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Gun Violence: Third Of Global Public Mass Shootings Happen In US

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by IronFist, Aug 23, 2015.

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  1. IronFist

    IronFist Banned

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    http://www.ibtimes.com/gun-violence-third-global-public-mass-shootings-happen-us-says-study-2064534
    Why are there so many shootings in the US? America is the greatest country in the world and yet we are as violent as some African tribes. What's the reason behind that?
    Anyway regardless of those things driving people crazy I think that we don't really need guns. Seriously, what's the point of gun ownership? It's not like anyone really uses them for self-defense. If we ban gun ownership our streets will be must saver.
     
    IronFist, Aug 23, 2015
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    Grokmaster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your study is full of crap. I'm pretty sure ISIS is beating everyone.
     
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  3. Blinda Vaganto

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    Weapon is a political power. You can't have government of the people by the people for the people when people are not allowed to have guns.

    People very much use them for self-defence. Police in most cases only investigates crimes after they were commited. If you are attacked by criminal you very often have to protect yourself by yourself. And I want to say that I'm very angry at people who say that statistics shows that you have greater chance to be killed by criminal who takes your weapon from you than to kill a criminal who attacks you. There is actually a law which forbids to kill a criminal if he stopped to be dangerous to you. Often when people protect themselves with guns they don't fire a single shot.
     
    Blinda Vaganto, Aug 23, 2015
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  4. Nightmare515

    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Please lay out, in step by step fashion, how you plan on banning guns in America. Please include the following: 1) How to confiscate them, 2) How to prevent more from getting here, 3) How to prevent criminals from getting their hands on them.
     
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  5. In The Dark

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    The rest of the 'civilized' world kills plenty.

    Stink Progress is selling lies as agenda.
     
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  6. In The Dark

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    Concealed carry is apex personal responsibility, a concept no leftist will ever confront.

    When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
     
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  7. Texan

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    Except in Texas. (Fort Hood is disarmed Federal property.)
     
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  8. Texan

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    The rest of the country is not like your hometown. There are 11,000,000 civilians carrying guns across America with a crime rate that is 10 times less than the average American. (Probably 100 times less than the average Chicagoan)
     
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    Too funny, Shall not be infringed! Move if you don't like it. Bye.
     
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  10. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    So where have all these apex protectors been? We've had very liberal CCW laws almost everywhere for several years now, yet our massacres seem to be ever increasing and I've heard of not one instance where a beginning rampage has been stopped by one. Indeed, in many cases it seems our lax gun laws have enabled the killer to get the weapon to where he wanted it to be or even to obtain the weapon in the first place.
     
    Aleksander Ulyanov, Aug 23, 2015
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Finally, a gun advocate who admits that it's that passage that causes the whole problem. Go join a well regulated militia and stop dishonestly quoting out of context so as to pervert the meaning of men so much greater than either of us
     
    Aleksander Ulyanov, Aug 23, 2015
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    Almost all of those shootings are in GUN free zones where legal carriers can not carry. DuH!
     
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  13. Steve N

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    Guns can't be the problem, because if they were, with hundreds of millions of them in circulation then we would have hundreds of millions of mass shootings, but we don't.

    As I've said before, if guns kill people then mine must be defective.
     
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    You could compare yourselves with a war zone???

    Gee that is comforting - not!!

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    NRA regurgitation

    No it is not the guns themselves but the strange (to an outsider) belief systems surrounding guns

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    More NRA regurgitation
     
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    The study says "global." If we discount the war zones then we should also be allowed to discount Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, NY, etc. I'm will to bet that if we discounted all the liberal cities in this country the number of shootings goes waaaaaaaaaay down.
     
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    http://bearingarms.com/concealed-carry-permit-holder-stops-shooting-rampage-in-portland/
    I'm sure there are many others, but we'll never know because it doesn't fit the liberal media's agenda and there is no proof that a shooting will become a "mass shooting" unless it happens.

    "the right of the people" is a phrase that you ignore. Why was I never allowed to carry a weapon while serving in the Texas Air National Guard or in the USAF? By your reasoning, I should have been allowed to carry, but that never happened. Do I have grounds for a law suit? Why is our government considering pressing charges against the Navy recruiter who fired back at the terrorist in Tennessee?
     
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    Spare me the crap. Even hear of the cartel wars in Mexico? How about Rwanda? Isis? Those incidents are just well documented here. and you'll have to fully state the definition of a public mass shooting. You might as well put a sign on your back that says FOOD. If you're too much of a coward to not defend yourself fine. Bend over and take it. Otherwise don't put the rest of us in your category.
     
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    It's a right of the people, not the right of the militia. It's states that very plainly, and is impossible to misunderstand unless you decide to really read into it. It seems to me that were the right contingent on being part of a militia that we'd find evidence that people were required to join militias in order to be armed. That is not the case. Stop twisting words around to meet your completely off interpretation. It's like people are reading a box for a vacuum that says "dust free" and expecting it to come with free dust.
     
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    Get educated! You sure don't know what your talking about. Move to Australia.
     
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    However, gang related crime, drive-by shootings, hostage situations and robberies have not been taken into consideration.


    When you start taking out data.........

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    Our inner cities ARE war zones.
     
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    And just what group of people are responsible for making them into war zones?
     
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    That would be *racist* which is why they disregarded types of shootings...... ;)
     
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    Yep, lets look at everything except the truth staring at us in the face.
     
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    It's funny how mass shootings are used to justify getting rid of guns but all one has to do is look at gun free Juarez. There is no way we're anywhere near the number of murders in gun free Mexico.
     
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    Doubt it would be a stretch to say liberal run cities with the strictest gun laws.
     
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