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10-26-2013, 12:26 PM
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Re: Robbers V Gun Owners.
More statements, more claims, more projection. Why don't you try to answer the questions? That would make it somewhat easier.
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10-26-2013, 07:12 PM
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 My Rank: MASTER SERGEANT Poster Rank:496 Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,087 Mentioned: 23 Post(s) Quoted: 1270 Post(s)
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Re: Robbers V Gun Owners.
Wow. One of the only intelligent people I've seen post for this one. You see it the way I do. Fortunately I live in a town where it's more likely that I'll win the lottery than it is that someone would even break in to my house let alone should me. Most people are blinded by their own emotions and egos to act in a way that will actually solve the problem before it becomes one. This is why so many are in favour of arming teachers in schools, rather than learning to prevent school shootings.
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10-28-2013, 12:59 AM
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 My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:13769 Male Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 7 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 4 Post(s)
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Re: Robbers V Gun Owners.
I don't understand why gun advocates in the US don't get that we have the most lax gun laws and the highest rate of gun crimes in the first world. Sure some cities and states have huge restrictions on weapons that appear ineffective, however those restrictions are null and void when you can go one state over and buy a gun at a gun show or steal one from a legitimate gun owner. We have an almost grotesque obsession with guns in this country and it has caused us nothing but trouble. For every instance where a gun owner protects himself from a legitimate danger there are many more who are victimized by the antiquated ideologies from hundreds of years ago. When it took minutes to reload a single shot weapon it was much easier to say that having guns wasn't such a danger. But we don't live in that world, we live in the real world. Where people are opportunistic and will often chose the path of least resistance. Make guns hard enough to get and a lot more criminals will resort to easier less lethal methods. Some criminals will always get guns, but we could significantly reduce the number if we didn't have hicks and lobbyists with a borderline paranoid personality disorder crying crocodile tears every time somebody suggests that their right to own a gun is hurting society regardless of the overwhelming evidence. Statistically areas that have required gun ownership have lower overall crime rates, and higher gun crimes/deaths. I would rather be robbed than shot.
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