Mass Shooting at Virginia Tech...

[bluepeter]

You just proved my point. Cars kill way more people than guns and they are not even designed to! Sounds like they should be banned.
The point of the argument is to point out how silly the banning guns argument is in fact.

No one likes to talk about the effects of banning guns because it proves their argument void.

I wasn't trying to disprove it.

But to take it a step further, you're ignoring environment when speaking of things like cars. Cars do not kill people because they are designed to. They kill people because of misuse and/or stupidity and/or circumstance, whatever. Guns do not kill people because of misuse or circumstance. They kill people because that's what they are made for. Hence, my comment that it's a silly comparison.

 

[Spartacus]

from what I can tell it appears to me that this kid,assuming he's young and/or a student or recent student,had multiple firearms and a flak jacket and other "armed to the teeth" parafanalia
I wouldn't say he's been planning this,but it was sure easy for him to load up for his "last case scenario"
he probably was good at xbox shoot-em ups too

I'm siding with the "too easy to get guns" group

 

[alien amp pharm]

How is it that self defense is limited to firearms?

What should we do while going up against a dude with a firearm, use harsh language?

 

[gjohnson5]

I grew up in far worse conditions then any of you probably and I have never needed a gun...

Charles Whitman killed 15 and wounded 31 with a shotgun and a hunting rifle at the University of Texas in 1966. These two weapons will never be banned. Even if all firearms were banned it would just force more "creativity" for the disturbed individual. I know we fundamentally disagree on the subject of gun control and I'm sure an internet thread won't change that.

 

[javaguru]

Christ, you trying to keep hold of a dime in that avatar?

I was going to take the assvatar down at 5:00 EST but since younguns seems SO offended, I'm keeping it up a couple hours longer. Maybe it will keep him off EF for a few hours.

 

[gjohnson5]

That one and the water analogy were the silliest alalogies ever. There should have been no need to explain all that.

I wasn't trying to disprove it.

But to take it a step further, you're ignoring environment when speaking of things like cars. Cars do not kill people because they are designed to. They kill people because of misuse and/or stupidity and/or circumstance, whatever. Guns do not kill people because of misuse or circumstance. They kill people because that's what they are made for. Hence, my comment that it's a silly comparison.

 

[redguru]

What should we do while going up against a dude with a firearm, use harsh language?

Remo Williams can dodge bullets, he hears the tendons in the knuckles as the muscles contract on the trigger finger.

 

[javaguru]

I grew up in far worse conditions then any of you probably and I have never needed a gun...

I grew up where every teenager I knew had access to firearms. I was given a .22 caliber rifle for Christmas when I was six. In high school guys had gun racks with guns in their trucks when they drove to school. We received three days excused absence for the first three days of gun season for deer hunting.The last murder was in the late 1970's and the guy beat his wife to death and set her body on fire for having an affair.

 

[velvett]

I was going to take the assvatar down at 5:00 EST but since younguns seems SO offended, I'm keeping it up a couple hours longer. Maybe it will keep him off EF for a few hours.

Now do I thank you or Younguns?

 

[mountain muscle]

That one and the water analogy were the silliest alalogies ever. There should have been no need to explain all that.

LMAO, are you so closed minded as to not see the point?

Prove to me that guns should be banned. You made a statement and offered no reason as to why. I won't try to help you think beyond your closed paradigm again.

Look at D.C. and San Fran post gun bans and compare the crime rates. Offer some solid proof that they should be banned.

People in this country are rediculous. Someone got shot? Ban Guns! Someone said fag? Therapy!
A shock jock repeated something that popular culture has made commonplace? Fire him!