So it's another case about greed. Should have known...
"For more than a decade, U.S. efforts to tighten controls over ammonium nitrate fertilizer have repeatedly failed, bogged down by bureaucratic gridlock and industry resistance. Regulations approved years ago remain unenforced and unfinished. Mere talk of safer substitutes has been blocked by those with profits at stake."
Since 911, it is extremely difficult to get any explosives here in the States. There are tons of red tape needing sorted and approved just to qualify to get enough explosives to crack a boulder from one's own back yard. That's the legal way. The illegal way is slightly easier, less red tape but extremely costly, and even more so if ya get caught with it.
You know what it's like to constantly hear others telling you what you should do or not do while sitting across the table? I think that's what occurred to ole Abe Lincoln which inspired him to coin one of the most invaluable phrases ever...
"It's better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."
Best get your water lines tested by a reliable source, then. Not sure how to combat greed, but per each individual we have the power to combat hatred...it's controlled from within. It is those who allow it to consume them from outside influences have yet to learn how to control it themselves.
"It’s not the first time a federal contractor has employed a major Islamic terrorist.
In 2008, Charlotte, N.C.-based Convergys Corp. came under fire for employing a Muslim computer operator who openly maintained a jihadist website featuring grisly images of American soldiers blown up by al-Qaida terrorists overseas which he said “bring great happiness to me.” Convergys at the time had landed a $2.5 billion federal contract to set up emergency communications centers in the event to terrorist attacks and other disasters.
The employee, 22-year-old Sami Khan, turned out to be an al-Qaida operative. He was killed in 2011 in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen."
I'll ignore the "name calling" comment since there were none.
Even if guns of any type were no longer in existence, totally eliminated from the face of this Earth, people, due to their nature and characteristics, would simply fashion some other form of weapon. This cannot be stopped no matter what laws are put in place. History proves this, not just in America but on a global scale.
Before guns there were knives and swords. Before knives and swords there were stones and clubs. And with our given current technology, what do you think could easily become the next weapon of choice? Because there WILL be one should all guns finally become nonexistent.
You see, there are no regulations that will stop the killings from happening. But currently many of these regulations are inadvertently supporting the criminals while forcing the good guys to go defenseless.
This site has some interesting figures that can help with understanding gun related deaths, how they have occurred in the USA.
"It takes federal agencies a long time to compile and publish their statistics, so the last full set of data we have is from 2011 and the figures can shed a lot of light on exactly how mendacious gun control advocates are being with these studies."
"First of all, look at the number of gun deaths on that chart from 2011. It’s 32,351. That’s a lot of gun deaths to be sure. So that’s the total number of murders by gun owners, right? The answer is not only Hell No, but it’s not even remotely close. It’s true that this figure is close to the total number of human lives ended in incidents involving a gun, but that’s all incidents. So how did those deaths happen?"
"...we can find out that of those 32,352 gun deaths, 21,175 of them were suicides. That leaves us with 11,177 deaths to account for. But as it turns out, the FBI records that 8,583 deaths were murders of various sorts involving guns of all types."
Some were actually criminals taken out by protective law-abiding citizens, but many more were also citizens taken out by criminals. And, there are also criminals killed by other criminals.
But do you see the relevance to each? The majority of them involved criminals. Law-abiding American citizens, in general, do not make a day of killing other law-abiding citizens without rational provocation, and that is highly rare in comparison to crimes committed by the actual criminals.
The overall crime rate in North Pole is 21% higher than the national average. For every 100,000 people, there are 9.81 daily crimes that occur in North Pole. North Pole is safer than 17% of the cities in the United States.
Look, I asked you a question but instead of you answering it, you countered with another question. And now you have the audacity to say such as this?
Regardless, I'll answer your question to the best of my abilities, since you want to continue making an issue of it...
Higher gun-related crime rates by any location in America is where there are Gun Regulations implemented. The more regulations placed on guns, the higher the crime rates will be...and the more civilians that are killed by gun-toting criminals. Proof is in the statistics. Criminals do not abide by the law, it would be an oxymoron thinking otherwise.
But you could have easily done some research to find that out for yourself and to help better prepare your stance on the subject.
Now, without further avoidance, please answer my question and point out just one single country in this world that is without crime.
Can't show me a single crimeless country so you counter, huh?
Do some research and you just may happen to find that where those higher crime rates are happening and the cause of them. I'll even help you out a little... It's called Gun Control and Restrictions. The higher the gun regulations, the higher the crime rate goes.
Educate yourself a little on a subject you seem to be so concerned about before it makes you look foolish.
Tru. No matter how many times this can be said, no matter how many different ways to say it, some people will never understand. Still, it's worth repeating because it IS a fact...
Banning of guns will take guns away from law-abiding citizens, but it will NEVER take guns away from criminals, ever.
Disarming the good guys only makes them a prime target for the bad guys. Capisci?
YouMeUs Forum Posts (3,271)
RE: Very sad occurence
A 2 year old child dies due an attack of a reptile, and we're grieving over the loss of several reptiles as a result?I can't even imagine what those parents are going through right now.