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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
1) I do not think there is a legitimate reason for anyone other than the military to be able to own a firearm that is capable of firing off rounds in very rapid succession.
2) The gun lobby has shamefully and almost always effectively fought any reasonable restriction or requirement or delay to gun ownership. 3) If gun ownership is to be allowed, I think that people should have to be licensed to own one, such that they must: -be at least 21 to own a gun -undergo fingerprinting and a criminal background check -give proof of residency -successfully complete a firearms safety course and test. I also think there needs to be stricter liability laws for how people store their guns and ammunition. I also think there needs to be stricter laws with regard to child safety locks; as in, all guns sold to private citizens in the US should have them.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Look, the kid in Virginia who bought those guns was nuts.
He lied on his application to get a gun because the law only required self-reporting of the fact that he had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. It is sheer madness and, in my opinion, criminally negligent, to depend upon the honesty or mental stability of the customer when selling a weapon that is designed for no other reason than to kill people. What do you say to the people the crazy peron killed, and their families, because it was far too easy for him to get a gun. "Whoops"? Edited by nator, : No reason given. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I was "footprinted" in the hospital as an infant for identification purposes. Was that overly intrusive?
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Those, and all the other things I mentioned as well.
quote: Some guns should be taken away from private citizens because there is no good reason for a private citizen to have them. Alternatively, if private citizens think they need, say, certain military-style weapons, then the hoops they should have to jump through and the insurance they should be required to purchase aught to be extensive and significant. It should be difficult to get them. Very difficult.
quote: Sure. But if he had only had access to a knife, or a pipe wrench, or a pool cue, how many people do you think he would have been able to kill? Killing people with anything other than a gun is really quite difficult. It takes a lot of time to stab or strangle or beat someone to death compared to shooting them. It is also much more intimate and involves much more risk to the attacker. Vicims can also run away from a person holding a knife or a wrench or a pool cue. Guns allow one to kill many people effortlessly, from a distance. There's a reason this kind of thing is extremely rare in Japan and Europe.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: The kid survived the slashing, right? Probably needed some serious stitiching-up but was otherwise fine, wasn't he? What if he had been shot in the arm at close range instead? Do you think his injuries might have been more extensive? Like shattered bones, perhaps, requiring surgery or even amputation. Why is it so hard for you to understand that guns are far more dangerous than knives?
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: In 1998, for every one time a woman used a handgun to kill a stranger in self-defense, 302 women were murdered in handgun homicides.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
” Nearly one-third of all women murdered in the United States in recent years were murdered by a current or former intimate partner. In 2000, 1,247 women, more than three a day, were killed
by their intimate partners.ii ” Of females killed with a firearm, almost two-thirds of were killed by their intimate partners.iii ” Access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner homicide more than five times more than in instances where there are no weapons, according to a recent study. In addition, abusers who possess guns tend to inflict the most severe abuse on their partners.iv ” In 2002, 54 percent of female homicide victims were shot and killed with a gun. ” Handguns are more likely than rifles or shotguns to be used in homicides in which men kill women. In 2002, handguns were used in 73 percent of cases where men used firearms to kill women.v ” In homicides where males use firearms to kill women, handguns are the most commonly used weapon, over rifles and shotguns. Seventy-three percent of all female were killed with a handgunvi ” In 1998, for every one woman who used a handgun to kill an intimate acquaintance in selfdefense, 83 women were murdered by an intimate acquaintance using a handgun.vii ” A study of women physically abused by current or former intimate partners found a five-fold increased risk of the partner murdering the woman when the partner owned a gun.viii ” Domestic violence misdemeanor convictions and restraining orders were the second most common reason for denials of handgun purchase applications between 1994 and 1998.ix ” From 1998 to 2001, more than 2,800 people with misdemeanor domestic violence convictions were able to purchase guns without being identified by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.x The Facts on Guns and Domestic Violence http://www.endabuse.org/resources/facts/Guns.pdf Edited by nator, : added link to source
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: You do know that known guns in a house are a strong inducement to burglary, don't you? Here's the abstract to one study: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/8926.html
The proposition that widespread gun ownership serves as a deterrent to residential burglary is widely touted by advocates, but the evidence is weak, consisting of anecdotes, interviews with burglars, casual comparisons with other countries, and the like. A more systematic exploration requires data on local rates of gun ownership and of residential burglary, and such data have only recently become available. In this paper we exploit a new well-validated proxy for local gun-ownership prevalence -- the proportion of suicides that involve firearms -- together with newly available geo-coded data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, to produce the first systematic estimates of the net effects of gun prevalence on residential burglary patterns. The importance of such empirical work stems in part from the fact that theoretical considerations do not provide much guidance in predicting the net effects of widespread gun ownership. Guns in the home may pose a threat to burglars, but also serve as an inducement, since guns are particularly valuable loot. Other things equal, a gun-rich community provides more lucrative burglary opportunities than one where guns are more sparse. The new empirical results reported here provide no support for a net deterrent effect from widespread gun ownership. Rather, our analysis concludes that residential burglary rates tend to increase with community gun prevalence.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
How so?
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Database? You mean, a filing cabinet? They had my parent's consent, since I was a minor.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Well, do you know the reason the hospital takes prints of newborns' feet?
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Actually, the statistics do rather undermine your specific points. And it is hardly a creationist tactic to provide legitimate statistical information in order to counter a claim.
quote: Yes, but what the statistic shows is that in homes where all other things are equal BUT there are no guns, women are far less likely to be killed. Gun in house = greater liklihood of woman being killed.
quote: So, he shoots her dead, then people call the cops. Great. She's still dead.
quote: I think that the statistic used the word "weapon" to mean "gun". How easy is it to kill someone with a shoe, compared to a gun, do you think?
quote: ...but in the meantime, thousands of women will die, and that's OK with you. Got it. Edited by nator, : No reason given. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
But if he had only had access to a knife, or a pipe wrench, or a pool cue, how many people do you think he would have been able to kill? quote: Not as many? He'd have been lucky to have killed even one or two. Even if people had been lining up to be killed by him, and offered no resistance, sheer physical exhaustion would have set in after about one or two people. You have a very strange and unrrealistic image of how easy it is to kill someone by stabbing or by blunt force compared to with a gun.
quote: But what would the death count have been, do you think?
Killing people with anything other than a gun is really quite difficult. It takes a lot of time to stab or strangle or beat someone to death compared to shooting them. It is also much more intimate and involves much more risk to the attacker. Vicims can also run away from a person holding a knife or a wrench or a pool cue. quote: The quote of mine above was in response to you saying this in a previous message about Cho, the kid who killed all those people at VT:
quote: My point is that if he hadn't been able to so easily buy a gun, and instead only had access to knives, pipe wrenches, and pool cues, we wouldn't have seen over thirty murders and a suicide when he "lost it". And about the "homicidal maniac" in the woman's house? In 1998, for every one time a woman used a handgun to kill a stranger in self-defense, 302 women were murdered in handgun homicides.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
So, you are rejecting the researcher's conclusion that guns in a house was a strong inducement to burglery?
AbE: So where is your study that comes to a different conclusion than the one I provided? Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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nator Member (Idle past 2192 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I never suggested that we ban all private ownership of all firearms.
quote: Unless you are suggesting that all private citizens stockpile scads of military weapons, rockets, greandes, and mines, just what do you think a shotgun or two and some handguns are going to do against an invading foreign army, or the combined firepower of the US armed forces should martial law be imposed in the US?
Stats on gun deaths in Japan and Stwitzerland (and other countries). Might be a slightly biased source but the stats are legit.
Japan has a level of community safety which is unmatched by most of the world and reinforced by strong cultural norms. Japan had fewer gun deaths in all of 1995 than occur in an average day in the United States. In 1995, Japan had a total of 168 firearms shootings, in which 34 people were killed and 33 were injured. However, the Japanese are concerned about what they perceive as an escalation in violence. Opponents of gun control often use Switzerland as evidence that access to guns is not linked to crime or violence. They argue that since virtually all adult males are members of the army and have military weapons, there is nearly universal access to deadly weapons yet few gun-related problems in Switzerland. However, Swiss criminologist Martin Killias, of the Université de Lausanne, argues that the rate of households with firearms is actually comparable to that of Canada (27.2%). There is strict screening of army officers and ammunition is stored in sealed boxes and inspected regularly. Despite these controls, Switzerland has rates of gun suicide second only to the US among the countries Killias surveyed and a gun murder rate comparable to Canada's. Although firearms regulations in Switzerland is fragmented and controlled at the regional level, wide ranging reforms are being undertaken to establish national standards. Edited by nator, : No reason given.
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