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| TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: RealPlumpBox on February 08, 2016, 11:51:40 PM ---GUYS!!!!! I AM SORRY!!!! I mentioned I have multiple guns and whatnot but man lets get back on topic. I respect anit gun people --- End quote --- Good idea. How do I protect my home? Well, my house is setup pretty much like the houses in the first two Home Alone movies. I dare you to try and take my games. :P |
| sheep2001:
I swore I wasn't going to post in here.........But if guns were outlawed, and the majority of bad guys didn't have them, why would the good guys still need them? An awful lot of gun crime in the US is committed by good guys who suffer some sort of mental episode. Or by a family member who takes the gun. If the gun wasn't there - these multiple murders wouldn't happen. If your argument is that your gun is locked away, yada, yada, yada, then how can it be for self/home defence. If I lived somewhere where I was so concerned for the safety of my family, that I had to have a weapon, I would move. Whatever the cost. Although I really do think that the protection argument is just lip service. How many of you have actually pulled a gun, on someone already threatening you with a gun, and not been shot first? In 2014, deaths by terrorism in the US were 18. Deaths by gun crime 8,512. Yet American (and global) media is constantly scare mongering over the terrorism threat, but don't even want background checks for gun registration. ??? ??? ??? - and pair that with the figures that in countries with tighter gun control, there is lower gun crime rates, I just don't get it. I will never get it. I don't want to get it. Just to be clear, I have no problem with the pro gun people, it's just a difference of opinion. One which were all entitled to. (But you're all wrong. Lol) ;) |
| palmer6strings:
Actually sheep, if you adjust for population, America is further down the list for homicides that include firearms than a lot of other countries. And to add to that, countries with stricter gun laws have MORE crime including firearms than those with less "control". Not trying to argue, just state facts. Just saying. |
| Arseen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate Organise by homiside, suicide or accidental US is high ranking. |
| monjici:
--- Quote from: Arseen on February 09, 2016, 08:40:58 AM ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate Organise by homiside, suicide or accidental US is high ranking. --- End quote --- I would be interested to cross-check these stats with the social programs in each country. A wise man once told me that where there is less poverty (helped by social programs), there is less crime. Since crime fighting cost a lot of money, I don't mind that money goes to social programs instead. But that is a whole different topic :) |
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