Jesus Christ...
Pray for the victim's and their families and loved ones.
Also... someone is having a field day... guess who...
Created 17 years ago2007-04-16 22:30:22 UTC by BrattyLord
38_98, that's not a Pokemon card... "I CHOOSE YOU!" doesn't apply here.I know, but i don't care. I'll summon the asshole the way i want.
- It is illegal to own an AK, Uzi, or any type of rocket propelled weaponThat's actually not entirely true, not for all states at least. Civilian model assault rifles are quite popular.
In the United States it is illegal to own a fully automatic AK-47 which was not registered as a National Firearms Act weapon by 1986.But I forgot the semi-automatics..
Criminals will always find ways to commit crime. They will always find ways of getting firearms to kill people or rob people.Yes, but they won't always use guns if they are not easily available, and if they know that their law-abiding victims don't have them either.
Even when a gun ban is in place, guns are still available; there will always be gun crime.Let me see. Guns are illegal in my country. Someone like Cho would need to contact the mafia or rob a cop in order to get a weapon. That kind of reduces the chances of a killing, doesn't it?
It?s like saying, ?Let?s ban all knives?No. Knifes are used for productive things like cooking or eating. And you can't go into a university campus and knife down 35 people just like that. You just can't compare them.
Let me see. Guns are illegal in my country. Someone like Cho would need to contact the mafia or rob a cop in order to get a weapon. That kind of reduces the chances of a killing, doesn't it?Clearly you do not know how effective the illegal arms trade is. Firearms? trafficking is a huge source of criminal income. Here in the UK, the IRA provides most criminal gangs with firearms. Where the IRA gets them, I do not know - probably our own military. All of this activity is underground and hard to detect, often green lighted by the Government in the first place.
No. Knifes are used for productive things like cooking or eating. And you can't go into a university campus and knife down 35 people just like that. You just can't compare them.Well I was actually referring to a proposed Government amnesty of knives. If you grasped my point, which you clearly didn't, you'll see the connection. A knife can be manufactured - just look at what they do in prisons. A gun can also be manufactured or converted from something. Remember the film about the hitman who walked through airport customs with a gun made of wood?
So the whole concept, whilst sounding like a great idea, is actually the opposite.I don't know why no one sees this: gun control works. Look at the rest of the western world, damn it. There's been no rampant increase in gun violence in countries where gun control laws are present. Law-abiding citizens are not constantly harassed by gun-wielding maniacs from which they have no defence. Governments have not turned into dictatorships.
Even when a gun ban is in place, guns are still available; there will always be gun crime.The point of gun control was never to eradicate gun violence. It was to decrease it. And regarding that, it's succeeded.
I'm interested in finding out what news you've seen because it certainly doesn't match anything in reality regarding this issue.Um, take a look at just about any statistic that shows deaths from gun-related crimes and maybe you'll realise what ZL's saying.
Clearly you do not know how effective the illegal arms trade isYes, I know. But my point was, could a tech student buy those weapons with such ease? I'm not talking about the IRA or criminal gangs. I'm talking about individuals with no apparent relationship to crime groups...
The point is, after gun control - gun crime rapidly increases because there is then a much higher demand for firearms. It gives criminals the opportunity to make a lot of money very quickly by setting up an illegal firearms trade. Often, these people are in Government, police and military - but that's another issue.Not only does it change the manner in how criminals get weapons (instead of obtaining a license and purchasing a firearm, he simply purchases it from a fellow thug or off of the black market) but it also creates more gun posession crime - Collectors or owners of weaponry, left with no legal option, either must give up their interest and collection, or obtain their weapons through other illicit means, making these once innocent people another crime statistic.
and it works here.It sure does. I can't wait to go back there again!