jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire I really dont want to keep coming into the gun thread posts all the times with actual facts and figures but I will if i feel that I have too. Crime is higher in America no matter which way you break it down, rape etc than comparable nations - another invalid arguments. Jeff what has gun deaths got to do with automobile accidents or death by bee sting (625 per anum in America if anyone every wondered) - invalid. what fuking idiots are citing 500 000-3 000 000 make yourself known now, as I had a bit of a read at this one earlier and forgot who said that. Guns kill, and the more easily accessible they are the higer the carnage rate is Still, I always wanted to know 1. What is a responsible gun owner 2. When does that responsible gun owner become irresponsible http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ do the fuking maths for yourself Oh and the NRA chipped in with $30 million to trumps campaign hence that speech he gave last week to 10 000 gun nuts ( i actually had no real issue with his speech - he in essence said nothing) Not that I am quite sure how you can make guns more prolific Wicked, it is actually quite simple. The stats quoted by most deals with gun related CRIMES, and then they group all gun deaths as a criminal act. Which is what this topic is about, you know if you had read the title of the thread you might have realized that. As for the comparison of auto related deaths to gun related deaths, my point was the over all way the statistics are used. You people group all gun related deaths into one large category, whether the topic is a mass shooting or a single gun related murder and include accidental deaths and suicides. As I said, it would be like taking the total number of automotive related deaths as a lump value when you are complaining about drunk driving related deaths. There are a few points none of you anti gun shit for brains idiots do not or will not take into consideration. YOU CANNOT REGULATE STUPID. So, if you want to take the right to own guns away from everyone due to criminal intent, stupidity etc, then the same logic would apply to removing the right to a drivers license because of drunk drivers and people are just plain too fucking stupid to know better. It is also comparable to the prohibition of alcohol. One of the primary arguments was the fact that drunkeness and alcohol abuse was 'rampant' in the United States, so they decided that no one could drink. If you break down gun deaths to criminal related, as I said, the US falls to 18th in the western hemisphere and 22nd world wide, taking all first, second and third world countries into consideration and not counting those people killed in overt civil wars. The simple truth is that the US leads the world in gun deaths only when you compare it to the other 15 developed economic countries. Again the statistics are skewed simply because the comparison is against many countries which have either zero private gun ownership or extremely limited gun ownership. When you look at gun related crime, again the majority of homicides committed with guns involve criminal organizations or those who are career criminals involved in drug trafficking or other organized crime, many of whom can not legally own a gun in a first place. Which then makes a comparison to the drug cartels of Latin America, who are also under the same restrictions and more often than not are in countries where buying a fucking gun is a hell of a lot harder than in the US. Take Mexico for instance, there is only one store in the entire country that can sell guns. However the drug cartels in Mexico, Columbia and other countries where cocaine and other raw narcotics originate have more firepower than the national military of those countries (thus eliminating the argument that the guns came from the US.) Then there is the famous argument that the only reason to own a gun is to kill someone, which is a flawed argument, and given the opportunity, I would love to drop you, or freedom dwarf or any one of you anti gun Europeans in parts of Taylor county Texas (a part of the state that is relatively heavily populated, though rural in nature) and give each of you the choice of a six mile hike with a hunting knife or a large bore rifle and pistol. My argument is simple, you may be within a quarter mile of your house, but you run across a feral hog, that pig is going to rip you apart before you get to your house (or car) and that knife is going to be fucking useless. Or how about you go into my barn in the afternoon to grab some hay to feed the cattle? Let you in on a secret, rattlesnakes like to get into stacks of hay bales looking for rats. Now, if you think you can stand five feet away and kill a six foot diamond back with a knife, be my guest. Personally, I prefer a .45 or a rifle. Or maybe the incident a couple of weeks ago. I have a five year old great nephew living at my house, and one warm afternoon, I noticed the dogs barking at something in the fenced in back yard, where my nephew likes to play. Turns out they were barking at a nice 7 foot diamond back rattle snake, which I dispatched with one of the guns I owned. FYI, short of a rock wall (and that is not a sure thing) there are no snake proof fences. And unlike some idiots, I am not going to try poking a fucking rattle snake with a stick and hope the thing decides to leave the yard. Finally, there is the simple fact that in my part of the county, law enforcement response time is an average of 20 minutes (fire response time is about 10 same as with EMT's for that matter) so firearms for personal home protection is a valid argument. And lets go a bit further. There are 357 million legally owned private firearms in the US. And you will find at least one gun in 54% of all US households. So to answer your own stupid fucking questions: 1. What is a responsible gun owner? How about the fact that 9.390756302521008x10^-5 percent (0.000009390756302521008%) of all legally owned guns are used in the commission of a crime or involved in the gun related death of a human being? Or every person killed by a gun in the US was shot with 10200 guns at the same fucking time, which is clearly not the case. Or the fact that there are over 100 million gun owners in the US and there are less than 35000 gun related deaths a year, which means that less than one percent of legal gun owners are involved in a gun related death.... Or how about the real fucking kicker you ignorant ass, of the approximately 15000 gun related deaths due to a criminal act, less than 3% of those involved a person using their legally purchased gun to commit them, which means the rest of the gun related crimes were committed by individuals who got the guns illegally. 2. When does that responsible gun owner become irresponsible? When he decides that common sense is less important than looking cool for his friends, or the phrase "hold my beer" pops up, or the moron is too fucking stupid to properly store the weapon and some 3 year old grabs it and shoots a family member with it. Now when you consider 9.390756302521008x10^-5 percent (0.000009390756302521008%) of all legally owned guns are used in the commission of a crime or involved in the gun related death of a human being, it breaks down to about the same percentage of Americans who really need those wonderful warning labels that tell you not to use a blow dryer in the shower, or not to stop a chain saw blade with hands or genitals, or are too fucking stupid to realize that cup of coffee you just bought at McDonalds is actually HOT and should not be placed between one's legs while driving. Or about the same percentage of Americans that go out and buy a car that can do near 200 mph and actually try to achieve that speed on the open highway. Or another example: My neighbor, who on the 5th of February last year decided that it was much more cost effective to purchase 5 pounds of black powder type gun powder and six feet of cannon fuse, pack it into a coffee can, place it under an old mesquite tree, light the fuse in order to remove the tree from where he wanted to put a new drive way. When the powder exploded, the tree remained, however all $12987 worth of glass on the front side of his wonderful new home was shattered by the shock wave (homeowners insurance denied the claim due to owner stupidity,) he was arrested and charged with constructing an explosive device (negotiated to a misdemeanor, fined $1000 and sentenced to 50 hours community service) billed for fire and law enforcement emergency response for basically being a moron. He could have rented a bulldozer to remove the tree for $450 bucks which would have removed the tree and cut the new drive way. He could have hired a service to do all the work for $2500 and had it done in a day (without damage to his windows) In other words, the irresponsible gun owner is the same person that does so many stupid things on a day to day basis you ask yourself how the shit for brains idiot managed to survive childhood. You folks are fast to throw numbers around about gun deaths, etc. but when the numbers are really looked at, the percentage of the guns in the US used in crimes or involved in a firearm related accident falls to less than 1/10 of a percentage point. So, to recap: My comparison of gun related deaths to automobile related deaths has to do with over all numbers, and the way that all gun related deaths are grouped into one lump total by you people without regard to the TOTAL number of guns in the United States Legally owned that have not been involved in a gun related death or crime. Also, people do not buy guns to kill other people. A percentage of gun owners are collectors, and the guns they own probably have been fired a total of ten times, then put in a display case and left to gather dust (kind of like the guy that buys a new corvette every time the body design is changed, drives them for about 5000 miles then parks them in a large garage, again to gather dust) Then there are the gun owners like me. I hunt, do feral hog eradication for extra money, deal with various critters who show up around the house that could cause bodily harm to my nephew (this year seems to have a bumper crop in rattlesnakes) and for home protection (once in the last five years.) Then there is that extremely small minority of Americans that have been raised on hate, racism etc who buy guns for the single intent to harm another human being. Out of that group you get guys like Eric Rudolf and Timothy McVeigh who owned guns but decided to make bombs instead. So, contrary to your fucking ignorant and unceasingly constant argument that all gun owning Americans are trying to kill each other, the facts are that you are as full of shit as a Christmas goose, and the all too cliche Brit who seems to be intent on pushing your legal and philosophical system on every other country on the planet, including the ones that kicked you bastards out over 200 years ago. As for the anti gun liberal Americans, scream all you want, the simple fact is the percentage of legally owned guns in the US account for less than one percent of all firearm related deaths in the US. So, find a legitimate argument and we will listen, until then, go fuck yourselves, the horses you rode in on, or if the fact that the majority of Americans like the idea of owning guns, move to to the fucking UK or Australia. Hell, if that were to happen, maybe we could actually get the systems that would keep guns out of the hands of people who legally should not be able to buy the damn things mandatory for all state and local law and medical agencies.
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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