The Perpetual Gun Control Thread

[TIDE-HSV]

We used to routinely carry shotguns in public. However, from our hunting clothes and rubber boots, it was easy to see we were dangerous only to ducks and geese...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

So Moscow Mitch allows everyone to go on vacation without addressing any gun control issues again. I guess he hopes things will have cooled down a bit (assuming no more killings) by the time they come back and his campaign donations will have been secured.

He didn't really "allow" it. It's the regularly scheduled fall break for the Senate and it started before the tragedies...

 

[Bamaro]

He didn't really "allow" it. It's the regularly scheduled fall break for the Senate and it started before the tragedies...

Somewhat semantics. The official start of the senate recess was Monday Aug 5. El Paso was Saturday Aug 3, Dayton Sun Aug 4.
https://hobnobblog.com/congress-by-the-numbers/congressional-schedules/congressional-schedules-2019/

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Yah, I know it happens - I've even known guys who would open carry rifles at protests because they could.

That said, I also keep those guys at arms' length - that's just a bridge too far for me.

I often concealed-carry a pistol, especially when I head into Memphis (second highest violent crime rate in the US), but I SMH at these guys.

The guy's name is "Dmitriy N. Andreychenko." An IRA stooge?

 

[chanson78]

I believe you are blindly biased. Your hatred of one man makes you look kinda insane.

Guns don’t kill people stupid people with guns kill people. That’s my point. I don’t troll at all I have a point. If I’m a troll then everyone is. Don’t care how tired you are of it. You just don’t like what I have to say because you see red when someone doesn’t agree with you because of tour insane hatred of one man. I don’t like everything Trump or anyone else does, but I’m also able to call a spade a spade regardless of how I feel about someone.


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Just so I am sure I understand your argument.

Take a bad actor that wants to hurt multiple people. Is it your stance is that there is no fundamental difference in potential loss of life between a knife being used, and a gun being used?

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Just so I am sure I understand your argument.

Take a bad actor that wants to hurt multiple people. Is it your stance is that there is no fundamental difference in potential loss of life between a knife being used, and a gun being used?

If a bad man wants to kill people he’ll use whatever instrument whether be guns, knives, or his bare hands to do it. A woman too. That’s my stance.


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[Bamaro]

There is simply no equivalence between the harm that can be done with a gun and the harm that can be done with a knife.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

There is simply no equivalence between the harm that can be done with a gun and the harm that can be done with a knife.

Maybe in a shorter period of time can that be true. Serial killers hardly ever use guns as weapons yet they’ve done way more killings than the people have recently.


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[TIDE-HSV]

There is simply no equivalence between the harm that can be done with a gun and the harm that can be done with a knife.

I know. It's nonsense, but if you're desperate to try and make a point...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Maybe in a shorter period of time can that be true. Serial killers hardly ever use guns as weapons yet they’ve done way more killings than the people have recently.


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And this is incorrect...

 

[NationalTitles18]

The guy's name is "Dmitriy N. Andreychenko." An IRA stooge?

'The guy has to be an idiot to do what he did when he did it.

 

[DogPatch]

There is simply no equivalence between the harm that can be done with a gun and the harm that can be done with a knife.

Yes, there is. Both are deadly weapons, and, the added stealth provided by a knife can be just as deadly as someone with a gun.

 

[CharminTide]

Yes, there is. Both are deadly weapons, and, the added stealth provided by a medium-sized rock can be just as deadly as someone with a gun.

I'll just help you go further down this rabbit hole of absurdity.

 

[DogPatch]

It's not absurd to realize that a silent weapon, properly used, can cause multiple deaths quickly and efficiently without drawing attention to the killer.

 

[NationalTitles18]

​Knives can be just as deadly as nuclear weapons, too. The stealth is an added advantage.

 

[CharminTide]

It's not absurd to realize that a silent weapon, properly used, can cause multiple deaths quickly and efficiently without drawing attention to the killer.

In the context of a conversation about mass killings in public venues, it is 100% absurd.

 

[Bamaro]

Yes, there is. Both are deadly weapons, and, the added stealth provided by a knife can be just as deadly as someone with a gun.

NO there isn't and to argue differently is patently absurd.

 

[92tide]

In the context of a conversation about mass killings in public venues, it is 100% absurd.

but is it?

 

[Bamaro]

but is it?

Aren't there already laws against 'running with scissors'?

 

[92tide]

Aren't there already laws against 'running with scissors'?

if proper stealth is used, the authorities will never know it's happening.