jlf1961 -> RE: Nobody wants to take your guns. (10/19/2015 4:44:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer quote:
What I am doing (and I'm probably being about as effective as p^ssing in the wind) is to hopefully get you guys thinking about why people own their guns. Instead of Monday morning quarterbacking after a mass shooting happens and the so-called big solution is to disarm people, why don't you start talking and listening to people who can't protect themselves with a sling shot? It's like this for me, LP: Yes, I would like it for you to have a gun in order to defend yourself against, for instance, some fruitcake, brain-dead, neurotic stalker who clearly hasn't grown up beyond his early teen years and has no understanding of what it means to *examine himself and what he is thinking and doing* in order to *stop being an obsessive nutcase*. However, I would prefer it if neither of you were to have firearms and, more to the point, you, particularly, were to be absolutely certain that firearms were *never even to enter into the equation*. In short: obviously, I'd prefer you not to be up against a fucking headbanger *at all* - but, failing that, at worst, an *unarmed* fucking headbanger. Just how are you going to guarantee "unarmed?" Lets see that would mean nothing that could possibly be used as a weapon, so there goes 99.999999999999% of the items in everyday use. What you and every other "gun control" idealist fail to realize with the "get rid of guns to stop the killing" argument is that humans have this nasty habit of using whatever means they can get their hands on to kill other humans. Guns, knives, rocks, cricket bats, ball bats, neck ties, and god knows how many poisons there are, we are geniuses on coming up with new and improved ways to kill other humans. Since the advent of firearms, the rule has been he who has the most guns makes the rules, before that it was he who had the most guys with the most swords made the rules. Hell, look at Itsy, the prehistoric guy found in the glacier, he was a murder victim for christ's sake. Thanks to new battery technology, I can make a wonderful rail gun with a back pack power supply. Not practical, but in a pinch I could put a round through an 8 inch concrete wall to fuck your day to hell and gone. (the detailed DIY information is on the internet) Need to make a bomb, household chemicals in the right proportions (DIY information on the internet) Want to recreate a wonderful British Sten gun (no complicated machine tools needed, DIY information on the internet) Want to make 9 mm ammo for said sten gun? The Jews in palastine were making them with lipstick tubes when the Brits would not let them have guns because they were killing Brits and Palestinians. Want to make a shit ton of AK's cheap, smuggle a bunch of Indian back alley gunsmiths and put em in your basement. And I have not even touched on the high strength thermo plastics that hobbyists can get and make weapons that are undetectable including firearms. Hell the Filipinos were killing Japanese troops with shotguns made from a nail, two pieces of pipe and a chunk of wood. As soon as Cain killed Abel, (or for you atheists, og smashed mog with a rock) humans have been finding ways to kill each other. Australia didnt stop at guns, they continued to swords and other bladed weapons because Aussies figured out you didnt need a gun to kill lots of people, the Chinese just figured that one out. Taking the legal ownership of guns away is not going to stop the killing, guns are just efficient in doing that. What you need to do is change the basic human character. Humans as a race are killers, hell we find some shit stupid reasons to fight wars just so we can do it on a massive scale, religion, skin color, tribe of birth, hair color, political beliefs, or just because some stupid shit head cut us off in traffic. If we dont use guns, we use cars (Texas wife killed cheating husband and mistress by running them over with her Mercedes repeatedly.) My point is simple, take away the guns, and some smart bastard is going to come up with yet another way to kill someone and in the day of modern technology, its gonna be more efficient. like this Guns, knives, swords etc are not the problem, humans are the problem. You want to stop the bloodshed, change the humans.
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