Fair nuff... But also note that your society is much different than ours. That is not a good or bad thing, it just is.
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Actually in 2008 the number of deaths by Automobile and by Gun shot were almost even. Forget your term criminal activity. Accident and sucicide should be included. Statistics show as the economy goes down auto deaths go down. The reverse is true of gun related deaths. We can expect gun death to really spike this year.Quote:
You need training and testing in order to drive, but you arent required or mandated to drive. Im not saying anybody should be madated to own a firearm, but TMK more people die from driving accidents per year then criminal activity involving firearms.
I was raised on Guns. Every room of my fathers house was a gun room at one time. I owned and handled guns from an early age. I am a charter Member of at least 3 state gun associations. My father has 9 guns he made in The Smithsonian Museum of American History. I have a long long history with guns. I know both the good and the bad of gun ownership.
One truth I found is that the more people you have with guns the more deaths and accidents you will have. I know of at least 5 individual trained Gun collectors that have shot themselves with "unloaded guns". I know several hunters that have shot or have been shot by accident or fall out of a tree stand because they were holding onto a gun instead of hanging on. Adults can't be trained about the proper use of firearms, so how on earth are you going to teach children. People in general become very stupid when it comes to guns or automobiles. If you put a gun in every drivers hand it would solve some of the congestion on our highways. Road rage would take on a whole new meaning.
If you want to own a gun fine. If you want your Kids to be trained about guns fine. If you make Gun training univerally mandatory you are asking for a disaster. Gun deaths would definately go up.
You're right, it is a cultural issue and I apologise.
The stats for 2008 are published? Care to share the link? Ive been looking for them on the web and havent found them. Ill see if I can find statistics for remote villages where allmost every home has a firearm.
Im not talking more guns Im talking about safety training. Bring back the Eddie Eagle Program and it wouldnt cost the taxpayers anything. So why would firearm deaths go up with increased safety training?Quote:
If you want to own a gun fine. If you want your Kids to be trained about guns fine. If you make Gun training univerally mandatory you are asking for a disaster. Gun deaths would definately go up.
Even if the safety training did bring 1 firearm to every household that wouldnt be a great increase in the USA, it would be a huge start as long as the arms are legally obtained.
Yes the thread title sucked, but it did get alot of hits and even flattered me with a spinoff thread.
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10 people live and, I think, nobody got raped because someone used a firearm. So much for firearms being used only to take lives.
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College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader
Posted: 4:53 pm EDT May 4, 2009
Updated: 6:41 pm EDT May 4, 2009
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.
“Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey.
TOM JONES: College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader
Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.
“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.
Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.
That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.
The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.
“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.
A neighbor heard the shots and heard someone running nearby.
“And I heard someone say, ‘Someone help me. Call the police. Somebody call the police,’” said a neighbor.
The neighbor said she believes it was Lavant, who was found dead near his apartment, only one building away.
Bailey said he is just thankful one student risked his life to keep others alive.
“I think all of us are really cognizant of the fact that we could have all been killed,” said Bailey.
One female student was shot several times during the crossfire. She is expected to make a full recovery.
Police said they are close to making the arrest of the second suspect.
It has nothing to do with culture, and it is not an issue. It's common sense. Anyones opinion that is different from your own doesn't make it an 'issue' you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue
Hardly an apology, you are still insulting me, if anything it's worse, insulting a whole culture. Talk about categorizing.:rolleyes:
http://www.nysun.com/national/surpri...uicides/80978/Quote:
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The stats for 2008 are published? Care to share the link? Ive been looking for them on the web and havent found them. Ill see if I can find statistics for remote villages where allmost every home has a firearm.
This link points out that a 55 percent of gunshot deaths is suicide.
There are several links that point out that a good percentage of these
are teenagers. Unfortunately we are seeing a trend where those
suicidal people are taking others with them.
Try to keep a stiff upper lip.
So the USA doesnt have common sense? Who is insulting who?
Thanks for the link. I think the CDC has all of the 2005 numbers posted, this gives me a starting point.
I have a wierd obsesion with statistics.
Stiff upper lip? What's that got to do with anything? :confused: Unless you are just going by the stereotype of British people, which again is fairly insulting.
Did I say the USA had no common sense? No. I am only saying that it's normal for people, in the UK AND outside the UK to feel threatened, even the slightest bit, about guns and the possibility that killers could be carrying a gun legally or how accidents are likely to happen, especially with children knowing how to use them. I was in no way trying to offend the USA with my comment.
You stated directly that it was a cultural issue and that is not fair. It's categorizing and judging people.
Good point about the suicide thing kokopup, I didn't think of that.
Sorry there was no Monty Python smiley.
The Swiss dont seem to have a big firearm problem, and they keep full auto firearms in their homes, so what would you call it if it isnt a cultural issue?Quote:
Did I say the USA had no common sense? No. I am only saying that it's normal for people, in the UK AND outside the UK to feel threatened, even the slightest bit, about guns and the possibility that killers could be carrying a gun legally or how accidents are likely to happen, especially with children knowing how to use them. I was in no way trying to offend the USA with my comment.
You stated directly that it was a cultural issue and that is not fair. It's categorizing and judging people.
If you think the UK and other countries with severe restrictions on firearms are following common sense, the obvious ass/ump/tion is you think the USA doesnt have common sense.
A difference of culture. The word issue is not needed, it's implying something is wrong with that country, and the people in that country, and thats not fair.
I didn't say countries with servere restrictions followed common sense, I said feeling threatened is, it's a normal reaction. Thats all I meant by that comment.
Reading between the lines is not an issue, and again it's not something you can place to the whole culture. I write and read a lot, sometimes you have to read between the lines of things. Whats so wrong with trying to get the whole meaning behind something anyway?
Like I said, I have no idea about these states in America and the gun crime and so on, so saying something about them means nothing to me.
I try not to leave anything between the lines on the issue of firearms.
So lets put it this way. A majority of Californians and New Yorkers, have the same issues people from the UK have relating to firearms. I could have used the word paranoia instead of issue. I think we can both agree issue is the better choice. If you want to write between and read between the lines thats your choice.
At least the UK isnt trying to make paintball and airsoft illegal like the Germans.
Do you think they had firearms training?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...71KRgD982B3LG0
Reading between the lines leads to problems and writing between the lines leads to more problems but includes plausable deniability.
The emo question? Take another look at the definition for Paranoid Schizophrenia and look into the emo lifestyle, they're pretty similar.
You asked alot of rhetorical questions in your posts, so if you put all my unanswerred questions in one post I will address them.
But this one...
When it means watching your family starve because someone with a machete took all of your supplies, yes I do.Quote:
So theft justifies murder in your opinion?
I feel the term issue is very fitting, I did not mean it as an insult in anyway.
Whisk_Luva, I would like to thank you for taking this as a serius discussion, something that cant be said for most of the anti's that participated in this thread.
Well I look for the hidden meanings in things and I don't see the issue with it. Obvously, I don't intend to write leaving things hidden unless it is a poem or something, so obvously in this kind of topic I wouldn't. In this thread I am just trying to get the full meanings behind what is said.
Ok, I am kind of lost with the whole emo thing, but oh well.
If you watch someone starve because of a use of a weapon, I do not think they would want to use one themselves.
Anyway, the direct question I meant were:
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Originally Posted by Me
You? Think? LOL
I'm still waiting for for your defence of your mans economic policies. You belive in him. Tell me why Keynesian economics will work... You talk down to me about "facts". I am more than ready for this debate. I look forward to any responce you might have.
Where in this thread did I avoid this question?
If that was a question you wanted to ask directly you should not have quoted yourself but asked it outright.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whisk_Luva
Quit reading between the lines, and stop looking to be offended. Im sorry I actually thought you where taking this conversation seriously.
Quoted for the Truth. I try not to read between the lines or nuance carp, it's absolute BS and is the same as spitting in someones face
No she/he wouldnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puckstop
Way to dodge.
http://yfonline.files.wordpress.com/.../dodgeball.jpg
Qrace and Liz...
Dont try and act like moderators in my threads. If I have a problem with Puck, ya'll, Jebus, or anybody else highjacking my thread/s I will PM him/them to delete his/their posts.
I am telling you I posted it. I have no idea what happened to my post but I am going to ask Karen for help because this thread keeps being really strange with me.
Do you remember when you quoted me for saying:It was in that post. I don't know what happened to that post but now it's gone.Quote:
And if you are saying that I am searching for the meaning behind your words and so on, then surely you are leaving things between the lines...
So I did ask it directly. I was quoting it because it was in a previous post.
I am not looking to be offended.
Anyway, I am sorry for my post disappearing and you getting the wrong end of the stick, but that is not my fault, and yes, I am taking the topic seriously.
I even have the thread that disappeared saved to my PC (I always save my posts on a document first because my network has issues and if the network goes off when I click post, I sometimes lose my posts).
So, would you like to answer my questions now?Quote:
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Face it, you have issues with people legally arming themselves to protect their rights. I have issues with people illegally arming themselves to take rights from others.
I have an issue with people being dissarmed so they cant defend their rights.
I live in, for the most part and for the immediate future, a free and open society and I like it that way and Ild like to keep it that way.
You should thank whatever belief system you have that you werent born in Switzerland or Israel, but if you where you wouldnt have the issues you currently have.
yawn!!!
yawn!!!!
Where's Karen when a lock would be a fitting application?? :p
Thanks for proving my point in a very petty and immature way, good trolling tactic. Dont forget to take your pom poms with you.
Why is it a dumb idea, and why are you mad about it?
It makes perfect sense to me, other then the fact it was piggy backed on the credit card bill.
Why the confusion?
Seriously, if any of you have nothing of substance to add to this thread why bother posting in it? Are you just boosting your post count? Are you simply trying to be belittling and insulting? If you dont agree with the premise of the thread back it up with an actual argument or be an adult and not post.
Why is basic firearm safety so threatening to the anti's who have posted in this thread? Why is the idea of arming potential victims a bad idea?
I have to question Randi's sig
Who gets to keep the remaining 1 million firearms? How do we get rid of them all if there are 1 million left? If all firearms are gone what is the next banned weapon?Quote:
There are over five hundred and fifty million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's five hundred and fortynine million too many! The only question is, how do we get rid of them all?
Didnt the UK try and ban long kitchen knives a few years ago? ETA: Should there be a continent wide ban of machetes in Africa?
I have not seen any constructive debate in quite a while. The posturing
going on now will not change the opinion of either side. Maybe it is time
to let it die a natural death.;)