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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 11:07 pm
(February 13, 2016 at 7:38 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: Ask yourself why every dictatorship in the history of the world has prevented from the people to own weapons, and has gone through gun/weapon confiscation prior to the dictatorship. Hitler, Stalin, Mao etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8hmajbrmhI
Some people wouldn't know a dictatorship from a hole in the ground. Slandering the current adminstration is a tradition with the more hysterical political factions, however. People said the peacetime draft was going to make FDR the first fascist dictator of the US. Or was the first socialist dictator? Depended on how you hated, I think.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 12:16 am
(February 13, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (February 13, 2016 at 1:04 am)pool the great Wrote: Oh i'm sorry, i didn't realize you had "the great" after Thumpalumpacus.
Oh wait.....you don't.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 12:34 am
(February 13, 2016 at 7:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (February 13, 2016 at 1:24 pm)pool the great Wrote: Thats like saying car related deaths are not caused by cars but carelessness, remove the car and it'll still happen.
I think we ought to not assert gun related deaths wouldve happened without guns one way or another...we simply cannot know..
Plus if gun regulations bring down a tiny percentage of deaths no matter how small it's still lives saved,who knows that saved lifes could be you or one of your family..? Gun deaths are not related to carelessness to any statistically noticeable amount. Six out of ten are suicide, the remaining four are murders. Gun regulations -don't- bring deaths down, that's the elephant in the room.
The point of gun regulations is to bring down gun related deaths, not overall deaths the same way banning carcinogens in food is to bring down cancer through food -not overall cancer causations.
...right?
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 12:35 am
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(February 14, 2016 at 12:16 am)pool the great Wrote: (February 13, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: *yawn* You bore me. Goodbye.
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I'm glad to help you assuage your self-esteem issues ... bear in mind that I won't always be here, you'll probably want to find another way to feel good about yourself.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 12:37 am
(February 14, 2016 at 12:16 am)pool the great Wrote: (February 13, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: *yawn* You bore me. Goodbye.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 4:31 am
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I have noticed that when there is an accidental shooting in someone's home, there is nearly always a gun involved. It may be too early to draw any conclusions, but I think it merits further research.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 6:15 am
(February 14, 2016 at 4:31 am)robvalue Wrote: I have noticed that when there is an accidental shooting in someone's home, there is nearly always a gun involved. It may be too early to draw any conclusions, but I think it merits further research.
That depends..
Does the shooting take place in the bedroom? Then i'd know where you're coming from
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 8:47 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2016 at 8:48 am by robvalue.)
The shooting usually takes place in the living room, next to the table where the gun is left loaded for little Jimmy to pick up.
In 99/100 of these cases, there was a gun.
But I have to consider this may not be causation, but due to a third factor.
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Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 10:17 am
(February 10, 2016 at 12:35 am)Sterben Wrote: I'm not comfortable being in a house or around person with a firearm.
It must be terrible living like that. You can't even call the cops. You couldn't hold any important political position.
Well there are people like myself that are sympathetic to your fears. I carry concealed so you won't have to feel fear if I'm around.
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Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 14, 2016 at 10:26 am
(February 13, 2016 at 2:53 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: U.S. military door-to-door confiscation of the firearms of law-abiding citizens after Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...f8trl69kzo
That was unconstitutional. I would defend my rights.
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