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  • jmuscatello
    jmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    edited June 2014
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    mattsl1983 said:

    Maybe instead of blaming guns, we should look at why this kids are acting out violently? Naw, let's just blame guns.

    what is the common denominator in all school shootings??

    the fucking gun.
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  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    just wanted to toss in my opinion on age. if a person is old enough to get blown up or shot for their country, they are old enough for everything else in this world.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • jmuscatello
    jmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    mattsl1983 said:

    Maybe instead of blaming guns, we should look at why this kids are acting out violently? Naw, let's just blame guns.

    what is the common denominator in all school shootings??

    the fucking gun.
    and easy access to it

  • jmuscatello
    jmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    goingtoverona said:

    just wanted to toss in my opinion on age. if a person is old enough to get blown up or shot for their country, they are old enough for everything else in this world.

    well alrighty then, since a kid here can enlist at 17, let's be sure every 17 year old American kid can legally purchase handguns and long guns... it's more fair that way and I'm sure it'll make schools much safer. Write your congressman today!
  • unsung
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    jmuscatello said:

    goingtoverona said:

    just wanted to toss in my opinion on age. if a person is old enough to get blown up or shot for their country, they are old enough for everything else in this world.

    well alrighty then, since a kid here can enlist at 17, let's be sure every 17 year old American kid can legally purchase handguns and long guns... it's more fair that way and I'm sure it'll make schools much safer. Write your congressman today!
    The military trains them as killing machines.
  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    it's not important enough to me to write my congressman, maybe i'll send a a short email if i can find the time between my sessions of masturbation.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    unsung said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    unsung said:

    FWIW, I am in the process of obtaining some Federal Firearms Licenses, let me tell you it is not easy to obtain such items. That perception needs to go away, I have been working through this for almost two months.

    Yah, but this is because you're trying to buy a bazooka.

    If you want to buy a little old handgun... just go to the gas station.
    Not really, although I'd love to own one, or at least fire one, I'm not taking on that liability.

    Next time you go into a gas station that will sell you a handgun for cash and no questions asked please post a picture.
    It's interesting how you have described purchasing a bazooka as a liability, but will not acknowledge that smaller arms carry liability as well.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    I prefer not to store explosives, I encourage responsibility and I cannot responsibly store those materials like I can with "smaller arms".
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    anybody got a link for the story in the kid who slashed his way down the crowded school hallway (200 kids or so) with 2 large ktichen knives? He gave it hell, and injured 20 some students...at last i saw no lives were lost that day..
    NOW IMAGINE his redneck daddy has one of those "personal defense" weapons with a gazillion round drum mag? Even if he had 2 semi-auto pistols he couldnt match the carnage possible with a "defensive" weapon..which BTW is a joke, the tactical appointments on these rifles were designed by the military for eliminating human combatants efficiently and you gunners KNOW it!
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  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    FYI Daily show last night said there have been 72 school shootings since Newtown. That's a lot of dead kids and teachers.

    Guns or not nothing is being done about it.
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • mattsl1983
    mattsl1983 Posts: 711
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    mattsl1983 said:

    Maybe instead of blaming guns, we should look at why this kids are acting out violently? Naw, let's just blame guns.

    what is the common denominator in all school shootings??

    the fucking gun.
    I would say an individual that wishes to cause harm? I have yet to see a gun just waltz up on its own into a school. This blaming the gun idea is like trying to put a bandaid on a gushing wound. Ban guns, cause I'm sure that once that law is passed all guns will magically disappear. Just like everything else that is illegal? The gun debate is so far off the mark of what is happening, but it's all we want to focus on. I think that's silly.

  • mattsl1983
    mattsl1983 Posts: 711
    Guns also aren't even the number one item used in murder. Why do we focus on guns so much? Media?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    mattsl1983 said:

    Guns also aren't even the number one item used in murder. Why do we focus on guns so much? Media?

    Or for that matter, why do we on AMT focus on guns so much? I think we need to get more serious about beer and mead.
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  • mattsl1983
    mattsl1983 Posts: 711
    Brianlux, you Sir, are on a roll tonight. I dig it.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    mattsl1983 said:

    Brianlux, you Sir, are on a roll tonight. I dig it.

    It must be the near-full moon. :-)) Thank you Matts. :-)

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    -Roberto Benigni

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    mattsl1983 said:

    gimmesometruth27 said:

    mattsl1983 said:

    Maybe instead of blaming guns, we should look at why this kids are acting out violently? Naw, let's just blame guns.

    what is the common denominator in all school shootings??

    the fucking gun.
    I would say an individual that wishes to cause harm? I have yet to see a gun just waltz up on its own into a school. This blaming the gun idea is like trying to put a bandaid on a gushing wound. Ban guns, cause I'm sure that once that law is passed all guns will magically disappear. Just like everything else that is illegal? The gun debate is so far off the mark of what is happening, but it's all we want to focus on. I think that's silly.

    so did you read my short story of the knife slashing maniac in PA? Is it not likely he would have injured more people and caused fatality with an assault rifle? Or are you going to suggest that a knife has the same mass killing capacity?
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  • unsung
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    edited June 2014
    I don't understand that logic; trying to compare a knife to a gun. Instead of worrying about the tool that is used why don't we worry about why the deed was done. When someone tries to rationalize that the use of a knife would simply kill less that's like saying those knife killings are acceptable numbers. Instead we should focus on why people have the desire to harm others.
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    mattsl1983 said:

    Guns also aren't even the number one item used in murder. Why do we focus on guns so much? Media?

    this sounds like a NRA statistic parroted over and over. first google hit:

    According to a 2007 study by the FBI, the last time a detailed study of this type was conducted, firearms were the most commonly used murder weapons nationally, accounting for 14,831 murders that year. These are followed by knives or stabbing weapons, at 1,796, then by personal weapons, such as hands, feet, fists, etc.; blunt objects; strangulation; fire; asphyxiation; narcotics; drowning; and poison.
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,716
    unsung said:

    I don't understand that logic; trying to compare a knife to a gun. Instead of worrying about the tool that is used why don't we worry about why the deed was done. When someone tries to rationalize that the use of a knife would simply kill less that's like saying those knife killings are acceptable numbers. Instead we should focus on why people have the desire to harm others.

    I think he was comparing one "inanimate" object to another and commenting on their respective efficiency at killing if used by someone hellbent on killing. That's what I took from it anyway. Not a valid argument?

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