Gutter ball for "Bowling for Columbine"! (long)

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
Why do you need a gun to make yourself feel safe at home?

Only one reason.

Because when the criminal breaks in the cops aren't going to be standing there to stop him from doing so.

There's ZERO reason to have to justify gun ownership in this country to ANYONE.

It's called the Second Amendment.

And anyone who says that it isn't an individual right must then also say that the First isn't either.

I do not give my responsibilities to anyone else to carry out.

this is the major difference between those of us who who take care of ourselves and those of you who'd rather have someone else do it for you.

[-=Squid=-]

Re: Fine by me!

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye
[B]Originally posted by -=Squid=-


Can we agree to laugh at my rapier wit?

But of course! Sorry for the typos, bad grammar, and horrible punctuation in the last post! And my closure, NYUK NYUK NYUK!

EDIT: Regarding the dificulty in stabbing, mabe if you all were a 733T ninja like myself, you wouldnt be having this problem?

[Skreemer]

while I have alot of feelings on the gun control issue, I think I will just leave you with one of the better things I have seen online about it.

Michael Z. Williamson on Gun Control

I own more than one gun. They all stay locked in a very large safe in the basement. Those guns have killed many a wiley paper target in thier day yet have never been held, pointed, or used in anger. I didn't buy them out of some delusion paranoia that people were going to come get me in the night. I bought them for the satisfaction of doing something right when on the gun range I can show the discipline, patience, and technical skill to be able to handle myself properly with something that can cause alot of damage.

Shamelessly pulled from a weblog on Rachel Lucas's website

"To Phillipe and other genuinely interested and open-minded Europeans, let me simply refer you to that great unbiased, uncorruptible teacher: History. Ask yourselves why intellectual elites so love totalitarian states where people are unarmed sheep. Look at the examples of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and Saddam. If you hate America so much, then ask yourself why no one 'fools' with Switzerland."

[joeyjoe367]

I've always said, If I have to be on one end of a gun, I'll be on the end pulling the trigger. That's pretty much all I have to say about that.

Someone said, "Why don't we just get rid of all handguns" or something to that extent; Well, that'd be *GREAT* except that there's already too many out there.

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.


Why I feel threatened is aside the point, IMO.

[Collegeboy]

I meant it as have a gun in your house for protection.

Why do people in the US feel they need a gun for protection when people in other countries feel like they can protect themselves with other things?

Simple question. One that still hasn't been answered.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
I meant it as have a gun in your house for protection.

Why do people in the US feel they need a gun for protection when people in other countries feel like they can protect themselves with other things?

Simple question. One that still hasn't been answered.

[Bob01RT]

because you don't want to be caught with a knife at a gun fight.

[Cristobal]

Hey Army, can you post where the article came from?


I want to know if he cited his sources anywhere -- which he should have, given the article wrote.

[1stdeadeye]

AGAIN

Originally posted by Collegeboy
I meant it as have a gun in your house for protection.

Why do people in the US feel they need a gun for protection when people in other countries feel like they can protect themselves with other things?

Simple question. One that still hasn't been answered.

Here we go again! If you don't hear the answer you want, it wasn't posted.

Here is a simple answer: Because we can and the majority of the rest of the world isn't allowed to by their own governments. Except the Swiss, they are REQUIRED to have a gun and be trained in it's use!

[FactsOfLife]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
I meant it as have a gun in your house for protection.

Why do people in the US feel they need a gun for protection when people in other countries feel like they can protect themselves with other things?

Simple question. One that still hasn't been answered.

Once again you show your disdain for any viewpoint other than your own.

So far on current events around here you're 0-1.

Looks like you're going for 0-2 real fast.

Let me make it as plain as I can for your stunted intellect.

It is MY right.

There is NO justification needed.

And anyone who says there is, is only looking to take that right away.

[Jonneh]

It won't work now, because you're all too attached to them, but I guarantee, that if live guns were outlawed, as they are here, that gun related deaths would drop dramatically.

The truth is, that if someone is set on using a gun to commit crime, then not a lot is going to stop them. It's true we get gun crime in the UK, just a few months ago some girls were shot and killed about 30 minutes from my house. I'm willing to bet that most gun related deaths are not premeditated but spur of the moment things (such as anger or revenge or whatever). Surely if people didn't have a gun, then the thought to shoot them wouldn't even have occured to them.
[pointless rhetoric]Isn't the loss of your firearm(s) worth at least one persons life?[/pointless rhetoric]

[Collegeboy]

I am not looking for a justification for your owning a gun, heck I own a gun. But I am asking why do you feel you have to have a gun for personal protection when most of the world feels they don't need one?

And beside the resent comment of never bring a knife to a gun fight, there hasn't been an answer. I am not looking for the right answer, I just want to know you line of thought.

[1stdeadeye]

Gotch!

Originally posted by Collegeboy
I am not looking for a justification for your owning a gun, heck I own a gun. But I am asking why do you feel you have to have a gun for personal protection when most of the world feels they don't need one?

Here we go! You assume that the rest of the world feels they don't need one. How do you know, did you ask them. It may be that they are not allowed. Doesn't mean they don't want one!

Me, I just like to stare at them in my vault every now and then. They are pretty....*drool*

[shartley]

[Jack_Dubious]

Agreed!!

Originally posted by FactsOfLife
It is MY right.

There is NO justification needed.

And anyone who says there is, is only looking to take that right away.

See when me and FOL agree on something, then it definately has to be right.

JDub