yep....guns kill people.
WRONG...
People kill people.
Take away guns, they will use knives. Already do actually, more often than guns.
Take away knives they will use clubs. What do you thing Ceasar and Nero used? Swords, knives and clubs. Atillah the Hun? Swords, knives and clubs. Jack the Ripper? A knife.
Take away clubs they will grab up rocks.
Do you think killing people was never an idea until guns were invented? Given the short time guns have existed compared to known history, I'd say 10 times as many people have been killed with knives, swords, clubs and even rocks over the past 50,000 years. Just the Inquisition before guns existed claimed over a half million lives. Not to mention wars and criminal activity for thousands of years in every country you can think of. Long before guns existed...
People kill people.
I have a 16 ga shotgun loaded with buckshot, .22 single shot rifle also loaded, .243 loaded as well and a .22 pistol. Yep, loaded too. In 25 years, not one of them has ever jumped up and killed anybody. I've owned guns much longer than that, around 50 years, that's just since I got the first of these.
Anybody who uses the "guns kill people" remark is misinformed. Guns do not kill, people do. Otherwise I have no doubt my Winchester Mod. 1200 would have run out and killed someone long, long ago. It's been kept fully loaded for 25 years.
Think about it, what do criminals want? Defenseless victims, unable to protect themselves, their families and their property. How often do you hear about some guy with a gun rack in his pickup being robbed? Nope, it's always the grey haired retired couple on vacation. Burglars try to make sure they break into your house while you're gone. Why do spree killers choose locations like malls, theaters and schools? They know nobody will be shooting back. How many have walked into Police stations? One I know of, and he had a grudge. Different story...
Why were 5 terrorists able to hijack commercial airliners with box cutters...because they knew they would be unopposed. They knew they would have the only weapons on those planes. Why did some crazy walk into a theater and open fire? He knew he would be unopposed, nobody would be shooting back.
Put yourself in the criminal's shoes. Do you want to rob someone you know carries a gun or someone you know does not? Think like a criminal. Would you break into the head of the NRA's house? Seriously... I really doubt it.
Gun control is exactly what criminals want. It gives them exactly what they want, defenseless victims.
Yeah the gun control fanatics say they just want to limit "assault weapons" That's just an attempt to get their foot in the door. Next it will be all rifles. Then all handguns. And so forth until you won't be able to get a bb gun.
Tobacco should show you exactly what will happen. At first they just wanted to ban advertising. Then it was smoking areas in public buildings. Now you can't smoke in any public building at all, no dedicated smoking areas, people are catching pneumonia because they are not allowed a place indoors for smoke breaks in winter. And non smokers claim they care about the health issues...
This is just a foot in the door. Once they manage to get any kind of gun control at all, it will not stop. And we will be more and more unable to defend ourselves when the slime ball down the street wants money.
I'm in Texas right now because some low life here broke into my sister's house twice...while she was out of town. Before I moved I had a good friend who was a sheriff's deputy. We got into a discussion about the serious crime problem there. He told me to load my pistol, put it in the Jeep and carry plenty spare ammo. Otherwise, I'd have no option if anything happened. Fortunately I never had to use it. That would suck...
I don't like that. I'd much prefer to be able to drive around unarmed and not worry about it. That's just a bad idea these days. Our society is sick. Too many people running around frustrated, mad at the world, unemployment out of control...violence everywhere. Say what you will, TV and movies have a detrimental affect too. More violence than anything else. Art imitates life.
I don't have any easy answers, but limiting gun ownership in any way is a very bad idea. It's just giving the bad guys exactly what they want. Defenseless victims. And giving the gun control fanatics what they want, their foot in the door so they can gradually take away everything.
Believe otherwise if you want to, I don't really care what you believe. But save your third grade insults for someone else. Don't bother responding to me unless it's something intelligent, well thought out and non insulting. I'll just ignore anything else. If you can't do any better than a childish, insulting rant, it's not worth wasting my time on you. But if you have any sense at all, you will not let "your" government disarm you.
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