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Stoked said:
That right there is our disagreement. Not all that bullcrap about deaths and slavery. You are ok with that and I am not.
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But they did take away slavery..... and you were ok with that right?

So some things you are ok with taking away from us, just not guns.
 
fishonjazz said:
I agree with all of this..... i guess that i would just rather have no one die from accidental gun deaths than a few.

And just to be clear.... i understand that im basically talking nonsense with my hypothetical situation because it is basically impossible...... i was really just kind of doing an expirement to see if i could get people to open thier minds a bit...... salty did and i was impressed.
Stoked could not bear to be swayed no matter what i threw out there though. It was an interesting expirement for me..... sorry for wasting everyone elses time with my dumb expirement.
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I'm with you on the point that it would be ideal if guns were unnecessary. I'd love it if they were merely a luxury.
 
babe said:
I suppose people who think like this have been "educated" out of the whole idea of freedom. State Socialism is the philosphy in all our education, in our media, and politics. Everybody is thinking the government must do whatever needs doing, and must make sure no one has any alternatives of their own choosing.
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Again..... im talking about a PERFECT WORLD situation just to see if people could bear to part with thier guns if it would save lives.... apparently some would and some would not based only on a principle.
 
Bronco70 said:
I totally understand what you're saying, Fish. Really I do. But guns are like most things; use them responsibly and they are safe and useful. Yep, useful. I know Salty covered this, but accidental death makes up less than 5% of all deaths annually. Of that 5% (all accidental deaths) 0.5% are from firearms. Half a percent. Or, 0.0024% of all deaths.

Any accidental death is unfortunate, and no death is insignificant, but people accidentally shooting themselves or others is relatively uncommon. And it has more to do with responsible actions than with guns.
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For me if in this perfect world scenario no one was being killed accidentally by the guns and noone was using them for killing people, then i would be fine with every man woman and child owning a gun!
 
fishonjazz said:
I agree with all of this..... i guess that i would just rather have no one die from accidental gun deaths than a few.

And just to be clear.... i understand that im basically talking nonsense with my hypothetical situation because it is basically impossible...... i was really just kind of doing an expirement to see if i could get people to open thier minds a bit...... salty did and i was impressed.
Stoked could not bear to be swayed no matter what i threw out there though. It was an interesting expirement for me..... sorry for wasting everyone elses time with my dumb expirement.
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No harm no foul. My mind is quite open. Regardless of wether we excersize our freedoms or not we should still have them.

I agree that death is horrible and no one wants accidental gun deaths. As Bronco said that is better fought by gun awarness programs and responsibility.
 
How about this one just for stoked.

In THIS PERFECT WORLD no one is dying from anything other than natural causes and accidental gun deaths........We have solved all cancer and disease and all other ways of dying early. We have solved overpopulation issues also. All governments are perfect and no one is poor. Everyone has everything that they could ever need and we are all happy (accept when someone is accidentally shot).
so in this even more unlikely and crazy scenario stoked... would you be ok if no one had a gun?
 
fishonjazz said:
I knew that would be your answer.... i guess you just like people to die too much.

I would be fine if cars were banned, if we didnt need em... in fact i would be way happy about it. (lower polution, save me money, save lots of lives... whats not to like)
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BTW stoked im sorry and i regret this post completely..... it was very rude of me and i feel like quite a douche.

In fact im sorry for this whole stupid expirement. This is not who i am or how i normally act, i just sucked into a petty arguement that should have never happened.
I will try to learn from my mistakes for the future though.
 
fishonjazz said:
How about this one just for stoked.

In THIS PERFECT WORLD no one is dying from anything other than natural causes and accidental gun deaths........We have solved all cancer and disease and all other ways of dying early. We have solved overpopulation issues also. All governments are perfect and no one is poor. Everyone has everything that they could ever need and we are all happy (accept when someone is accidentally shot).
so in this even more unlikely and crazy scenario stoked... would you be ok if no one had a gun?
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Well the vast majority of those have nothing to do with guns. No. If you want to call me heartless and wishing people to die when you know I do not then go ahead.
 
fishonjazz said:
BTW stoked im sorry and i regret this post completely..... it was very rude of me and i feel like quite a douche.

In fact im sorry for this whole stupid expirement. This is not who i am or how i normally act, i just sucked into a petty arguement that should have never happened.
I will try to learn from my mistakes for the future though.
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It's ok. Who wouldn't love a Utopian society? I just think our definition of a Utopian Society is different.

To me it has to involve personal responsibility and freedom.
 
Stoked said:
It's ok. Who wouldn't love a Utopian society? I just think our definition of a Utopian Society is different.

To me it has to involve personal responsibility and freedom.
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What if the government didn't ban anything or change the constitution at all, but everyone just CHOSE to destroy thier guns since they had become obsolete (but still dangerous).

So now guns dont exist since everyone destroyed thier guns by thier own choice...... would you be ok with that scenario?
 
BTW stoked, i tried to rep you when i apologized but i couldn't (stupid rep system)
Thank you for the rep though!
 
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