jonescg
100 MW
Please stop shooting each other.
Sincerely,
Chris.
Sincerely,
Chris.
jonescg said:Handguns and assault rifles are designed to kill humans. They serve no other purpose. You don't go hunting with handguns or AK-47s.
Killing humans is both illegal and wrong.
These kinds of weapons have no place in the hands of anyone other than a soldier, who is paid and trained by his country to protect his nations sovereignty. Seriously America, get over it. Your armed forces are great. Let them do the protecting and killing, as that's what they are trained to do.
Jeremy, I agree completely. Guns don't kill people, people blah blah blah. But when you consider the above, we can surely make it easier to prevent such tragedies.
Rodney64 said:jonescg said:You don't go hunting with handguns or AK-47s.
Chris you may need to stand corrected. I shot this video when I went back home a couple of years back.
It's an AK. A favourite if your looking for reliability, mud and rain in an automatic in fiordland amongst the helicopter deer cullers.
Thud said:I don't know if this made the news anywhere else on the planet & frankly I hadn't heard about it untill yesterday myself in all the ruckus....but lunies are everywhere & they will attack whatever their twisted lodgic points them too:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html
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dogman said:Only the rich are allowed to be crazy nowdays. Poor or middle class folks get told to go away. If you have health insurance, you don't get treatment till you get well, you get treatment till some arbitrary dollar number is gone. Then it's out you go.
TylerDurden said:Yep, that's IF you already have health insurance. A person's history of mental illness or depression have been regularly used by insurance companies as pre-existing conditions; thus grounds for denial of any health coverage.
MattyCiii said:As insane and outrageous as the recent shooting is, more kids die as the result of careless driving every week in the USA (more precisely, about 50 kids under 15 are killed by USA motorists each week). This level of carnage has been relatively steady for the last 60 years (going back farther there's fewer deaths, but still far too many).
There's no sign it will get much better any time soon, this is especially evident in the way people's driving has been getting more aggressive each passing year (subjective, unproven observation/opinion, I know).
That's every week for more than half a century. What an outrage.
neptronix said:In Switzerland, they hand their young semi-automatic weapons at the age of what, 18? to be part of the standing militia.. Yet, they have 1/5th-1/15th the murder rate compared to any metro area in the USA, and most murders aren't done with guns. Also, when did the last mass shooting happen in Switzerland? 2001 i think?
neptronix said:Jeremy Harris - you say that we have a similar quality of life as other countries.. i'd say we don't. America is more like a mill for soldiers and implements of war than it is a proper society like yours. People are desperate here, especially right now in the midst of a financial depression and economy that has been worsening for decades. Unemployment is much higher than the statistics show, and if you don't have a job, you likely don't have any health coverage at all.
No job, no help for a troubled mind, high level of frustration, and lots of time on your hands.. add it up and see what you get..
etriker said:We need to only let very few people have gas and the power it brings to destroy.
etriker said:Billy Ferry did it with a bucket of gas.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/102900/TampaBay/Community_finally_ris.shtml