Re: I Thought The Point Was To Save Lives ---

Thanks for your opinion, Karen. Gun laws only affect law abiding citizens. Murderers can get guns anywhere illegally. I’m sick of stupid liberals.

I'm sick of stupid gun towers. A disagreement that used to be settled with a fist fight now USUALLY gets at least one person killed by a gun. And often injures or kills innocent bystanders.

FYI, Emergency Room statistics show that the gun kept in your house is 4 times more likely to kill the owner (easy suicide with minimal forethought or none if drinking), one of the children or one of the grandchildren than it would be used to slowdown an intruder. You are putting your family at risk.
And the world does not need more rapid-fire weapons that are mostly used only as toys. Why do we allow people to buy tanks?

I'm not at all worried about the people who choose to take their own life, it's their life and if they want to throw it away that's fine with me. It's the S O Bs that will take other people's lives that love living and want to live a nice long life is what bothers me. It's not a good life if you have to worry an idiot with a rapid fire high powered rifle hiding behind a structure waiting to take countless lives without any of them ever saying they were tired of living, but an idiot makes their choice for them. It's those types of idiots that the supreme court just fed with bump stocks so they can kill lots of innocent people really fast. And we have those that feel it's much easier to to just go shoot up a elementary school of small children bc they can't defend themselves, and an AR-15 with a bump stock can kill a bunch of those kids real fast.

Our country has a bunch of total idiots serving on the highest court in our country!!! Holly Batman how could they be such complete idiots!!!

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Jun 15, 2024, 12:02 PM

That’s like blaming a fork for making you fat. We have a problem with people which is mostly mental health issues. I grew up in the 1970’s and 80’s. Almost every pickup truck in the school lot had a shotgun or rifle in the rear window gun rack. Zero school shootings. You cannot legislate hate and murder out of peoples hearts. If someone wants to commit murder there isn’t much that can stop them.

Let’s look at England. They banned all guns and the murder rate went up. Why? Because the bad guys knew they could break into a home without fearing the homeowner defending themselves with guns. Home invasions are up 400%, murders with knives, hammers, and clubs are up 423%. Sure, no one’s getting shot but the deaths are up. They still have mass stabbings an and mass murders because people still want to kill. The stats don’t lie. Gun control only prevents law abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional rights. Like I said earlier, a fork isn’t to blame for your 40% BMI score.

Here’s some education for you: https://crimeresearch.org/2016/04/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/

https://apnews.com/article/knife-attacks-britain-0a221cbd20d467cea952373bf13cab07

Now, England wants to ban all knives. Can’t make this crap up. When the knives are gone it will be cricket/baseball bats. When those are gone it will be rocks. Education and mental health treatment will cause rates to drop. News flash: criminals don’t follow gun laws. 99% of all mash shooting have been perpetrated by mentally ill people that illegally obtained a gun. When they outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns. I have had concealed carry permits for 30 plus years. I carry to save lives. I would never use a gun in any other way. Not to take lives, to save lives. Another fact is that law abiding citizens with concealed carry have never perpetrated a mass shooting. Any story you read about a person using their concealed carry weapon involves them stopping a murderer before they can get started. So many senior citizens with concealed carry have stopped killers in their tracks. Here’s an analogy that fits really well. Your car check engine light comes on. You place electrical tape to cover the light. Sure, the symptom is covered up but the cause is still festering and making the probability Of engine failure grows. We’re covering up the symptom and not testing the root cause. The root cause is mental health issues. The root cause is the parents not raising their kids the best way. Healthy minds start at home and can be maintained through proper mental health screening and treatments. We don’t have a gun problem. We have a people problem.

As far as bump stops go, I’m not a fan. I am glad SCOTUS stood up for the part of right to bear arms which states these rights cannot be infringed upon.

I also realize that about 50% of the people won’t agree with me. The facts show that murder rates increase when guns are banned. Because people know they have a lower chance of being retaliated against when no law abiding citizens own guns to defend themselves. Let’s go ahead and ban cars too. They kill far more people than guns. Let’s ban forks because they are making us all fat. I’m prepared for the TD’s I’m about to receive. I’m ok with that. Politics polarize absolutely.

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