Gun Control

Eorl wrote:

Not stop, but definately reduce.

Also from Wiki:

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David Hemenway's recent book, Private Guns, Public Health,[18] makes the argument in favor of gun control and he provides evidence for the more guns, more gun violence and suicide hypothesis. Rather than compare America to countries with radically different cultures and historical experiences, he focuses on Canada, New Zealand and Australia and concludes that the case for gun control is a strong one based on the relationship he finds between lower crime rates and gun control.

CCWs have proven to be effective & does not inffringe upon my rights

Clearly not effective enough. Yeah, I get it with the whole "rights" thing. But I'll ask again, is the "right" worth the damage? If you really think democracy is impossible without that right, look at countries like Australia or Canada. (I understand Americans are not in the habit of looking to other countries for ways to better their democracy, but isn't possible others may be better in some areas?)

In theory at least, once you eliminate 70% of the gun violence by getting rid of the "war on drugs", you might could eliminate the remaining 30% by outlawing and banning the democrat party.

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In theory at least, once you eliminate 70% of the gun violence by getting rid of the "war on drugs", you might could eliminate the remaining 30% by outlawing and banning the democrat party.

brilliant

snood wrote:

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In theory at least, once you eliminate 70% of the gun violence by getting rid of the "war on drugs", you might could eliminate the remaining 30% by outlawing and banning the democrat party.

brilliant

Dont get me wrong, crime isnt the ONLY reason somebody might want to ban the demokkkrat party, treason would be a factor in justifying something like that as well. Id have pretty much banned the party after all demokkkrat senators violated their oaths of office by voting to keep an obvious psychopath in the whitehouse in 1999.

As for demokkkrat-infested areas and regions which top the national crime stats, the prize of them all has to be Baltimore. Of all the places I normally ever go, Baltimore is the onewhere somebody might really want to be carrying a pistol just on general principles. They say 90 out of 100 people in Baltimroe are heroin addicts and the other 15 are crack addicts.

I mean, nothing I normally see in DC or NY really scares me, at least during daylight, and the most messed-up people I ever see in DC or NY at least look like they came from this planet. I cant really say the same thing about Baltimore, and its not totally a racial thing, I see white people who look like something from a 1950s zombie movie walking around in Baltimoe as well. The place is clearly some sort of a Petrie dish for the grand experiment of demokkkrat machine control over a long period of time, and the patient has clearly suffered.

Timberlandko, I saw a few chapters of "The Joy of Guns" in your posts but I'm not sure I saw anything to justify the price you pay for keeping them (namely 11.3).

... I think there should be three simple gun laws:
1) Be found in possession of a firearm without a firearm owner's license, certifying one at least knows how to handle firearms safely and responsibly, lose the firearm ... and the right to obtain the license to possess a firearm for a long time.

2) Be found to be in possession of a firearm while in the act of committing any violent or other serious crime, go to jail for a long time.

3) Display, discharge, or otherwise employ a firearm as adjunct to the commission of a crime, go to jail for life.

Regardless of your "right" to carry guns, you are paying a high price.

IF it was proven that gun control drastically reduced homicide, suicide and accidental death rates...would you support it?

In regard to gun law, my views aren't far from snood's; I think it ridiculous one need demonstrate functional knowledge of requirements and reasonable operating competence to legally operate a motor vehicle on public roadways or to conduct many businesses, but one may obtain a firearm pretty much by meeting the sole requirement that one be not a convicted felon or lawfully declared mental deficient. That is simply absurd.