Posted on 04/11/2008 12:42:18 PM PDT by Apparently
Gun owners insist that they need to carry a concealed weapon that is handguns for self-protection from criminals. Now that is saying that it is not safe for anyone to walk/drive to work at anytime of the day or night without fear of being attacked, robbed, raped, murdered for money etc. I am told that you cannot make any enemies in the United States for fear of being shot. In addition, that the only way of preventing this is to carry with you, a handgun of one form or another. I am also told that a well arm society is a polite society, and that strict laws lower crime. I am also told that the more guns on the streets the safer the streets become. The mindset I assume is that if you do not like something or somebody you can always shoot them, your friends can always attest to it being a justifiable shooting. After reading the FBI stats, it goes along the lines that American civilians shoot and kill as many felons as the police do approximately and it is called justifiable. It is said that Americans are opposed to gun control and that you might as well take away cars as they kill more people than guns or how about knives. How about taking away alcohol that kills more people than guns.
Keeping the last argument in mind there does seem to be a flaw in the arguments concerning car/knives/alcohol, those things related to deaths are considered accidents, meaning, even though someone died during a car accident it was not intentional. Your intent I hope was not to go out with your car to kill someone. If it was it was, then it Was well thought out and obviously intentional on your part. You went out and got drunk and did something stupid that resulted in the death of someone, you did not again I hope do it on purpose, it was an accident. In regards to alcohol death results but it means a lot of physical activity on your part, for this to end up happening. Moreover, in anger and bad judgment on your part made the death happen due to the ease of access to the gun. You did not have time to think it out, or the thought of the consequences or even have time to cool down before you acted, it is now too late.
The crime rates are not going down as so many like to mislead and out right lie about it. For those they have a social/economic motive to lie and mislead others. It is to promote their own personal status and economic agendas. Crime rates fluctuate from year to year and for them to have any clear meaning have to be looked at over a period of a decade. The fact is the crime rates in the United States are one of the highest in the world, and those that say otherwise are misleading you. Crime rates are a reflection of the social/economic environment in which they take place. There would be no need for someone to carry a handgun if the economic environment was robust and the social/political environment was tolerant of peoples of different backgrounds. In fact, if that should take place the crime rates would go down dramatically as you would then be living in a culture free for the most part of intolerance. A social/political environment that is hostile is simply bad for business of any kind and so does not flourish.
Gun control laws are not to remove guns from law-abiding citizens but to remove the threat of misuse/accidents in order to protect the society. Now the gun laws may not reduce crime but if you read on you will see my point. In other countries were uniform gun laws are in place there is a mandatory jail time for committing a crime with a gun. The same crime if committed without a gun on average would spend half as much time in prison, so mandatory long prison times for gun crimes acts as a deterrent for crime, as a criminal you would think twice about it. That means for example someone is robbed, at least they will have a better chance of living through the experience, with a gun and the likely hood of being shot you do not have that much of a chance of living. Better to be hurt than dead .It is well known that in countries that have gun control laws homicide rates are low. Author Apparently
U R stoopid.
(I shall elaborate later. My lunch hour is over.)
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Ah, no. I think not.
But we do love the smell of ozone in the afternoon!
Lost me right there. It's not worth my time to read the rest of the tripe, no excuse me....drivel attempting to disguise itself as journalism.
Apparently...you were suspended from school for a few days and mommy and daddy are at work, so you’re here bugging us because you have nothing better to do?
"but if you read on I part my hair differently you will see my point.
Thanks for sharing
I am not sure from your post if you are advocating gun ownership,or gun control laws.
Let me enlighten you, start by reading up at JPFO, Jews for the preservation of gun control.
Also a well armed society is a polite society is not a license to kill.
It is however a society that believes in self protection.
I am unable to carry a cop in my pocket, however if I choose I should be able to carry a gun, under 2nd amendment.
As an aside, if I could could carry a cop in my pocket, I would choose a fiery redhead 5ft or so with a disposition to match.
Also guns do not kill people, people kill using guns,knives,baseball bats,2x4’s, their hands,coffee pots, pipes,cars,rocks,sticks and anything else that can cause great bodily harm.
I have the right to defend myself, politicians do not have the right to remove that right.
Many think they do, but they are wrong.
You wrote: “The mindset I assume is that if you do not like something or somebody you can always shoot them...”
I offer the following as proof that you are wrong in this assertion: I haven’t shot YOU.
“How about taking away alcohol that kills more people than guns. Keeping the last argument in mind there does seem to be a flaw in the arguments concerning car/knives/alcohol, those things related to deaths are considered accidents, meaning, even though someone died during a car accident it was not intentional.”
And later-
“Gun control laws are not to remove guns from law-abiding citizens but to remove the threat of misuse/accidents in order to protect the society.”
I love the way liberals “think”. And that is taking the view that getting into your car plastered and then hitting another car or pedestrian is an “accident”.
Zotted
We’re SO cute!!
This was shaping up to be a boring Friday afternoon. Better now!!
Apparently someone doesn’t have 3 pounds worth of gray matter.
Apparently is a DumbAss.
Hey, thanks, I’ve always wondered what kind of 4th grade essay assignments they give at San Francisco P.S. #69.
“Also guns do not kill people, people kill using guns,knives,baseball bats,2x4’s, their hands,coffee pots, pipes,cars,rocks,sticks...”
And don’t forget video game controllers. Those things need to be outlawed too.
RP are you going under a different name now?
Is the Glock pretty big, or is the cat pretty small?
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