virgiomonkey: .....I believe in the K.I.S.S method ,'Keep it Simple Stupid'....Guns on there own, don't kill or murder people....It the person with Gun that kills another person ....The Gun on its own,doesn't pull the the trigger,does it....correct,or not????.......shall we ban the following as well, Crossbows... the Bow and Arrow...Sling shots....etc....just my thoughts
J.D
We should just go ahead and ban everything there is to be considered a weapon.
Mercedes1Sydney, New South Wales Australia3,764 posts
virgiomonkey: .....I believe in the K.I.S.S method ,'Keep it Simple Stupid'....Guns on there own, don't kill or murder people....It the person with Gun that kills another person ....The Gun on its own,doesn't pull the the trigger,does it....correct,or not????.......shall we ban the following as well, Crossbows... the Bow and Arrow...Sling shots....etc....just my thoughts
J.D
Well it would be a good idea to get rid of cuttlery and just have an ammendment that states plastic knives and forks ect only to have less to washing up to do
somechick: We should just go ahead and ban everything there is to be considered a weapon.
......Well....there is a particular 'organ' on a 'Man' that some of you,'Ladies' do consider it to be a 'very dangerous Weapon'...Yep...ban it...to dangerous.....
virgiomonkey: ......Well....there is a particular 'organ' on a 'Man' that some of you,'Ladies' do consider it to be a 'very dangerous Weapon'...Yep...ban it...to dangerous.....
RobbieM: You are seriously worried about a Saudi Arabian in hiding in Pakistan when your largest chance of being shot is not result of terrorism, but more likely at an ATM at the hands of another American?
Lest we forget that NON-American's also reside here in the States and if you were to check the stat's around border states, you will find that a lot of shootings in the US are done by foreigners. Please do not single out just Americans here.
RobbieM: Zee, we took care if that stupid false premise already didn't we?
You cant sneak a car into a classroom to kill anyone, or manage to get a car into a restaurant to surprise everyone covertly.
The premise that guns are the same as anything else that can kill someone is only an argument that a moron will seriously believe.
I should say at this point say i am not calling you a moron, what i am saying is the argument is moronic.
so you are going to dismiss the fact that more people dies due to cars? Actually more kids are killed by cars every year than by guns. Cars also contribute to global warming.... guns dont. It would actually be moronic to dismiss these facts.
Mercedes1Sydney, New South Wales Australia3,764 posts
zee1ander: so you are going to dismiss the fact that more people dies due to cars? Actually more kids are killed by cars every year than by guns. Cars also contribute to global warming.... guns dont. It would actually be moronic to dismiss these facts.
then if you really want to get technical... bullets kill more people than guns... more often if it wasn't for people, most guns would never fire on their own.... So, lets just ban the people.
RobbieMOPHertford, Hertfordshire, England UK4,553 posts
YouMeUs: Lest we forget that NON-American's also reside here in the States and if you were to check the stat's around border states, you will find that a lot of shootings in the US are done by foreigners. Please do not single out just Americans here.
I'm not, but i hate to point out but are these foreigners using legal guns to kill people?
Maybe time to evaluate people properly and screen out nutters who want to own an AK47.
I can't think of one good reason to own an AK47.
As has been stated earlier,a standard NATO .556 round is designed not to kill specifically, it's rationale was to clog up Russian supply and logistics and make battlefield loses clog up and basically bog down an army.
A standard 7.62 round though, if your shot with this will drop you down for good.That's why some sniper rifles use this calibre.
The issue is why American's tend to turn their guns on each other on such a regular basis, and how this could be stopped, and the loses minimised.
I'd change availability...pistol or shotgun for home defence only.
Single action rifles like the Remmington 700 available for hunting/sporting use.....nothing semi automatic.
Nothing full auto available to the public, including anything that can be converted with "Tri Burst" triggers.
Psychological assessment for approval of a gun permit.
No approval for carrying concealed weapons, whatsoever.....with a 25 year penalty for anyone being caught.
Just adopting these rules along, there won't be old MAC10's finding their way into the hands of maniacs that can take their nice pride into a school and blow their classmates away.
RobbieMOPHertford, Hertfordshire, England UK4,553 posts
Zee, i'm afraid your reasoning is flawed.
What on earth does global warming have to do with sneaking a firearm into a school and blowing away fellow students?
I haven't seen one single case of someone being able to sneak a truck/car/motorbike into a school and then wiping out 10 people by a disgruntled student.
If you don't understand this, you need to go lay down and take a rest.
Now if you want to do a thread about banning cars due to global warming, or banning cars because they could kill someone then go do a thread about it!
These facts have nothing to do with the issues i have spelt out in the thread now do they?
No one realizes the simple, final, act of pulling the trigger of a gun? As I said prior, people may quantify this and justify that, yet the fact remains that handguns in the home are more dangerous to family members than any criminal. As usual, my beloved rightwing amoeba brain from Nebraska never misses an opportunity to stray from truth. I gots myself t'ree of 'dem tootbrushes.
As long as folks don't read and don't think, we will continue to go to hell in a handbasket (and I've said that I found cliches sickening), so long as all gun ownership is permitted. I have owned shotguns and rifles and pistols. I no longer own a pistol. There is...just...no....need.
RobbieM: I'm not, but i hate to point out but are these foreigners using legal guns to kill people?
Maybe time to evaluate people properly and screen out nutters who want to own an AK47.
I can't think of one good reason to own an AK47.
As has been stated earlier,a standard NATO .556 round is designed not to kill specifically, it's rationale was to clog up Russian supply and logistics and make battlefield loses clog up and basically bog down an army.
A standard 7.62 round though, if your shot with this will drop you down for good.That's why some sniper rifles use this calibre.The issue is why American's tend to turn their guns on each other on such a regular basis, and how this could be stopped, and the loses minimised.
I'd change availability...pistol or shotgun for home defence only.
Single action rifles like the Remmington 700 available for hunting/sporting use.....nothing semi automatic.
Nothing full auto available to the public, including anything that can be converted with "Tri Burst" triggers.
Psychological assessment for approval of a gun permit.
No approval for carrying concealed weapons, whatsoever.....with a 25 year penalty for anyone being caught.
Just adopting these rules along, there won't be old MAC10's finding their way into the hands of maniacs that can take their nice pride into a school and blow their classmates away.
In all actuality, when it comes down to it, it is naive on anyone's part to think that gun owners in the US are going to give up their guns. politicians want to keep their job and and if they vote down the ownership of guns (any type) they will lose their jobs.... except in California.
So this round and round is quite meaningless. Plus non US citizens have NO say.
zee1ander: In all actuality, when it comes down to it, it is naive on anyone's part to think that gun owners in the US are going to give up their guns. politicians want to keep their job and and if they vote down the ownership of guns (any type) they will lose their jobs.... except in California.
So this round and round is quite meaningless. Plus non US citizens have NO say.
zee
Too true, to your first point. Of course non US citizens have not only the right to say, but their voices have every right to be heard. We're one world now. Never shall we (humans) attempt to silence voices of freedom and justice. These are your best friends.
RobbieMOPHertford, Hertfordshire, England UK4,553 posts
zee1ander: In all actuality, when it comes down to it, it is naive on anyone's part to think that gun owners in the US are going to give up their guns. politicians want to keep their job and and if they vote down the ownership of guns (any type) they will lose their jobs.... except in California.
So this round and round is quite meaningless. Plus non US citizens have NO say.
zee
So you don't see a problem with a "kid" being able to buy a MAC10 and go into school with it?
It's your right to have the ability to own a gun where you can have the ability to fire off 600 rounds a minute in a school?
How would you stop this then Zee?
Or just tell the parents of the kids or global warming would have killed them, or maybe a drunk moron crashing into a record store might have killed them?
Did you notice that the person in the vehicle once he crashed into the store was unable to drive around and kill everyone else?
Mind you if the person wound down the window with a loaded MAC10 ready he'd have the ability to kill anyone wanting to escape the car!
I'm afraid your argument doesn't hold water.But please feel free to suggest ways your fellow Americans can prevent others from having their kids killed in school by machineguns.
What do you want to do, give the teacher an Uzi in case a student looks pissed off?
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J.D
We should just go ahead and ban everything there is to be considered a weapon.