It IS the difference between “loving” guns, worshiping them, and merely knowing and using them. My dog is both my friend, and better burglar protection than my gun. At 13 pounds, my friend has “attacked” deer, to his regret, he can’t put ‘em in the freezer.
Still alot more inocent people saved by private gun ownership than injured or killed.
The sorce is the same as the one you should be using;data compiled by the FBI and local law enforcement agencies.
And NO I’m not doing your homework for you.
I don’t need gun statistics to tell me what to think. Common sense does a good job on its own.
Try this: load a gun, set it on the table and sit in the chair in front of it.
Step two: wait for it to go off.
Step three: have someone call me when it does. Well I say that, but that’s a call that will never happen.
A gun is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. can perform a useful function or can be used to kill. Ban it?
A car is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. Can be used to get you from place to place or can be used to run over a person and kill them. Ban it?
A knife is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. Can be used to cut up veggies or a nice juicy steak. Can be used to stab a person to injure or kill. Ban it?
A baseball bat is a tool. it can be used for good or bad. It can be used to hit a baseball on a nice afternoon in a baseball game or can be used to bash someone’s head in, injuring or even killing them. Ban it?
Rocks used to be a tool but are mostly landscape now. It can be used for good or bad. It can be used to decorate a garden or be left in place as part of the beauty of the land. It can also be picked up and used to bash a persons head in. ban it?
I can go on, but why? I think by now your common sense has worked out the point of my message.
Chris Britt appears in our local paper and I have read him for years. I’m proud to see him here. The statistics really do show that if you keep a gun in your home you are more like to be killed by it than kill a “bad guy”. But no one will change their position on this issue. I can say my now dearly departed dad, who died 6 years ago at 78 and taught me to shoot when I was 9 years old, was a member of the NRA for years until he said they became too irrational for him. Armor-piercing ammo, anyone? Give people on the “terrorist list” the right to bear arms? Definitely my kind of folks.
human; Americans themselves feel they need weapons to protect themselves from their own government. Why wouldn’t Muslims stockpile weapons to protect themselve from that same government?
Adults who behave like 3 year olds, will evolve to be Adults who behave as 3 year olds…..until at some unknown point in their evolution they gain levels of maturity!
^ Are you saying that SCOTUS should have said they had no jurisdiction and allowed the 7 Democrats on the Florida Supreme court to make a decision, which turned out to be unconstitutional, to decide the President of the US. And what gave SCOTUS the power to say we can’t decide, Florida can’t decide, send it to the House of Representatives. (BTW, if that had happened Bush probably would have won)
Human et al, if the UN had monitored that election and enforced OUR OWN election laws, and eliminated fraud in several states, Gore would have been president. (He DID after all win the popular vote by a significant margin.)
Libertarian1 said, ”And what gave SCOTUS the power to say we can’t decide, Florida can’t decide, send it to the House of Representatives.[sic]”
Try Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution**, which reads, in part:
“The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President.”
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
It IS the difference between “loving” guns, worshiping them, and merely knowing and using them. My dog is both my friend, and better burglar protection than my gun. At 13 pounds, my friend has “attacked” deer, to his regret, he can’t put ‘em in the freezer.
dwnoname almost 14 years ago
must be a terrier
outhouse almost 14 years ago
Another progressive firing blanks and spitt’n in the wind and expecting to be paid for it .
davesmithsit almost 14 years ago
Still alot more inocent people saved by private gun ownership than injured or killed. The sorce is the same as the one you should be using;data compiled by the FBI and local law enforcement agencies. And NO I’m not doing your homework for you.
davesmithsit almost 14 years ago
Then you must have a HUGE stock pile of guns sb.
dshepard almost 14 years ago
I don’t need gun statistics to tell me what to think. Common sense does a good job on its own.
Try this: load a gun, set it on the table and sit in the chair in front of it.
Step two: wait for it to go off.
Step three: have someone call me when it does. Well I say that, but that’s a call that will never happen.
A gun is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. can perform a useful function or can be used to kill. Ban it?
A car is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. Can be used to get you from place to place or can be used to run over a person and kill them. Ban it?
A knife is a tool. Can be used for good or bad. Can be used to cut up veggies or a nice juicy steak. Can be used to stab a person to injure or kill. Ban it?
A baseball bat is a tool. it can be used for good or bad. It can be used to hit a baseball on a nice afternoon in a baseball game or can be used to bash someone’s head in, injuring or even killing them. Ban it?
Rocks used to be a tool but are mostly landscape now. It can be used for good or bad. It can be used to decorate a garden or be left in place as part of the beauty of the land. It can also be picked up and used to bash a persons head in. ban it?
I can go on, but why? I think by now your common sense has worked out the point of my message.
badmojo almost 14 years ago
Chris Britt appears in our local paper and I have read him for years. I’m proud to see him here. The statistics really do show that if you keep a gun in your home you are more like to be killed by it than kill a “bad guy”. But no one will change their position on this issue. I can say my now dearly departed dad, who died 6 years ago at 78 and taught me to shoot when I was 9 years old, was a member of the NRA for years until he said they became too irrational for him. Armor-piercing ammo, anyone? Give people on the “terrorist list” the right to bear arms? Definitely my kind of folks.
SuperGriz almost 14 years ago
human,
Been busy, have you?
dwnoname almost 14 years ago
there’s nothing wrong with being libral there’s nothing wrong with being conservative except for being wrong
dwnoname almost 14 years ago
^ double entendre
CorosiveFrog Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I’ll be devil’s advocate here;
human; Americans themselves feel they need weapons to protect themselves from their own government. Why wouldn’t Muslims stockpile weapons to protect themselve from that same government?
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
ANY “American” “AFRAID” of OUR government, should immediately move to Somalia! I’m really tired of that idiotic old saw!
OUR defense is in the ballot box, not the bullet box. If you don’t like that system, and can’t accept the outcome, then get the flock out!
Libertarian1 almost 14 years ago
to dtroutma previous subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MhrcxK2PvQ)
dwnoname almost 14 years ago
societies get the government they deserve
SherriannPederson almost 14 years ago
Adults who behave like 3 year olds, will evolve to be Adults who behave as 3 year olds…..until at some unknown point in their evolution they gain levels of maturity!
Libertarian1 almost 14 years ago
^ Are you saying that SCOTUS should have said they had no jurisdiction and allowed the 7 Democrats on the Florida Supreme court to make a decision, which turned out to be unconstitutional, to decide the President of the US. And what gave SCOTUS the power to say we can’t decide, Florida can’t decide, send it to the House of Representatives. (BTW, if that had happened Bush probably would have won)
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
Human et al, if the UN had monitored that election and enforced OUR OWN election laws, and eliminated fraud in several states, Gore would have been president. (He DID after all win the popular vote by a significant margin.)
dwnoname almost 14 years ago
^ 500,000
Michigander almost 14 years ago
Love is thicker than water.
WarBush almost 14 years ago
Crazy people with GUNS!
myming almost 14 years ago
TALK ABOUT GUNS…
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/05/military-finds-zeta-narco-camp-in-nl.html
runar almost 14 years ago
Libertarian1 said, ”And what gave SCOTUS the power to say we can’t decide, Florida can’t decide, send it to the House of Representatives.[sic]”
Try Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution**, which reads, in part:
“The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President.”