Guns don't kill people ....

henry quirk · 01-16-2013, 05:10 PM

As I say elsewhere: in a country of 350 million individuals (and counting), where an estimated 270,000,000 guns are 'out and about', total confiscation is the only answer (a long, bloody, expensive, process with no guarantee of success).

Anything less (patchworks of laws = band aid on a wound the size of the Grand Canyon) is purely emotional salve (sooth the distress by addressing symptoms; never, ever, getting to the *root).

If 'you' won't confiscate, then stop kvetching, make do with piecemeal, and get on with living.

*by all conventional accounts, the root is 'gun'...if this is the case: eradicate 'gun', solve problem, yes?

Nirvana · 01-16-2013, 05:42 PM

No.. why should law abiding citizens have to give up their weapons? Your theory is illogical. If some are so intent on making a new law concerning guns then they need to enforce the ones we have and make stiffer penalties for those that illegally carry.

Mass killings can occur with the use of cow manure [/hyperbole]

henry quirk · 01-16-2013, 05:55 PM

Nope. Perfectly logical, and confiscation is the (absurd but logical) end if folks really want to make themselves 'safe' from 'gun'.

Any other (more moderate) course is 'feel good' and nuthin' else.

Full disclosure (again): I own one gun (12 gauge coach gun...a man-killer, which is what I mean it to be, though -- in a pinch -- it works for hunting as well). I've no interest in any other firearm, and no interest in giving up what I have.

footfootfoot · 01-16-2013, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Nirvana

No.. why should law abiding citizens have to give up their weapons? Your theory is illogical. If some are so intent on making a new law concerning guns then they need to enforce the ones we have and make stiffer penalties for those that illegally carry.

Mass killings can occur with the use of cow manure [/hyperbole]

We shouldn't. It's hard enough getting a deer with a rifle, now I'm sposed to shoot them with a bow?

I also prefer to call them firearms. It's not really a fight between me and the deer, I'm pretty much straight up killing them.

01-16-2013, 05:10 PM	#1
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	"How do you propose we minimize gun related crime, especially mass shootings?" As I say elsewhere: in a country of 350 million individuals (and counting), where an estimated 270,000,000 guns are 'out and about', total confiscation is the only answer (a long, bloody, expensive, process with no guarantee of success). Anything less (patchworks of laws = band aid on a wound the size of the Grand Canyon) is purely emotional salve (sooth the distress by addressing symptoms; never, ever, getting to the root). If 'you' won't confiscate, then stop kvetching, make do with piecemeal, and get on with living. by all conventional accounts, the root is 'gun'...if this is the case: eradicate 'gun', solve problem, yes?

01-16-2013, 05:42 PM	#2
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	No.. why should law abiding citizens have to give up their weapons? Your theory is illogical. If some are so intent on making a new law concerning guns then they need to enforce the ones we have and make stiffer penalties for those that illegally carry. Mass killings can occur with the use of cow manure [/hyperbole] __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

01-16-2013, 05:55 PM	#3
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	"Your theory is illogical" Nope. Perfectly logical, and confiscation is the (absurd but logical) end if folks really want to make themselves 'safe' from 'gun'. Any other (more moderate) course is 'feel good' and nuthin' else. Full disclosure (again): I own one gun (12 gauge coach gun...a man-killer, which is what I mean it to be, though -- in a pinch -- it works for hunting as well). I've no interest in any other firearm, and no interest in giving up what I have. Last edited by henry quirk; 01-16-2013 at 06:01 PM. Reason: removed a pesky 'thing'

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