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ONE LOVE said:
Oscar Pistorius?
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Oscar Pistorius actually had a history of using his gun in completely irresponsible ways. At a restaurant he was showing it off and "accidentally" fired a round. He got a speeding ticket and as he drive away he stuck his gun out the window and popped off a few rounds to demonstrate his frustration. He shouldn't have had a gun. At all.
 
OL old ladies can use guns effectively. In fact, they could use a gun far more effectively than they could use a bat or knife.

The four basic rules of firearm safety are just that. The very most basic rules to make sure guns are used safely. In fact, you must violate at least two of the four rules in order to cause unintended harm. No one should possess a gun without knowing and committing to those rules. Every gun owner's manual I've ever seen has those rules printed.
 
Gameface said:
OL old ladies can use guns effectively. In fact, they could use a gun far more effectively than they could use a bat or knife.

The four basic rules of firearm safety are just that. The very most basic rules to make sure guns are used safely. In fact, you must violate at least two of the four rules in order to cause unintended harm. No one should possess a gun without knowing and committing to those rules. Every gun owner's manual I've ever seen has those rules printed.
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Yeah look I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes here.. there are plenty of good gun owners and clearly you and Joe are two of the very best examples. In the perfect world every gun owner would known these basic rules, can handle the gun and use them safely and all have good intentions (i.e., for defense only, not to provoke).


All I'm saying is in reality the world isn't perfect. Not all gun owners can use guns safely and effectively. Not all gun owners have good intentions, all the time neither. Also I don't think we can pretend all gun owners are mentally stable... and so on and so forth.


Personally I'm confident that once trained I'd be able to handle a gun confidently and safely... But I do meet a lot of old ladies through my nursery daily and I'm just not so sure these ladies who are in their 80's and have arthritis & trembling hands can do it.
 
Game actually had a good start to this thread.

If you want to learn to live right in any respect, it starts with taking responsibility. There's always some helpful rules that can be applied whatever you're doing. I want that responsibility for myself.
 
Societies Transformed by Guns
“The proliferation of weaponry, in particular small arms, is so widespread that it is responsible for the death of one person every minute and more than 500,000 killings a year [worldwide],” reveals London’s newspaper The Independent. “In 2001, 16*billion units of military ammunition were made, enough to shoot everyone in the world twice.”

Nearly eight million firearms are manufactured annually, the majority for civilian use. As the study by Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Action Network on Small Arms points out, “societies that were once largely peaceful, with any scores being settled with fists or knives, have been transformed by guns.”

In one country, assault rifles are used as currency. In another, an English teacher who gave lessons to an elderly woman was paid in hand grenades. And in a third country, “babies are named ‘Uzi’ and ‘AK’ after their fathers’ favorite assault rifles,” the paper said.
 
“A gun gives the ordinary citizen courage. He thinks he is protected, but he is also really running great risk of becoming a criminal,” says police chief Nelson Silveira Guimarães of São Paulo, Brazil, speaking of the many people in the city who are carrying guns for protection. “The vast majority are not fit at all to have a gun,” adds Robinson do Prado, civil police investigator. “They are people without any emotional control to deal with situations of high tension.” It does not take much for one to lose self-control, notes the Brazilian newspaper Jornal da Tarde. “A provocation, a controversy, an uncontrolled gesture, and anyone can go from being a victim to being a murderer.”
 
carolinajazz said:
“A gun gives the ordinary citizen courage. He thinks he is protected, but he is also really running great risk of becoming a criminal,” says police chief Nelson Silveira Guimarães of São Paulo, Brazil, speaking of the many people in the city who are carrying guns for protection. “The vast majority are not fit at all to have a gun,” adds Robinson do Prado, civil police investigator. “They are people without any emotional control to deal with situations of high tension.” It does not take much for one to lose self-control, notes the Brazilian newspaper Jornal da Tarde. “A provocation, a controversy, an uncontrolled gesture, and anyone can go from being a victim to being a murderer.”
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True... good post.
 
This happens 10+ times every day in America.

It sucks.

But because you can breathe in this country that entitles you to own a military base supply of guns and ammo, no background checks require. We reap what we sow.

I'm all about responsible gun ownership.
 
We have courses and tests to pass before driving.

Why shouldn't guns be any different?

the second part of the second amendment talks about REGULATION. The NRA and idiotic conservative Supreme Court doesn't want you to know this inconvenient detail.
 
Can it really be this easy to walk into a gun shop, get a gun, go home, and kill your girlfriend?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKvDj_4Omk
 
The Thriller said:
We reap what we sow
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What we've sown is a society of entitled whiners that aren't familiar with the concept of personal responsibility.

We've sown division instead of unity. We are too busy finding offense and spreading blame to talk about strategies for working together to overcome our problems.

We've sown rage as the accepted reaction for any trespass or unpleasant turn of events, regardless of how minor or unintentional.

Guns have always been around. Why haven't they always been a problem?


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