Topic: Do you own a firearm? - page 3. (Read 4439 times)

If there were no killer prostitutes, millionaires with a wife and 5 kids wouldn't od on their yachts. 
I own several firearms. I have never killed anything other than a paper target with my guns.  I admit that I have killed thousands of bugs by stepping on them or swatting them with a flyswatter . 

Well it won't stop prostitutes from shooting their johns up with heroin and then watching them die. Did you see the google exec that o'd at the hands of his prostitute? It happened on his yacht, he  had a wife and 5 kids.

I wonder if you can buy firearms with bitcoins? Like real gun, and in legal way? There is a place for that?

It's true!  And wives would stop beating and killing their husbands, too!If only we could make all the guns go away.

I've heard that criminals wouldn't use guns if they were illegal but I didn't 'hear that men would stop beating and killing their wives if there were no guns.

your saying that bitcoin is used to buy bad stuff like guns,but before bitcoin was cash....if you have cash u can buy any gun you want without any law stopping you.

There would never be any domestic violence... or any other sort of violence... if there were no guns.Didn't you know that?

gun laws don't matter.  cause u can buy any with Bitcoins

I live in the EU and knives are completely unrestricted. You can carry a machete or a sword if you want, it just has to be safely wrapped and you can't take it out in public.
Guns are a completely different thing. Although officially it says everybody can get a permit if they do the paperwork and have no criminal past, in reality they just reject 99% of the applications saying that you have to really need the weapon (e.g. for protection). So basically the only way to get the permit is to be robbed, get life threats (the more times the better)  or have a friend in the government.

According to lefties getting a free photo ID is racist and nothing but an attempt to keep blacks and the poor from voting. So by the same logic isn't your attempt to infringe upon the right to bear arms just as racist and designed to keep guns from blacks and the poor? And given the number of poor and black that live in violent cities like Chicago shouldn't the poor and the black be allowed to defend their lives just like everyone else?

The Facts on Women, Children and Gun Violence

presence of a firearm in a home with domestic violence can transform an argument into homicide in a fraction of a second. Firearms and domestic violence are a lethal combination - injuring and killing women, children, and bystanders every day in the United States. In one study of 25 high-income countries, the United States represented just 32% of the female population but accounted for 84% of all female firearm homicides.i A gun is the weapon most commonly used in domestic homicides. In fact, more than six times as many women are murdered by guns used by their current or former intimate partners than are killed by male strangers’ guns, knives or other weapons combined.

332,014 people died from guns between 2000 and 2010. That number is greater than the populations of U.S. cities such as St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.

31,328 people died from gun violence in 2010, or roughly 1 every 17 minutes.

A gun in the home makes homicide three times more likely, suicide up to five times as likely, and accidental death four times higher than in non-gun owning homes.

Access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner homicide more than five times than in instances where there are no weapons, according to a recent study. In addition, abusers who possess guns tend to inflict the most severe abuse on their partners.

Over 40 percent of guns sold in the U.S. are done so without a background check.

Gun Violence & Women

94% of female murder victims killed by men are killed by a man they knew. In other words, females are 16 times as likely to be killed by a male acquaintance than by a male stranger. In 2010, 1,017 women, almost three a day, were killed by their intimate partners. viii

Of females killed by men with a firearm, more than two-thirds were killed by their intimate partners.

In 2010, 52 percent of female homicide victims killed by men were shot and killed with a gun. Female intimate partners are more likely to be murdered with a firearm than all other means combined.

Women suffering from domestic violence are eight times more likely to be killed if there are firearms in the home

If that's a crisis then certainly 12 dead and 60 wounded in Chicago is a crisis. And that crisis happens just about every weekend. Do you think those gang members care about gun laws or getting their guns legally registered?

Our NRA has a stranglehold on our Constitutional Freedoms by the will of our citizens. It is a shame some people  are so willing to murder others, yet that will NEVER justify erasing the freedoms from peaceful people nor even restricting us. That is the government you get in Russia, North Korea, etc.

This is why so many of us have bequeathed so much in revenue generating properties to insure adequate funding far into the future. We fund our NRA with more than $200 million annually to keep fiends from stripping our gun freedoms from us. When these fiends attempt to take our gun freedoms from us, our VERY superior Legal Department helps these Rogue Politicos understand our Laws of the land! Here is another recent example:
City of Chicago Ordered to Pay NRA's Legal Fees - Again

Monday, July 07, 2014
 $1.5 Million and Counting – The Taxpayer’s Burden of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s and the City of Chicago’s Refusal to Recognize Second Amendment Rights 

Fairfax, Va. – The United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois has ordered the City of Chicago to reimburse $940,000 in legal expenses incurred by the NRA. The NRA had challenged Chicago's ban on gun sales within city limits in Benson v. City of Chicago. The Benson case was consolidated into Illinois Association of Firearm Retailers v. City of Chicago and that case challenged five aspects of Chicago's law: (1) the ban on any form of carriage; (2) the ban on gun stores; (3) the ban on firing ranges; (4) the ban on self-defense in garages, porches, and yards; and (5) the ban on keeping more than one gun in an operable state.

This is the second time that the City of Chicago has been ordered to reimburse legal fees in a suit sponsored by the NRA. The first was following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago in which Chicago was ordered to reimburse the NRA more than $600,000.

http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/news-from-nra-ila/2014/7/city-of-chicago-ordered-to-pay-nras-legal-fees-again.aspx

It will be interesting to see if Chicago enjoys helping us fund our Legal Department, OR if they can eventually understand their own laws as well as the laws of our nation.

"It couldn't happen here", is your answer?  I wouldn't have thought it could happen in Australia... but it did.  In 1996.  The Australian Constitution forbids confiscation of private property so the government got tricky and put a tax on healthcare.  The revenue from that tax was then used in a mandatory 'buy back' program of small arms.  All "voluntary", of course.  Not confiscation at all 'cause the aussie government gave some money for the guns the citizens were forced to 'volunteer' to surrender.

The suggestion there, of course, is that you are 'in the center'?

Yes, that's right, blame the NRA and the government for something done by violent sociopaths who clearly had mental problems that needed fixing, there's absolutely no way that someone mental is the problem and it has absolutely nothing to do with the pathetic amount of support the mentally challenged in America have and how psychologists are basically trying to solve the problem by drugging up these people leading to them becoming even more violent and depressed than they were.

Bolded so people get my points about this whole stupid gun control argument.

Geez, not another one.    Sadly, I am afraid that as a society we are becoming desensitized to not only guns, but to the entire issue of violence in our culture.  I realize there are historical reasons , as well as disturbing sociological issues at work.  But it is late and I need to be up early in the morning.  And I am incapable of providing workable solutions to the problems.  And even if I had the answers, no one in either in either Washington D.C. or Des Moines is the least bit interested in addressing the problems - at least not as long as the NRA maintains a stranglehold on the politicians in DC and the various State Houses.  God have mercy on us all.

I really do not understand your hostility.  You seem to be suggesting that it's not possible for a government to make criminals with the stroke of a pen.  Governments occasionally make laws 'retroactive'.  Additionally, passing a law that the legislators know is going to be ignored... what is that if not creating criminals out of thin air?  Suppose next year Congress decides that all US citizens must purchase bell bottom jeans.  After all, the bell bottom jeans industry is in crisis!  Literally 100's of jobs are on the line here.  But you DD, you anarchist scofflaw, refuse to buy your bell bottoms and blatantly walk around in your kilt, brazenly not even wearing drawers.  You're a criminal not because of something you did but because of something you didn't do... buy your damned bell bottoms.  :-)

Merely because something is law does not mean it should be obeyed.  In fact, un-just laws should not be.

Do 6 deaths out of a population of 330,000,000 represent a crisis? Let's see your 4 kids get shot dead by a guy in a "domestic dispute" (usually is a guy going after an 'estranged' wife and kids or anyone nearby; assorted relatives) and see if you call it a crisis. 

If only she could have shot his fucking UNLAWFUL GUN OWNER aka PSYCHOPATHIC VIOLENT CRIMINAL ass.