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Conneticut Shooting will be a Bad One


Well you are out of luck because criminals will not give up their guns, they will use a black market or create their own, and they will kill more people because everyone else is disarmed.

We need to close the border, stop the drug war, make harsher penalties, more security in public places such as schools, and a moral change in the culture.

300 milliion people live in this country, and 90 guns for every 100 people. Don't pretend there is anything that can stop random diasters in a country this big. I don't want to live in a police state either.
 

and bloomberg should have been indicted for conspiring to violate federal gun control laws by sending individuals who were not acting under the laws of the state of Ohio to try to buy guns in ohio illegally so the turd bloomberg could whine that Ohio ought to adopt idiotic gun laws like the citizens of NYC have to put up with
 
Here are some stats for you.

The FBI recently released its Crime in The United States statistics for 2010. Overall, murders in the U.S. have decreased steadily since 2006, dropping from 15,087 to 12,996. Firearms murders — which made up 67 percent of all murders in the U.S. in 2010 — have followed this trend, decreasing by 14 percent.

At the same time that firearms murders were dropping, gun sales were surging. In 2009, FBI background checks for guns increased by 30 percent over the previous year, while firearms sales in large retail outlets increased by almost 40 percent. The number of applications for concealed carry permits jumped across the country as well.



Read more: Gun crime continues to decrease, despite increase in gun sales | The Daily Caller
 

How about cell phones? The misuse of cell phones will kill more than 20 people next year because of cell phone using drivers. Do you also advocate banning cell phones in America? Hmmmm?
 
Thrilla said:
gun ownership rates in his state are very high... and gun crime is very low.

how can this possibly be?
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criminals tend not to be active in areas where the chance of them being shot is rather high
 
Risky Thicket said:
How about cell phones? The misuse of cell phones will kill more than 20 people next year because of cell phone using drivers. Do you also advocate banning cell phones in America? Hmmmm?
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No, because cell phones are not purchased with the intent of committing mass murder and they are not deadly weapons. Once again, I don't support banning guns either.
 
Risky Thicket said:
How about cell phones? The misuse of cell phones will kill more than 20 people next year because of cell phone using drivers. Do you also advocate banning cell phones in America? Hmmmm?
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If he believed that most cell phone users and almost all cell phone advocacy groups were conservative, he sure would
 

Well, I haven't seen your proof. So if we go by yours, nota bene and whatshisface's logic then that means it doesn't exist. See how that works?

You claim to be a lawyer, so....can you prove a negative? If you avoid the question again, I'm going to assume your answer is no.
 
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Napoleon said:
No, because cell phones are not purchased with the intent of committing mass murder and they are not deadly weapons. Once again, I don't support banning guns either.
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how many guns are purchased legally for the purpose of committing mass murder? I have owned hundreds of guns in my 30 years of competitive shooting and collecting and I didn't buy a single one for committing even one count of murder, let alone mass murder
 
Moot said:
Well, I haven't seen your proof. So if we go by yours, nota bene and whatshisface's logic then that means it doesn't exist. See how that works?
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the burden is upon those who want to restrict rights to prove their case. I have no duty to prove freedom is good. and I have posted tons of statistics over the last several years. You should have paid attention
 
Napoleon said:
No, because cell phones are not purchased with the intent of committing mass murder and they are not deadly weapons. Once again, I don't support banning guns either.
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Nap, the kid who massacred all those children in Connecticut didn't purchase any guns with the intent on committing mass murder. In fact, he tried but the law worked in that regard.

What percentage of American gun owners would you say legally purchase guns with the intent of committing murder?
 

stop.... facts that are in opposition ot the anti-gun crusaders shall not be posted.

you need to post hopes, wants, and desires that have no factual basis.... and stats from the UK.... those are a must!
 

You nailed it!

I also follow the FBI data, and have seen what you have.

Here in the country in OH, everyone carries a gun in person or in their truck, legally and illegally, and everyone know it.

I fired 2 rounds into the ground to force the retreat of 2 unknown dogs around midnight several years ago.

Five minutes later my neighbor drove in the driveway, armed with his pistol, wanting to make sure that we were OK!

God, but I love living in the country! :mrgreen:
 
Catawba said:
The point that was made was there are generally more gun deaths, the more guns a population owns.
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We know.

No one ever said that wasn't true.

That's true of any item you introduce into a population. Any item at all. Without glass, no one would ever get stabbed with a broken bottle. Without electricity, no one would ever be electrocuted. Without tall buildings or bridges, no one could fall off them. Without parachutes, there would be no skydiving accidents, because there would be no skydiving.

We keep the tech because it's benefits far outweigh it's drawbacks. Guns lower the over-all crime rate far more-so then any increase in gun-crime. If Lansa had dumped a couple buckets of water on the classroom floor and then plugged a common power cord with a frayed end into the wall, electrocuting everyone, gun-control logic dictates that we ban electricity.
 
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Risky Thicket said:
What percentage of American gun owners would you say legally purchase guns with the intent of committing murder?
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1 instance is too many as far as I'm concerned so number games are irrelevant to me. If the NRA supports closing that legal loophole then I can't imagine why any responsible gun owner would oppose it.
 
TurtleDude said:
the burden is upon those who want to restrict rights to prove their case. I have no duty to prove freedom is good. and I have posted tons of statistics over the last several years. You should have paid attention
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You missed the part I edited in...


You claim to be a lawyer, so....can you prove a negative? If you avoid the question again, I'm going to assume your answer is no.
 
TurtleDude said:
No and until you tell us what laws you want, I am not going to address your repetitive posts that are silly anymore
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I've told you already, If the gun fanatics don't stop their opposition to reasonable methods to help reduce the possibility of guns getting in the hands of criminals and the mentally deranged, the people will pass much broader gun control laws.

Waiting periods for national background checks, is recommended by most psychiatrists. And I think people should be required to keep their guns locked up when not in use to prevent the 1000's of deaths each year by kids using their parents guns.

If the gun fanatics won't go along with these measures, or come up with their own that would be more effective, than the US will eventually ban them as they did in the UK.

It will be up to the gun fanatics to decide which way they would rather have it.
 

More dreaming. Not only is that unenforceable, illegal, and innefective, the enaction of such measures will lead to a civil war.
 

Then here's a story you'll love....man shoots child in halloween costume because he thought she was a skunk.
 


Are you saying you would prefer being killed to being robbed?

Would you prefer your neighbors kids were killed to you being robbed?
 

I want to see a link that says most psychiatrists approve a waiting period, and that would mean more than ONE organization.
 
I have a question what does the average American need a 50 cal rifle for, AR-15, AK 47, or a Bushmaster for? My point is there is no need for any American to have these weapons they. They were made to do one thing to kill people and many at a time. These weapons need to be banned no legal ownership period.
 
Bigfoot 88 said:
More dreaming. Not only is that unenforceable, illegal, and innefective, the enaction of such measures will lead to a civil war.
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There was no civil wars in previous gun control measures, either in England or here.
 
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