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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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Tue, 17 Jul 2001 06:30:45 GMT
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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 don't own a single gun. YET. But don't try to legislate me out of my right
to own one (one of the reasons I'll move out of CA sooner or later is all the
gun legislation the bastards keep trying to pass).
Daniel Jassim wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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| (...) You are joking, I presume? (...) Yet, if you arm everyone you get less violence? No. What you get is every petty crime or malicious act escalating rapidly into a violent and murderous one. You get negligible non-violent crime rates, and huge (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) It's considerable harder to conceal a shotgun or rifle. My 12-gauge is considerably better for "home defense" than a handgun, anyway, and for the paranoid, a high-powered rifle is better for sniping at Guv'mint Troopers. Any idiot can point a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Really, what do we need handguns and automatic weapons for except to protect ourselves from assholes with the same weapons? Get rid of them all and it significantly lowers the odds of getting shot or accidentally shooting yourself. If someone (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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