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The Clinton gun ban has expired!
tep0583:
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Tep, I don't even know where to begin with this ??? Half of my questions you answered were rhetorical, lol. My point of listing all those exceptions to rights that are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights was not a challenge to see if you could actually come up with the justification for those exceptions, it was simply to illustrate that there ARE exceptions. ... oh for crying out loud, this is retarded.
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Well, start anywhere you want. You have your views, I have my views. The difference being that mine are currently supported by the laws of the land, even if that does make me "retarted".
I withdrawl from these sort of things when people start resorting to name-calling.
tep0583:
--- Quote from: hunky_artist on September 16, 2004, 07:33:50 pm ---ok, there are lots of 'for' arguments here... all saying guns dont kill people, and that if you wanted to kill someone you would.. whatever the weapon...
... so if that's true you shouldn't have any higher a percentage of murders in your country than anywhere else, right?
how come The States then has more murders per year for the population, than most countries out there?
and I'm including countries that have guns, not just the ones that dont.
It is infinitly easier to shoot someone, than to physically plunge a knife in them, or kill them with your bare hands. The more removed from the victim you can be the easier it is. Especially for silly things like jilted lovers... where usuallly the worst that would happen without a gun is that they might get beat up.
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Hmm......Let's see..... Say I want to kill "Joe". Say I don't want to make a lot of noise and draw a lot of attention to myself (and thus draw the attention of potential whitnesses), so I discount the whole "hail or bullets" approach. Instead, I observe "Joe's" routine for a couple of days and decide on a couple of isolated places that he goes to with some regularity. I then decide on the night I will do the "deed" and lay in wait for him.
All I have to do is get close to "Joe". It doesn't really matter how, but for our purposes, say I approach slowly and non-threateningly. I tell him I wanto to talk about our problems and the stun gun I have with me is nowhere in sight. After putting him at ease (or not, really, at this point his ego has already convinced him that I want no "trouble"), I bring the stun gun out and, before he knows what's happening, he's incapacitated and I have 10 minutes to do to him what I will. It wouldn't take much effort at all to slit his throat and I can dispose of the knife and stun gun anywhere, with little chance of them being traced back to me.
That's just one scinario and one that required a minimum of thought. Its execution would require a little more time, effort, and patience then using a gun, but it would yeald more sure results and attract far less attention to myself.
If I didn't want to put that much work into it, I oly have to know where my "target" will be at a general time. It isn't that hard to steal an old car, although it would increase the chances of being caught.
The "easier" arguement doesn't hold that much water with me. It isn't that much easier. It certainly wouldn't stop it from happening.
shmokes:
Don't be sensitive. I didn't call you retarded.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: fredster on September 17, 2004, 08:27:00 am ---I once got in a lot of trouble watching TV. My wife and her sister were with me and a news story came on about a man that stabbed his wife 17 times.
I said "wow, ONLY 17 times? he must have been tired"
At that point I was attacked.
(those of you married can related to that one).
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If I were drinking something, it would have shot straight out of my nose! ;D ;D
So, did you "ban" your wife from watching TV with you? That would have probably solved the whole problem right there.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 17, 2004, 07:18:13 pm ---Don't be sensitive. I didn't call you retarded.
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Well then why did you call ME retarded? ;)
You're not so nice...I'm taking my big red ball and going home....nener nener boo boo :P
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