I myself have no firearms and feel no need to have one. My brother and father both have numerous both have them locked in huge gun safes my dads holds like 40 and my brothers hold about 20 so yeah pretty large.
I myself have no firearms and feel no need to have one. My brother and father both have numerous both have them locked in huge gun safes my dads holds like 40 and my brothers hold about 20 so yeah pretty large.
Stupid?
If there's a couple guys breaking into your home armed, and you call the police, you have 12 minutes on average to deal with these guys until the police arrive (12 min. is national average).
What would be the logical thing to do: Sit there squirming while hoping they don't shoot ya? Or get the gun out and hide, and hopefully they don't spot you first?
Saying it's stupid is making you look stupid.
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haha, let me think of what all guns i own.
2 ak-47s
2 ar-15s
tommy gun
.45 caliber rock island arms 1911
a russian .308 vepr (similar to the looks of an ak-47 for those that do not know)
2 sks's
1 full 1919 and 1 parts kit minus a side reciever plate
an mp5
3 or 4 shotguns, i honestly cant remember
3 or 4 .22 caliber guns, couple .22 caliber revolvers, couple .22 caliber rifles
.30-06 german mannlicher
german luger
hk 91 .308
thats all i can think of right about now
I admire your effort to have a level headed discussion about this sensitive topic, but I see a huge flaw in your approach. You start with a belief system rather than a pragmatic assessment of situation. You are telling us what, in your opinion, is a widely held belief in the US. You cannot have a beneficial discussion this way. A real debate would have been possible if you had shown us studies where having a gun as a deterrent caused a significant reduction of crime, or a large scale experiment in a city, state or country where access to guns improved law and order. But you don't have any of that. All you have is a belief set from hundreds of years back, in sharp contrast to reality. America is in the minority in the civilized nations when it comes to gun control. There is a reason for that. And that is probably what prompts these responses from canadians and europeans that you refer to, appropriately baffled why Americans stick to a system so alien to what they are used to.
But this would be a pragmatic discussion and not within the framework you laid down. Instead we will have a discussion that I have had with friends and colleagues in the past when 2nd amendment (right to bear arms) is their answer to everything.
Never underestimate of the power of stupid people in large groups.
iive never really said anything bad about gun ownership, i think there should be some restrictions on the type of gun and who is allowed them, but it seems to work (sort of) for US. as long as you're happy. but for me, id rather not have guns here, simply no need. would rather we fixed our knife crime before adding guns to the equation.
Nice thread.
I think gun owners just need to consistently show that they take the responsibility of gun ownership seriously, and that will help dispel those notions. It's hard to fight the media, as they are going to sensationalize anything, but you can absolutely impact your community's perception.
I grew up on a farm and certainly grew up around guns. My father has a real passion for hunting, and would occasionally let me along. I grew up respecting that my dinner didn't come from a supermarket, it originally came from a living breathing animal. We also used guns to kill coyotes that attacked our calves and sheep, or pests that ate our crops. I had a pellet gun as a kid and was the terror of every aluminum can in the area, but I knew to respect it as a powerful weapon.
In college I was good friends with a cop and we'd go to the shooting range together, even though I don't own one, I think it's an important skill to have, to know how to safely operate a weapon, to be able to properly use one even when afraid. I've been moving from state to state too often in the past few years, so I haven't yet purchased my own, in order to avoid dealing with gun laws. I've always thought of guns as usual tools, for hunting and for protection.
The situation would have to be rather extreme for me to ever consider using a gun on a person.
At this point legal guns are kind of American culture, so I'm certainly not against them, but I do question the way they are distributed.
Still, I love my gun, but it's mostly for my "target range". Would love to get my hands on a Carolean musket as well.
It's a very difficult thing to provide what you're looking for on several accounts. There isn't a lot of funding into crime prevention due to legally owned firearms. It is actually unknown how many crimes are prevented every year by just showing a gun to a would be attacker. I have seen claims of upwards to 2 million cases a year. However, since those involved no homicide they don't get reported to the FBI nor the CDC.
The closest I can actually offer are the shocking numbers from Florida where since the indoctrination of Stand Your Ground, violent crime has steadily declined every year, and not by a small margine because those statistics were specifically tracked.
However, I don't think even giving you what you are seemingly asking or stating for would have been any more helpful. We live in the information age. If someone cared, they'd already know. This isn't a conversation driven from the point of "here's my stance, I'm right, now let me change you." This was to express that not all gun owners in America are crazed lunatics and or answering some questions due to misconceptions that people have.
Frankly, again, the information is already out there and yet one of the first posts was asking about the purchasing process.
Perhaps you should (not to be disrespectful) wised to the idea that often it isn't fact or fiction which people care about but how it's delivered. I think that is part of the problem with Americans and Guns perceived by the rest of the world, which I blame on our Media and News outlets.
It's not cheerful or even nice, but I've spent time on the internet. I've seen up-close the issue you're talking about. Knife attacks are pretty serious in the UK on down to India and over the Russia.
I've seen countless stories and CCTVs of brutal attacks from Gas Stations to Internet Cafe's. This idea that guns are the singular problem is irrational to me. The common element are humans, and a knife attack is so damn personal it's disgusting.
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http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/re...ndgun-ban.aspx
See before discussing
Arming an entire population with the ability to kill at the pull of a finger was fucking stupid. Especially with all the morons drifting around. At least against knife you have a chance to run. So many pointless deaths over trivial arguments happen because of it.Saying it's stupid is making you look stupid.
The main problem is that people like James Holmes are able to get deadly weapons such as assault rifles with relative ease.
It's not gun owners that's the problem. I'd say close to 90% of all Americans have at least 1 person in their immediate family that owns a gun. And of those millions of people, only a small handful actually use them to cause harm.
And yet if you look at the number of legal gun owners, compare that to the number of gun crimes commuted by that populace, you'll find is extremely low. Also, as it will be clearly pointed out, Cars are involved in more deaths in the US each year over guns. In face, Tobacco is related to more deaths than fire arms. Yet, the perception, is that we have a huge problem. Of the deaths, a heavy % are due to suicide. If those are included, should Asia, the Middle East, and Europe get rid of trains? (gross comparison but you understand the point I hope)
Thank you for that. I didn't want to direct links because I felt like I would be forcing the information/opinion, but it was nice that someone had them on hand.
This is correct. The term "Assault Rifle" is grossly and incorrectly used in the Media. So is the terminology "hi-capacity magazine."
my dad was a gun dealer til i was around 22 or 23. back in his early years, id say around the early to mid 90s there was quite a deal going on with sks rifles, my dad bought a lot of these and resold them and made quite a profit, he would always pick out some of the best looking ones and set them aside to sell after some of the lower quality ones would sell but towards the end of this little rush he gave me and my brother both one each. i was around 12 or 13 i reckon and it was my first real firearm. i had had a shotgun and a .22 but this was my first non hunting firearm.
ive since sportarized it a bit with a bipod and a folding buttstock and a nice scope and i would have to say it is my favorite due to my father giving it to me. however if i were to choose an overall prefernce in what i enjoy shooting it would be one of my ar-15s. again one of my ars my father gave to me as he was getting out of the gun selling buisness and so it hold a special place as well.
I will just leave this here, tough I had posted it already inn another topic O.o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35W7KhnbC28 And with this mighty link I shall leave the thread, since these topics clearly not for me. Rock on!
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