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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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OK, RAZD, I'll admit that occasionally guns are useful. But one or two cases like this don't disprove the general point.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
In an isolated incident, an eight-year-old boy shot his seven-year-old brother to death when their Responsible Gun Owner Parents left them in the car with a loaded gun.
In another isolated incident, an intoxicated Responsible Gun Owner opened fire because he was stuck in traffic ... behind a snow plow In a blizzard. Damn fools should have let him pass, I guess.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Adding electrical shock capability to a reasonably-sized handgun may be a bit advanced for current technology, but detection of unauthorized users is already possible and getting better. Any objections out there to guns that only fire for authorized users? Yes, I mentioned this a few months back, but apparently gun nuts object to anything that might reduce gun deaths, whether it involves legislation, gun design, or just the application of basic common sense. Perhaps they'd be willing to consider a gun that can only be fired by drunks and toddlers. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Pro-gun Jamie Gilt is shot by her four-year-old son in Putnam County, Florida | Daily Mail Online
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Taking away guns simply because a fight occurred at a house really is not an acceptable idea. Yeah, just because the police have been called out to prevent one person from hurting another, that doesn't mean it's a bad idea to leave them alone together with a lethal weapon. If anything, that would help them to settle their differences.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
5 dead, 3 injured in a mass rat-poisoning, I'll read that again, it turns out that guns were involved.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Wait, no, it was a guy with a gun accidentally shooting people. My bad. It's just there's been so many isolated incidents of accidental rat-poisoning lately that I got all confused.
2 men, 4 children hurt at Ocala shooting range, deputies say
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I'm glad you asked. It means that it isn't the constitution that restrains the government from wielding unlimited power. Your next question is, "Then what does?" It depends. For example, why did Hitler get away with seizing unlimited power in Germany? Because they amended the constitution.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
About twice as many people defended themselves against violent crime with a firearm than people who died from a firearm. Now try comparing people defending themselves from crime with a firearm against people perpetrating crime with a firearm.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Gunman fatally shoots Pennsylvania churchgoer after fight over seat at Sunday service.
Guns and religion, what could possibly go wrong?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Texas stepdad shot and killed 3-year-old for jumping on the bed
You know what we need to protect children from? Transsexuals!
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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"It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away", wrote responsible gun owner Christy Sheats on her Facebook page this March.
Guess what she just murdered her daughters with?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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There is no such thing as dangerous weapons, only dangerous people. And yet it turns out that the dangerous people are more dangerous when they have guns than when they point their fingers at people and shout BANG.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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There is no such thing as dangerous weapons, only dangerous people. Florida father accidentally shoots and kills his 14-year-old son at ‘world’s safest’ gun range. But I guess if he hadn't had a gun he'd have accidentally beaten his son to death with his bare hands.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
That's very ... responsible ... of him.
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