Are knives arms?

[g5000]

Why are they called "arms" ? Mine is as big as yer leg

Armaments.

 

[g5000]

You do not sound very informed. Nobody had any guns at the j6 event other than law enforcement, yet lefties promote the notion that j6 was an armed insurrection.

I have not heard anyone call it an armed insurrection. Just an insurrection.

 

[g5000]

A small cannon loaded with grapeshot could do far more damage than an AK-47.

I don't buy that for one second.

 

[g5000]

Tasers are. Guns are. Can't see a rational argument against knives.

Why can't I have a nuke?

 

[g5000]

People with AR15s don't stand much of a chance against people with M4s.

Plus, all the other crap the US military has.

Did you know the US military has a machinegun that fires grenades?

Ever since I saw the Dogs of War with Christopher Walken, I've wanted a Second Model 26.5mm Manville Machine-Projector.

And a Tommy gun.

 

[g5000]

Just common sense. There is no way that the founding fathers could have imagined the extent of the gun situation today.

Perhaps you have heard of the Whiskey Rebellion?

 

[g5000]

The bottom line is that I don't like to read that a 16yr old shot up his school with an AR15, or a 17 yr old marching into a violent protest, gun in hand. They should not be readily available, and should be regulated. I also do not believe that the founding fathers would support today's gun activity, which has evolved due to a lack of enforced regulation.

Mass shootings are tragic. Because of their nature, they get all the press.

However, they make up only about 3/10 of one percent of all gun deaths.

We lose about 20,000 people a year to gun violence. A little over half of those are suicides. Someone who really wants to kill themselves will still do so even if you magically eliminate all guns.

So let's focus on the 10,000 annual gun deaths each year which are not the result of mass shootings or suicide. I would venture to say that almost none of them are death by AR-15. AR-15s get a bad rep the same way pit bulls do. They get all the press while the vast majority of deaths are by handgun.

We have a handgun problem, not an "assault weapon" problem.

Handguns are way easier to conceal and thus the preferred means of murder and mayhem.

Your obsession with weapons like AR-15s which "did not exist" when the Bill of Rights was written is misguided.

 

[g5000]

That's the stupidest statement you've made. Chicago and NYC have fewer murders than cities with guns? Mexico has fewer murders than the US?

The firearm-related death rate in Mexico is actually lower than in the United States.

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[g5000]

Items enabling suicide like opioids and guns should be harder to obtain.

Then they will resort to jumping off bridges.

 

[g5000]

what about rooftops, bridges and cars??

Ah. You beat me to it.

 

[g5000]

The bottom line is that I don't like to read that a 16yr old shot up his school with an AR15

I don't know how old you are, but I am of an age that it was normal to see kids coming to school with rifles in gun racks in the back windows of their pickup trucks.

It's not the weapons that have changed.

It's us.

 

[woodwork201]

I don't know the answer to the OP's question....all I know is that in Crime Investigation....... that series that I watch in cable,....

80% of the women ....some men..... who were murdered .....were murdered with a steak knife.... you know...... taken from the kitchen drawer.

So not only murdered with steak knives but with cheap steak knives. I would never put my steak knives in a drawer.

 

[woodwork201]

Mass shootings are tragic. Because of their nature, they get all the press.

However, they make up only about 3/10 of one percent of all gun deaths.

We lose about 20,000 people a year to gun violence. A little over half of those are suicides. Someone who really wants to kill themselves will still do so even if you magically eliminate all guns.

So let's focus on the 10,000 annual gun deaths each year which are not the result of mass shootings or suicide. I would venture to say that almost none of them are death by AR-15. AR-15s get a bad rep the same way pit bulls do. They get all the press while the vast majority of deaths are by handgun.

We have a handgun problem, not an "assault weapon" problem.

Handguns are way easier to conceal and thus the preferred means of murder and mayhem.

Your obsession with weapons like AR-15s which "did not exist" when the Bill of Rights was written is misguided.

We don't have a handgun problem. We have social problems created by the left's destruction of the black family structure, courts letting violent criminals loose on the streets, a culture of thug behavior celebrated, in an attempt to look cool, by the very families harmed the most by that behavior.

Most handguns will never be fired at another human being, legally or otherwise.

 

[Batcat]

At $3.00 a round, I couldn't afford to shoot a Barret.

It would be worth it to take up reloading if you had a Barrett in 50 BMG.

Loading the .50 BMG: Fun and Penny-Wise

Save time and get more bang for your buck by handloading the big .50 BMG.

gundigest.com

 

[Batcat]

The AR platforms are Legos for adults.

Some call it the Swiss knife of rifles.

 

[BackAgain]

Are knives arms?

I dunno. But my arms are guns!

 

[Colin norris]

I carry both.

You are a tough guy. Scared big.pussy.

 

[Man of Ethics]

How about cars, natural gas and propane? All are popular for suffocation suicide.

These items can not be banned. Motorcycles -- possibly due to very high fatal accident rate.

 

[Blues Man]

Items enabling suicide like opioids and guns should be harder to obtain.

Wrong again.

If you want that to happen then you better ban all knives, razor blades, ropes and cords, tall buildings, cars and large bodies of water too

Suicide is a choice that everyone has the absolute right to make.

 

[g5000]

We don't have a handgun problem. We have social problems created by the left's destruction of the black family structure, courts letting violent criminals loose on the streets, a culture of thug behavior celebrated, in an attempt to look cool, by the very families harmed the most by that behavior.

Most handguns will never be fired at another human being, legally or otherwise.

I agree that your points are all valid. However, I also think we do have a handgun problem for the same reason we have an opioid crisis.

Like all publicly traded corporations, drug manufacturers and gun makers need to make higher and higher profits each quarter to keep their stockholders happy. This results in them flooding the country with their product. And when that happens, they are knowingly producing drugs and guns they know will end up in the wrong hands.

And they just don't give a fuck.