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originally posted by: JackReyes
Ha. Why don't they own the USA then? Already? I mean I could tell you why they don't. But if they wanted too, they could, right? I mean, according to you. Then tell me, tell us, how? If not, then shut it.
originally posted by: netbound
I was thinking the same thing as you, TownCryer. The first thing I thought when I read the title to this thread was
"The only thing to stop a bad kid with a gun is a good kid with a gun"
I won’t debate gun control with the gun advocates here. No point in it.
One thing a lot of folks aren’t aware of, though, is that towns like Dodge City and Tombstone in the Wild Wild West at least had the sense to excercise much tighter gun control than we do here in the U.S. today. HERE’s an article about that. You can find a lot of other stuff about it if you just google it.
Another thing a lot of us aren’t aware of is the difference between a mass shooting and mass murder. You’d be surprised to know the true extent of mass shootings in the U.S. every year. Checkout the Mass Shooting Tracker to get detailed and up-to-date information on this problem. It’s really an eye-opener.
Bang Bang! My Baby Shot Me Down!!
originally posted by: yuppa
Seriously i have to ask how free are you in th e UK? cant be trusted with a kitchen knife So there goes your leaders infringing on your right to convenience. There are many things i d guess that up till WW2 th e UK used to be able to do. But th e people trusted their leaders too much it seems. No dont save th e queen..shes not worth the effort.
It is that way where I live also.I believe that is why kids are committing these horrible crimes,because they don't think there are consequences for their actions.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: crazyeddie68
Where I hail from spanking or hitting your child could quite possibly result in social services paying you a visit. Don't agree with child abuse but when the state says you cannot spank or chastise you child in what most people would consider an appropriate manner there has to be something wrong.
Sometimes the simple truth is that children require disciple. Another reason I'm also happy as to the gun laws in the UK, because without them I imagine incidents such as this one in the US would also occur. Not that they don't with other weapons or means. Considering the things that children find it appropriate to do to one another these days.
Fact is they simply have no fear because of a lack of parental disciple.
Spot on...if these kids want to kill, they will.If guns were taken they would just use something else,like a golf club,or hammer.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: JackReyes
Ha. Why don't they own the USA then? Already? I mean I could tell you why they don't. But if they wanted too, they could, right? I mean, according to you. Then tell me, tell us, how? If not, then shut it.
Perhaps the problem is that people like you don't even understand that most gun owners are lawful, and good people...
Most gun owners do not want any sort of civil war. Which is why one hasn't happened yet.
Most gun owners, there are millions of gun owners btw, are not criminals, nor violent. These are lies perpetrated by the gun grabbers because gun grabbers always want to blame gun owners, and the Constitution for the problems occurring today in the United States.
Notice how most of the violent mass murders lately have been perpetrated by atheists/anti-Christians. But of course, you don't see the left, and gun grabbers point this out. They want to blame conservatives, and the Constitution for the crimes with guns, when in fact the majority of those gun crimes happen in the states with the most restrictive gun laws, and mostly occur at the hands of those who hate conservatives, or religious people. There are exceptions, but how many of the mass murders with firearms were perpetrated by people who hate Christians?
The problem are neither the U.S. Constitution, nor the right of the people to own an bear arms. Great part of the problem is the hatred that has been sewn into the conscious of millions of people that have been taught willingly, or unwillingly to hate.
The gun grabbers don't really care for the murders per say. If they did why don't they talk about banning knives, blunt weapons and anything that can kill?
BTW, knives were not only created originally as a tool, they were also made to kill. Yet you don't see the "gun-grabbers" demand for all knives to be heavily restricted or banned.
As for murderers not being able to murder a lot of people with knives, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Knife-wielding attackers kill 29, injure 130 at China train station
That was in 2014.
Here are some other cases of mass murders with knives and one with a bat.
6 Killed in Arson, Stabbing Rampage in South Korea
Five of those people were murdered with a knife. The sixth died from jumping from the building to escape from the murderer.
Then there is this man, who murdered 6 police officers with a knife and injured 4 more before he was killed. And that was against police officers...
Anti-police stabbing spree in Shanghai, China
Then there is the Akihabara massacre in which 4 people were murdered with a knife, and 3 with a truck.
How about the 18 year old form Alaska who murdered 4 people with a knife as well?
www.foxnews.com...
How about the drunk 16 year old who stabbed 41 people, 6 of them seriously injured?
en.wikipedia.org...
Maybe we should also ban baseball bats. For example, one man murdered 6 people with a baseball bat over a dispute of an xbox...
www.foxnews.com...
What about the Daegu subway fire, in which the murderer used fire to murder 192 people and injured 151.
en.wikipedia.org...
I could keep going, but you should have caught up by now that murderers will use anything at their disposal.
Another case that happened recently, this time in Spain in which a teenager did use a knife to kill his professor and then attacked others.
BTW, in that case it was reported that he used the crossbow, which is not true. If you read the news in Spanish you would find that he used the machete to kill the professor, and injured 4 others in a school in Barcelona. The murderer is 13 years old.
www.nydailynews.com...
originally posted by: neformore
originally posted by: yuppa
Seriously i have to ask how free are you in th e UK? cant be trusted with a kitchen knife So there goes your leaders infringing on your right to convenience. There are many things i d guess that up till WW2 th e UK used to be able to do. But th e people trusted their leaders too much it seems. No dont save th e queen..shes not worth the effort.
Free to cross the street at any given point....
I can own anything I want - crossbow/knife/gun (providing I comply with the relevant legislation) and - and this is the important bit - I don't do anything stupid with them
Its sad that you equate a deadly weapon with freedom. I think you just hit the nail on the head with the whole problem. Its brainwashing. That mindset sucks.
You can be free without the ability to kill someone instantly.
originally posted by: JackReyes
Get rid of weapons you stupid fools. I don't have any in my household, and my dad didn't.