Anthony Matonak wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
...
The obsession with the 'right to bear arms' is a truly weird American
thing.
No matter how 'nice' people may appear to be, gun ownership leads to
gun crime.

Sure, just like knife ownership leads to knife crime and car
ownership leads to running people over with cars.

You can do other things with cars and knives.

There is nothing a handgun is good for except killing people.
That is its primary function. It s NOT a target weapon: that is normally
restricted to specialized .22 caliber guns. It is not a hunting weapon.
It may be a humane killer f you are daily around horses or cattle, but a
captive bolt pistol is safer and more effective.

handgun is essentially a way to kill or severely maim someone at no
more than around 10 meters range.

Any one who carries one (apart from sheer vanity), does so because they
expect, rightly or wrongly, that one day they will kill someone with it.



The reason
why so many people die when someone brings a gun to school
or hijacks a plane is because no one else has a weapon and
they have all been told to sit quietly and not defend themselves.


The reason why someone brings a gun to school is they are a ****ed up
human in a ****ed up society, and handguns are simple to acquire.

In Africa they die of dysentry and starvation. In the USA they get shot.
We are through trying to bring civilisation to the world where its not
wanted.

USA is a busted flush anyway now. It's destroyed everything that made it
worth respecting, and its flat broke, deep in debt, short of oil, and
running out of ideas.

The world doesn't need the USA. We don't care if you have shootouts at
the OK playground as a national pastime. Better than doing it over here.




Anthony