Gun control in the US

Discussion in 'Gun Control' started by mihapiha, Aug 17, 2014.

  1. Reiver

    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    Splendid! Just a shame, out of 'innocence' and the herd mentality, you impose costs on others
     
  2. Texan

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    You impose crime on others who would protect themselves.
     
  3. Bowerbird

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    No we attempt to limit collateral damage

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    Does that include building a bunker and arming it with more weaponry than a small country?
     
  4. OrlandoChuck

    OrlandoChuck Well-Known Member

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    I believe it includes the right to purchase any legal weapons, why is that a problem for you?
     
  5. Texan

    Texan Well-Known Member

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    I found a video to remind you of your home.

    [video=youtube;kFWiqhMJzvs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWiqhMJzvs[/video]

    If I want to and can afford it.
     
  6. Mushroom

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    Jay Leno has a personal vehicle collection in excess of 300 vehicles. And undoubtedly vehicles in the US kill more people then guns do.

    Hell, some of his vehicles are known to go in excess of 350 miles an hour.

    What gives anybody the right to own such dangerous and deadly vehicles? A 350 MPH motorcycle? There should be a law against a private individual owning something like that!
     
  7. WSUwarrior

    WSUwarrior Banned

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    You do realize that you are calling us sheep while we would rather be different than be like the rest of the world, correct?

    You make no freakin sense.
     
  8. Bowerbird

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    Yes but when were vehicles used to arm a small army??
     
  9. Texan

    Texan Well-Known Member

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    9/11 .
     
  10. stjames1_53

    stjames1_53 Banned

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    until we do something illegal, we can do just about anything we want, including telling foreigners to buggar off............or MYODB
     
  11. WSUwarrior

    WSUwarrior Banned

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    I believe that is called "freedom". Unfortunately freedom is only a novelty for the rest of the world.
     
  12. stjames1_53

    stjames1_53 Banned

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    "freedom" is the antithesis. for socialists. They remind me of the study where monkeys were punished for climbing a tree for food, they were taught NOT to go for the food through pain and punishment. It became so ingrained in the original test monkeys, that the originals would pull the new monkeys off the tree.
    What we have are monkeys trying to pull the rest of us Humans down.
     
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    WSUwarrior Banned

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    And all in the name of equality. Yea we will all be equal in misery.

    But again...we are sheep because we dont want to follow the flock off the European cliff where the governments dont trust you with firearms and the houses are the size of apartments and the apartments are the size of closets.
     
  14. CourtJester

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    Remember Vietnam?
     
  15. CourtJester

    CourtJester Well-Known Member

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    Exactly, and that is why we need stringent controls on who has access to guns. Real and stringent background checks for all purchases would be a start.
     
  16. CourtJester

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    Maybe you are right. After all look at how easily the American army has been defeated in Iraq.
     
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    Toefoot Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Care to expand on your bumper sticker thoughts?

     
  18. Toefoot

    Toefoot Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Who is "we" that you speak for?

     
  19. danielpalos

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    Only collectives of the People who are a well regulated Militia of the United States and with that clue and with that Cause, may not be Infringed when keeping and bearing Arms.
     
  20. OrlandoChuck

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    We have FBI background checks on all purchases from firearm dealers already. Define stringent.
     
  21. Mushroom

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    Actually, the US Military was not defeated in Iraq. You need to use proper terminology if you want to discuss things with me. I do not talk BS or Propaganda.

    Just like in Vietnam the US did not loose in Iraq, it is the politicians that had lost. A peace was decided and troops pulled out and the local government fell to outside forces. But no battles were lost, and in reality casualties were actually pretty light. Hell, a single Mexican city had more casualties in a year then the US military had in all of Iraq combined.
     
  22. Mushroom

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    Actually, if it was up to me there is one requirement that I would require which is not in place at the moment. And that is to require a real registration process for individuals who are diagnosed with serious and endangering mental health issues. Believe it or not the majority of the time this is never checked because of the fight by a certain segment of the population who do not want to see such individuals stigmatized by being placed in some kind of "whacko registry".

    And of the states that do keep such data, they do not share it with any other states. So I could be determined in Delaware to be psychotic but not a danger to others, then go to Pennsylvania and buy firearms.
     
  23. Small Town Guy

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    Sure and Vietnam happened in southeast Asia not the USA. If you want to be technical it's happened in lots of other wars as well but that wasn't the context in which we were speaking...was it?
     
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    Did you miss " all purchases"
     
  25. CourtJester

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    Yes you do. In any informed opinion the US clearly did not win in either Iraq or Vietnam. And if you did not win by definition you lost.
     

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