We need gun control and LOTS of it

originally posted by: lakenheath24
Behave you maroon. I am the farthest thing there is from a lefty. And actual Nazi's are right wingers you blithering buffoon.

ROFLMAO only left-wingers believe national SOCIALISM is right-wing... No branch of SOCIALISMs is right-wing. Keep drinking the lefty cool-aid. You leftists only keep sounding more and more insane.

It seems like just about every time I hear someone say "common sense gun laws" it never seems to involve common sense.

For example, I cant believe that in this day and age we have people saying things like, "We need common sense gun laws. We need to ban assault rifles like the AR-15."

While I appreciate the passion and willingness to commit to a cause, I am repulsed and offended by the ignorance. Not because it is plain and simple stupidity, but because other people hear it and get caught up in it. We have precious few resources for fighting problems like this. Squandering them wastefully on bs is part of the problem, not the solution.

An AR is not an assault rifle. Neither is a shotgun with a drum, or a handgun with a front grip. An assault rifle is a very specific piece of equipment. It is a military grade weapon with a "select fire" option. That option allows the shooter to switch between semi-auto fire, where one squeeze of the trigger results in one round being fired, to full auto, where squeezing and holding the trigger will result in continued fire until the trigger is released or the weapon runs out of ammunition. Some military grade weapons offer a third option on the select fire switch called burst. This option will fire 3 rounds when the trigger is pulled.

An AR-15 is just a semi-auto rifle. That's it. Nothing else. It is not an assault rifle. It is not a military grade weapon. It is not an assault "style" weapon. There is no such thing as an assault style weapon. It is either an assault rifle or it isn't. Style has nothing to do with it. Style is just appearance. If you want to ban something just because of how it looks with no regard to how it functions, then you are not mature or smart enough to be part of this process.

originally posted by: lakenheath24
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Fools like you are so wrapped up in their own selfish ass ways you fail to grasp any sort of big picture.

My so-called "racist" rant was just a reflection o what you extremists were thinking. Ergo why question his ability to afford something.

ROFLMAO... now you can read minds too?... Oh boy, this is just too funny. You should be a comedian and start your rants by claiming "socialism is right-wing people..."

If anyone is failing to grasp reality are fools like you. Every single nation in which the people were disarmed ended up a dictatorial regime... That's historical FACT. But leftists like you don't care for facts. You live in your pink colored sky full of unicorns instead of living in reality.

Not to mention the FACT that the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution states:

..., the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

But you seem to be another RACIST LIBERAL WHITEY who doesn't even understand his own native language...

Definition of infringe/d

infringe
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

intransitive verb To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate.
intransitive verb Obsolete To defeat; invalidate.
intransitive verb To encroach on someone or something; engage in trespassing.

from The Century Dictionary.

To commit a breach or infraction of; act contrary to, as a law, right, or obligation; transgress, either by action or by negligence; violate; break.
To annul or hinder.
To encroach; trespass; intrude: followed by on or upon: as, to infringe upon one's rights.
Synonyms Encroach upon, Trench upon, etc. See trespass, v. i.

infringe

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED literally means that there can be no compromises on this right. Only "left-wingers" believe the 2nd amendment has to be compromised.

As for "your racist rant" That's entirely you attempting to project your racist tendencies on others when the racist is you.

a reply to: lakenheath24

questioning what he could afford has nothing to with race but more about age.


and what's an injun?

a reply to: AgarthaSeed

Thank you for that. I was thinking to myself how an 18 year old that was bullied because he was "poor" (bullied was floating around out there) afford over 5K in weapons/ammo

a reply to: theatreboy

Second person I have heard say that.

a reply to: Klassified

Everyone thinks gun control is the answer, but no one seems to be thinking on why we are seeing this happen repeatedly. Personally, I think these kids are immersed in violence on TV and in video games since birth, then social media saturation turns them into narcissistic sociopaths who crave notoriety. I have tried to find a plausible motive for these events on the part of the shooters and its down to two possibilities; one, they are simply extremely mentally ill individuals, and their only motive is an extension of insanity, or two, they are doing this for the notoriety. And here we are starting to see it, a couple days after the latest event, the shooters face is starting to pop up all over the place. Personally, I think the media should not even post pictures of these people, and minimal details about them. It may be granting them what motivated them in the first place, fame (or infamy if you prefer). Nickolus Cruz, the Parkland shooter, sits in jail nearly 4 years later, and has what amounts to a fan base of pen pals and online admirers. This is public knowledge, and it could possibly entice other deranged individuals. Personally, I think every shooter like this should be shot dead when they commit these acts, that might go a long way towards short circuiting the fame motive. At any rate, we have to do something, and one of those things is to realize it's not as simple as just banning weapons. Maybe we need to be looking at social media and its effects on the minds of these individuals as much as we are looking at gun regulation.

originally posted by: Kratos77
a reply to: AgarthaSeed

Thank you for that. I was thinking to myself how an 18 year old that was bullied because he was "poor" (bullied was floating around out there) afford over 5K in weapons/ammo

He wasn't bullied. He was the bully...
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The commonsense in this thread, leaves me to the conclusion that gun owners have small dicks, low self-esteem, and an unhealthy fear of dying. Sounds awfully like the SUV drivers in cities trying to justify their absolute need to have such a car in that environment.
I live somewhere, where guns are no status symbols, yet every male over 18 is potentially in possession of the equivalent of an AR16, plus ammunition. Yet, what we are struggling with is not homicide but mostly suicide, through these weapons.
Maybe it is the finger pointing culture, that makes one shot others to solve their problems instead of looking inwards... Conclusion the problem is the same, the approach is another. We kill our selves as we are desperate and know it's no one else's fault but ours for not having done enough, while you guys are looking for someone else to blame and go shooting whoever you deem responsible.

What I have a hard time wrapping my head around is the state of anxiety people have to be in, in order to feel the need to protect themselves with deadly force. Get over it! Live is absolutely deadly, and no amount of guns will change that.

I feel only threaten by the government's executive branch, as they have the tech and license to kill. If your guns make you feel safe from government, good for you, but it is an illusion, could even be used as a reason to take swift action against you. If the executive decides gun owners are a thread, your lousy guns will be a joke compared to the armed force. In the end, protecting against a tyrannical government is the only reasonable argument as to why citizens should be allowed to arm themselves. But it's been taken care of, that you will never technologically rival the government forces.
What's left, that a gun would protect you from? Maybe your neighbour? which speaks volume as to the social climate that is being propagated.

a reply to: Terpene

I don't know, but maybe its things like being told if you own a gun you

have small dicks, low self-esteem, and an unhealthy fear of dying

You know, baseless all-encompassing broad stroke attacks based on, ahem, ignorance and insecurity perhaps?

As for our illusion of guns making us safe against the armed forces. There is a thing called posse comitatus.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes which limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.

My mind boggles at the idea of you professing some kind of superiority while admitting that your people are committing suicide rather than homicide. And you speak of common sense? Can you not see the parity in those two acts?

Please, stop commenting on subjects like this. You are grossly unqualified and insultingly ignorant.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

Ok

a reply to: Terpene
With respect Terpene, you can't compare your country or mine to the US.

There are the historic reasons that justify the 2nd. Out of that, US gun culture developed to it's current state. Fact is they are circulating, bad people have them, so good people need them to defend. The bad people won't give them up lawfully anyways so banning guns is just hurting the good peoples ability to defend.

To say that the government has more firepower and because of that guns are useless, is a wrong conclusion. The US is about 20 times bigger than Germany for example but only has 4x the people roughly. There is also still vast wilderness. Help is far away if anything happens. Remember wild west?

All these things led to the ongoing need of guns. Americans fought Americans over their civil war as you know.

Look at the UK where guns are forbidden, some police patrols do not even have them. Then the criminals resort to stabbing hardware. Should they ban knifes too? Then sticks and chains and any metal rod longer than a finger? Even a pencil can be a effective deadly weapon. I know it's a beaten up argument but UK serves the example.

a reply to: TDDAgain

Well gun culture brings gun violence... I guess we're all good then and let them mass schootings coming. maybe it could even become a coultural heritage celebrated once a year...
Also, I'm looking forward, to the next mass stabbing in the UK with 10and more casualties???

My conclusion is your guns are only good because your affraid of your neighbors. Which really speaks volumes about where the USA is headed.

sorry to say but guns is a cowards weapon of choice.
It's like wanting to be an apex predator when in reality you're afraid of the encounter...

Suppressing the youths sexual drive while promoting gun violence, what could possibly go wrong?

in a sick society ( I guess people are on board with that assessment) having guns on every corner is a really bad idea. But thats right I'm not from the USA so i can not give my opinion about it. Hilarious how the US gun loving echochamber is hell bent not to get outside opinion on the topic... I guess some mentally sick people are comfortable being in the assylum with like minded, no need to remind them of how they apear to the outside world...