1. It's not like there is no crime where I live. As I said, I live in a fairly urban area. There is project housing like two blocks from my apartment complex. I simply said I don't live my life in fear of being mugged or having my place robbed, which is true.
2. A dog isn't a wild animal. A dog is a domesticated animal.
3. I never said anything about getting rid of guns. I have, however, talked about the need for there to be heavier restrictions on who can buy guns. And there should be. It's far too easy to buy guns right now and there are too many absurd loopholes. This obviously won't stop every gun-related death, but it's a start.
4. The principles of liberty this country was founded under included the principle that black people were possessions. Times change, and simply adhering to ideals written 200 years earlier because that's the way it's always been is the opposite of progress. Again, this isn't to say that guns should be illegal, but rather that clinging to the notion that they should be legal simply because the founding fathers said so in the late 1700s is asinine.
1. So you are relying on blind luck really. If someone invades your home and threatens your life your best bet is to wait on the police to arrive, well again good luck with that, I hope you are fortunate should something ever happen. Maybe you'll reply with another smart answer like you'll attack him with one of your steak knives, or any innumerable things you could fashion into a weapon, or maybe you'll get away on a slip and slide. Don't derail me with another crazy off topic answer.
2. That's funny
smartass
3. Please tell me about these
specific loopholes that you speak of. I want hard evidence of a loophole that's posing to be a huge problem in people attaining weapons easily. You have none, so don't bullshit me or RCF readers. Your ideas still can't solve the unique problem of a normal guy, like Adam Lanza, with no criminal record deciding that he's going to go postal and take out mass people. These people are untraceable. Any normal, average, quiet citizen can decide to go postal at any given moment.
And for your information this shooter tried to go and purchase guns legally in a store, but was denied at the counter because he wasn't of age. They put your information through a complete BCI background check before you are cleared to make your gun purchase in a store. So what else do you want them to do Jack? You have this fantasy idea of lets just make it harder, but you still can never stop a problem like this where a normal person snaps and decides to arm himself. Don't go blaming Wal Mart because that's where the guy got his weapons. People can attain weapons in a variety of ways illegally or legally, so stop with the fantasy talk of more regulations and difficulty to acquire arms. You are going nowhere but running around in circles here. You're the guy that wants progress in America.
4. Again, WEAK WEAK argument. Childish really, guns have also saved innocent people's lives too! You haven't acknowledged that fact at all anywhere in your argument. We should simply be indifferent to guns because they are not going anywhere, they are in society to stay, and the faster you can recognize this fact, the sooner you will start to make honest progress towards
real solutions.
I wish we could progress as a society too Jack , I really do, but it's not that easy, and there's no direct answer. There's arguably more random acts of violence in the world now than ever before, so everyone should make their personal safety of the utmost importance, under the principles of liberty, you should be able to protect yourself however you see fit (guns, pepper spray, heavy bank vault doors on your house whatever suits your personal needs....)
There will never be a time where Americans can't go to a store and acquire weapons to protect themselves. (barring they clear a BCI background check and possess no criminal record.) It's not that I'm hanging onto how things have always been.
It's how it ought to be!
That's the spirit under which this country has founded. Your acting like America is a better place now, I'm saying there's more random violence than ever. We haven't exactly progressed to a better time where things are safer and the constitutional spirit no longer applies.
