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Flying to Nevada from Illinois with a gun
Dartful Dodger:
This thread was started to point out the firearm ignorance in our airports' security.
If you live outside of the USA you don
Bones:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on February 18, 2005, 05:55:54 pm ---This thread was started to point out the firearm ignorance in our airports' security.
If you live outside of the USA you don
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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 18, 2005, 05:15:10 pm ---The "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is retarded. Every time I hear or read that I vomit all over myself.
Guns kill people. The technicality you rely on to suggest otherwise is absurd.
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Are you deliberately being obtuse by saying it's absurd to suggest otherwise?
Guns kill no one, unless thrown hard enough and precisely struck to inflict death.
Get ahold of yourself, the vomiting has made you light-headed and you don't have your faculties about you....other than at work.
BULLETS kill people. The technicality YOU rely on to suggest otherwise is absurd.
This message has been brought to you by the Dale Carnegie Outreach Course of Greater BYOAC. ;D
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: SeaMonkey on February 18, 2005, 05:39:13 pm ---
Ginsu knives can cut through a cinder block, and still slice tomatoes paper thin. Do we really need that kind of cutting power as individuals?
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As a connoisseur of paper-thin tomato slices, not only do I believe we need that kind of cutting power, I believe it to be a right of every free man, woman, and child in America, and will defend it to the death....with my Ronco Pocket Fisherman. ;D
SeaMonkey:
--- Quote from: Apollo on February 17, 2005, 10:09:06 pm --- And Sephroth I'd do some research on how many gun shot injuries and deaths are the caused by the homeowners handgun and how many victims are the homeowners family or friends.
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It is in fact interesting research. Swimming pools and bathtubs kill more children than guns kill PEOPLE, 5 to 1, in my state.
So if this were REALLY about safety, then we would be talking about water control.
In 1996, nearly 1,000 children ages 14 and under drowned. Children ages 4 and under accounted for nearly half of these deaths.
Each year, an estimated 5,000 children ages 14 and under are hospitalized due to near-drowning.
Near-drowning have high case fatality rates. Fifteen percent of children admitted for near-drowning die in the hospital. As many as 20 percent of near-drowning survivors suffer severe, permanent neurological disability.
For every child who drowns, an additional four are hospitalized for near-drowning; and for every hospital admission, approximately four children are treated in hospital emergency rooms.
A swimming pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child age 4 and under.
Guns kill less people than cars, per unit. That's odd, since that is the primary function of the gun....not the car.
So again....we are not talking about safety, or we would be talking about car control.
There is a psychological recoil that some people have that makes them think an inanimate object can be evil, by its very existance. Other people have that same fear of clowns, in spite of the fact that there has only been a single documented case of Clown-Canibilism.