Plus, y'know, I was kinda basing it on past opinions of yours which seemed to say "People get one chance, and then they should be hanged until dead."
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Liam has an ilk, now?
quote:Apparently.
You have a large, furry, horse sized thing with fur and horns? Where do you keep it?
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The 'd' and the 'v' are far apart, so it wasn't voltage....
'e' and 'i', Liam now also has an elk....
I do beleive elks have hair, not fur...
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Da_bang80
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"Well. Unfortunately, guns are going to be around for a very long time. At least until we find a more efficient way to slaughter each other. So we better find a way to deal with them. OR WE'RE ALL DOOMED! DOOMED I TELLS YA!"
That was the official statement of a classmate of mine (no names) when our discussion drifted towards gun control. I may or may not have initiated the debate... Well OK actually I did.
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I have a question: While everyone's throwing around figures for gun murders, and crimes committed involving the use of a gun, compared between the US and the UK, what about figures for accidental shootings (whether fatal or not)?
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If people would think and place trigger locks on or remove the firing pins, depending on type or weapon, the number of accidents, especially with kids, would all but become nil...
As to the actual numbers, well, it happens, but with the way the US media grabs ahold of such things, it doesn't happen all that often, but when it does it is a tragety(sp)...
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Only for 'stupid bastards and religious freaks, so safe in their castle-keeps, turn away as a mother weeps, under the gun....'
Okay, I feel better now...
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Did I miss something? Do all our posts have to be poetic now?
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Yes, some time ago a Maryland hotshot politician was holding a press conference and was going to demonstrate the "value" of trigger locks.
His aim was to show how a child could not remove it, but that an adult could.
But during the demonstration, he couldn't work the lock mechanism and had to have a police officer help him.
Ah, here'a a brief summary:
quote:Last March, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening tried to demonstrate the "Saf T Lok" magazine lock, one of several different options currently available to state and federal governments at a press conference designed to promote legislation making the locks required under state law. It took the Governor nearly two minutes of struggling to finally unlock the gun.
In the real world (where not everybody has an armed security detail standing by), he'd be dead.
I'd be interested in knowing the proportion of these accidents which take place in locations WITHOUT Concealed Carry Permits -- locations where people are more likely to leave their weapon in an unsecure place, because they aren't allowed to carry it around.
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Da_bang80
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Whats the point in having a gun if you take out the firing pin? MAYBE if the parents TAUGHT thier children about guns then maybe they wouldn't shoot themselves. If I have children, then I plan to teach them about guns and why not to play with them.
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That's what my dad did. And despite iving in a house filled with guns, we've never come close to having an accident. Because we treat all the guns, even the non-functional ones and the ones we know are empty, as if they were always loaded.
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