Rethinking Gun Control

[BotanyBoy]

You're such a fucking genius. The point is, why do other people have guns; why did the general public gain the right to bear guns in the first place? Remain mute. Silence is golden when you have nothing worthy to share.

Because there are threats in the world, and a gun is the best tool to handle the vast majority of those threats. They are also a handy tool when you don't get dinner in a box/bag every night like some uppity fuck who's too god damn good to treat people who choose not to live out of a feed bag like second rate citizens.

Originally Posted by BotanyBoy View Post
Only temporally.

As soon as the "Tradition > logic and reason" crowd (mostly the RW'ers like yourself) die off....we as a nation are going to restrict access to firearm purchases.


This is your brain on drugs.

That is the future.....

 

[mark_j]

Stupid analogy, but let's work with it.

In that case, people need to control themselves then. Machines only work when manufactured and operated by man. Machines do horrible shit when manufactured and operated by a horrible person.

HORAAYYY... Someone finally gets it. Without man, the gun is a useless piece of steel.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Gun control is hitting what you shoot at, when you shoot at it and where you shot at it.

What those people are talking about is restricting the sale and possession of fire arms. It will start out with people with criminal records and the mentally handicapped or insane.

Ten to twenty years later it's everyone for whatever reason. "Bad Guns" "Good Government"

At least that is the way it happened in the other countries.

I thought felons were already restricted from having guns.

 

[Kitty]

Because there are threats in the world, and a gun is the best tool to handle the vast majority of those threats.

Explain to me these threats. Just as I said! People are thinking about China and Muslims. The xenophobia is ridiculous. Or domestic terrorism, like gangs, which are easily avoided if you "move out da hood." So since when is life a video game where around every corner, there's a sharp shooter waiting to take heads, and we must prepare for apocalyptic battle!

http://multiversitystatic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2013/03/eastofwest-gunman.jpg

 

[DiskoTroop]

HORAAYYY... Someone finally gets it. Without man, the gun is a useless piece of steel.

Which is exactly why I should be allowed to have that rocket launcher I have had my eye on

 

[doowdniw]

Hopefully a school where their grandchildren attend gets shot up.

Bless your heart. Great way to get your point across. What was it again?

 

[miles]

Originally Posted by Skiddles2014 View Post
Hopefully a school where their grandchildren attend gets shot up.

Oh, look!

A follower of FuckfaceDownSouth!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Originally Posted by Skiddles2014 View Post
Hopefully a school where their grandchildren attend gets shot up.

Oh, look!

A follower of FuckfaceDownSouth!

Some really good Christian prayers today for your daughters, Miles.
:nods:

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I thought felons were already restricted from having guns.

Youre always welcome to go down to the ghetto and confiscate them, tho it'd be easier to wait at the school and pull them outta book bags.

 

[Skiddles2014]

Bless your heart. Great way to get your point across. What was it again?

Sorry I didn't say it in the form of a catch phrase/ soundbite.

I'll try it again, hopefully they pry the guns from their grandchildren's cold, dead hands.

 

[FGB]

I thought felons were already restricted from having guns.

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Originally Posted by FGB View Post

Gun control is hitting what you shoot at, when you shoot at it and where you shot at it.

What those people are talking about is restricting the sale and possession of fire arms. It will start out with people with criminal records and the mentally handicapped or insane.

Ten to twenty years later it's everyone for whatever reason. "Bad Guns" "Good Government"

At least that is the way it happened in the other countries

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It's to keep, them from buying guns legally. Doesn't work 100% of the time because outlaws do outlaw stuff. buying a gun of any kind illegally is mostly a mater of cash and connections.

That is why so many people go back to prison for firearm procession. Some of those people are really harmless. They had guns all of their lives and figure they paid their debt for the wrong they did and think they should be able to have a gun or two.

Doesn't work that way.

 

[Ishmael]

Aside from it being a Constitutional right, why exactly do people need guns? Anyway, the right to bear arms initially was for people in enforcing situations like law enforcement and military to be able to carry guns. Somehow down the line it became a right for the general public, ruefully.

But the fucking NRA refuse to acknowledge this. I wish they would take their lovely prized guns and off themselves with them.

Flunked history huh?

Ishmael

 

[BotanyBoy]

Explain to me these threats.

Robbery, Assault, Murder, Rape, destruction of property. These are all real world threats that happen often enough for me to take responsibility for my own security.

Just as I said! People are thinking about China and Muslims.

The xenophobia is ridiculous.

Or domestic terrorism, like gangs, which are easily avoided if you "move out da hood."

Nothing of the sort, not even Hitler sending the US gov. after me like some of the other folks think the USG will do, so they can pretend their pea shooters will do fuck all...which they wont even if the USG did.

General crime? That's not ridiculous....

So since when is life a video game where around every corner, there's a sharp shooter waiting to take heads, and we must prepare for apocalyptic battle!

Never was....never claimed it was.

Since when is life a bubble gum drop and chocolate river paradise free of petty crime and threat of life/limb/eyesight/property you seem to think it is???