Mayne
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Add psychological screening to that list and about 80% of the cops in the USA will have to surrender their guns.
how many cop mass murderers? I'm too lazy to google.
Add psychological screening to that list and about 80% of the cops in the USA will have to surrender their guns.
Add psychological screening to that list and about 80% of the cops in the USA will have to surrender their guns.
I have to reply to this stupid thread. NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS..it just slaps me in my face as a human being. You better be a cop or military person.
That's not "no one".
And there's a lovely movie about a place where only the police and the military were allowed to have guns.
It's called, "Schindler's List".
Where the hell do you live? I'd be moving if that happened twice since the crime rate appears to be so high.
This scenario is literally a huge fantasy for gun fanatics. They crave to be in a situation where they have the upper hand because of a gun.
how many cop mass murderers? I'm too lazy to google.
I love that movie..what is your point?
I have no idea what i'm talking about as a 47 year old male canadian that his parents were born in Glasgow, Scotland
You could say the same about mass shootings and the mediaI've been on this planet for 46 year. Not one person I know, I worked with, or am related to has ever been burglarized (much less had a home invasion). When it does happen, it's so shocking it makes the news...and these news stories only happen a handful of times per year.
I say that most burglaries happen when people aren't home, and therefore guns offer little protection in that aspect. Home invasions are not as common as the securities companies and the NRA want you to believe.
There are about 100 burglary homicides every year. There are over 500 deaths per year from accidental discharge, around 21000 gun related suicides a year, and 11000 homicides.
We're not protecting much.
Only the police and the military had guns so I suppose you love that movie because it showed you your perfect world in action?
I've been on this planet for 46 year. Not one person I know, I worked with, or am related to has ever been burglarized (much less had a home invasion).
Where the hell do you live? I'd be moving if that happened twice since the crime rate appears to be so high.
This scenario is literally a huge fantasy for gun fanatics. They crave to be in a situation where they have the upper hand because of a gun.
What magical world do you live in where you can decide where to live based entirely on the crime rate? Are you independently wealthy? Does your employer pay for your housing? What is it? Personally, I choose my housing based on budget. Not all of us can afford to live in the "good" neighborhood.
I've either personally known, or known about through immediate family, at least 4 people (possibly more that I've forgotten about) who have been victims of a home invasion while they were home. One of them did not own a gun (they do now), the rest did, and used it to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property.
The fact that it hasn't happened to you does not mean it doesn't happen to anybody.
There's also a difference between wanting to be in a bad situation, and not wanting to be a victim when you're in a bad situation. But, thanks for trying to psychoanalyze the entire gun owning population at once.
I'm really glad to see several people in this thread take this position besides myself. I've taken this position for years and I used to get so much blow-back/flack you wouldn't believe it, dozens of people coming at me with "guns blazing," so to speak. Now it doesn't seem so far fetched, it's part of the conversation and so help me, I believe it's the answer to the huge gun violence problem in America. However, I think we should severely restrict access to guns even for cops and the military. When the citizenry don't have guns, cops won't need to holster guns.I have to reply to this stupid thread. NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS..it just slaps me in my face as a human being. You better be a cop or military person.
Huh? You're talking about a Nazi slave factory?That's not "no one".
And there's a lovely movie about a place where only the police and the military were allowed to have guns.
It's called, "Schindler's List".
Which isn't a bad idea at all.Add psychological screening to that list and about 80% of the cops in the USA will have to surrender their guns.
I'm really glad to see several people in this thread take this position besides myself. I've taken this position for years and I used to get so much blow-back/flack you wouldn't believe it, dozens of people coming at me with "guns blazing," so to speak. Now it doesn't seem so far fetched, it's part of the conversation and so help me, I believe it's the answer to the huge gun violence problem in America. However, I think we should severely restrict access to guns even for cops and the military. When the citizenry don't have guns, cops won't need to holster guns.
Drug and alcohol use has been part of the human condition since prehistoric times, not gun ownership.How would you possibly rid America of guns when so many folks, especially criminals, don't want that to happen and would actively resist? I'd be willing to give up drugs and alcohol, too, if we could figure out a way. Has the attempted prohibition of those two popular substances taught us nothing?
I have to reply to this stupid thread. NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS..it just slaps me in my face as a human being. You better be a cop or military person.
Drug and alcohol use has been part of the human condition since prehistoric times, not gun ownership.
It's imperative to realize that getting the populace to give up guns will take quite a while, decades before it really works out. If you criminalize gun ownership, that will turn everyone who refuses to give up their guns (or accesses them later) into a criminal. Societal attitudes will change slowly, but they will change. Will there be a bumpy road, you betcha. But decades down the line we'll be a lot better for having gone down that road.
Look, we're talking about America here, basically. The rest the world (well, a whole lot of it, certainly) doesn't have this problem at all.
just as stupid as you that offers no suggestions but the status quo.