Do you support more gun control?

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Do you support more gun control?

  • Yes I do, I would even support a gun ban.

  • Yes I do, I wouldn't go as far as ban though.

  • No I don't.


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BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Gun control? Yes
Gun BAN? No.

Remember, gun control is hitting what you're shooting at...not restricting the rights of law-abiding Americans to own firearms.
 

xj0hnx

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Dec 18, 2007
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Bad logic.

It's perfect logic, progressives are too stupid to admit it though. It's a fact that Mexico has very strick gun laws, and it's a fact that the criminals and cartels have immense firepower.

Answer this question ...how do gun laws keep people, that by definition do not follow laws, from using guns?
 

BoberFett

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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I'm hijacking this thread and starting a new poll:

Do you support more DCal430 control?

He starts gun controll threads every month or so. Should we ban him from posting on this board?

(x) Yes
( ) No
 

Moonbeam

Elite Member
Nov 24, 1999
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Hehehe, you get the same reaction as gun psychos exhibit when you try to take a crutch from a cripple. In their minds they visualize a gay guy coming to yank their weenies.

The NRA is like a insane asylum where the intimidated can cluster and bluster about how brave they are. A few suicides in the family or uncle George blowing away everybody in the parish may someday change their perspective.

I just wish there were more liberals like me who would be happy to reassure by delusional buddies that I haven't the slightest interest in taking their guns. If I had unlimited funds I would have more guns myself than I already can't count in my head. I happen to like them. I used to play cowboys and Indians so trace my madness back to cap guns. God you should have seen the two 45s I had. Dual holsters and all them bullets around. I was fucking king of the hill. This fucked up world stole a lot from me, but not my childish love of guns. Your mileage may vary.
 

Moonbeam

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Nov 24, 1999
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It's perfect logic, progressives are too stupid to admit it though. It's a fact that Mexico has very strick gun laws, and it's a fact that the criminals and cartels have immense firepower.

Answer this question ...how do gun laws keep people, that by definition do not follow laws, from using guns?

Simple. You make a law requiring everybody to obey the law.

But carrying your argument to its logical conclusion we could ask what is the point of making any law since there are always going to be people who won't obey it.

Obviously then we make laws not because people won't break them, but because we can legally take their freedom to live in society from them if they do.
 

boomerang

Lifer
Jun 19, 2000
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Not coincidently cities are Democratic because people who live together in large numbers create and evolve civilization where as the retrograde preservers of traditional culture live more isolated rural lives and vote Republican.
What a simpleton you are. Next time the government buys you a train ticket and you're in the Detroit area, I'll take you on a tour of the highly evolved civilization that occupies Detroit.
 

ShawnD1

Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Looks good to me. Here's some more countries which I wish America had the same rights as...

Switzerland, where every citizen is issued a full-auto rifle and required by law to keep it prepared with ammo in their house:

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Or possibly Israel... reow.

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A similar culture shock sort of thing happened to my engineer friend from Sudan. Sudan is a very strict muslim country where alcohol is illegal. It was weird for her to be here and see that people casually drink wine at a restaurant like it's no big deal. To her, that's as messed up as seeing someone carry an AK-47 into a hospital. When you grow up hearing how evil something is, it's hard to comprehend that non-evil people could enjoy it.

I don't really care about the defense side of things. It's just straight fact that guns are fun to play with and they're often a safer way to express male one-upmanship. I know quite a few men/boys who got injured because they had to do the biggest jump and be the fastest and be the best of the group. With a gun, you're just trying to shoot some target or whatever. On a bike, you get stuff like this.
 

Moonbeam

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What a simpleton you are. Next time the government buys you a train ticket and you're in the Detroit area, I'll take you on a tour of the highly evolved civilization that occupies Detroit.

You're the simpleton. Detroit is a mess because the money to fix it went to farm subsidies.

You may be a simpleton but don't forget that a smart person can be a lot stupider on purpose than you can by accident.
 

xj0hnx

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Dec 18, 2007
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Simple. You make a law requiring everybody to obey the law.

But carrying your argument to its logical conclusion we could ask what is the point of making any law since there are always going to be people who won't obey it.

Obviously then we make laws not because people won't break them, but because we can legally take their freedom to live in society from them if they do.

Strawman, we already have gun laws, just like we have laws against murder, and when people break those laws they get arrested, but more gun laws is not going to stop crime, just like laws against murder do not stop murder.
 

a777pilot

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Are you trying to tell me that no law doesn't mean no criminals? The logic is impeccable.

No, not at all.

You took his remarks to mean that all we need to do is do away with laws and there would be no crime. But what he was, I believe, saying was, that the more laws that restrict citizens from having their own guns, just puts them at a greater risk of being a victim.

Sorry for being insulting to you about this. You did not deserve that. Sorry. That was wrong of me.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Can you imagine the mess if America had mandatory military service

It's actually a damned good idea. Want to go to college? Spend 2 years in the military to earn that right.
Doing so would let/force a LOT of kids to grow up a bit before they're exposed to the "freedoms" of college which so many apparently can't handle like the adults they're supposed to be.

Can't physically do military service? (no, your anal cysts don't disqualify you) We'll find some kind of public service for you.
 

Orignal Earl

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Can you imagine if anyone cared what Canadians thought?

We are very simple people with very small penis. my penis is especially small!
I am honored just to be able to post here with such large American penis
 
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davmat787

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Is there any proof or data to this theory that owning guns is somehow directly related to paranoia? Or is it simply accepted by some because it has been repeated here so many times?

Also, if everyone with a gun is so damn paranoid, where is all the gun violence that one would expect to have with hundreds of millions of paranoid gun owners on the loose?
 

Lithium381

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May 12, 2001
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No way! It's already too hard to get a legal firearm in CA. So if someone gets stabbed with a legally purchased knife you'll be for knife-control now?
 

umbrella39

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No, we already have gun control and no one is coming to get my guns, too many liberals have guns for the fringe to ever grab them all up. This issue never has, never will be a blip on my radar of worry.