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No country has ever thought hey our citizens are really violent and crimes rampant. Let's give then guns and it'll make everything OK.
Well, a couple things. I'm not sure science has anything to do with that. That's a weird thing to say. I'll be honest, I didn't read your whole question because if that. But I did read 130 countries took away weapons and they stopped killing... And I just stopped there. Let me tell you something. If you get someone mad enough where they have made up their mind to kill you, do you think they care if they have a gun or not? Killings didn't stop from happening but maybe murder from a gun did? I don't even k ow how true that is but let's just say that all 130 countries did stop using guns to kill. That's really hard to believe but for the sake of your post we will stick to that.
A murder is a murder. Someone who is sick in the head that wants to kill will kill with what they have available. In most cases I believe people would choose that method to die if they got a choice from a murderer. Its quick. A pyscho without a gun will keep you in a hole in the basement while making you rub lotion on your own skin or else you are forced to be sprayed with a hose. All that so he can eventually skin you like a deer and make a dress out of your skin. I much rather get shot in the face.
My point is taking away guns will not stop people from getting murdered. It's not the gun that kills. It just doesn't make sense to take away guns. And do you think the people who have the guns illegally are going to give them up because the government said so? I think if they gave a fuck about what the government said, they wouldn't have them in the first place. They probably are not known for fully thinking things through.
Another thing is the timing of all this. Is this the best time to take away the guns of americans? Have we forgotten so quickly that we have been feeding weapons to a country the russia is at war with? I can't remember is russia is known to be nice and violence free. Oh, wait, they are currently in a war against somebody we are giving weapons to in hopes they kill the Russians. Jesus, seems like the perfect time to take away guns. Russia isn't known to just go fight other countries because they have something they want.
"Science?" Really? When people invoke the phrase "it's been proven," or "science has proven," they are revealing a weakness in their argument.
We all understand that statement just as well as you do. We also understand that if every law abiding citizen turn in their guns, criminals will still have guns, and the wacko left will step up their calls to defund the police. And we will be left to defend ourselves with a can of mace when a criminal is pointing his loaded gun at us. According to "science," what happens then?
It's not as simple as the question you present.
@OlderAndWiser I would rather err on the side of caution and meet the enemy with a loaded shotgun.
@exitseven You got that right!
@Amy10223 And if everyone was forced to always do the right thing, then what? We could all keep our guns. The only problem is that we can't force people to always do the right thing, just like you can't force people to turn in their guns and have any conidence at all that you have accomplished tht goal. How would you even try to do that? Realistically? Have a VERY serious talk with them?
I can understand that argument and still believe it’s nonsense. I’m Nigerian and we have a lot of terrorist attacks and lots of kidnappings burglary blah blah a whole mess. Times like this it would be great to be armed. It begs the question in a country where guns are illegal how are so many people able to get access to them to form these groups. Your science is floored because they will illegally obtain them. Honestly Nigerians aren’t in a sane environment to make arms legal because everyone is frustrated and that would lead to more deaths because people can always pay their way to obtain a gun license without being properly checked. And I’m sure most shooters don’t have gun licenses because they illegally obtained it. So removing the guns would honestly make things worst for your society. To prevent a war is to prepare for war. I live in Nigeria and I can assure you that if it was legal to have arms and people were well assessed it would help curtail our issues with bandits and burglars etc
I am in Japan and citizens do not have guns here. We have never had a school shooting and we don't have to worry about getting shot in the streets. Our crime rate is also one of the lowest in the world, which is pretty amazing since most of the population are in large cities. A lot of people I know joke about the USA being the "Wild Wild West", and it is a valid point. Also, in the entire history of the our police force, there has never been an instance of a police officer shooting and killing someone. They do have guns, but they are all well-trained in their use. Police officers are required to have a college degree and go through intensive training. I researched the police training in the USA, which varies from state to state, and it is only 12 weeks of classes in many areas. Also, what is going on the USA that is causing so many cases of mental health disorders? It is higher than the rest of the world combined! 😯😯😯😳😳😳
The Japanese culture is not as violent as the U. S. A.
There is a huge "thug mentality" in the USA. Most murders and gun violence occur in urban areas.
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Let's see, mass shooting in Norway with a bow and arrow last year. Both are designed to penetrate a target and cause death by bleeding, arrows are far more efficient. You can shoot a deer with a rifle and it might run for a while, shoot one with a hunting tip arrow, just count down from 60 tops. It's also far more conspicuous to be walking around with a compound bow though...
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@TallAnon What you retards fail to digest is that in all first world countries where they have much more restrictive laws, the number of murders and rapes do not go down. All you are doing is saying, well, mass murders stopped, but the numbers do not go down. Why? Because you don't allow people to have guns. Criminals are still equipped with guns, police have billy clubs, you are left with Criminals who are so brave. It's them, and knowing you aren't armed to the teeth. Brazen bastards are after you, and you are left limp wristing your soft cock while you are completely fucked.
@TallAnon It matters not what you care about. Lefty minds can't wrap their minds around the simple facts that guns save lives. You are left with your asinine city slicker mindset. Yet you support pedophilia while crying foul. So some asshole went off unhinged. Your chances of dying via any other method does not decrease in the least with gun control. It's proven time and time again with the likes of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canadia, Germany, etc. You want to live in your Dem ran shit hole, so be it. You want to come and take my guns, so be it.
It's not so much as it is hard for people to grasp, as it is that they refuse to accept it. They dont want to let go of their gns just as much as a child doesn't want to let go of their toys. The NRA backs them up. Try and reason with them by showing them statistics ( look at Japan, for example) about countries with low homicide rates due to guns, and they won't listen. Worth a read, below:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729
Why can't people ever understand that guns are just one way people kill each other and if guns were never invented, we'd have school crossbowing and stabbings every week.
Trying to blame the problem on guns is just ignoring the real issue, while also trying to take away the Second Amendment and people's rights to protect themselves from government tyranny.
As I said before, it is almost always the people who never have to protect anyone or rely on others to keep them safe, that oppose gun safety the most. You know, weak women and pussy men. They're ALWAYS the ones who oppose gun control more than anyone.
true. but there are those cases like Chairman Mao, NAZI Germany, the people thrown into volcanos... where govt starts killing people by other means. If we add up all the people killed in just those episodes, might even out.
The country... the only country that exists... usa... haha... was founded on the idea of freedom from govt, which had guns as a cornerstone in the balance of power.
Creates obvious problems we now wrestle with because we have a large number of poorly parented dangerous humans.. primarily male.
Science also proves that people with guns deter and stop crimes. Please look at both sides of the coin instead of just one side.
Speaking of science. Consider some physics and math. Have you ever done the calculations for the physics of a bullet compared to a car? It's about kinetic energy.
Let's say a bullet travels 10X the velocity of a car at highway speeds. So what do you think the mass of a car is compared to a bullet? Do you think the car has 10X the mass of a bullet? 100X? 1000X? 10000X? More?
Let's be real for a moment, the whole problem of safety and the feeling of safety. Yes you can take away all the guns and how do you want to replace them?
Like what shall make me people feel safe especially in the countryside where not every city may have a strong police force.
That's the issue I have lately because whereas in Europe in the US many people don't trust the police to help them in times of a attack also in central Europe like Germany or UK thefts often flee when they realise that the inhabitants of a house are around and the house isn't empty.
I don't know about the US but here it's less likely to experience a confrontation where the theft has a gun.
They stop shooting each other and start stabbing each other, shit doesn't change and the US already has millions of criminals with guns, taking guns away doesn't do jack, just leave citizens defenseless against these criminals, let's not mention the second amendment was created for civilians to defend themselves if the government ever becomes corrupt and turns on the public, I guess if y'all wanna trust your government to the point you feel like they will never take advantage of the people then that all you but corruption is everywhere 🤷🏽
You're 100% correct. They don't shoot other people. They use other weapons and articles to do their killing with. Hammers, knives, machetes, home-made bombs, vehicles, chemicals, and rocks... Rocks are especially bad. We ought to take those away too! But the things are EVERY WHERE!
You see taking away guns, doesn't solve the real problem - people's desire to murder. Until you address that, taking away one tool (the gun), means they simply use a different one.
Science proves it... Logic could have too but then there's fist, cats, bats, knives. I mean sadly anger and violence are within people so disarming everyone is not going to stop. Guns are to protect and kill but also brains are for thinking and controlling actions. People are controlling actions and thinking now. And also with this thinking or shall we say the science, if that was a case why this on the public might not just deserve the world so that way nobody can shoot anybody because no guns will be in anyone's hands not the military not the police not the people?
Well if you're talking about America, I think it's about 200 years too late to reverse what's already set in motion, the seal's already broken as the violent criminals already have guns and wouldn't just return them because some new law says so. Meanwhile the law-abiding gun owners would do their lawful duty and become unarmed, thus giving the violent criminals free reign to rape, pillage, kill, and destroy as they see fit. Once you introduce guns into the general population, you have to assume the criminal underworld will become absolutely and permanently saturated with firearms of all varieties. So then the question becomes one of damage limitation -- making sure law-abiding, morally upstanding citizens have the capability to out-gun, out-number, and out-manoeuvre any attempts on their lives or livelihoods by a gun-bearing criminal.
They refuse to look at the facts.
More kids in the united states die by gunfire than car crashes. More kids die by gunfire than on duty police officers and active military members do. Guns are now the leading cause of death for kids.
Sixty percent of gun deaths are suicides. Suicide is not really "gunfire." That's a really disingenuous way to frame the problem.
@OldWorldOrder more like 50%. Also we are talking about children. Aged 1-19. In 2019 out of 23,941 gun related suicides 12% were under the age of 24.
But guess what. Suicide by gun is gunfire. It's still access to guns. If literal children couldn't get access to guns like the 172 5-14 year olds in 2019 they could still be here right now.
Maybe. Or maybe they would have just jumped off a building or swallowed a bottle of pills.
You have hoplophobia. You have an irrational aversion to firearms.
@OldWorldOrder I don't at all actually. Not afraid of guns at all. I'm afraid of people senselessly dying and nobody doing anything about it
Oh goodie, more anti-2A propaganda by retards who can't understand the basic premise of protecting yourself and all you own from thugs and criminals. Since you have a hard-on for science so much, now here this: people who don't have guns are at least 100% more likely to get robbed and or killed by said thugs and criminals than by those who don't. Nobody supports disarmament of civilians more than thugs and criminals since it makes their work easier. "Oh but you have the police." Oh the same police that liberals want defunded? The same police who do nothing when psychopaths like Salvador Ramos shoot their own grandma then shoot up a school of children?
No, retards like you who trust the government to protect us are everything wrong with this country.
How do you take away peoples guns though? In the USA gun trafficking is #2 right after drug trafficking.
Outlaw them and only criminals will have them, because they can still buy them... much like they buy illegal drugs.
It would be different if the border was secure, but since its not, I see no way to take all the guns away.
It would be truly stupid to take them away from law abiding and make them victims of the criminals with no way to defend themselves.
Yeah not sure. I’d go so far as saying people who like sporting or collecting guns dont shoot people. Youd think theyd be smarter and protect their hobby by making it more restrictive.
I do drone fkying and had to get a UAV license. They keep upping the requirements because dumbasses land drones on airport runaways.
You would be correct. Hunting/Competition/Home & Self Defense and collecting guns are all things we do as responsible citizens. It's not a hobby, it's a lifestyle. When you say you think we'd be smarter and protect our hobby by making it more restrictive is where you fall flat. The very fact you make such a comment tells you how successful we are at keeping our lifestyle alive and well. I'd love to hear one such way in which you'd love to make our lifestyle more restrictive.
You fly a drone, you have a license. They keep upping the requirements, blah blah blah. You own a gun too allegedly. What we keep on saying to you people is, common sense gun laws are in place. If you were to tell us why a city libtard who hates guns is in possession of one, that might explain a lot. Did you actually purchase it? Obviously you don't hunt or fish. You also didn't purchase it for self/home defense. So, it comes down to, how the fuck did you get your gun? Did you inherit it? Did someone you trust in your family hand it over to you? That's where the gray area is. The gray area is not something that can ever be restricted.
We keep on telling you. Get your ballz over to a gun shop, take the prerequisite classes to buy one and carry. Tell us about the neighborhoods you avoid. Tell us about your driver's license, tell us about your knives, tell us about your hammers. Tell us about how crime, murders/rapes, etc, are totally better in other first world countries where they have more restrictive gun laws (hate to spill the beans here, they aren't). Then tell us why we shouldn't stand and fight against asinine morons who don't even know what laws are supposed to supposed to make everything safer for you.
Of course there are. I'm not a lawyer and have no way of navigating just what it takes to actually go through the hoops of purchasing guns in the Great State of Texas. Before you go off saying an infant can buy a gun in Texas, try to do it yourself. If like John Wayne Gacy, you have sodomy on your record (aka your wife found it rape when she told you no, to do a dipstick with your thumb in her backdoor like Eric Cartman when he's trying to wrestle gators and the like to emulate Steve Irwiin) you might just be a felon, and no, NICS background check will not allow you to purchase a firearm.
And history has shown once a government/ruling class takes away the population's guns the citizens end up getting slaughtered by the millions. This has happened numerous times and the founding fathers knew what they were doing when they wrote "threats both foreign and domestic". But by all means, disarm yourself and leave everyone else to make their own decisions.
Ahhh. It's cure that you think there's some virtue in keeping people from shooting others as if there's never a good reason to shoot somebody. Tell you what.. if you convince the cops, military and the security guards of all those politicians to stop using guns I'll think about it.
I agree with you 100% I like your argument on gun control and your thoughts about it but what I don't like is I am very responsible with my guns and they're locked up safe and I wouldn't want somebody telling me that I had to give my guns up because of what somebody else did
Have you seen what it takes to own a firearm in the UK? For non-farmers at least, people who just want to use them for fun, it takes months, they have to be safely stored, you have to keep practicing (or the licence will be taken away again), you have to be healthy (presumably including mental health), and you have to have a good reason (target shooting is a good reason, "I'm afraid" isn't a good reason, afaics).
None of that should break the 2A, why would you want unstable people in the militia?
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Well it's kind of like the same way here if you're going to go hunting you have to have it Hunters safety course and I believe it needs to be renewed every year I quit hunting so
I don't know what the answers all I know is that we elect our politicians to do the right things for all of us and they're so busy being bought and sold and they're so busy doing business for the the corporations with lots of money so they can get rehired re-elected when it comes time I don't think that they do have two things that they're supposed to do for we have a mental health problem big time here if you watched some of the ways politicians Act I think even after them mentally ill the only answer that I have is most of the people doing The Killing are teenagers I need parents have to know what their kids are doing who they are how they act if they're mentally ill they need help and there has to be a way for the parents to afford the help for their kid there's so much violence in the world nowadays I mean I don't even watch TV anymore but even when I did watch TV I know the difference between right and wrong real and fake I don't know if it has something to do with video games like I said I don't have an answer
O.. k... so if pepole dont have as much guns they shoot less... OMG amazing research there
dose not accout for outher deaths
also the research it self as so many outhers end with "can't really say anything for sure"
This just about prove nothing as much as I can see
You'll never beat the gun companies , the IRA is so strong. look you can buy a ghost gun on line ( anyone) and put it together and have a legal gun with no serial #. What's wrong with that picture. people use motor vehicles as weapons and drive over people. maybe it starts with parenting and teaching kids at a early age. There's no good answer yet
People without knives don't stab people.
People without water don't drown people.
People without cars don't run people over.
People without ropes don't strangle people.
People without bombs don't blow up people.
People without poison don't poison people.
People without judo and karate lessons don't maim people.
People without razor blades don't slice people up.
People without rocks don't bash people's heads in.
Where does it end?
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