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How far do you gun grabbers want to go?
Violent video games that show realistic mass murder at the hands of your joy stick?
Violent movies?
Porn?
All these are linked to violence. Just like guns. Young minds of mush are very impressionable. We get desensitized to violence. Life is cheap.
How about mass surveillance to stop crime? Pre crime enforcement?
The left loves to quote about how those who would give up freedom for safety deserve neither when it suits them. That was Ben Franklin by the way hondoFS
But when it comes to guns they gots to go, If you wonder why nobody trusts you that's why.
And I'll save you the trouble. There are right wingers who would ban my opening items as well as rap music and rock who are pro gun.
I'll take freedom.
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AIDS, child pornography, murder, domestic violence, road rage, jaywalking, heart attacks, forest fires, racism, bigotry, gun violence and general disobedience.Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness will always be a balancing act- i.e., your rights end when you infringe upon mine. Right now, the scales are tilted way too far in favor of the right's of gun owners (legal and otherwise).
Look, I'm under no allusion that confiscating every semi automatic and/or high capacity firearm would make a huge overall dent in the number of gun deaths per year (most are from handguns anyhow) but what we got here right now ain't working. There are too many guns in circulation and the rules are way too loose. Remember, most of the population are dip shits. I'll admit, we're never going to get to, say, UK levels of gun homicides (i.e., 60 per year in a country of 60 million) for any number of reasons, but we could save a hell of a lot lives.
All of the other Western Industrialized Nations have the same violent movies, video games, porn, etc., but w/o the volume of death from guns. Is a Japanese or Scotsman is somehow less free than ourselves simply because they don't have the guns? In some ways those folks, have more Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness than ourselves.
Then you can take of a video of yourself pouring a bucket of ice water over your head. You could even take a knee while doing it. Would be pretty freaking cool man.
Skating in the gray zone.
No solid numbers on firearm ownership, but call it 100,000,000 owners.
478,400 / 100,000,000 == 0.47%.
Bring in recidivism rates (~60%) as an arbitrary metric to remove a single "owner" committing multiple crimes in a year, and that comes down to around 0.20% of gun owners unlawfully chinfringing on another's rights.
About the same odds of a high school football player making a NFL team.
If you want something effective that isn't the right to trample on. Pre crime and profiling are much more effective..
the old white dude who did LV was an obvious nut bag. But we had to wait for 59 to die before we could act.
I don't give a fuck about other countries and japan isn't free because they are our bitch
Don't disagree with your statistical analysis Grundle. 10,000 to 12,000 dying a year on average is still a yuge number and the stats aren't of much use for them. It's not anyone of is statistically likely to kill someone with our cars and yet 30,000 or so of us die a year in car accidents and we heavily regulate the transportation segment to try and save lives.
You are right on Japan when it comes to foreign policy; they are not an independent country in this regard.