Gun control discussion

'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”-Luke 2: 14

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I'd settle for one of the three, guess which one...........

An interesting viewpoint (on which I have no opinion):

http://newcity.com/2012/12/19/dime-s...ar-of-the-gun/

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Want to help the insanity stop?

Stop glorifying these twits in the Media. Instead of Adam Lanza, refer to the perp as "Idiot #XYZ"

Just a thought.

If you knew you were going to get called a jackass in mass media for being a twit and pulling a gun in a school, would you still do it? They're pubescent publicity stunts.

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How's about the twits in the media?

I have to laugh at a few of the puppetheads who look into the camera and start to tear up - it's not for the victims, it's for the ratings......

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Here's a little tidbit for consumption.

Back in the 70's and early 80's, New Years in El Lay County was pretty much a Wild West show....at about 5 minutes to midnight you would hear people in the area around my mom's house open up with AUTO-EFFIN-MATIC weapons. (All you people with an aversion to guns probably have the same aversion to guns being fired........just sayin.........)

Having never been to war, or heard what war sounds like?

It sounded like a bad Hollywood B movie.

If you were out and about you had to make sure we were under a roof or some protected area to keep from possibly being struck by falling bullets.

At my mom's old house there was a patio area that was covered with corrugated plastic and you could hear the buck shot sprinkling across it...

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After a few instances of people getting nailed with spent rounds, the C of LA took a huge stand against beanheads shooting into the air. (pun intended)

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/dec/30/local/me-3440

The last few years I spent in El Lay County there was pretty much no noise - it you don't count car horns, people yelling or a few illegal fireworks being lit.......

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Everyone put their "assault machine extra capacity latte weapons" away for the holidays and things, with the help of a very strict and no-nonsense tolerance for pinheads, morons and idiots?

Things did get better.

Maybe people do listen?

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

My point is simple:

We as a society can regulate effectively, but bans have always been completely and totally ineffective.

There's a long history in the US of rum running, drug smuggling, and other dodges, and there are too many intelligent people who see a buck to be made if they can avoid John Law. Heck, we even smuggle 3L per flush toilets, and there's nothing customs has been able to do to stop it. :p

As a society we're extremely skilled about getting around bans and prohibitions of all sorts, a gun ban would just be one more avenue to make money.

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Last time I check there have been no mass murders with toilets.

Fine - if regulate is better than legislate - let get cracking and make some REAL regulations about guns. I am more afraid of the Rambo wannabee who thinks he or she can outshot the bad guys, the person who is so afraid of things they must have a pistol on them at all times, or the person who owns a gun but keeps it where it can be easily used by a child, a deranged adult, or stolen.

"W-w-w-w-w-wh-h-h-h-h-h-h-y-y-y-y-y-y-y me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e--e-e-e?"

- Nancy Kerrigan.

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Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

Last time I check there have been no mass murders with toilets.

Fine - if regulate is better than legislate - let get cracking and make some REAL regulations about guns. I am more afraid of the Rambo wannabee who thinks he or she can outshot the bad guys, the person who is so afraid of things they must have a pistol on them at all times, or the person who owns a gun but keeps it where it can be easily used by a child, a deranged adult, or stolen.

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I think the person whose fear is running their life is you. You certainly seem to spend an inordinate amount of time railing against objects that are less likely to harm you than a car or a doctor.

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

I think the person whose fear is running their life is you. You certainly seem to spend an inordinate amount of time railing against objects that are less likely to harm you than a car or a doctor.

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Sounds like a snarky comment, minus any real value.

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Originally Posted by lizbud

Sounds like a snarky comment, minus any real value.

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Well of course it is snarky.

But I also find it terribly funny. A person who is so afraid of other people...so very afraid he needs to have guns around for protection to suggest someone else is afraid!! (Although it might be lions and tigers and bears he is so afraid of I suppose.)

Now would that be ironic as well as funny? Or just hypocritical?

I wonder how many times I have said it is not the gun - the inanimate object - I fear - it is the person who is so afraid of the world around they need a gun. Is is ten, 20? Why look! In the very post he quotes I said it!

Tiresome to hear the same - totally inaccurate - snark isn't it?

I am far more fearful of other drivers then I am of other gun owners. I have been tboned twice while driving, both times the other driver at fault. I have also been shot at twice, once within less then a foot of my head.

Most of my neighbors fire into their back yards and it doesnt bother me, the hills make good backdrops. Ive lived here 10 years and it happens every day or so.

ETA to point out the obvious: Post 443 is complete and total snark.

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Originally Posted by Alysser

It appear it's only okay to make snarky remarks when you are against firearms.

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How so?

ETA: and its appears btw, how is that for snark?.

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Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

I believe societies have the right to ban some things. Things that go against the common good.

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You normally post the communist line, for the greater/common good. What could you be for, that is against against the the common good? You have my curiosity.

I'm not afraid of people.

I have firearms for the same reason I have a chainsaw, a tiller, a generator, an axe (or 3) and many other tools. Situational preparation. It's not fear, it's logic.

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Originally Posted by Lady's Human

I'm not afraid of people.

I have firearms for the same reason I have a chainsaw, a tiller, a generator, an axe (or 3) and many other tools. Situational preparation. It's not fear, it's logic.

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oh, but you do not mention the length of the chainsaw blade.


Why do we need an 18 inch blade when a 14 incher will do?:confused:

RICHARD, for some reason I thought you might like this...


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Originally Posted by Catty1

RICHARD, for some reason I thought you might like this...


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I guess I am the Tan Version of the AWM!!!


Thanks.;)