Which Diane do we believe, the one who wants to ban some guns and gun paraphernalia (a list of superficially defined "assault" weapons), or the one who apparently wants to enforce an outright confiscation?
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Kevin says
Here- http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11
Please educate yourself about the facts of this issue. People manage to murder each other without firearms.
What is more difficult is protecting your self from violence without them.
http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#crime
From this report:
"A 1993 nationwide survey of 4,977 households found that over the previous five years, at least 0.5% of households had members who had used a gun for defense during a situation in which they thought someone "almost certainly would have been killed" if they "had not used a gun for protection." Applied to the U.S. population, this amounts to 162,000 such incidents per year. "
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Raw says
OK, following that logic.. Until cars were invented, we didn't lose approximately 100 people a day in car crashes...
So, laws against cars should be changed too....
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I'm all for stricter car and traffic laws. It should be way harder to get the privilege to drive. All cars should have a breathalyzer deactivation system to prevent drunk driving. Making owning an automobile more difficult would result in more efficient public transportation. There are way too many vehicles on the planet and it is only going to get worse.
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Its not a "fact" that any o those things are inherently weapons. A weapon is something that is designed primarily yo injure or kill. A sword or a gun are examples.
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Kevin says
Well, you're stretching it again.... anything can be used as a weapon, even a 2x4 piece of wood. Some items work better then others.
In it's most basic form, a gun was designed to send a hunk of lead from point A to point B.... it's a very simple concept.
A sword was designed to cut something.
Now I would agree that if you actually wanted to kill somebody, a gun would be more efficient then using a sling shot. So it makes sense that if you were hell bent on killing, you will use the easiest "tool" available. But as we have seen, if a gun wasn't available, killers have used other tools, including hammers...
But, going back to a previous question I asked, out of the 300 million firearms in the country, how many "hunks of lead" were fired in training, at a gun range, for sport or competition or hunting in the course of a week versus how many "hunks of lead" were fired to specifically kill someone?
I'm still waiting on that answer......
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An automobile is designed for transportation. Using it to kill or injure someone is using it in a manner inconsistent with its intended purpose.
A firearm is designed to kill (or at least injure). Using it to kill or injure someone is using it as intended.
That's the difference. It's what makes a weapon a weapon in the first place.
"sporting" uses of firearms were invented after the fact. Nobody was sitting around going "man, we have these targets. Now we just need something to hit them with!"
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Kevin says
Sorry, but blowing stuff up was the original intended purpose of gun powder, and projectiles. The canon was for attacking walls, and ship hulls, it was a tool.
Even early pistols were fitted with a bayonet, as were muskets.
Now where the lethal aspects of guns came in was during the Civil War when wholesale slaughter was commited by weapons, then we had the revolver, and Winchester to wipe out huge swaths of people.
So really guns are the short timers in the art of war, and now they have been religated behind smart bombs, nukes, and even chemicals.
The fire arms today really are more for sport than weapons of mass destruction.
The United States has glamorized guns as a way to settle scores, seek vengence, or for protection. That glamour is really what should be changed.
I personally don't carry a gun, and haven't for years. I pay attention out on the street, and do have a baseball bat for home protection. If any one is really interested in revenge taking away the guns won't change that.
There are a lot of ways to kill that are even less personal than a gun.
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David Losh says
What the hell are you talking about? Those are still uses that squarely qualify as "weapons".
Early firearms had bayonets because they weren't very good at killing people. They were still designed as weapons to hurt.
"ATTACKING" walls and hulls isn't a "tool". It's a WEAPON. The idea that the cannon was invented for anything other than a weapon of warfare is ridiculous.
Gun powder isn't a firearm. Explosives have many practical uses other than killing that are essential to society.
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Kevin says
Is that what Timothy McVeigh told you??
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Kevin says
You really have a blind spot here in terms of war, as both a business, and an industry. All I'm really saying is that guns have been around for a relatively short amount of time in terms of killing. The time for guns has been surpassed by other bombs, that's the warfare you are seeing today.
You're saying guns weren't for sport, but yes they were, and are. It's the new nifty thing.
What I actually mean by your blind spot is that you are glossing over the glamour of guns in our society. The American Revolution, as opposed to the French Revolution, the Civil War, the Wild West, Prohibition, and Viet nam, complete with the radical movement that, yes, included guns, and bombings.
It's the glamour of the gun that is the problem here. We look at it as sacred. How are you going to fix that? Make it more underground?
No, you have to address the root problem rather than the tool.
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They are coming for our guns. Anyone ever shoot down a drone?
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David Losh says
That doesn't change the fact that guns are weapons. It's why they exist.
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That is exactly what I've been saying for a hundred posts now, actually...
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Kevin says
Alongside bagpipes and women named Bobbi Jo.
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Kevin says
Actually guns are like a hundred other weapons. They start out as something useful, and end up being villians in a long plot to kill people. You're debating against bombs made of fertilizer, or Sarin gas, even airplanes directed at the World Trade Centers.
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What you have been saying is that the guns are the problem.
The problem is we have a government heavily invested in manufacturing military weapons. Colt doesn't just come up with an AR 15 because hunters will use it. The AR 15, is a cheaper version of the M 16 which has been replaced with the M 4. So there are thousands of surplus military weapons in the system that we export.
You're not looking at the business of war, or how the United States government itself justifies an armed society.
We could maybe make a discussion about how when our police force changed from revolvers to Glocks they escalated the need for criminals to increase the capacity of the weapons they had.
It's a vicious circle, but if our government really wanted to do something they would address the escalation of violence rather than the weapons.
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Here is another one from a different era... resembles Feinstein and Obama.
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You have to remember your history. Our government had no problem when they could to order executions or imprisonments of those who they found very inconvenient.
Guns make that task a lot more inconvenient forcing government to act more cautions and more humane in order not to spark violence.
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FortWayne says
posting hitler pics, and saying they resembler feinstein and obama does only one thing: alert the few new people on this forum, who haven't had a long time of reading you to draw the obvious conclusions on your low IQ and credibility.
are you really that clueless? that incapable of debating even say background checks on gun buying, that you have to go this route? if so, you should quit posting for a while, and get some education in thinking.
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David Losh says
What was the non-weapon use for guns that they "started as"?
The primary use for guns is to kill things. Soldiers, hunters, home defenders. Target practice is a secondary use (and its practice for killing things!)
The primary use for fertilizer and airplanes is not to kill things.
Thats a huge difference.
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No, I haven't. Check my post history.
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robertoaribas says
Having gun rights is not up to a debate, it's a right.
And education in thinking, that does sound very soviet communist.
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FortWayne says
almost nobody is even talking about taking guns away...
you might notice:
1. you can't own a bazooka
2. you can't own a machine gun
3. cooling off periods have been ruled constitutional
4. background checks have been ruled constitutional.
5. magazine limitations have been ruled constitutional.
NOTHING that Obama proposes will interfere with your or my right to own guns. Nothing.
So, whenever you want to quit being an idiot, feel free to actually join the adults having a discussion ; Or not, you can continue calling Obama a commie-hitler if that is more in tune with your operational level.
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robertoaribas says
You mean adults like you and the 121212, both of whom like to indulge in personal insults against disagreement to further their points... Your points are more sophisticated then say 121212, but still childlike sarcastic insults.
An adult, at least socially in our generation, is someone who can handle responsibility, ability you are not demonstrating.
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Kevin says
To blow stuff up, and blow holes in stuff.
You have that blind spot about war.
Nukes started as some do good salvation, now they are a weapon of very mass destruction.
The gun was refined from a cannon.
The projectile isn't relevant.
I'll also say again that the gun, rifle, or cannon have been around a very short time in the big scheme of things, and is very possibly obsolete.
Kevin says
I have read your comments. If there is a point other than guns bad I'm missing it.
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FortWayne says
Your such a fucking moron! How do you expect to have a conversation!
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FortWayne says
Get off you high horse you suck and so do your anti gay, pro gun opinions.
Another foolish racist bigot.
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robertoaribas says
Many racist bigots like FortHood and others on this forum believe they have the moral high ground. It must be a religious zelot thing!
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FortWayne says
They are the same dim witted son of a bitch. He's very angry at me, because I got him fired twice. When he was paid to come here and attack conservatives. He's an internet political schiel but sucks at it. He can't engage anyone on a level any deeper than a bedpan. Which is where his posts always end up, just a big ole shit slinging angry protest stink.
I would challenge him to post one thought out post that didn't involve him railing against someone. No I'm not talking about coherence here, just anything even if I didn't agree with he has to say.
Pathetic moron, lunatic. The dim fuck every time he posts in my threads I dislike him then delete. His dislikes goes up while his post count goes down. It gives me great pleasure to delete them.
If this is contest about who can waste the most amount of time, I would still win, because AT LEAST I HAVE JOB!.
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FortWayne says
That is so odd-you must not have watched that video . He speaks tea party language- watch from 18sec to 48 -typical tea party jargon.
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CaptainShuddup says
Delusional fool. I am self employed unlike you.
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CaptainShuddup says
You know nothing, as usual.
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CaptainShuddup says
Have you looked in the mirror, BIGOT!
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CaptainShuddup says
Delusional, Lunatic, Moron, Racist bigot.
Back to work with you. You employed slave.
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robertoaribas says
But is any of it effective? Or does that not matter, we just have to do "something".
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Robert Sproul says
That's right, we have to do something, immediately and not stop!
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Thedaytoday says
have you looked into the mirror lately... you certainly will find a zealot alright.
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lostand confused says
Tea party talks about small government, private enterprise. Hitler was talking about socializing everything. And by the way, Hitler did disarm civilian population through an equivalent of executive orders at that time.
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Did you just high jack this thread with insults?
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He's allowed to do it, it's OK he's a Lawyer for Politicofact.com.
This is how THEY roll.
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FortWayne says
I heard Hitler liked to eat meat and drink water.
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If the shoe fits
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thomaswong.1986 says
How are those balloons?