Er... personally I am always amazed that conservatives heads don't explode from the massive cognitive dissonance.
A kid raped by her father who gets an abortion is a despicable murderer. But... we should arm more people with guns whose only real purpose is to kill another human being.
Life is sacred 'till you're born. Then you're fair game?
But... we should arm more people with guns whose only real purpose is to kill another human being.
This Pandora's box has been open for a very long time. I'm afraid that even hope will escape it should we try to close it.
The mere existence of these weapons in the population makes them a deterrent for some crimes against the elderly and disabled. Even if it isn't a deterrent for some criminals, I would rather see the scumbag criminal breaking into an old person's home die than the old person getting killed, robbed, or otherwise abused. Dead criminals don't commit additional crimes.
Strict gun laws can work but only if they were strict from the beginning. Germany had relatively strict gun laws ever since its inception (sixty years ago) and we do have fewer cases of guns used in crimes. It's hard to get a gun legally, which also means it's hard to get a gun illegally (as there aren't many illegal imports as weapon trafficking is difficult and dangerous and the German market consists of people used to not using guns).
Now compare that to the USA. There are lots of guns around and it's easy to obtain one. If strict gun laws would be imposed on everyone, the criminals still had a vast ocean of guns they can secure for themselves before the new laws go live. Thus, harsher gun laws don't do much to help leople agaist violent criminals.
Gun control can keep new guns from entering the system but it's bad at removing existing ones from it. Thus it makes much mre sense when used in a country where there are few privately owned guns to begin with.
God, please let this be true. (Score:5, Funny)
I want to see liberals' heads explode when they realize that Socialized medicine is being used to buy people guns.
LK
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A kid raped by her father who gets an abortion is a despicable murderer. But... we should arm more people with guns whose only real purpose is to kill another human being.
Life is sacred 'till you're born. Then you're fair game?
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But... we should arm more people with guns whose only real purpose is to kill another human being.
This Pandora's box has been open for a very long time. I'm afraid that even hope will escape it should we try to close it.
The mere existence of these weapons in the population makes them a deterrent for some crimes against the elderly and disabled. Even if it isn't a deterrent for some criminals, I would rather see the scumbag criminal breaking into an old person's home die than the old person getting killed, robbed, or otherwise abused. Dead criminals don't commit additional crimes.
If guns were banned t
Re:God, please let this be true. (Score:2)
Now compare that to the USA. There are lots of guns around and it's easy to obtain one. If strict gun laws would be imposed on everyone, the criminals still had a vast ocean of guns they can secure for themselves before the new laws go live. Thus, harsher gun laws don't do much to help leople agaist violent criminals.
Gun control can keep new guns from entering the system but it's bad at removing existing ones from it. Thus it makes much mre sense when used in a country where there are few privately owned guns to begin with.
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