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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 05:10:34 GMT
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I think the basic idea is having the handguns leaves the likely possibility
of being shot with one. Plus, the way our media portrays violence with
handguns, it creates a climate where the possibility is even more likely.
Getting rid of the handguns and automatic weapons will lower the odds,
that's just common sense.
I say to hell with the NRA and just ban all handguns and automatic weapons.
If those NRA scumbags want to hide behind the Constitution, just know that
it was written in the days of muzzle loaders. The right to bear arms needs
to be specific, just by virtue of those startling statistics you offered.
These NRA bastards don't seem to understand that it's called "amendment"
because it can be "amended." They had no problem changing their term limit
rule to accomodate Charlton "Soylent Green" Heston for another term as their
president.
Make handguns and automatic weapons illegal. Or as comedian Eddie Izzard
says: "Keep the guns and get rid of the bullets." If someone has one, turn
it in and be reimbursed by the Fed or donate it to a museum if it's
considered an artifact. Then if anyone is ever found with one, make it hefty
fine along with confiscation and destruction of the weapon. Keep rifles and
shotguns, since the NRA is the National *RIFLE* Association anyway. Those
weapons are harder to conceal and stats show handguns are the firearm of
choice in violent crimes and murders.
Dan
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| Well, I know your post must have been a joke by the tone you took, but..... Outlaw handguns, and only outlaws will have them. And all that would do is make rifles and shotguns "the firearm of choice in violent crimes and murders" sooner or later. I (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In the spirit of not trying to pick a fight, I'll include my opinion to this topic and hope for the best... Is it true that Hitler managed to remove weapons from the common people in Germany sometime before he went on his mad killing spree? And (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) <doing a little jig> Bring it on baby. There is one and only one way to bring the next American revolution on and that's to outlaw a significant class of weaponry. I'll tell you what...you'll be the first against the wall. (...) Agreed. It (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I found similar, though slightly differing, stats at (URL) In 1998, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Suicides with firearms took the lives of 17,420 Americans. Homicides with firearms took the lives of 11,798 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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