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Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
Hand guns are created to kill people, automatic rifles are created to kill people, I can see single shot riffles for hunting, shot guns for birds and small game but hand guns and automatic rifles are for killing people nothing else. Humans should ban these weapons and collectors should be forced to have them locked up in a building used for housing weapons.
You argument isn’t very strong. The reason for so much gun crime is everyone owns a gun. Simple answer simple solution, ban hand guns and automatic rifles and gun crime would go down, nice theory but even that still won’t work, now the real way to solve this is to go after the companies that make guns and start handing out huge fines and jail time to anyone that creates these devices.
Hand guns and automatic rifles should be written into the Geneva Conventions as crimes against humanity.
If your country is so messed up that you need to walk down the street with a weapon in your possession just in case, it’s not a gun problem it’s a people problem and a government issue. If you need guns to protect yourself from the government your really already living like a caged animal, do you think giving weapons to someone in a cage is a good idea, I don’t. And nothing will stop them from coming for you gun or no gun.
There are many simulated games available for those who want to try to old gun enthusiast line, there places like a gun range, where you should have to leave you gun locked up and safe, if you want to shoot a real one but why?
What’s the thrill, I’ve been raise around guns my whole life and I can tell you it has everything to do with EGO and not wisdom or maturity. it’s the power rush of an immature society that wants to feel the power and fear over others, Why am I even wasting my time on a subject I know is so far out of grasp for even the OP!?!
I know it's 2011, but i get a feeling that people havent matured/evolved or gained any further knowledge since 1772.
Originally posted by ukredstar
I'm glad i'm not american and i'm glad i don't live there either. This thread shows that those who support having guns, are just plain stupid.
Compare the shootings in the USA to Europe? Who has more? Does your answer tell you something?
If no-one had guns there'd be next to no shootings. What is the point in having a gun. Because it makes you feel tough? To defend yourself/property? For recreational purposes.. i can understand. What do people in Europe/other parts of the world do to defend themselves or their property?
For thos of you who support guns......i just don't get it.
Some people in this world just drive me nuts with their narrow minded views.
Humans should strive for peace and guns just create an opportunity for conflict with disasterous consequences.
Originally posted by ukredstar
I'm glad i'm not american and i'm glad i don't live there either. This thread shows that those who support having guns, are just plain stupid.
Compare the shootings in the USA to Europe? Who has more? Does your answer tell you something?
If no-one had guns there'd be next to no shootings. What is the point in having a gun. Because it makes you feel tough? To defend yourself/property? For recreational purposes.. i can understand. What do people in Europe/other parts of the world do to defend themselves or their property?
For thos of you who support guns......i just don't get it.
Some people in this world just drive me nuts with their narrow minded views.
Humans should strive for peace and guns just create an opportunity for conflict with disasterous consequences.
Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
I see your point! I could get hit by a buss tomorrow so we should all keep killing each other with guns, makes a lot of sense, see what i meant by out of your grasp. Atleast it would be a place to start, really what does anyone need a gun for other than to hurt or kill things? Selfish and nothing more.
Originally posted by ukredstar
I'm glad i'm not american and i'm glad i don't live there either. This thread shows that those who support having guns, are just plain stupid.
Compare the shootings in the USA to Europe? Who has more? Does your answer tell you something?
If no-one had guns there'd be next to no shootings. What is the point in having a gun. Because it makes you feel tough? To defend yourself/property? For recreational purposes.. i can understand. What do people in Europe/other parts of the world do to defend themselves or their property?
For thos of you who support guns......i just don't get it.
Some people in this world just drive me nuts with their narrow minded views.
Humans should strive for peace and guns just create an opportunity for conflict with disasterous consequences.
Which is one of the reasons their guns were confiscated.
Originally posted by Punisher75
I am willing to bet there are about 6 million dead jews who would not mind having had the opportunity to own firearms.
Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.
Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
What a silly reply, i bet there are about 20 millions russian from that time thinking the same thing right?
Originally posted by ukredstar
I'm glad i'm not american and i'm glad i don't live there either. This thread shows that those who support having guns, are just plain stupid.
Compare the shootings in the USA to Europe? Who has more? Does your answer tell you something?
If no-one had guns there'd be next to no shootings. What is the point in having a gun. Because it makes you feel tough? To defend yourself/property? For recreational purposes.. i can understand. What do people in Europe/other parts of the world do to defend themselves or their property?
For thos of you who support guns......i just don't get it.
Some people in this world just drive me nuts with their narrow minded views.
Humans should strive for peace and guns just create an opportunity for conflict with disasterous consequences.
Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
Self defence... friend if you need a gun for self defence then you and your country are already dead.
Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
Self defence... friend if you need a gun for self defence then you and your country are already dead.
Originally posted by Secularist
Originally posted by Backinthesaddle
Self defence... friend if you need a gun for self defence then you and your country are already dead.
Are you a troll?
What do you plan to use? Its a simple question and you cant answer?
Did you not see the one who just posted the recent crime rates of countries opposed to citizens ownership of guns?
The problem with this situation was not that he had a gun. For starters, leaving alone the subject of him being mentally ill, he had a 30 round magazine in the gun he was carrying. He was allowed that magazine clip because of a stupid loop hole in Arizona state legislation that says if a weapon is produced and manufactured in the state of Arizona then its exempt from federal law. Nobody needs a 30 round clip. They dont even need 14 round clips.
So answer the question - what are you going to do if somebody breaks into your house in the middle of the night, lets say for arguments sake somebody like the Night Stalker? You are just going to engage them in conversation and hope they rethink what theyre doing?