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Originally posted by Valhall
reply to post by kaylaluv
Hell, prove he wasn't. Guess we both get to wait and see, don't we!?
The president also said that he would like to see an assault weapons ban reintroduced. The campaign and other Democrats have stayed away from the guns issue this campaign, even after the slaughter in the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. "Weapons designed for soldiers in war do not belong on our streets," Obama said.
Originally posted by AndyMayhew
So let me get this right. Obama agrees to discuss international arms trades and the red necks think he's banning everyone in the word from owning a gun.
Wow. You think that's bad. Appparently next year he'll be involved in a UN debate on population - so obviously he wants to ban children too
And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at America? Grow up. For the sake of us all!
Originally posted by jjkenobi
Originally posted by UltraMarine
reply to post by badgerprints
Isn't global gun ban a good idea ?
Are you 12 years old? The criminals will always have guns because they DON'T OBEY THE LAWS. That's why they are criminals. It just means the rest of us will be defenseless.
Originally posted by Starwise
Originally posted by UltraMarine
reply to post by badgerprints
Isn't global gun ban a good idea ?
No its not. Gun ownership helps prevent governments from transforming into a TYRANNICAL BEAST !!
Originally posted by AndyMayhew
So let me get this right. Obama agrees to discuss international arms trades and the red necks think he's banning everyone in the word from owning a gun.
Wow. You think that's bad. Appparently next year he'll be involved in a UN debate on population - so obviously he wants to ban children too
And you wonder why the rest of the world laughs at America? Grow up. For the sake of us all!
Originally posted by new_here
why oh why would a sitting president even be discussing a global ban on gun ownership???
Originally posted by HolgerTheDane2
Originally posted by jjkenobi
Originally posted by UltraMarine
reply to post by badgerprints
Isn't global gun ban a good idea ?
Are you 12 years old? The criminals will always have guns because they DON'T OBEY THE LAWS. That's why they are criminals. It just means the rest of us will be defenseless.
Isn't it about time we see documentation?
How many accidental shootings by husbands, wives, kids in the US, where a domestic gun was used?
How many people have succesfully defended themselves against criminals?
How many shooting incidents by disheartened people gone rogue?
How many "Columbine" type shootings.
How many conflicts have escalated because some idiot brandished a gun to make a point?
In short
How many defended themselves succesfully compaired to how many shouldn't have died but did because some "normal" person wanted a gun to defend himself.
* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day.1 This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.2
* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.3
* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.4
* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense
*According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.5
* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).6
And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."7
* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year.8 Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."
B. Concealed carry laws help reduce crime... Read more: gunowners.org...
Originally posted by romney
Originally posted by jjkenobi
Originally posted by UltraMarine
reply to post by badgerprints
Isn't global gun ban a good idea ?
Are you 12 years old? The criminals will always have guns because they DON'T OBEY THE LAWS. That's why they are criminals. It just means the rest of us will be defenseless.
aww poor baby, I bet the government just came in and took all your guns huh?
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by kaylaluv
I believe that he addressed gun bans in the second of the Presidential debates.
He stated that he wants to have a new assault weapons ban.
The president also said that he would like to see an assault weapons ban reintroduced. The campaign and other Democrats have stayed away from the guns issue this campaign, even after the slaughter in the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. "Weapons designed for soldiers in war do not belong on our streets," Obama said.
ABC News
ETA: The quote about weapons designed for soldiers in war covers pretty much every weapon ever designed, you know?
edit on 8-11-2012 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)