Some people aren't able to have a rational discussion, so I'll just wish one a nice day.
No, some folks really cannot......however, best of luck in your holy grail quest to ban hand guns.
Second amendment, self-defense, 'freedom', 'resisting the government', name all you want about reasons for guns, and it's fulfilled by long guns.
The only 'self-defense' not met is walking around with a handgun on you. And the fact that there are OTHER, criminal, hostile, people walking around with handguns far outweighs the benefit to your self-defense. The aggressor will far more often have the benefit of shooting first, of surprising or ambushing.
Today, I was assaulted by a young man who had a crazed level of hostility when told to wear his mask over his nose. I suspect he's a criminal mentality in general, with that level of hostility and readiness to use violence. If he'd had a handgun, there's no reason apparent he wouldn't use it.
We do not need that level of danger, that level of murder, because some idiotic, ignorant, deluded people are in a gun cult mentality, even if THEY don't live around the dangerous people who walk around with handguns and criminal mentalities and tempers.
I'm not anti-gun ownership or anti-gun rights. I'm anti-idiotic stealthy guns that greatly increase the danger and killing for only a small fraction of the benefit in return.
Pro-gun people love to say 'mass shootings are a tiny percent of the shootings, banning assault rifles is just a political feel good move that doesn't fix things'. So, let's ban the crime gun: the hand gun. Now.
I'm pretty tired of America being the worst country around in important areas.
Worst at jailing the most, worst at the virus, worst at gun violence, worst at arming the world in military weapons, worst at taking vaccines apparently. The only defense I know for handguns is mindless, and I have no respect for that position.
I DO have some sympathy for the enormous undertaking it would be practically, and the fact that it would be imperfect, where on occasion, 'the only person with a gun was a criminal'. But overall, the number of killings will plummet. I'm open to reasonable ways to implement it over time and phase it in. And I'm tired of the idiotic mentality of people who don't care unless they are personally affected by the violence.
Second amendment, self-defense, 'freedom', 'resisting the government', name all you want about reasons for guns, and it's fulfilled by long guns.
The only 'self-defense' not met is walking around with a handgun on you.
No, it's not. Here's a bit of a wakeup call for you: Mexican drug cartels get many of their guns from the US. Funny, they don't buy their pot from US pot shops.
Second amendment, self-defense, 'freedom', 'resisting the government', name all you want about reasons for guns, and it's fulfilled by long guns.
The only 'self-defense' not met is walking around with a handgun on you. And the fact that there are OTHER, criminal, hostile, people walking around with handguns far outweighs the benefit to your self-defense. The aggressor will far more often have the benefit of shooting first, of surprising or ambushing.
Today, I was assaulted by a young man who had a crazed level of hostility when told to wear his mask over his nose. I suspect he's a criminal mentality in general, with that level of hostility and readiness to use violence. If he'd had a handgun, there's no reason apparent he wouldn't use it.
We do not need that level of danger, that level of murder, because some idiotic, ignorant, deluded people are in a gun cult mentality, even if THEY don't live around the dangerous people who walk around with handguns and criminal mentalities and tempers.
I'm not anti-gun ownership or anti-gun rights. I'm anti-idiotic stealthy guns that greatly increase the danger and killing for only a small fraction of the benefit in return.
Pro-gun people love to say 'mass shootings are a tiny percent of the shootings, banning assault rifles is just a political feel good move that doesn't fix things'. So, let's ban the crime gun: the hand gun. Now.
I'm pretty tired of America being the worst country around in important areas.
Worst at jailing the most, worst at the virus, worst at gun violence, worst at arming the world in military weapons, worst at taking vaccines apparently. The only defense I know for handguns is mindless, and I have no respect for that position.
I DO have some sympathy for the enormous undertaking it would be practically, and the fact that it would be imperfect, where on occasion, 'the only person with a gun was a criminal'. But overall, the number of killings will plummet. I'm open to reasonable ways to implement it over time and phase it in. And I'm tired of the idiotic mentality of people who don't care unless they are personally affected by the violence.
Please reveal your foolproof plan for collecting all handguns in America. This includes the handguns of all criminals, gang members, as well as legal gun owners. When you figure out how to confiscate all guns you may get some movement of this. Legal gun owners are not going to willingly give up guns when they know that criminals will not give them up.
The last time I thought of Mexico for pot was during the Carter administration.
Sorry, prohibition will never work on guns because there's already four hundred million of them in private hands.
It is fiscally, logistically and mathematically impossible to ban guns in the USA.
Hard pass, thanks anyway.
It appears to be too complicated for you that the best situation is a handgun ban, but that when there isn't a ban, there is a case for law-abiding people to have them against the real danger of dangerous people having them. It's up to each person to weight the pros and cons.
Then the blood of thousands of Americans annually is on your hands for supporting the handguns that kill them.
You missed the point of the analogy.
Ending slavery will never happen because there are millions of slaves who are central to their owners' wealth and the economy and the culture. How are you going to have millions of people who generally can't even read or write just become 'full citizens' overnight? It's a very hard project. So have a lot of things that have happened.
Here's an interesting statistic.
Of all the murders/non-negligent manslaughters by handguns, rifles, or shotguns, handguns were used for 93%; rifles for 6%; and shotguns for 3% (don't total 100% because of rounding, e.g., handguns are 92.7%).
... and when we include an average year for all firearm deaths (35-40K) in the United States (including suicide), gun deaths make up .012% of deaths. Pretty insignificant from a statistical perspective.
For all the traffic deaths on freeways, 90 something percent involved cars!
Then the blood of thousands of Americans annually is on your hands for supporting the handguns that kill them.
In the last half century plus not one of my handguns has so much hinted at wanting to shoot someone.
Why did you post about "guns" in a thread specifically about "handguns"? That is a straw man.
Because it is also the same problem with handguns.
You're overthinking that.
I just said "guns" assuming you understood I was talking about handguns too.
Come on the show, please.
No, that’s ridiculous.
... and when we include an average year for all firearm deaths (35-40K) in the United States (including suicide), gun deaths make up .012% of deaths. Pretty insignificant from a statistical perspective.
Not four hundred million of them, and slaves are human beings, so nobody threw them in a furnace. That was Hitler and the Jews, sorry you have all your failed analogies mixed up, and in any case even Jews aren't guns.
The only thing needed to free the slaves was a pen.
There isn't enough voter support for your fantasy, not even among Democrats.
That's why it will never ever happen, and by the way, with Trumpers now gearing up for full scale war, it's DEFINITELY never going to happen.
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