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Subject: Sister accidentally shoots brother in the head


Posted by: USS Catalyst
It's always depressing to me to see people saying things like "If we had more guns, this wouldn't have happened". Aware those saying it here may have been sarcastic, but I'm also aware a great many truthfully believe this.

The more guns you have in your country, the more likely they will be used to kill people. The less you have, the fewer deaths will be caused by them. Logic at its absolute simplicity. The average gangster, robber or thug will get their gun in three ways - legally from a gun store, stealing it from someone or buying it on the black market. Guess what happens to those options when civilians no longer have access to guns? The black market starts to dissipate.

In summary, the most effective way to prevent gun-related deaths or crime is to remove them from the equation entirely. Civilians do not need them. If they did, why would other countries such as the UK (which has very strict gun-control laws) have a lower crime rate and significantly lower crime and death rate with guns?


A. It's impractical to remove guns from the U.S. entirely. We have more guns than people here(good luck storming peoples' houses and ripping em from their hands), live right on the border of a country with cartels that regularly smuggle in drugs, plus half the population would lose their -blam!- if the government tried to take away their guns.

B. While more guns wouldn't help situations like this(a.k.a. stupidity), it'd help stop things like mass shootings. How many mass shootings could've been stopped if two or three of the people in the crowd would've been armed and had proper firearm classes? Probably quite a few. Look at Switzerland, almost EVERYONE there has a gun and from what I've hear, it's extremely rare for a shooting to happen, I can only assume it's because the shooter would likely be killed before much damage could be done.

  • 01.03.2013 10:35 AM PDT

For some reason I don't feel that bad. Nature always deals with stupid people.

  • 01.03.2013 10:42 AM PDT

Stop banning me please.

Stop playing with loaded guns people!

Poor girl will feel like -blam!- for the rest of her life not to mention there is a life that has been taken too early.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 10:46 AM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 10:45 AM PDT

Stop banning me please.


Posted by: Happy_Feet_2011
For some reason I don't feel that bad. Nature always deals with stupid people.

That is a Hitler mentality

  • 01.03.2013 10:47 AM PDT

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Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I don't think you can talk about "responsible gun ownership" when the second amendment allows any individual to bear arms.

I don't doubt that there are many responsible, trustworthy gun owners, but the amendment surely therefore allows even the most moronic individual to legally purchase firearms and ammunition.

  • 01.03.2013 10:47 AM PDT
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Definite forum member

  • 01.03.2013 10:48 AM PDT


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Posted by: Happy_Feet_2011
For some reason I don't feel that bad. Nature always deals with stupid people.

That is a Hitler mentality


Nah, Hitler mentality is, "screw nature, we'll kill all the people that WE deem inadequate!"

  • 01.03.2013 10:49 AM PDT
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Probably Holden working on his gangster persuasion. Haven't seen any "SOCIETY SUKS" threads lately

  • 01.03.2013 10:57 AM PDT


Posted by: Android Spartan

So i'm getting a little tired of American's shooting each other, you have nukes don't you?


It's not guns, It's stupid people.

  • 01.03.2013 11:02 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Ho hum. Just another day in America.

I'm not bashing the USA. In fact, I'm one of the very few to have actually proven it by joining the Army. That said, only in the USA do we get people who are this dumb, and armed. At least in the developed world.

  • 01.03.2013 11:05 AM PDT

~:O>~~

And thus we practice quantifying human's worth... it'll always come to this I guess.

  • 01.03.2013 11:10 AM PDT
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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.

While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.


Posted by: CoolCJ24
I don't think you can talk about "responsible gun ownership" when the second amendment allows any individual to bear arms.

I don't doubt that there are many responsible, trustworthy gun owners, but the amendment surely therefore allows even the most moronic individual to legally purchase firearms and ammunition.

Not everyone can legally purchase firearms.

Convicted felons and people diagnosed with psychotic disorders can't legally own a firearm. Gun shops are also required to call and perform a background check for every purchase.

The problem is that mentally disturbed people are not detected and do not receive help, and stupid people are not punished and/or taught not to be stupid. People, like those psychos that go on rampages and these idiots playing with a gun like it's a toy, are the root cause.

  • 01.03.2013 11:10 AM PDT

After seeing the picture of them, I don't find it very tragic...

  • 01.03.2013 11:10 AM PDT

Posted by: Davoine
People who use armor lock are like women. Slap them around - they get on their knees.

Thread about a Team fiesta and FFA Fiesta playlist
Four Ways To Fix AL

This is not funny, however, it's funny at the same time.

  • 01.03.2013 11:11 AM PDT

Posted by: Davoine
People who use armor lock are like women. Slap them around - they get on their knees.

Thread about a Team fiesta and FFA Fiesta playlist
Four Ways To Fix AL

Fresh to Death LOLOLOLOL.

jersey shore, anyone?

  • 01.03.2013 11:12 AM PDT

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Posted by: floppy willy
Who else isn't surprised that the OP managed to turn this into an anti american + gun thread?

OT: How do you do accidently pull a trigger?

YOU PUT YOUR FINGER THROUGH THE HOLE
AND YOU SQUEEZE YOUR HAND


AND A BULLET COMES OUT

  • 01.03.2013 12:12 PM PDT

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"Hey shouldn't we unload the gun first?"
"Nah! What could go wrong?"

  • 01.03.2013 12:16 PM PDT


Posted by: ViVo 444
Natural selection



That is all...

  • 01.03.2013 12:23 PM PDT

WALL OF SHAME-Posting stupidity since 2010
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Posted by: Maximus Decimus
Agreed. All the changes are good and add variety. Do we really want another Halo 3? Just running around with one gun and no armor abilities? It's good that 343 wants to try something new. Do we really want the same thing for three more games?

IT'S THE NRAs FAULT

  • 01.03.2013 12:24 PM PDT

Based on the picture it looks like nothing of value was lost.

  • 01.03.2013 12:26 PM PDT
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13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.

...I just can't imagen the guilt...

That's horrible.

  • 01.03.2013 12:28 PM PDT

The definition of irony.
Also why would the play with a loaded gun and the safety off.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 12:32 PM PST]

  • 01.03.2013 12:31 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

This is why you should know how to use a gun, before you touch it.

  • 01.03.2013 12:33 PM PDT
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

-Gandalf

This is why guns shouldn't be used as toys. Treat every gun as if it's loaded.

  • 01.03.2013 12:35 PM PDT
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People need to learn how to use a gun properly.

  • 01.03.2013 12:36 PM PDT