
Its just an idiotic comparison..
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: JBurns
All this is such common sense... when you have seconds and the police are minutes away, the only way to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.
Now if only the left in this country could be brought up to speed on it.
Of course, those self-proclaimed intellectually superior citizens can't understand the simple phrase "shall not be infringed", so probably not.
Kudos to the gentleman... who knows how many he saved.
The same laws that armed the second shooter, armed the first.
The pro gun laws don't protect anyone. They ensure the escalation of things up to gun fights.
originally posted by: JameSimon
Portugal, my home country:
Extremely difficult to get guns. Some hardcore criminals have them. Public doesn't. No recorded school shootings, no massacres, violent homicides are a fraction of the ones in the USA (per capita). You only need good guys with guns because you're gun nutters.
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: JBurns
All this is such common sense... when you have seconds and the police are minutes away, the only way to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.
Now if only the left in this country could be brought up to speed on it.
Of course, those self-proclaimed intellectually superior citizens can't understand the simple phrase "shall not be infringed", so probably not.
Kudos to the gentleman... who knows how many he saved.
The same laws that armed the second shooter, armed the first.
The pro gun laws don't protect anyone. They ensure the escalation of things up to gun fights.
But you don't actually know that.
You have no idea if the shooter was a legal gun owner.
But let's take your argument to the logical conclusion and ban all guns.
Then only criminals would have them.
Should really stop mass shootings, right?
As opposed to a good guy stopping a bad guy because he had a gun.
So your logic is a fail and have a nice night.
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: chr0naut
Statistics are fun.
Portugal, per capita, has 23% more opiate use than the United States.
You also have, per capita, 79% more police officers than the United States.
So you use a lot more drugs and have a lot more policemen.
Standard of living index?
The bottom 10% in the US have better lives than the top 10% in Portugal .
I've visited there, not thinking of moving there anytime soon.
So go shoot some heroin and hide from the cops... you'll be OK.
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: chr0naut
~Yawn~
You are comparing apples to candy bars.
If you want to compare apples to apples, if you as an adult spend your entire life in a US Federal prison, your chances of being shot are about 0%.
Care to change where you live again to make the numbers better?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: chr0naut
~Yawn~
You are comparing apples to candy bars.
If you want to compare apples to apples, if you as an adult spend your entire life in a US Federal prison, your chances of being shot are about 0%.
Care to change where you live again to make the numbers better?
You can still get shot in prison, it's just more likely that it would be with rubber bullets.
But, apparently if you reside inside a nuclear reactor, anywhere in the world, no-one, not even Americans, will shoot at you.
Not really sure how that relates to anything, but if you can throw around irrelevant numbers, why not?
What I was talking about was that the gun laws in the US cannot do what the gun lobby says they do.