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I do not believe in the death penalty either ( but that is for another thread) If you kill someone while they are in the act of committing an act of violence that is fine, but I do oppose the death penalty once the person is caught and incarcerated.
It wouldn't make sense to hunt game with tomahawk missiles, big or small. There would be no game left.
And guns are good and effective tools for hunting, there is no reason people shouldn't hunt with guns.
but then again if the government completely disarmed themselves they would not have the arms either.
My comment was based on my experiences in countries that had tough gun laws but were also quite safe countries for cultural reasons.
All too often they will know but not do anything about it. James Eagan Holmes who shot up a movie theater and killed a bunch of people in 2012 would apparently hear "nail ghosts" pounding on the wall at night as a chid, he obviously was not right in the head. Adam Lanza who committed the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, they knew there was something wrong with him but he was not committed as he should've been. Nikolas Cruz who committed the Parkland high school shooting in 2018 had a history of behavioral issues before the shooting but nothing was done about it. The recent shooting at the Nashville Christian school was done by somebody we know had issues and they were a trans so that should say something.
Alright if you want to do it that way, any kind of gun control that applies to the citizens should have to apply to the police and military as well. If the citizens can't have guns the police and military can't have guns either, that's only fair. Any kind of gun that should be banned from citizens would also have to be banned from the police and military. To have it otherwise would be a double standard.
To be honest, those "cosmetic" features do increase the combat capability of the gun above the level of other semi-automatic rifles.
yes, I agree, but at the same time that one requires someone speaking up (in many cases.) In other words even if someone knows, but they do not say anything to someone who can actually do anything about it it will not work. It (in most cases) is not illegal to know something even for a FACT and not say anything. You also run the risk of someone telling on someone with the wrong motives and that can be an issue.
First of all you've got to define what a large-capacity magazine is. One could say that a magazine that holds two bullets is "large-capacity" because maybe magazines should not be able to hold more than one round, according to some people. If you're talking about the magazines that hold thirty rounds, those are your "standard capacity" magazines as those are the magazines that the rifle comes with when you buy it.
Cosmetic features means stuff such as adjustable stocks, which makes sense because people come in different shapes and sizes and as such they might need to adjust the stock before using the rifle, yet having an adjustable stock as opposed to a non adjustable stock can qualify a rifle as an "assault weapon" by some definitions.
that gets tricky simply because where does it stop? This is particularly true with SO many guns where there WILL at the very least be a MAJOR black market.
As long as we have the death penalty, innocent people will continue to be put to death for crimes that they did not commit. This happens when people are wrongly convicted. The question is how many innocent lives are you willing to sacrifice in the process, because there will be some.
That's more of an issue with the trial process than the penalty. Otherwise, we would be just as likely to get rid of jails and prisons for the same reason. IMO, the entire process is far too complex, expensive, and flawed.
but sense people never will be perfect the safest option is not to have the penalty because it is like that for the reason of trying to ensure no one is wrongly put to death.
They knew something was wrong with Adam Lanza and they had tried to have him committed but for whatever reason he wasn't. That was the problem, he wasn't committed as he should've been.
Depends on what kind of gun reform and regulation we're talking about, if a Christian should be in support of it or not.
