RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 1, 2015 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2015 at 8:56 pm by Regina.)
(October 1, 2015 at 8:26 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(October 1, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: they don't seem able to realise that if carrying guns was illegal you wouldn't fucking need the "good guy with the gun".
You might be surprised to learn that people who have no compunction about breaking a law by killing people aren't dissuaded by a law forbidding gun ownership.
It's kind of the definition of "criminal", you know.
(October 1, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Yes it should be banned, this "right to bear arms" is fucking stupid and should have been re-amended decades ago.
No, it's an apt right that should have better limits.
Your first point is legitimate.
Second point, a right? Really? It's illegal to carry a gun in public here and I'm perfectly happy with that, never seen it as an infringement of my rights and I think most British people probably feel that way. Guess I'm not waking up paranoid someone is going to shoot me today. I can be comfortable in that assumption, yknow, given it's so hard to get guns here.
We don't have repeated incidents of crazy kids going into schools on a rampage, while America does. We have far lower gun crime rates than America does. We have tightly controlled gun laws, America doesn't. Not a coincidence.
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