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Originally Posted by 76Bentley
James,
You know I was referring to Micheal Bloomberg's assertion that the guns sold in Virginia at gun shows are causing the crime in NYC. He even sent someone to The Commonwealth to talk about changing our laws to make it harder to buy guns.
I was just being sarcastic, which doesn't do well on line so sorry I wasn't more specific.
And you hit the nail on the head. You can ban guns from the law abiding people and 1) criminals will still have them, you can ask the Brits. 2) people will find other ways to do each other in.
I am always confused by gun control people, they always know the stats on how many people are hurt/killed by gun violence, but they never know how many of those guns were illegally obtained or how many people are saved by legally owning and using a gun to defend themselves. Brock Lessnar the UFC Heavy Weight Champ is no match for a 90 pound woman that has and can use a Glock 9mm.
It is also surprising that if someone uses a gun to commit a crime they want to restrict guns, but if a person uses a hammer or screw driver (both of which are common tools for people that perform home invasions) they don't feel the same way. A gun is a tool, nothing more,nothing less and with all tools if you use them wrong or carelessly someone can get hurt or killed.
And yes people will and have always found new ways to inflict harm, in fact the yo-yo was originally a primitive hunting weapon. The hunters would sit up in a tree and try to drop what is essentially a big yo-yo (12-13lbs. I think was the weight I read they used) on there pray and if they missed they could simply pull the yo-yo back up to their position.
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I got your sarcasm, and replied with some of my own!
Yes, the gun control people are just a bunch of near sighted morons. Yes, guns are easy to use (your 90 lb woman comment proves this) and they do give a criminal the upper hand. I do agree that getting guns out of criminals hands is a great idea. But trying to accomplish this goal (this IS the stated goal of all gun control) by limiting the rights of the rest of us law abiding people is not the way to go. It is difficult, making laws to try to curb the actions of those that do not follow laws is next to impossible. The way I see it, if everyone was armed the criminals would feel less like they had the upper hand and would most likely move on to something else. The old saying "an armed society is a polite society" certainly rings true to me. I consider my guns to be my "insurance" as no one is covering my ass but me. Plus they go up in value and are generally easy to sell (especially to criminals, J/K).
And from what I have heard the brits have some sort of laws against hammers being used in violent crime... Why litigate against specific items? You can only make laws against behaviors...
I still think my weekly Serin (sp?) gas injections into federal prisons would be deterant enough for people to no commit crimes... And more enforced death penalties (on the spot, judge dread style even...). We need to go back to the old west days. You packed a gun, and used it if you got in a fight. Someone won, and everyone else just went about their business. So you only got into a fight if you considered it worth your life, or you were a dumbass. Natural selection at its best, IMO.