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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [qb] [QUOTE]Why are'nt we tackling the problem of indiscriminate killing here at home at all? Political contrubutions and the NRA is why. Let's see this fuck-o from NY call for a mandatory firearms ban: never happen. [/QUOTE]Also because the availability of weapons seems to have bugger-all to do with the homicide rate, otherwise Norway and Canada would have pretty much similar rates to ours. It is, sad to say, probably our culture at large, not our "gun culture," which causes this problem. [QUOTE] 99% of people with weapons permits are the last possible people you'd want to have them! [/QUOTE]99.99% of statistics "quoted" in this manner are unadulterated crap. I'm betting this one is, too. It's amazing, the sheer number of lunkheads who actually seem to believe that societal pacifism is viable while predators exist. Dude, tell it to the antelope. He lives by running away, and when he can't run, he dies. You cannot HAVE freedom if you are not willing to defend it. When you expect others to defend you, you are giving them power over you. Sometimes, power extending to life-and-death decisions. You might have missed it but, those model ships you build? They have phaser strips and photon torpedo launchers. Even in Utopia. [/qb][/QUOTE]Be real. If you want to make comparisons then find me civillians in the trek universe with phasers. There are none. Starfleet is the Federation's equivalent of the military and there is no need of police- they've outgrown the attitude you expressed. I think you'll find that nobody is killed by a stray phaser blast in Trek. Civillians have no phasers or any personal weapons. It's much more difficult to take a life if you have to look a person in the eye....not just point a small killing machine at them and click their life away like it's a TV station you don't want to watch. That's why handguns should be illeagal. If someone that bought a handgun for protection from one of these "preadator" boogeymen you speak of gets really pissed at the guy that just flipped him off, he'll be much more likely to do something stupid if all he has to do is point and shoot. The old adage of "if handguns are outlawed, only outlaws will have handguns" has been bandied about by the NRA for years while the inncoent bystander deathtoll has grown exponentially. Explain your attitude to parents of kids that get shot at school by other kids showing off their guns. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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