Who is asking for a prohibition on guns?
Why do you underestimate the ability of the American people to manage the problem over time?
Is your argument that everything is as good as it can be? Don't change anything?
Is anyone who is pro-gun prepared to say that automatic weapons in the hands of the public, on balance, is having a negative effect?
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
If a friend 'unfriended me' over gun control, I'd simply assume they were never really a good friend.
"Simple minds discuss people, Average minds discuss things, and Great minds discuss ideas".
I'm not much of a gun nut. And not much of a gun-control nut. I still have my second deer rifle. One of my nieces has the first. I'm comfortable with guns, and don't view them as the inherent evil that some do. But I'm probably more interested in what I'd call 'reasonable' gun-control measures than you are.
But I'd NEVER unfriend you over such an issue. I REMEMBER that time you bought me a beer. You think there's ANY chance you're getting rid of me now???? <G>
David G
Harbor Woodworks
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"It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
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"Simple minds discuss people, Average minds discuss things, and Great minds discuss ideas".
Constitutions can be changed. They are only tools.
The Founding Fathers were clearly wrong.
Polite - from where I sit the USA looks anything but polite - you guys are ripping into each other over helping sick people for Gods sake.
Man that last line is scarey, I hope it was a joke.
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
11 incidents of shooting with 16 people shot over 2 days.
Sound like a typical american weekend? Yes, except it was Toronto. Toronto. In Canada. A country with fairly strict gun controls, certainly stronger than anything proposed in the US. American gun culture has begun to creep across the border.
243 shootings to July 28th of this year in the city of Toronto.
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Collateral damage Sean, just part of the casualties of the ongoing civil war combined with weapons of war being easily available. Statistically insignificant.
So you guys are not against gun violence if it is state sponsored against people you disagree with. Got it.
The militia was every able bodied man between the ages of 16 and 60. With equality being what it is today, everyone in this country is part of the militia.
And with over 100 million firearm owners carrying 400+ million guns, if they killed everyone they hated there would be no one left.
When everyone is presumed to be armed, and that is the case unsurprisingly, then such events are inevitable.
Re #57. The term 'loose cannons' comes to mind, said Militia was supposed to be well trained and regulated. What you have now is the modern version of a 1950's Hollywood 'Wild West' where everyone carries or is presumed too, or is considered by some stupid not to.
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
Gun control is racist.
Getting desperate there Sean, bullets don't discriminate. Unless you are referring to the fact that the mass murderers have all been white?
You are a real piece of work.
David G
Harbor Woodworks
https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/
"It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)
I have never said do nothing. I have always said do something effective. So far the best method on offer is the ammunition controls.
How many shootings in Sydney so far this year?
My point is that Toronto is as close as you'll see to a US city with gun controls in place. If you expect no shootings, you're fooling yourself. If you think people won't and don't have illegal guns, you're fooling yourself.
No, no expectation for no shootings, just the expectation that the number of mass shootings could look more like every where else.
Is a gun without bullets an armament? If you have the right to carry arms - is it not implicit that it have bullets?
It could support a ban on certain guns - how can you produce, or sell bullets, for an illegal weapon?
In the end its just a furfy, another way of looking at the problem, seeing the solution and then avoiding it.
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
This kinda did it for me today when I posted this on facebook WITHOUT the black out.
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Kinda lost a lot of friends and family over the last few years.
This post is temporary and my disappear at the discretion of the managment