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Thankfully this is illegal and will remain so in most of the rest of the world. 3% means there are more than 9.4 million assault rifles in US homes. Are they expecting an invasion?
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"People shouldn't have the power to kill other people so easily - not unless they're the police or army." And why should some some 18yo kid in the army have that right but not a middle aged adult? Because some other army guy yelled at him for a few weeks and gave him a uniform? You mention a father could go crazy and kill you for sneaking in to screw his daughter, but what if you were a rapist sneaking in to rape his…
What, aside from the obvious reason? Someone in the military follows orders and serves the nation while someone with a gun will probably do whatever he/she feels with it and nothing actually useful. How is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_Shootings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._City_of_Oakland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Assassination_by_C...
And for you fans of enterprise solutions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_firebombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_hiroshima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising
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Your moral reasoning needs practice, kid.
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> How many people on Hacker News (or hell, in the US in general) do you think have built a rifle from a kit? Order... hundreds of thousands? Millions, maybe? It depends how you define a kit, I guess. It's quite common to put together uppers and lowers and barrels and triggers et cetera when building a rifle, and I imagine most of those who do so understand the rules that govern it. Frankly building an AK from parts i…
Statistics from 2008-2009: http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publicat... Basically, ...and the estimated total child population: http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp Around 74 million at that time. So, this is whitenoise from population standpoint; .004% of the population of kids. I'm not going to suggest giving up access to pistols for the nation because of statistical outlier…
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Many are expecting either an invasion or a revolution. There's a disturbingly high rate of revolutionary fantasies among the gun crowd. I have no problem with keeping a gun for this, with the attitude of "and may we never need it", but many people seem positively gleeful when they talk about the possibility of violent armed revolution or resistance.
You mean like Thomas Jefferson? Yeah, he was pretty uppity.
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60 fatal gun accidents per day? Way way off. It's measured in the low hundreds per year, not around 21,000 annual. Cars however...30,000ish accidental per year. (USA numbers)
Wrong. Do more more research.
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"All drivers need a license and insurance." One wonders, why? At least in the case of licenses and insurance, we see folks all the time (anecdotally illegal aliens doing work, though I'm curious how well statistics actually back that supposition up) drive with neither, usually to no ill effect. Insurance usually doesn't seem to help very much in the case of a totaled car, and mostly just seems to be a captive market…
Well, we don't see that all the time - we see it sometimes. The only reason some people can drive with neither is because most people don't. I don't think it's merely a solution in search of a problem because we seem to spend an enourmous amount of political energy on the topic in the way we don't on 'who gets to own a Ferrari'. Ferrari owners pay the exorbitant insurance fees for the privilege. You're a firearms ent…
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Sure, but you don't know about that because you're not interested in guns. Like, how many people know you can legally build and fly an RC drone from a kit? Or that you can legally build and drive a car from a kit? There are enthusiasts, and there's everyone else. The things you don't know may be interesting to you, but that doesn't make them news. But, sure, you could see a piece in Vanity Fair about my trip across t…
Are you proposing that "news" should only count if it's something that a person who already follows the field closely wouldn't know? Is "news" only current events, and not reporting on old facts that are not well known?
Is this supposed to be a problem? The government does not need to know about our guns, not how many we have, not what sort they are, and not where we keep them.
Actually society would be much better off if the government tracked such devices. A lot of people interested in gun culture have severe inefficiencies in their cognitive abilities. Almost all mass killings are perpetrated by individuals with severe cognitive disabilities or are on some sort of prescription psychoactive. As a prominent role of government is to protect its citizens from danger, the active tracking of m…
Driving or owning an automobile is not an enumerated Constitutional right.
Owning an automobile is not a highly regulated activity. An analogous comparison would be legal concealed carry .... which is highly regulated outside of Vermont, Alaska, Wyoming, and Arizona.
"The only reason...." In addition to the above is that there are a very large number of gun owners in this country, possibly a majority of the nation's households, and we vote. Politicians aren't in thrall to the manufacturers organization, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), they're scared of the gunowners organization, the National Rifle Association, which even at 5 million members is only a fraction of gun owners and serious voting gun owners.
Every year Obama has been in office Americans have bought 10 million new guns (we have good numbers on that due to taxes and regulation). Think about that....
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60 fatal gun accidents per day? Way way off. It's measured in the low hundreds per year, not around 21,000 annual. Cars however...30,000ish accidental per year. (USA numbers)
Wrong. Do more more research.
"In 2007, there were 613 fatal firearm accidents in the United States, constituting 0.5% of 123,706 fatal accidents that year" [1][2]
[1] http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp [2] http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html
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I'd like to see your brave Kratos face with an AK-47 in your face. Every point you make is wrong: I'd have a decent chance of getting away from a car, I wouldn't from an AK-47. A car has other legitimate uses. Guns outside of the police and hunting, don't imo. I wouldn't say being afraid of firearms counts me as having no spine and afraid of "anything". I just think you're kinda full of crap and would cry the most if…
You ever shot at something outside of a video game? Especially with an old semi-auto assault rifle? While it's running away from you? It's hardly a decided matter--try skeet shooting sometime. Are you afraid of cars? Of lathes or mills? One misstep with those and you're going to lose a digit, more likely than not. Weapons are tools, and you can't go through life being afraid of tools. You respect them, you treat them…
Again every point adds nothing to the debate:
Guns are tools for killing. I'm pretty afraid of that, and I think so are lots/the majority of other people, so that settles that.
Because there is the police and courts for trials. I don't want to be tried by some dude with shit judgement and there - my life is over.
You really are hopeless case. The whole world laughs at the stupidity of US gun control laws and it's just agonizing debating with someone on the other side. You know, the Boston bomber shouldn't have done that. He should've just assembled one of these and killed a couple hundred in the crowd, and you should be there.