3,700,000 AR-15s in private hands...and now the current stock just sold out...

[PaintMyHouse]

So were knives, and spears.

That aside, what percentage of personally owned firearms are used to kill or maim?

Knives have many uses. How many people have personal spears? And how often are they used to commit crimes.

Most people are not unhappy with personally owned firearms (although why they are needed is another story), it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Knives have many uses. How many people have personal spears? And how often are they used to commit crimes.

Most people are not unhappy with personally owned firearms (although why they are needed is another story), it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

Assault weapons?

like...

ball bats, tire irons, batons, lead pipes, etc?

BTW, which is the 'assault' weapon?

top, or bottom?

Which is full auto?

neither.

nor are the ARs sold in gun stores.

you need a special license to purchase and own a fully automatic firearm

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

 

[Auld Phart]

So were knives, and spears.

That aside, what percentage of personally owned firearms are used to kill or maim?

Knives have many uses. How many people have personal spears? And how often are they used to commit crimes.

Most people are not unhappy with personally owned firearms (although why they are needed is another story), it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

yes, a few.


we have 300+ million firearms in the hands of civilians.
(How many are in the hands of Japanese civilians)

which comes to well over 299+ million that weren't used to kill, or injure anyone.

Very small percentage being misused.

 

[Auld Phart]

Assault weapons?

like...

ball bats, tire irons, batons, lead pipes, etc?

BTW, which is the 'assault' weapon?

top, or bottom?

Which is full auto?

neither.

nor are the ARs sold in gun stores.

you need a special license to purchase and own a fully automatic firearm

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Knives have many uses. How many people have personal spears? And how often are they used to commit crimes.

Most people are not unhappy with personally owned firearms (although why they are needed is another story), it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

yes, a few.


we have 300+ million firearms in the hands of civilians.
(How many are in the hands of Japanese civilians)

which comes to well over 299+ million that weren't used to kill, or injure anyone.

Very small percentage being misused.

Sorry, that math doesn't work for me. I focus only on the body counts, since that is what matters.

 

[Dr Grump]

Except the ones on 21 October 2002, 29 April 2011, 9 September 2014, 22 October 2014

Wow, not exactly on the scale of Columbine, San Bernadino, Colorado, Aurora.....I could go on...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Which is full auto?

neither.

nor are the ARs sold in gun stores.

you need a special license to purchase and own a fully automatic firearm

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

Nope. I abhor hypocrites.

 

[westwall]

Ever heard of a Bowie knife? You going to ban pointy knives like they want to do in the UK? The point being you asshats ban all sorts of things and the net result is those banned weapons end up being used more than before your stupid ban was put in place.

A thinking person would figure out that the practice doesn't work but you are two things...one is you're a non thinker and second you don't care about crime prevention, you only care about stripping rights and property from people because you are at heart a totalitarian monster as you have shown over and over and over.

What a load of crap. Watch this video. While it is a comedy routine, he makes some relevant points - especially the bits about why you want your peashooter. I especially love the bit about 'crime prevention' and how a gun 'protects' your family.

Wow. You really suck at conversation. You have to resort to a comedian to mouth your words for you. Truly, epically pathetic. Go home junior.

 

[westwall]

Except the ones on 21 October 2002, 29 April 2011, 9 September 2014, 22 October 2014

Wow, not exactly on the scale of Columbine, San Bernadino, Colorado, Aurora.....I could go on...

How about Paris France? How about Oslo Norway? Both mass killings in countries that have laws that you love and those two mass shootings alone have higher body counts than all of ours combined over the last twenty years.

Epic fail dude. Epic fail.

 

[westwall]

So were knives, and spears.

That aside, what percentage of personally owned firearms are used to kill or maim?

Knives have many uses. How many people have personal spears? And how often are they used to commit crimes.

Most people are not unhappy with personally owned firearms (although why they are needed is another story), it's the assault weapons that make most people raise an eyebrow

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

Yes, Japan has no black or Hispanic gangsters. I wonder why.

 

[Auld Phart]

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

yes, a few.


we have 300+ million firearms in the hands of civilians.
(How many are in the hands of Japanese civilians)

which comes to well over 299+ million that weren't used to kill, or injure anyone.

Very small percentage being misused.

Sorry, that math doesn't work for me. I focus only on the body counts, since that is what matters.

take off your shoes and use your toes.

the math works

 

[westwall]

neither.

nor are the ARs sold in gun stores.

you need a special license to purchase and own a fully automatic firearm

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

Nope. I abhor hypocrites.

That's impossible given you are one of the biggest ones here.

 

[Auld Phart]

Except the ones on 21 October 2002, 29 April 2011, 9 September 2014, 22 October 2014

Wow, not exactly on the scale of Columbine, San Bernadino, Colorado, Aurora.....I could go on...

Non on the scale of Paris.

but, they were mass shootings, in a country you claimed had had none for almost 20 years.

 

[westwall]

So do guns. Every argument you just made to support pointy knives is equally applicable to guns.

Just sayin...

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

yes, a few.


we have 300+ million firearms in the hands of civilians.
(How many are in the hands of Japanese civilians)

which comes to well over 299+ million that weren't used to kill, or injure anyone.

Very small percentage being misused.

Sorry, that math doesn't work for me. I focus only on the body counts, since that is what matters.

Yes, you can't actually think. That much is plain. You're one step removed from a baboon. They have the same level of "rational" thinking as you.

 

[Auld Phart]

neither.

nor are the ARs sold in gun stores.

you need a special license to purchase and own a fully automatic firearm

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

Nope. I abhor hypocrites.

You should put yourself on ignore then

 

[Dr Grump]

Ummmmm, duh is the only response I can come up with. If you look at governments you have two choices for them. They are either individualistic where the individual has the maximum amount of rights and responsibilities, anarchy is the extreme form of that. The other choice is a collectivist government. The most extreme versions of that type government are totalitarian dictatorships such as the Soviet Union or fascist Germany. Both claimed to be socialist in nature but the reality was the citizen existed for the benefit of the State.

Family values that PMH referred to are cute but were non existent based on both the Soviet Union and the NAZI use of the children to spy on the parents to root out anti government thought.

So, yet again you are just simply wrong.

It was the only response you could come up with because you are not au fait with political systems. A socialist govt does not believe in totalitarianism. Greece is a socialist govt. Currently France is, too. Truth be told China, the USSR, Vietnam - none of them are Communist in the Marxist sense. They are all totalitarian regimes. Why you equate that to socialism is beyond me. I think maybe because conservatives only think in sound bites and have to compartmentalise things in order to understand them. Nuance and the like are beyond your capability. Red State = Goodum. Blue State - Baddum...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

A gun was invented for only one reason, very unlike the knife. While it can kill, it wasn't designed only to kill, and mostly human beings.

Then why, out of the 300+ million privately owned firearms, are so few used to commit murder?

Few? A few is what Japan has, 128 million people and roughly a dozen gun murders a year. We average 9k...

yes, a few.


we have 300+ million firearms in the hands of civilians.
(How many are in the hands of Japanese civilians)

which comes to well over 299+ million that weren't used to kill, or injure anyone.

Very small percentage being misused.

Sorry, that math doesn't work for me. I focus only on the body counts, since that is what matters.

take off your shoes and use your toes.

the math works

Nope. Tell me, are you bothered by people murdered by knives? I am, and yet that percentage will be even smaller because not as many people are killed that way and because we have several times the number of knives that we have guns but the only reasons I'm not calling for a ban on knives is they weren't invented simply to kill things. Regardless, in the end, the body count is the actual number that matters.

 

[Dr Grump]

can't answer the question?

Irrelevant. Don't care if they are full auto or semi auto.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

Nope. I abhor hypocrites.

You should put yourself on ignore then

You should stop trolling.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special.

I would require a special license to own any gun, very special

Why would you be treated differently than any other law abiding citizen?

I wouldn't be.

You're claiming you would be.

Nope. I abhor hypocrites.

That's impossible given you are one of the biggest ones here.

Nope, never, Mod Troll...