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Surge in gun deaths in states relaxing their gun laws.

No. It is a very specific situation. Not broad at all.

Knowingly selling to someone with self-harm intent should be equivalent to bars serving alcohol to drunk patrons.

Don't invoke rare hypothetical scenarios. It looks bad on you.

:LOL: Hilarious.

@jaeger19 has been promoting firearms for children and trying to dodge the issue of inherent danger and risk associated with children and firearms.

As regards your point, I would argue that a firearm is an attractive nuisance and, just like a child drowning in a swimming pool on private property, liability should apply to any situation where a firearm is left loaded and unsecured in a fashion that a child could access it.

And indeed, liability law applies to that as well as many other things.

Too much pro-gun propaganda to deal with thoroughly in response. Hyperbole is not your friend. Firearms have never been a successful method for "resisting tyranny" since the founding of the republic. Every person to takes up arms as a rebel argues that they are right and promoting liberty over tyranny. EVERY rebellion has been put down.

But what about that founding of the Republic? Those guys left their guns at home?
Presumably you feel that there is a right to be killed by others expressing a 2A freedom as well.

Presumably, that made sense in your head.
 
By your reasoning, car usage should be gallons per year?
It would accurate reflect usage would it not?
You assert that they are, so the burden is on you. I made a reasonable estimate.
No you didn’t .
No reasonable human would believe that any single intervention will PREVENT self-harm.
Well except for treatment preventing or stopping the suicidal ideation. Yeah. A reasonable person would believe that.
No reasonable human would argue that making firearms available to those inclined to self-harm is reasonable.
no reasonable person would believe that taking firearms away from a person who is not suicidal is going to protect the man in the next county who is suicidal.
No reasonable human would believe that firearms are not a RISK FACTOR for firearm violence.
Sure. Just like a reasonable person would think riding a bicycle is a risk for a bike accident.
Whiskkabibble.
Once, again, you are having trouble following the discussion.
Nope. I just don’t follow your twisted , illogical thinking.
Evasive and irrelevant.
However, you can be on record in favor of allowing any children of any age free access to loaded firearms since you are unable to address that issue.
Gun banners gotta lie don’t you.
Quote me saying “ children of any age or experience etc.
why can’t you gun banners debate honestly???
 
Okay. As a result of war /combat?
A few hundred?
Civilians? Maybe 30? Mostly accidents . A few were shot by citizens while in commission of a crime.

One policeman shot in the line of duty .
 
It would accurate reflect usage would it not?

No you didn’t .
Review this discussion and concentrate on post 441.

Well except for treatment preventing or stopping the suicidal ideation. Yeah. A reasonable person would believe that.

no reasonable person would believe that taking firearms away from a person who is not suicidal is going to protect the man in the next county who is suicidal.

Sure. Just like a reasonable person would think riding a bicycle is a risk for a bike accident.
Whiskkabibble.

Nope. I just don’t follow your twisted , illogical thinking.

Gun banners gotta lie don’t you.
Quote me saying “ children of any age or experience etc.
why can’t you gun banners debate honestly???
Firearm are a risk factor for completion of a suicide attempt. Reducing access reduces suicide. Now, you will not agree and you will be wrong.
Your tortured explanations about your children having firearms is pure BS because the question is about the routine access of children to firearms.
You cannot address the real question honestly because that you mean you understand that firearms are inherently dangerous and uniquely lethal. So I do not expect an honest response from you on either issue.
 
Okay. As a result of war /combat?
A few hundred?
Civilians? Maybe 30? Mostly accidents . A few were shot by citizens while in commission of a crime.

One policeman shot in the line of duty .
Highly unlikely.
 
Review this discussion and concentrate on post 441.
Done.
Firearm are a risk factor for completion of a suicide attempt.
Yep if a person is a suicide completer.
Reducing access reduces suicide. Now, you will not agree and you will be wrong.
Of course. S. Korea has reduced access to firearms and has one of the highest suicide rates in. Your contention is blatantly false.
Your tortured explanations about your children having firearms is pure BS because the question is about the routine access of children to firearms.
No it’s not. You just have zero experience or understanding of firearms and firearm owners.

You can’t get around the fact that millions of children from 6 to 17 ( or youbger) use firearms safely . Hunting as early as 6 . In some states hunting unsupervised as young as 10.
And you know what happens? Nothing.

“ but but there is risk! Just like there is a risk that I’ll get in a bike accident when I ride my mountain bike or a risk going across my dirt road to get the mail.



You cannot address the real question honestly because that you mean you understand that firearms are inherently dangerous and uniquely lethal
I did address it honestly . I have certainly given loaded firearms to children.
now would I give every person child or adult a loaded firearm? Certainly not. Some INDIVIDUALS are just not responsible enough or don’t have the mental stability or capacity.
I certainly would not give you a firearm. That’s quite clear.
. So I do not expect an honest response from you on either issue.
I gave you an honest answer. You just didn’t like it because your bias against gun owners never ever conceived of the idea that millions of children each year go out into the woods with loaded guns and hunt.
Perhaps that’s what bothers you so much. You know that you are not safe with a firearm and it irks you that millions of children are more responsible than you are.
 
Firearm are a risk factor for completion of a suicide attempt.
No it isn’t. .
Reducing access reduces suicide.
No it doesn’t. Firearms have no relevance to suicide rates. Japan has no private ownership of firearms but higher suicide rate than we do.
You cannot address the real question honestly because that you mean you understand that firearms are inherently dangerous and uniquely lethal
No they aren’t.
. So I do not expect an honest response from you on either issue.
😂😂😂😂😂
 
Knowingly selling to someone with self-harm intent should be equivalent to bars serving alcohol to drunk patrons.
Again, we need to distinguish WHAT the seller is knowing. If you sell to 1000 people and you know, on average, it is likely one of them will commit suicide, that is different from selling to one person who you know is highly likely to commit suicide. Even though the "expected number" (in statistics terms) of suicides would be the same in those two scenarios, the merchant who sells a thousand legal guns has left a trail of (stereotypically) father-son outings in the woods, where a child learned to be studiously careful and responsible with potentially deadly force in pursuit of an economically and culturally valuable goal.
Don't invoke rare hypothetical scenarios. It looks bad on you.
Prosecutors all over the country are looking at 3D printer scenarios.
As regards your point, I would argue that a firearm is an attractive nuisance and, just like a child drowning in a swimming pool on private property, liability should apply to any situation where a firearm is left loaded and unsecured in a fashion that a child could access it.
An attractive nuisance implies that a child is walking down the street - without trespassing - and sees something that tempts him to go in. It is, nonetheless, a concept that seems prone to be taken too far. If the child decides to murder someone you blame the person who had a gun that could be stolen -- if the little angel instead decides to rape a classmate, do you call her an "attractive nuisance" and blame her for being too tempting?
Too much pro-gun propaganda to deal with thoroughly in response. Hyperbole is not your friend. Firearms have never been a successful method for "resisting tyranny" since the founding of the republic. Every person to takes up arms as a rebel argues that they are right and promoting liberty over tyranny. EVERY rebellion has been put down.
Presumably you feel that there is a right to be killed by others expressing a 2A freedom as well.
The scenario of rebelling against a sitting government is difficult, but not impossible. However, as we see today, and as has happened many times before in history, before a totalitarian group deposes a democratic government and takes over, first it exists as a paramilitary group which relies on fear and crime to cow the population into silence. The Brownshirts (Sturmabteilung) were attacking people in Germany during the Weimar Republic, for example. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to act as a militia in the patriotic defense of democracy before it falls.
 
Done.

Yep if a person is a suicide completer.

Of course. S. Korea has reduced access to firearms and has one of the highest suicide rates in. Your contention is blatantly false.

No it’s not. You just have zero experience or understanding of firearms and firearm owners.

You can’t get around the fact that millions of children from 6 to 17 ( or youbger) use firearms safely . Hunting as early as 6 . In some states hunting unsupervised as young as 10.
And you know what happens? Nothing.

“ but but there is risk! Just like there is a risk that I’ll get in a bike accident when I ride my mountain bike or a risk going across my dirt road to get the mail.




I did address it honestly . I have certainly given loaded firearms to children.
now would I give every person child or adult a loaded firearm? Certainly not. Some INDIVIDUALS are just not responsible enough or don’t have the mental stability or capacity.
I certainly would not give you a firearm. That’s quite clear.

I gave you an honest answer. You just didn’t like it because your bias against gun owners never ever conceived of the idea that millions of children each year go out into the woods with loaded guns and hunt.
Perhaps that’s what bothers you so much. You know that you are not safe with a firearm and it irks you that millions of children are more responsible than you are.
Once again, YOUR behavior in exceptional circumstances is not the issue (however thoughtless and misinformed it may be). The issue is social and political policy on the management of firearms and basic considerations of public health and safety.
There is no rational public policy that will endorse adult-level access to firearms by children, as much as want to fabricate exceptional circumstances.
Your
 
Once again, YOUR behavior in exceptional circumstances is not the issue (however thoughtless and misinformed it may be). The issue is social and political policy on the management of firearms and basic considerations of public health and safety.
There is no rational public policy that will endorse adult-level access to firearms by children, as much as want to fabricate exceptional circumstances.
Your
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Once again, YOUR behavior in exceptional circumstances is not the issue (however thoughtless and misinformed it may be). The issue is social and political policy on the management of firearms and basic considerations of public health and safety.

There is no rational public policy that will endorse adult-level access to firearms by children, as much as you want to fabricate exceptional circumstances.

In addition, firearms are a well-documented injury risk and promoting them as immaterial to successful suicide by those with self-harm intent is a demonstration of pure disregard for human life and safety and reflects an exceptional level of arrogance and ignorance that is likely unsurpassed.
 
Again, we need to distinguish WHAT the seller is knowing. If you sell to 1000 people and you know, on average, it is likely one of them will commit suicide, that is different from selling to one person who you know is highly likely to commit suicide. Even though the "expected number" (in statistics terms) of suicides would be the same in those two scenarios, the merchant who sells a thousand legal guns has left a trail of (stereotypically) father-son outings in the woods, where a child learned to be studiously careful and responsible with potentially deadly force in pursuit of an economically and culturally valuable goal.
Alcohol sales to the drunk is obvious. Your obfuscation is obvious as well. Firearm sellers should have liability responsibility similar to tavern owners.
Prosecutors all over the country are looking at 3D printer scenarios.

An attractive nuisance implies that a child is walking down the street - without trespassing - and sees something that tempts him to go in. It is, nonetheless, a concept that seems prone to be taken too far. If the child decides to murder someone you blame the person who had a gun that could be stolen -- if the little angel instead decides to rape a classmate, do you call her an "attractive nuisance" and blame her for being too tempting?
Why is it so hard for gun apologists to recognize that guns should be secured from access to children. The pool analogy applies.
When you generalize from extreme, unlikely and exceptional circumstances you demonstrate both ignorance of the subject and desperation.
Deal with the common reality of firearm access by children not your fantasies.
The scenario of rebelling against a sitting government is difficult, but not impossible. However, as we see today, and as has happened many times before in history, before a totalitarian group deposes a democratic government and takes over, first it exists as a paramilitary group which relies on fear and crime to cow the population into silence. The Brownshirts (Sturmabteilung) were attacking people in Germany during the Weimar Republic, for example. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to act as a militia in the patriotic defense of democracy before it falls.
Jews were tormented in Germany because there was wide-spread availability of firearms. Civilian firearms are more often used for intimidation or vigilantism than for "freedom fighting". How did the Civil War turn out? How about Shays Rebellion? how did John Brown do? do you approve of John Wilkes Booth's defense of the Confederacy? what about the Days of Rage in the 70's? All these events were driven by self-right freedom fighters.
 
Can't think of anything other than an ad hom attack issues?
If you can't accurately summarize the source material, it isn't an ad hominem attack. It's a reading comprehension issues.
 
There is no such thing as gun violence. Guns are inanimate objects incapable of committing any act.
As foolish a conclusion as I've heard. Does a hammer build a house?

The tool is part of it. How many people killed by guns would have been killed if a gun wasn't available? Ergo, gun violence.
 
This is also an ad hominem but don't stop discredit your position more please.
Any accurate and rational criticism of the posts of a gun apologist is typically considered by them to be ad hominem.
 
As foolish a conclusion as I've heard. Does a hammer build a house?

Haha! Nope. A hammer doesn't build a house. It would be stupid to say, "Look at that house built by that hammer."

I wonder if you understand the hammer you just took to the baby-talkers?


The tool is part of it. How many people killed by guns would have been killed if a gun wasn't available? Ergo, gun violence.

Exactly like rope violence. All those black citizens in the south killed by ropes...terrible. And all those people minding their own business practicing knots and testing the capacity of the rafters in their garage...and tragically killed by those evil ropes.
 
Any accurate and rational criticism of the posts of a gun apologist is typically considered by them to be ad hominem.

That's ad hominem in conjunction with begging the question.
 
Alcohol sales to the drunk is obvious. Your obfuscation is obvious as well. Firearm sellers should have liability responsibility similar to tavern owners.
Tavern owners don't have to do a background check on their customers! They can't sell to you if you're obviously falling down drunk ... just as a gun shop owner isn't going to sell to a guy who talks about who he wants to shoot.
Why is it so hard for gun apologists to recognize that guns should be secured from access to children. The pool analogy applies.
If the state is going to intrude onto your property and blame you because an uninvited trespasser could steal a gun, we know where that goes. If you're one of those people who idles their car in the winter and someone gets in and takes it to rob a bank, do they come after you the same way? Do people have to be afraid to leave the keys in the lawnmower because a kid might flip it in a 'joy ride', or worry about being blamed for underage drinking because they don't have a lock on their liquor cabinets?

Either the gun is being singled out for special treatment, because the intent is really simply to disarm the people (the likely explanation) or else this doctrine will dictate every aspect of people's private lives (the likely result).
When you generalize from extreme, unlikely and exceptional circumstances you demonstrate both ignorance of the subject and desperation.
Without exception, that is what anti gun people do. There are half a billion guns in the U.S. that have caused no trouble at all!
Jews were tormented in Germany because there was wide-spread availability of firearms.
Look up Law on the Disarmament of the People (1920), which was enforced more harshly after the Beer Hall Putsch. How did that turn out for them?

Civilian firearms are more often used for intimidation or vigilantism than for "freedom fighting". How did the Civil War turn out?
Ummm, I think we won? Thanks to state militias from the North with many brave boys who grew up shooting game from the time they were knee high to a high knee.
How about Shays Rebellion? how did John Brown do?
John Brown's body lies a-moulderin' in the grave ... his truth keeps marching on. Now that was an ugly and imperfect series of historical events, but a key point was that Brown was taking weapons from the government anyway! Are you going to disarm the Army?
do you approve of John Wilkes Booth's defense of the Confederacy?
That was a nation-state level assassination, possibly resulting from the failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree. You're not going to disarm foreign spies in the U.S. either!
what about the Days of Rage in the 70's?
That was some kids smashing windows. No guns necessary to get panties in a knot, not then and not in L.A. now.
 
Once again, YOUR behavior in exceptional circumstances is not the issue (however thoughtless and misinformed it may be).
My behavio is not exceptional at all. Cripes that’s just shooting sporting clays . You know how many rounds of. 22 a family can use up in just a couple of hours of shooting.?
Because people shoot so much in America we literally go through periods of ammunition shortages!!!
The issue is social and political policy on the management of firearms and basic considerations of public health and safety.
Sure. And the social and political policy of taking a firearm from someone not suicidal in the name of preventing the self harm of a fellow in the next county who is suicidal and plans to hang himself is the height of stupidity.
Congratulations.
There is no rational public policy that will endorse adult-level access to firearms by children, as much as want to fabricate exceptional circumstances.
Your
There already is a current rational public policy that endorses the adult level access to firearms to children .
There is no exceptional circumstances.
Millions of children as young as 10 go out hunting without adult supervision.

.
 
Tavern owners don't have to do a background check on their customers! They can't sell to you if you're obviously falling down drunk ... just as a gun shop owner isn't going to sell to a guy who talks about who he wants to shoot.
Tavern owners don't do blood alcohol testing either. The firearm transaction that is suspicious should be stopped and, yet, extremely disturbed people are able to buy firearms. However, NRA and other pro-gun groups have implemented protections against liability throughout the gun industry.
If the state is going to intrude onto your property and blame you because an uninvited trespasser could steal a gun, we know where that goes. If you're one of those people who idles their car in the winter and someone gets in and takes it to rob a bank, do they come after you the same way? Do people have to be afraid to leave the keys in the lawnmower because a kid might flip it in a 'joy ride', or worry about being blamed for underage drinking because they don't have a lock on their liquor cabinets?

Either the gun is being singled out for special treatment, because the intent is really simply to disarm the people (the likely explanation) or else this doctrine will dictate every aspect of people's private lives (the likely result).
Simple Tort law.
Without exception, that is what anti gun people do. There are half a billion guns in the U.S. that have caused no trouble at all!
So that would be another extreme generalization that can be shown to be inaccurate.
Look up Law on the Disarmament of the People (1920), which was enforced more harshly after the Beer Hall Putsch. How did that turn out for them?
Learn about the fantasy that civilian firearms are to "resist tyranny". In fact, civilian firearms more frequently perpetuate vigilantism and lynching and intimidation.

Ummm, I think we won? Thanks to state militias from the North with many brave boys who grew up shooting game from the time they were knee high to a high knee.
The Civil War is called the War of Northern Aggression by many in the South. The South viewed their actions as those of burdened by the over-reach of the North.
Once again, rebellion produced huge and preventable losses.
John Brown's body lies a-moulderin' in the grave ... his truth keeps marching on. Now that was an ugly and imperfect series of historical events, but a key point was that Brown was taking weapons from the government anyway! Are you going to disarm the Army?
The issue, that you brought up, was civilian weapons to resist tyranny (as perceived by those opposed to the government).

That was a nation-state level assassination, possibly resulting from the failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree. You're not going to disarm foreign spies in the U.S. either!
It was an act of a group determined to resist tyranny.
That was some kids smashing windows. No guns necessary to get panties in a knot, not then and not in L.A. now.
Wrong. That was bombings and acts of rebellion such as bank robberies and assassinations at one point weekly. Learn about history.
 
"Simple tort law"

Applies to negligence with firearms, as well as other things.
 
Tavern owners don't do blood alcohol testing either. The firearm transaction that is suspicious should be stopped and, yet, extremely disturbed people are able to buy firearms.

And yet, drunks are able to buy more drinks.

However, NRA and other pro-gun groups have implemented protections against liability throughout the gun industry.

Wild exaggeration.

Simple Tort law.

Applies to guns.

So that would be another extreme generalization that can be shown to be inaccurate.

Learn about the fantasy that civilian firearms are to "resist tyranny". In fact, civilian firearms more frequently perpetuate vigilantism and lynching and intimidation.


The Civil War is called the War of Northern Aggression by many in the South. The South viewed their actions as those of burdened by the over-reach of the North.
Once again, rebellion produced huge and preventable losses.

The issue, that you brought up, was civilian weapons to resist tyranny (as perceived by those opposed to the government).


It was an act of a group determined to resist tyranny.

Wrong. That was bombings and acts of rebellion such as bank robberies and assassinations at one point weekly. Learn about history.
 
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