ChrisL
Diamond Member
I think you libs need to decide, is there or isn't there a "bad guy" around every corner because the way you talk, you would think just about every American is a "bad guy."
Let me know when you want to talk about the argument I made rather than the one you wish I had made.
Here's the thing. I think that if he hadn't gotten access to a gun, Nik Cruz might have grown out of whatever teenage angst he was going through and become a productive member of society. I find it amusing that most of the guys I grew up with who got into all sorts of trouble are the biggest Law and Order types today.
So is gun violence so prevalent that we are all unsafe and should therefore give up our guns? Or is it that we are so safe that we are just paranoid that we feel we may need to have a gun some day? Hmm. Yet another liberal dilemma.
It's not a dilema at all. The rest of the world has figured this out.
Civilians don't need guns, and when they don't have easy access to them, you have a lot less gun violence.
Most of the 11,000 gun homicides we have every year are not crazy people. They are just regular folks who had one really bad day. (Although the person they shot was arguably having a much worse day.)
We can't outlaw bad days... but we can outlaw guns. The rest of the world has done this.
Heck, we could even have a system like Germany, where guns are allowed, but strictly regulated. They only have 250 gun homicides a year out of a population of 80 million.
Yes, because all teens go through the "mass shooter" phase. Holy shit.
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You are more than welcome to go live in any other part of the world where you can feel safer from teens with evil guns, I'm sure.
Guns were invented. The technology exists. Bad guys (whether they be government bad guys or your average street bad guy or a psychotic bad guy) will always be able to get a firearm. That is the reality of the situation. Guns will not disappear.