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> American exceptionalism refers to the primarily used meaning of exceptional as "unusually good." I am aware. It's fun to use terms outside of their usual meanings sometimes. I am not supporting a gun ban in the U.S. I'm asking what y'all wish to do about your crime rate.
>I'm asking what y'all wish to do about your crime rate. End drug prohibition.
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To be fair, this tool has only one use: it kills things. Whenever I see arguments about how we should ban cars because they kill more people than guns per year, I always think about that. Cars are good for all kinds of things, and they happen to incidentally cause death. Guns are pretty much only good for killing things. I live in the U.S. I'm not saying we should uniformly ban all weapons, period; I think the issue…
Sometimes the only way to stop a criminal trying to kill you is to kill him or her first. To do that you'll need a tool designed to kill things.
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Sometimes the only way to stop a criminal trying to kill you is to kill him or her first. To do that you'll need a tool designed to kill things.
Have you considered that the criminal usually has no interest in killing people, and may only be armed because he knows that you may have a gun yourself?
Criminals use guns during crimes because of the power it gives them to subdue and control their victims. Guns also allow them to easily dispose of witnesses after the crime is committed.
If the non-criminal population just decides to give up their guns, in hopes that criminals will do the same, the criminals will simply say "thanks".
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Exactly. See my post about making guns by hand. As a 12 year old boy I was making gunpowder from drugstore items and launching rockets made from rolled-up newspaper. This stuff ain't hard to do!!
Of course. Let's pretend Billy Bob is a heated rage because he just found out so-and-so slept with so-and-so (or whatever). What's more likely? a) He walks around to so-and-sos house with his legally purchased, unlicensed, unregistered semi automatic assault rifle and 1000+ rounds, and kills the whole family, and anyone else unlucky enough to be nearby. or b) He spends days (weeks?) making his own gun, gunpowder and…
Using a stereotyped redneck name is ugly.
Next time use first letter of the alphabet, common name. Second person gets second letter, common name and so on.
"Let's pretend Alice is a heated rage because she found out Bob slept with her wife Carol."
Much better, nu?
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> People who quite rightly see our drug laws as pointless and ineffective somehow often miss that a gun ban would be no more effective in the United States. As an outsider, this is one of the most irrational things about American politics to me. Talk about guns, then talk about drugs, and each of the two major parties literally adopts the arguments of the other. Then again, it's a perfectly rational system from the p…
> Talk about guns, then talk about drugs, and each party literally adopts the arguments of the other. Except libertarians. We believe in decriminalization of both.
Gun laws reflect a society's general property rights, and drug laws their intellectual freedom.
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To be fair, this tool has only one use: it kills things. Whenever I see arguments about how we should ban cars because they kill more people than guns per year, I always think about that. Cars are good for all kinds of things, and they happen to incidentally cause death. Guns are pretty much only good for killing things. I live in the U.S. I'm not saying we should uniformly ban all weapons, period; I think the issue…
Sometimes the only way to stop a criminal trying to kill you is to kill him or her first. To do that you'll need a tool designed to kill things.
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Sometimes the only way to stop a criminal trying to kill you is to kill him or her first. To do that you'll need a tool designed to kill things.
Soon enough you're going to need a nuke if you keep follow that reasoning.