(December 3, 2015 at 6:32 pm)DespondentFishdeathMasochismo Wrote:(December 3, 2015 at 6:25 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: That's too damn funny! Have you seen the number of "trained" cops who have shot themselves? All training and testing will do is ensure that people will become better shooters as a group. It will do nothing to reduce the number of people getting shot.No I'm not going to name six new regulations. There's a mass shooting every single day in this country, all the conservatives can do is spout "muh sacred hunting culture" "muh defense against tyrannical government" "people will defend themselves against shooters with guns". How about I don't agree. I would be so happy if every gun was taken out of the hands of every citizen in this country. That's not going to happen though, because there's crazy nutters who have a fetish over weapons, (things that kill people,) and we can't even get a single regulation. How the fuck does that make sense?
Every aspect of possessing guns has already been regulated. So please list six new regulations that will cover things that haven't already been covered by existing regulations.
Do you really think that's the totality of the conservative argument against guns? Did you know when the UK enacted their strict gun laws in 1964 the murder rate actually started to climb.https://fullfact.org/blog/murder_rate_doubled_death_penalty_abolished-2924 (You can read about it here, which actually is an article about the death penalty in Europe, but it has the stat never the less.) The idea that gun ownership is so directly tied to the homicide rate is a false one.