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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/19/2016 11:57:08 PM   
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And thanks Bama......you know where I have been and the things I have done and seen, so these days, I just want a quiet life and let the world live however it wants to.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 12:02:38 AM   
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And thanks Bama......you know where I have been and the things I have done and seen, so these days, I just want a quiet life and let the world live however it wants to.

I hope you find peace and quiet, you have earned it.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 12:08:20 AM   
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I live in a city on about 218,000 people. There have been a few times we have gone a couple of years without a murder. The US has 10x more the population of us, I am sure you guys could come up with reasonable gun control laws... Why is it so hard?


Because God did not make men to be "allowed" something by their government. God made government to serve men.



But instead they serve the corporation. Which seems to bother you not in the least, as you've demonstrated often. Which shows the blatant hypocrisy, not to mention dishonesty, in your making that claim.




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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 12:15:34 AM   
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And what does God your version of God have to do with anything!

Why after reading what you wrote am I not surprised at this question. Actually the philosophy that ended up being the U.S. Constitution was a hundreds of years old development. God was an extensive part of that development. Here is the beginning of the U.S. Declaration of Independance:


When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

Following that thought, man is by right of being man in the universe entitled by the laws of nature a place and government is only to secure those rights. Government does not give those rights as you've described. What you've described is completely opposite of hundreds of years of philosophy since the Enlightenment. It's, basically anti-enlightenment.

And keep in mind:

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."


While I thank you for your service to our country, I still shudder at how you are proud of what your government will allow you to have.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 12:17:27 AM   
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I live in a city on about 218,000 people. There have been a few times we have gone a couple of years without a murder. The US has 10x more the population of us, I am sure you guys could come up with reasonable gun control laws... Why is it so hard?


Because God did not make men to be "allowed" something by their government. God made government to serve men.



But instead they serve the corporation. Which seems to bother you not in the least, as you've demonstrated often. Which shows the blatant hypocrisy, not to mention dishonesty, in your making that claim.





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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 12:29:03 AM   
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Aluminum hats


I'll take that as opposed to being a blind mouse among men like you, any day.




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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 4:09:29 AM   
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Three, there are still too many people dying through firearms in the US. If it isn't the easy availability of said firearms, then what is it?
Personally I think it is a cultural love of violence and the heroization (yeah I know that's not a word but I can't think of the word that means making a hero out of) of the lone gunman/outlaw.


I don't know about love and heroization (predictive keyboard thinks it is a word), maybe to some extent though I certainly think we have been conditioned and desensitized to violence.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 4:32:17 AM   
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Actually, if you exclude suicides an gang bangers killing each other in Chicago, Detroit, Wasgington DC, and New Orleans the U.S. has one of the lowest gun crime homicide rates in the world. It is not reasonable to use statistic you don't understand to argue a silly point about our laws about which you know nothing.


Don't be confusing the liberals with facts. There might be some kind of rule against it.

T^T

If you are going to cut suicides, gang deaths, from each country in the lists, I bet you would find a huge drop in their figures also the drop would happen with drug deaths too.
Why not try to work it out???.

BY the way, I bolded it for you but, suicides dont count as "gun homicide rates"
There is a difference between homicide and suicide....
so my advice to you would be.....


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It is not reasonable to use statistic you don't understand to argue a silly point



As you don't see the point through your koolaide haze, may I point out that liberals enjoy lumping all gun deaths into, as vicentml said, shooter deaths. While you have a valid point that maybe other countries could have their rates dropped by excluding this or that, as liberals point out they don't have guns so they are civilized so I imagine the effort to eliminate those things from their stats would be negligible. While I also surmise that they would show an increase in suicide rates via other means. So your point, while well considered is probably moot.

It has been we...as you say the gun nuts...who continually point out that suicide and homicide should not be lumped into one thing. So, I'm pleased to see that you're finally understanding that point and arguing for are side. I guess my positive hill and Bill thing paid off.

There is no point to what you said as it was basically a bad interpretation(lie) of the difference between suicide and homicide, that you brush it off, you will have to show out your working or put up a cite for your ignorance.
Your inability to know the difference really puts your claims into the bullshit realm.


I understand that this is based on 2013 figures but I found it interesting....

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/01/gun-violence-us-cities-compared-deadliest-nations-world/4412/

The map below compares the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world. Building upon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data used in that post, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute compiled additional data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other sources collated by The Guardian. (While international crime data suffer from significant reporting and comparison issues, homicide data is more reliable. As the Urban Institute's John Roman points out, it is the one type of crime that is "hard to fake" and also most likely to be reported.)



The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.

If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
Houston's rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador's (12.7).
Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
Phoenix's rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.
Yes, it's true we are comparing American cities to nations. But most of these countries here have relatively small populations, in many cases comparable to large U.S. metros.

The sad reality is that many American cities have rates of gun homicides comparable to the some of the most violent nations in the world.


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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 5:00:59 AM   
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Pick up a copy of any of the 3 NRA publications. They run a regular monthly 2 page column "The Armed Citizen" highlighting instances of armed self defense plucked from news sources around the country.


It is a one page item not two with usually about a half dozen entries. One would think that with all the rhetoric about how personal guns stop crime one would think they could come up with more than a half dozen a month.


Sometimes it's more than a page and there are certainly more than half a dozen entries.

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One reason you don't hear about it is because the anti gun media doesn't want to highlight the fact that it's quite common.


Just above you point out that these news items came from the media which you claim do not cover this stuff.



You know as well as I do they come from local sources, newspapers usually. Generally this sort of thing doesn't make the sensational headlines or lead in national news.

What other trivial shit are ya going to nit pick ?


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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:24:01 AM   
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I'll take that as opposed to being a blind mouse among men like you, any day.




Honestly, one of us is wrong. I do hope it's you. I don't think we'll ever agree.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:26:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji


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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

Actually, if you exclude suicides an gang bangers killing each other in Chicago, Detroit, Wasgington DC, and New Orleans the U.S. has one of the lowest gun crime homicide rates in the world. It is not reasonable to use statistic you don't understand to argue a silly point about our laws about which you know nothing.


Don't be confusing the liberals with facts. There might be some kind of rule against it.

T^T

If you are going to cut suicides, gang deaths, from each country in the lists, I bet you would find a huge drop in their figures also the drop would happen with drug deaths too.
Why not try to work it out???.

BY the way, I bolded it for you but, suicides dont count as "gun homicide rates"
There is a difference between homicide and suicide....
so my advice to you would be.....


quote:

It is not reasonable to use statistic you don't understand to argue a silly point



As you don't see the point through your koolaide haze, may I point out that liberals enjoy lumping all gun deaths into, as vicentml said, shooter deaths. While you have a valid point that maybe other countries could have their rates dropped by excluding this or that, as liberals point out they don't have guns so they are civilized so I imagine the effort to eliminate those things from their stats would be negligible. While I also surmise that they would show an increase in suicide rates via other means. So your point, while well considered is probably moot.

It has been we...as you say the gun nuts...who continually point out that suicide and homicide should not be lumped into one thing. So, I'm pleased to see that you're finally understanding that point and arguing for are side. I guess my positive hill and Bill thing paid off.

There is no point to what you said as it was basically a bad interpretation(lie) of the difference between suicide and homicide, that you brush it off, you will have to show out your working or put up a cite for your ignorance.
Your inability to know the difference really puts your claims into the bullshit realm.


I understand that this is based on 2013 figures but I found it interesting....

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/01/gun-violence-us-cities-compared-deadliest-nations-world/4412/

The map below compares the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world. Building upon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data used in that post, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute compiled additional data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other sources collated by The Guardian. (While international crime data suffer from significant reporting and comparison issues, homicide data is more reliable. As the Urban Institute's John Roman points out, it is the one type of crime that is "hard to fake" and also most likely to be reported.)



The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.

If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
Houston's rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador's (12.7).
Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
Phoenix's rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.
Yes, it's true we are comparing American cities to nations. But most of these countries here have relatively small populations, in many cases comparable to large U.S. metros.

The sad reality is that many American cities have rates of gun homicides comparable to the some of the most violent nations in the world.


And what would you suggest we can learn from that?

Oh, and I think you're funny. That passive aggressive nature is so strong in you. You just can't help it.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:27:49 AM   
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oh Im more interested to know how you can not figure it out?

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:30:43 AM   
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Kisses sweetie.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:32:48 AM   
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so you have nothing to add to the topic...thought so


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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 7:50:26 AM   
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And what would you suggest we can learn from that?


That you are running out of countries to compare our states to, you have circles not paired, our homicide rate outstrips the world.




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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 9:37:48 AM   
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On a sidenote to this debate (the whole suggestion that Americans need guns, rather than merely liking them as appears more the case to an outsider).
Given the long suggested correlation between gun bunnies desire to overcompensate for perceived or real shortcomings, and the connections that have been made about between the tax cut and deregulation a go-goRepublican nominee's tiny hands and his alleged lack of endowment downstairs, a question arises that none of this discussion has even touched on:
Are guns manufactured in America, for Americans, fitted with smaller handgrips, and a shorter space for the forefinger to encircle the trigger than guns made elsewhere, in order to accommodate tiny-handed Americans' short little fingers?

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 10:35:47 AM   
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On a sidenote to this debate (the whole suggestion that Americans need guns, rather than merely liking them as appears more the case to an outsider).
Given the long suggested correlation between gun bunnies desire to overcompensate for perceived or real shortcomings, and the connections that have been made about between the tax cut and deregulation a go-goRepublican nominee's tiny hands and his alleged lack of endowment downstairs, a question arises that none of this discussion has even touched on:
Are guns manufactured in America, for Americans, fitted with smaller handgrips, and a shorter space for the forefinger to encircle the trigger than guns made elsewhere, in order to accommodate tiny-handed Americans' short little fingers?

That would be interesting to find out. Why don't you run down to your local gun store and test the theory?

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 10:39:08 AM   
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I did when I was in the CCF in school. Kalashnikovs and SA-18s both have bigger hand grips than the M16, if I remember correctly.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 11:34:08 AM   
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I did when I was in the CCF in school. Kalashnikovs and SA-18s both have bigger hand grips than the M16, if I remember correctly.

I'm not familiar with the SA-18. I googled it and only found a shoulder fired surface to air rocket launcher. You'll have to help me there. The Kalashnikovs are all designed to use while wearing heavy winter clothing. They have strange dimensions all around. Most American rifles are designed for an average guy of about 5ft 9in stature not wearing heavy clothing. While I don't think hand size was ever part of design parameters, I'll still look to you for a link to the SA-18.

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RE: WHY DOES THE U.S NEED GUNS ? - 7/20/2016 11:41:49 AM   
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My bad: it' an SA-80, not 18. (Brain fart.) The assault rifle that the British army replaced the FN FAL with during the '80s because they had to switch to a 5.56 instead of continuing to use 7.62. (And a real piece of shit according to those who'd been taken with the FN.)

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