Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the Guns, Mao took the guns.....
Posted on 01/03/2015 8:37:02 AM PST by rktman
Every time someone runs amok in an American school or university campus, or even an idyllic Norwegian holiday island or a quiet Scottish border town, killing at random but for no obvious purpose, one simple truth is underlined:
If the killer did not have access to high-calibre, semi-automatic weapons they might not have exacted such a bloody toll.
Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and murdered 20 children just two years ago is just one of many, many examples of what can happen when unbalanced, out-of-control people step over the line between their simmering Rambo fantasies and atrocity.
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Reject the premise.
Lack of access will never be possible no matter what laws are passed.
Deal with the perp - not the inanimate object.
These tragedies are nothing compared to what would happen with a disarmed populace.
Put the criminals in jail.
Guys with 2 page rap sheets need more prison time.
This is the central premise of an armed citizenry. When the innocent are disarmed the criminal are in full control.
A disarmed people is a vicitimized people. Disarmament is the first step in the establishment of every tyranny in history. An armed people do not tolerate criminals or tyrants.
Would more gun control stop the muzzies from chopping off the heads of innocent people?
The guilt is with the person, not the tool.
Even idiots can understand that concept.
Too bad liberals can’t grasp it.
These numb nuts have no clue how many bolt action rifles have been standard military issue in modern times. If they did they’d want to ban them also.
Oh wait, they do want to ban them also. After they ban semi autos.
The real story here is that the government worshipers want us to have nothing more deadly than sling shots as deterrents to tyranny.
How many thousands of years of so called “mass shootings” will it take to equal one Pol Pot??
I don’t recall any libs wanting to ban military hardware (and assistance) for the police after they slaughtered the Branch Davidians. How many died there??
The real truth is that liberals are always lying when they claim liberties must be surrendered to save lives. The *cheapest* commodity in the world to the left is human life. Plain and simple. They do not give a damn about human life. They pretend to when it furthers their despotic agenda.
Any caliber that starts with a two is not “high.”
This is not, in and of itself, a very good argument.
It's exactly the same one liberals use to argue against border fences and other attempts to prevent illegal entry.
We can't ever stop 100%, so there's no reason to try to reduce it at all.
By similar logic, we should remove laws against murder and rape. Such laws will never be 100% effective, so why have them?
I strongly support 2A. I'm just pointing out that this is not a particularly valid line of argument.
Wrong on several counts. As others have noted, you won't ever be able to deny access to firearms any more than you can deny access to any other product/substance that is "banned."
But this phrase in particular is wrong on two counts.
First, disarming the populace is not in fact a small price to pay. It is an erosion of freedoms and the ability to defend ones self. This is not in any way a "small" price to pay because it will lead to murder on a large scale. (google the 50+ million people killed in the 20th century - by their own governments after having been disarmed by those self-same governments)
Second, it will not avert murder. In fact so-called gun-control will increase violent crime. This is born out by both common sense and actual data collected from places (from cities to states to entire countries) that have tried it. After disarming the victim pool violent crime rates - including murder - increase and remain higher. Duh! Workplace safety for criminals...
Here is what i want to say to the author of this ridculous article:
Hey Dumbass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack
The 2014 Kunming attack was a terrorist attack[3][4][5] in the Chinese city of Kunming, Yunnan, on 1 March 2014. The incident, targeted against civilians, left 29 civilians and 4 perpetrators[1] dead with more than 140 others injured.[4][6] The attack has been called a “massacre” by some news media.[7][8][9]
At around 9:20 pm local time, a group of eight knife-wielding men and women attacked passengers at the city’s railway station.[10] Both male and female attackers were seen to pull out long-bladed knives and proceed to stab and slash passengers. At the scene, police killed four assailants[11][12] and captured one injured female. In the afternoon of 3 March, police announced that the six-man two-woman group had been neutralized after the arrest of three remaining suspects.[1][8]
Wow a whole bunch of people killed with KNIVES!!!!
Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the Guns, Mao took the guns.....
[ Put the criminals in jail.
Guys with 2 page rap sheets need more prison time. ]
But but they had a father that didn’t love them, quick give them a 32nd chance and let them out of the po po....
/heavy sarc
Blame the gun?
That is like blaming the auto makers for drunk driving deaths.
The guy in Norway had purpose. Went right after the people ruining his country. Killing their kids was inexcusable and unforgivable, but he knew who he wanted to hurt, and why.
Why is it so difficult for the left to understand the only way to protect against an idiot with a firearm is a confidant trained individual with a firearm?
A worthwhile reference, no need to Google, it belongs on this thread:
20TH CENTURY DEMOCIDE
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Firearms ownership here, and even in Ireland is an expression of individual freedom. Our preexisting right is important enough to be written into law in our Constitution. Its unfortunate that other Common Law countries don’t have it.
Gun controls are just one more tool of control by the ruling elite over the population.
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