ABC Special to Dismiss Idea of Using Guns for Self Defense?, page 2


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reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:20 PM by MrAnonUK
reply to post by Simon_Boudreaux



Can you go into more detail please mate.

Edit: missed your first response... did you not the word I used, "perfected." I apologize if the word 'created' slipped out. I any event, that isn't the issue at hand merely you looking to poke holes in my writing.

[edit on 8-4-2009 by MrAnonUK]

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reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:21 PM by bigfoot1212
reply to post by kettlebellysmith



yes martial arts are a great way to defend yourself- i have a few friends who are black belts.
but what good does that do you if i have a gun pointed at you and you are 30' away? if you can leap that far and kick me before i can squeeze that trigger all the power to ya- otherwise all that knowledge and training will be lost


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:31 PM by Majic
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reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:36 PM by Simon_Boudreaux
reply to post by MrAnonUK



More details of? The history of what happens or how it's worked out for you in the UK?

As you are from the UK you should already know that. History of what can happen with gun bans is simple enough just look at the past of the Soviet Union,Turkey,Germany,China,Guatemala,Uganda,Cambodia, and ask the Aussies about their crime rate since they were forced to give up their firearms. These are but a few examples. Google is your friend use it.

I even searched ATS for you and found this thread that goes into more detail about the countries I mentioned.
Link


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:41 PM by Simon_Boudreaux
Originally posted by MrAnonUK
reply to
post by Simon_Boudreaux



Can you go into more detail please mate.

Edit: missed your first response... did you not the word I used, "perfected." I apologize if the word 'created' slipped out. I any event, that isn't the issue at hand merely you looking to poke holes in my writing.


Wasn't trying to poke holes in your writing at all mate, my apologies if it seemed that way. I was merely pointing out that guns weren't made for killing people. Or should I say that it wasn't the only reason for their invention.


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:51 PM by secretagent woooman
reply to post by bigfoot1212


My uncle was a blackbelt in tae kwon do and also taught karate. One of his former students in the late 1980s was a rather small young Golden Gloves contender who couldn't defend himself in a streetfight which of course lots of jerks wanted to start so they could "fight" him. Training and street experience are not the same. The whole reason Mike Tyson blew up so big when he came out was because he had the 54-block which is a type of long punch used in both streetfighting and jailhouse brawling. Most boxers didn't know how to do it.


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 08:54 PM by secretagent woooman
reply to post by bigfoot1212



Good point! Again, the same uncle was robbed at an ATM in Ohio by two armed men, not only disarmed them but beat the living hell out of both who were much taller and stronger, then got arrested for assaulting and robbing both of them because he kept their guns and took their wallets in retaliation. Until the cops watched the video! He was my idol!


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 09:19 PM by dooper
reply to post by MrAnonUK


I see that you live in the UK. You have your laws, and we have ours. Yours may work for you, but ours work for us.

Whenever a hawk gets hungry, there's nothing like a fat, defenseless dove.

And whether you like the current state of mankind's rancid condition, whether or not you think reason and talking will get you by, logic doesn't change fact.

In a land where many have teeth and claws of a predator, unless you have teeth and claws of your own, you're just going to be prey.

It's not logical, it's not nice.

Just the brutal truth.


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 09:22 PM by ANNED
The criminals in the article below died of acute failure of the victim selection process.
self defence works
findarticles.com...

I am a Vietnam veteran and would not have a problem with shooting criminals.

And i have made arrests at gun point when i was a federal security officer and since as a civilian.

If a criminal wants to make a acute failure of the victim selection process with me i will show him the error of his ways.


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 09:47 PM by merkaba93
The banksters that own both fed.gov and the media have the propaganda in full swing.

Look for this to all play into it being "hope for change and the passage of a common sense gun law," like HR45.

This will be played out against all of these shooting by saying, "if you are a law abiding citizen why would you mind registering your weapons with fed.gov?"

First comes registration, then confiscation...

If this progresses things are going to get ugly.

Whatever the outcome it is clear the PTB propaganda machine is in full on Goebel mode.

How about some real data instead of Brady Bunch number manipulation?

Fact Sheet: The Real Story On Kids’ Deaths
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Cause Number Number
(ages 0-14) (ages 0-4)
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Motor-vehicle 2,591 819
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drowning 943 568
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Fires and flames 593 327
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Mechanical suffocation 601 508
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ingestion of food, object* 169 169
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Firearms 86 19
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source: Figures are for 2000. national safety Council, injury Facts:
2003 edition, at 10-11, 129.
*the “ingestion of food, object” category is underreported in the first
column since the nsC did not include death rates for “5 to 14 years.”

source: Figures are for 2000. national safety Council, injury Facts:
2003 edition, at 10-11, 129.

1995 Fatal Accident Totals
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Motor-vehicle 43,900
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Falls 12,600
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Poisonings 10,600
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
drownings 4,500
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Fires 4,100
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Choking 2,800
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Firearms 1,400*
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* accounts for 1.5% of fatal accidents.
source: the national Center for health statistics

Or perhaps we should look at banning doctors and big pharma? Or big pharmas influence on unecessary procedures?

1999 Accidental
Medical Deaths
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––
unnecessary surgery 12,000
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––
Medication errors 7,000
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––
Other errors 20,000
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infections 80,000
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– –––
negative effect of drugs 106,000
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source: Journal of the american Medical assoc.

Would banning guns save lives or simply make it easier to control a populace?
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