The CT shooting and gun control

• BoatShoes

  Sorry about spelling...posted from phone and dont have tapatalk and boozed up during buckeyes bball game...yea yeah excuses only satisfy those who make them...belky gets a pass i wilk take mine for now.
• O-Trap

  

  HitsRus;1383169 wrote:...assuming of course, an adult audience.
  I think it can be proven that young minds are impressionable and subject to the influence of media. I think it is wrong to make this a national debate about guns without also including a discussion about the glorification of violence in the media.

  Not to perpetuate this tangent, but as early as I can remember, I knew that Bambi's mom didn't actually get shot by a real gun. I knew that Old Yeller didn't actually get shot.
• HitsRus

  

  Okay, boat shoes...I get the elitist vision that you are only going use the G8 as a standard. You might have hashed it out in your own mind, but you didn't sell me. Each country is different with it's own set of circumstances. What might work for England and suburban New England, doesn't work in rural Nebraska. If someone invades you home out there, the sheriff might be on the other side of the county. As O-trap alluded to...a person wants to feel safe in their own home, and that means being able to purchase a weapon that has enough firepower to deter the bad guys.
  
  okay , o-trap...I grew up watching Bambi too!...Oh those evil hunters!
  I never did hunt. Shot a chipmunk once with a BB gun when I was a 16....cried for the whole day.
  I did skeet shoot for a time as a teenager, and as a teenager growing up in the suburbs...never once even fantazsized about going to school with a gun to shoot my classmates. Where do multiple middle class suburban teens get the idea of assault rifles and hand guns and blowing people away at random? Guns have been around along time. I don't ever remember massacres.
  
  Focus on guns only, and you will NOT end the violence.
• Belly35

  

  BoatShoes;1383193 wrote:No Russia is ot consudered A idern industrialized country n ar ith the G8. And Swutzerkand as heaviky Regulated private gun ownershio concurrent with MANDATORY CONSCRIPTION! This as already been covered At the beginning of the thread...the swiss make e their citizens swear An oath to Defend The country in place of an army! not close comparable when any yokel can get guns in the U.S.
  
  All this was hashed out months ago ITT.

  I did not write this ...
• Devils Advocate

  

  Cleveland Buck;1382439 wrote:More people are murdered with hammers than with guns in this country. Why don't you work on banning the sale of hammers before you take away our right to defend ourselves?

  Lets see how fast you can kill 20 people in a theater, or 18 kids with a hammer.
• Devils Advocate

  

  ccrunner609;1382577 wrote:There were more police investigations in Dayton Ohio last year with a frying pan used as a weapon then guns

  Link?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Devils Advocate;1383285 wrote:Lets see how fast you can kill 20 people in a theater, or 18 kids with a hammer.

  Who cares? More people are killed everywhere with them. Why don't we compromise then and say the government should own everything and give us what they feel we need with an armed officer there to supervise us at all times? Would that make you feel better?
• WebFire

  Devils Advocate;1383285 wrote:Lets see how fast you can kill 20 people in a theater, or 18 kids with a hammer.

  So what is the criteria? Speed of death?
• justincredible

  

  Someone could chug a bottle of liquor and take out a bus load of children. Can we please ban alcohol already?!
• justincredible

  

  Someone could douse a theater in gasoline, barricade the doors, and set the place on fire. Can we please ban matches, lighters, and gasoline already?!
• justincredible

  

  Someone could carry multiple pistols and open fire into a crowded theater. Can we please ban the ownership of more than one gun already?!
• justincredible

  

  While we're at it, can we just ban guns completely already?!
• QuakerOats

  BoatShoes;1382334 wrote:What do you know crime has actually steadily been on the decline as the country has become more secular

  
  If that were true, why would this thread exist.
  
  Some of us value all human life, and are willing to protect it --- from the insane, from the liberal convenience generation, and from government tyrants.
  
  The blood is not on my hands, nor of most conservatives.
• QuakerOats

  When a government tyrant kills millions of people, is that not more horrific than a crazed lone gunmen shooting 20 people?
  
  Should we disarm the millions, and still not be able to protect the 20?
  
  Does rational, cogent thinking, ever enter the mind of a liberal? Or is liberalism truly a mental illness?
• justincredible

  

  QuakerOats;1383375 wrote:When a government tyrant kills millions of people, is that not more horrific than a crazed lone gunmen shooting 20 people?
  
  Should we disarm the millions, and still not be able to protect the 20?
  
  Does rational, cogent thinking, ever enter the mind of a liberal? Or is liberalism truly a mental illness?

  You're being unfair to the term liberal.
• queencitybuckeye

  justincredible;1383361 wrote:Someone could douse a theater in gasoline, barricade the doors, and set the place on fire. Can we please ban matches, lighters, and gasoline already?!

  or theatres.
• justincredible

  

  queencitybuckeye;1383398 wrote:or theatres.

  Holy shit. Even better. Let's ban congregating in public. Problem fucking solved.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  justincredible;1383404 wrote:Holy shit. Even better. Let's ban congregating in public. Problem fucking solved.

  But then what about individual murders. You know who I personally would trust to stop all murder? The government that once killed several hundred thousand civilians with one bomb, and has slaughtered untold millions in it's history.
• justincredible

  

  Cleveland Buck;1383414 wrote:But then what about individual murders. You know who I personally would trust to stop all murder? The government that once killed several hundred thousand civilians with one bomb, and has slaughtered untold millions in it's history.

  It's simple. No one is allowed to leave their house. Ever.
• FatHobbit

  

  justincredible;1383404 wrote:Holy shit. Even better. Let's ban congregating in public. Problem fucking solved.

  We could put everyone in a 6x6 box and not let them out. Ever. No more crime. Problem solved.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  FatHobbit;1383423 wrote:We could put everyone in a 6x6 box and not let them out. Ever. No more crime. Problem solved.

  We would need government agents pointing their guns at the boxes to make sure we didn't escape. It's for our own good, just remember.
• O-Trap

  

  justincredible;1383422 wrote:It's simple. No one is allowed to leave their house. Ever.

  Single-story houses only, as well. Would not want people murdering those in their households by pushing them down the steps.
• justincredible

  

  O-Trap;1383429 wrote:Single-story houses only, as well. Would not want people murdering those in their households by pushing them down the steps.

  We could just make each individual person lock themselves in a separate room.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  
• Cleveland Buck