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Originally posted by Cosmic911
Originally posted by roadgravel
How often is any gun store robbed? I doubt if the successful count is greater than one.
In most gun stores I have found the store clerks open carry. In NY, open carry is illegal, so I'm wondering how is it legal for them to open carry? I would certainly want to open carry if I owned or worked in a gun shop. I wonder if Castle Doctrine applies to a store or shop?
Originally posted by detachedindividual
reply to post by Cosmic911
After everything, people are still refusing to accept that those who wrote the constitution had no foresight that American citizens would have access to weapons capable of murdering hundreds of people per minute from a distance.
No matter how many times people scream about the constitution, it is idiotic to apply it so generally.
It's not that simple, this is 2012, there are guns capable of horrors that would give your forefathers instant heart attacks! If they could see the kind of damage Americans can do to others in the street with their blessed guns they would be ashamed of themselves for not wording it very differently and making sure you all didn't have the capability to murder in the way that you now do.
If any American thinks the constitution would be written in the same way now, with the kinds of weaponry and social makeup you have, they're completely delusional! No sane human would allow such weapons to be in public hands.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
reply to post by Cosmic911
After everything, people are still refusing to accept that those who wrote the constitution had no foresight that American citizens would have access to weapons capable of murdering hundreds of people per minute from a distance.
No matter how many times people scream about the constitution, it is idiotic to apply it so generally.
It's not that simple, this is 2012, there are guns capable of horrors that would give your forefathers instant heart attacks! If they could see the kind of damage Americans can do to others in the street with their blessed guns they would be ashamed of themselves for not wording it very differently and making sure you all didn't have the capability to murder in the way that you now do.
If any American thinks the constitution would be written in the same way now, with the kinds of weaponry and social makeup you have, they're completely delusional! No sane human would allow such weapons to be in public hands.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
I have the opportunity to take a CCW class in the next couple of weeks. My angst is caused by my feeling that if I apply for a CCW, I am ceding my right to bear arms. By filing, I admit that I must be regulated. I do not agree with that statement at all, and am not sure if a I will take the CCW class.
Originally posted by conspiracyrus
reply to post by detachedindividual
I think the writers of the constitution were intentionally vague in the area of type of arms so that the passage of time wouldn't neuter the 2nd ammendment. But either way both of our ideas are just speculation
Originally posted by Cosmic911
Originally posted by conspiracyrus
reply to post by detachedindividual
I think the writers of the constitution were intentionally vague in the area of type of arms so that the passage of time wouldn't neuter the 2nd ammendment. But either way both of our ideas are just speculation
Our ideas may be speculation, but what was written, what is in print is literal. And such, is Constitutional Law. It's the law of the land.
Originally posted by Cosmic911
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
I have the opportunity to take a CCW class in the next couple of weeks. My angst is caused by my feeling that if I apply for a CCW, I am ceding my right to bear arms. By filing, I admit that I must be regulated. I do not agree with that statement at all, and am not sure if a I will take the CCW class.
Are you placed in a state-wide database if you obtain a CCW? What is the process for a non-CCW permit? In NY, you are registered whether you have a CCW or not.
Originally posted by randomname
you're going to compare canada and great britain to the maniacs that live in the u.s.
Even maniacs begin their sentences with capital letters.
you can get a gun in canada and great britain just as legally as you can in the u.s.
True.
you have to do a little more paper work, but as long as you aren't a convicted felon and have a few friends to vouche for you, you can have pretty much have every weapon an american can get.
Having people vouche for you. That could only work in a country like Canada.
america society is rotten to the core, and instead of blaming yourselves you blame guns and laws.
You have just ignorantly misrepresented your country, but accurately described yourself.
there are no half measures to gun control.
If they made sense, then yes you could.
you either ban them all, close down all weapon manufacturers like colt and s&w, ban all importation, including ammo plus the penalty for possession of a weapon gets you an automatic 1-5 year sentence or you keep the current system.
I vote to keep the current system.
americans are also very susceptible to outside influences from a young age, conditioned to television, movies and culture since practically birth.
Quantifiably evidence for this statement? Of course not.
it is a unique n. american phenomenon.
Have you researched and written a peer-reviewed paper on this?
you hero worship almost anybody, you make idols of other human beings.
This can be found in every country, not just the United States. That is a fact.
imagine worshipping a guy because he taps a little white ball in a hole. he has no other skill but that. its sad and somehow he is followed like he is their god.
We also worship people who can write complete sentences, using appropriate grammar and paragraph organization.
it takes more skill to make a bird house than it does to tap a golf ball 3 feet from a hole.
This fragment should have been included in the fragment above.
america needs to grow up and mature allot.
This is too easy. You really put yourself out here on this one.