Yeah, everyone knows reducing guns always *increases* crime.

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Post #174,029

by Meerkat

9/13/04 9:51:45 PM

Yeah, everyone knows reducing guns always *increases* crime.

And cigarettes are good for you, and doughnuts are a health food.

I don't understand why people would actually want Assault weapons. But then again, I don't really want to know.

Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.

Post #174,033

by static

9/13/04 9:55:55 PM

I'm happy for my assault weapons to stay in the PC games.

Best place for them.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

Post #174,037

by Another Scott

9/13/04 10:01:59 PM

Now, now.

Let's not fly off the handle. :-)

If someone wanted a gun to commit a crime in the US, they could still get it - very easily - during this ban. As the little quiz indicated, some much more lethal weapons continued to be legal while ones that looked similar were banned.

I suspect the ban (or something similar) will be reinstated within a year.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #174,091

by deSitter

9/14/04 1:28:18 AM

Like other things

Precision manufactured power. Sort of like a fountain pen or a good camera or telescope.

Nutbags will find a way to be nutty. Gun bans have no effect at all. It's propaganda.

-drl

Post #174,144

by bepatient

9/14/04 9:17:27 AM

Make no doubt, though.

...that we will hear on every news program about every shooting involving every one of these weapons.

Also keep in mind that they will conveniently NOT tell you whether the weapon was acquired through legal means.

Criminals can always get these weapons. In fact, most criminals probably don't want these weapons cause the stuff they get is >better< .

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition}

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]

Post #174,161

by jake123

9/14/04 10:23:28 AM

And yet

countries that are sane about public distribution of weapons somehow see a lot fewer people die from them.

Go figger.

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Assault weapons ban eagerly anticipated - (tuberculosis) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:46 AM EDT

bogus ban, glad its gone - (boxley) - (7) - Sept. 13, 2004, 08:43:34 PM EDT

It was bogus. - (Another Scott) - (6) - Sept. 13, 2004, 08:54:36 PM EDT

Yeah, everyone knows reducing guns always *increases* crime. - (Meerkat) - (5) - Sept. 13, 2004, 09:51:45 PM EDT

I'm happy for my assault weapons to stay in the PC games. - (static) - Sept. 13, 2004, 09:55:55 PM EDT

Now, now. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 13, 2004, 10:01:59 PM EDT

Like other things - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 14, 2004, 01:28:18 AM EDT

Make no doubt, though. - (bepatient) - (1) - Sept. 14, 2004, 09:17:27 AM EDT

And yet - (jake123) - Sept. 14, 2004, 10:23:28 AM EDT

Irrelevant here - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 13, 2004, 10:01:48 PM EDT

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