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That culture plays a role instead of banning certain guns changing the CULTURE would do much.
Criminal charges.What sort of penalties do you suggest?
When there is no adult supervision there is no reason for guns to not be locked up.I mean guns do no good locked up
Under 18What do you mean child?
No honest hunter would use a silencer.Well, either one of two things hunting or maybe they just feel that our rights should not be limited in such a way.
Hope you feel better soon.I am taking a break from this thread it may last a few hours may last a day or two, but right now I am feeling guilt over my late father ( of almost three years (do not know what is with that), and as such would like to take a break (probably short) from "heavy" threads.
When toddlers kill 20 people a year, the price is too high.
And the irony is you are not even free, you have the highest incarceration rates of any developed country, and are ruled by plutocrats. The only real freedom Americans have is the freedom to live in constant fear.
Argument from emotion.
You have a heart that bleed and those who do not agree with your solutions are obviously lacking in a heart.
Everybody hurts. Everybody cries. Everybody has emotions too.
But there is a place for a brain in decision making too. Hearts lack in the gray matter.
It's not that guns it is the people behind the gun. Those people may or may not be mentally ill.
What rights are impeded that Americans feel that you would not want a gunshot heard. I can understand it in certain law enforcement of military situations... But why in a civil situation.
You think half a thousand people being shot up at a concert is a fair price to pay for your liberty?
Would say that to the families of the victims?
Do you think they would agree their loved one was a fair trade so someone else can have a gun?
20 people killed by infants under 3 years of age is 20 too many. I see no debate in that at all. Why would anyone want to live in a society where some amount of infants killing people is acceptable.
Here are some facts about how buyers, that are criminals, buy guns through private, legal sales. Federal law does not address this issue and many states don't either, even though statistics are showing that universal background checks do make a difference.Actually, there are laws forbidding several groups of people from having LEGAL access to guns (including the mentally ill, by the way. ( assuming of course that it is known and documented).
You seem to think that the choices are to bean all guns or ban none. This hasn't been true in the US since the 30's at least. And, it's not going to happen now. The question is what regulations we should have.
I asked you first.Do you think being unarmed and facing a rapist in your home is a fair price to pay for your gun control? Would you say that to the victims who have been raped?
I know for a fact that if a convicted felon is caught with a weapon that in and of itself is also a felony.Here are some facts about how buyers, that are criminals, buy guns through private, legal sales. Federal law does not address this issue and many states don't either, even though statistics are showing that universal background checks do make a difference.
Universal Background Checks | Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
I asked you first.
Yet, we have plenty of laws concerning cars and driving.How about 40,000 people killed? Would that be too many? Is that acceptable?
It's the number of people killed in car accidents in 2016.
But that number is accepted. But 20 is not. According to liberals, even one is too many, which means freedom isn't worth much of anything to them.
And there are many, many that don't.Yeah, this. Most burglaries don't actually occur at night - they happen during the day, when people aren't home. Most burglars want to avoid physical conflict, if at all possible.
It would be worthwhile for you to take a look at some of the statistics that Ben Shapiro refers to.Well whenever statistics are quoted it doesn't seem to do any good.
Keeping the comparisons within America, as gun ownership is rising, the homicide rate is going down. 56 % rise in gun ownership vs a 49 % decrease in homicides in the same time period. Clearly there is more than guns involved. Moreover, the drop in homicide rate in America is roughly the same as Australia's has been after Australia's big buy back program took so many guns off the street.I've pointed out numerous times that America has among the highest rates of gun ownership (88.8 guns per 100 people. SOURCE)of any industrialized developed country AND among the highest rates of gun homicides (SOURCE), and that doesn't ever make any difference.
No, if they can't see that a higher rate of mass shootings is likely linked to our relationship with guns in this society they aren't thinking rationally. They are thinking about their fear and their love of guns.
Okay, I think the chart referred to above does explain that.Then explain why America's extremely high gun ownership rates and extremely high rate of gun homicides AREN'T a sign that we have too many guns and we need MUCH STRICTER gun regulations (maybe even an outright limitation on the meaning of the 2nd amendment)?
Even so, people who break into houses are looking for stuff to steal, it's very rare that they're there to intentionally harm a stranger.And there are many, many that don't.
Home Invasions | Gun Violence Archive
Did I say something different?I know for a fact that if a convicted felon is caught with a weapon that in and of itself is also a felony.
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