RE: Just When You Thought Arizona Couldn't Get Stupider...
April 13, 2011 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm by Skipper.)
(April 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:Skipper Wrote:Again, we have no need for them. Why would we!? And again we have a much lower level of murder per capita than you guys, so it really is doing us no harm.
No need for them? Surely I don't have to tell you a hundred uses for a knife? 0.o (Pocket knives are less useful than the ones that can seriously cut/stab)
I meant no need for them when out in public. I have never encountered a situation where I thought "I could do with a knife" when out of my home. People who do have a use for them are allowed to carry them if their possession can be justified.
Quote:So please stop talking down to us, saying we are against freedom and that our laws on guns, knives and weapons in general are ridiculous just because we do things a different way, a way that seems to be working when you compare our countries murder rates btw
Quote:You are against freedom on at least this issue. You actively want the populace to not have the right to carry weapons. Do you debate this?
Do you actively want the populace to have tanks? Drive around fully armed and ready to kill anyone else that has a tank that they might use against them? No? Well then you are against FREEDOM! Do you actively want the populace to all own tactical nukes? To protect themselves from other people who may have nukes? Because you obviously don't trust the government to protect you from them. No? THEN YOU ARE AGAINST FREEEEEDOOOOM!!
Obviously I have exaggerated things to make a point. But I still think it's a valid point, you don't need or want tanks or nukes surely? Because nobody else has them, so you don't need them. It's the same here with guns.
I have already said I understand why you, in the U.S. feel the right to own a gun is important, and I have agreed with you. Here in the U.K. society has decided that nobody needs guns, nobody is pushing to own guns and nobody I have ever met has said they would want a gun, I'm all for personal freedoms but when a society sends such a clear message on an issue as serious as having the means in your hands to end countless peoples lives then I'm all for listening to what everyone wants for the betterment of society.
Stop implying I or anyone who is against arming the populace is against freedom, It's incorrect and pathetic.
