Look, if the guy hadn't had a gun or a knife, he could still have whittled himself a pointy stick. Surely you've seen Buffy - it's amazing how much damage one slight girl can do with a pointy piece of wood. Guns are a safer alternative.David wrote:Just in time for 26 people not to be killed. I guess all's well that ends well, then!Wokko wrote:Texas shooting was stopped by a good guy with a gun.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... h-shooting
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Just in time to stop any more people getting killed. The gunman dropped his weapon and ran after being shot at. Do you really think someone intent on murder gives a shit about gun laws? They're willing to KILL, the biggest law of all to break. Maybe we should just make murder illegal and then there wont be any.David wrote:Just in time for 26 people not to be killed. I guess all's well that ends well, then!Wokko wrote:Texas shooting was stopped by a good guy with a gun.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... h-shooting
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He was already not allowed to have a gun, should he be prohibited twice? He was dishonourably discharged form the Air Force (banned from owning a gun). How do you figure that a country with millions of weapons and a porous border is going to stop someone like that with more laws? It's pie in the sky, just an appeal to the State to solve something that it can't. The only thing that restricting gun ownership does is takes the means of self defence away from law abiding citizens. The police will NEVER be there to protect you if you're under threat. Thinking you can legislate away threats is ridiculous.
Far more murders with handguns than rifles, in fact there are more murders with clubs and hammers than rifles.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... ed-rifles/
So why this constant fascination with black scary rifles? Because there are a lot of people who have never even held a rifle and are scared shitless of them; an easy target for the State to take some more control. Someone who is willing to kill a lot of people will usually manage to do so, some of the biggest mass killings recently have been with trucks; should we institute truck control?
Far more murders with handguns than rifles, in fact there are more murders with clubs and hammers than rifles.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... ed-rifles/
So why this constant fascination with black scary rifles? Because there are a lot of people who have never even held a rifle and are scared shitless of them; an easy target for the State to take some more control. Someone who is willing to kill a lot of people will usually manage to do so, some of the biggest mass killings recently have been with trucks; should we institute truck control?
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The old "gun laws need to change" line is so simplistic and ridiculous.
Making your own gun has never been easier.
https://gizmodo.com/its-becoming-fright ... 1819076070
Making your own gun has never been easier.
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Great. And when we start having regular mass shootings in Australia, we can perhaps talk about transforming into a fully armed, de facto anarchist nation in which anyone can shoot anyone else at any time (because that's the end point of the NRA's logic, essentially).
Funnily enough, though, that doesn't seem to be happening here. I wonder why?
Funnily enough, though, that doesn't seem to be happening here. I wonder why?
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And Egypt have very strict gun laws.Jezza wrote:184 people killed in a terror attack in Egypt.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42110223
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