RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
December 16, 2012 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2012 at 11:08 am by orogenicman.)
Rhythm Wrote:Seen this one alot, and, respectfully, I'm going to have to throw a wrench in it. That Pennsylvania rifle was the most lethal and horrible personal weapon ever conceived of at that point.
IF one was strong enough to wield it, and if the intended victim just stood there and didn't actually run away before one reloaded it. They were also very inaccurate, even at close range. But my point is that had they known that a gun cult (the NRA) would be spawned by their desire to protect our liberties, and that that gun cult would promote the notion of all 310 million people in this country owning a gun, and having access to some of the most lethal hand weapons ever made, and if they saw the modern statistics of gun-related deaths, I suspect that they would have reconsidered the wording of the 2nd amendment. That said, I realize that it is always a bit of a slippery slope to divine what the founders meant, or what they would do in our shoes. The fact remains that the numbers in my graph are undeniable, and so if we are to have any meaningful reduction in those numbers, it is my opinion that the only way that is going to happen is to enact and enforce strict gun laws in this country. And I believe that is only going to happen if the 2nd amendment is itself amended.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
