Gun Control is Completely Useless.

[JamesBondo]

Excuse me but what part of designed to kill do you fail to understand!! The first use of a gun was to kill, so was the Atomic bomb. If you feel the US military designed that bomb first to fuel a nuclear power plant, why was it used as a bomb.

The intent is about the use an article was designed for. Gunpowder was invented as an explosive not to make a big hole in the ground but to destroy. Try looking at weapons as destructive. The actual word weapons says it all. I do not anticipate using a gun EVER as a spoon or to cut my meat with.


Guess!!

Your logic has been debunked several times on this thread. So much so that most of your posts are worthless before anyone responds to them.

Actually, it is the bullet that is designed to kill.

The gun merely contains the explosion and sends the bullet down range.

In fact, one could argue that a gun saves the life of it's operator every time it successfully contains the explosion and send the bullet down range. And they would be correct billions of uses per year.

You choose to argue that a gun kills, and you are only correct about 33,000 times per year, which is dwarfed by billions of uses.

 

[B00Mer]

State Fair Bans Guns; State Fair Workers Robbed at Gun Point

LOL :lol:

Bluebyrd35 house, in case you want to know which one to rob ...

 

[JamesBondo]

Excuse me but what part of designed to kill do you fail to understand!! The first use of a gun was to kill, so was the Atomic bomb. If you feel the US military designed that bomb first to fuel a nuclear power plant, why was it used as a bomb.

The intent is about the use an article was designed for. Gunpowder was invented as an explosive not to make a big hole in the ground but to destroy. Try looking at weapons as destructive. The actual word weapons says it all. I do not anticipate using a gun EVER as a spoon or to cut my meat with.


Guess!!

You have it all wrong. Gun powder was invented in 9th century China. It was invented as an "Elixir of Life".

All subsequent inventions could not possibly be designed to kill, because the main component - gun powder - was designed to give immortality.

 

[DaSleeper]

You have it all wrong. Gun powder was invented in 9th century China. It was invented as an "Elixir of Life".

All subsequent inventions could not possibly be designed to kill, because the main component - gun powder - was designed to give immortality.

Some people seem to put a lot of weight on the idea that if something was designed to kill, it is more evil or you are more dead if you are killed by it...
Nuclear energy was first designed to kill, but these same people don't mind using electricity produced by it.
Just a bunch of bloody hypocrites, all!
But a gun designed to kill is not valid to protect your life....it's evil....

And the chirping sound is still loud from the last time I mentioned that......:roll:

 

[AnnaG]

You have it all wrong. Gun powder was invented in 9th century China. It was invented as an "Elixir of Life".

All subsequent inventions could not possibly be designed to kill, because the main component - gun powder - was designed to give immortality.

Not only that, but there's a difference between the Uranium used in power plants and nuclear bombs. One is U235 and the other is U238. But she is also wrong about the intent of the a-bomb. Originally it was meant to scare the pants off Japan.

 

[DaSleeper]

Not only that, but there's a difference between the Uranium used in power plants and nuclear bombs. One is U235 and the other is U238. But she is also wrong about the intent of the a-bomb. Originally it was meant to scare the pants off Japan.

Tell that to the people of Japan, they are still dead....;-)

 

[AnnaG]

Tell that to the people of Japan, they are still dead....;-)

Well, Hirohito should have stopped the nonsense and perhaps Ike's soldiers wouldn't have dropped the bombs.
Some millions would have lived and the Japanese higher ups wouldn't have had to turn red-faced and show up on the Missouri with their hats in hand (so to speak).

 

[DaSleeper]

Try telling that to the Antis......

 

[bluebyrd35]

You have it all wrong. Gun powder was invented in 9th century China. It was invented as an "Elixir of Life".

All subsequent inventions could not possibly be designed to kill, because the main component - gun powder - was designed to give immortality.

It is not so much that I have got it all wrong but that no matter what humans search for, they always seem to find a very destructive use for it. I guess in this era it is more important to kill people rather than search for immortality. Refining killing methods are prioritized over healing or lifting people out of poverty. If as much money was spent on health care or feeding the poor as is spent on guns, bullets, fighter planes, rocket launchers, mine fields, garrots, etc. etc. this would be quite a different world.

I understand how and why civilization rises and then falls. We do not learn from the past.

Not only that, but there's a difference between the Uranium used in power plants and nuclear bombs. One is U235 and the other is U238. But she is also wrong about the intent of the a-bomb. Originally it was meant to scare the pants off Japan.

How does a weapon scare another nation when it is kept a secret until it was dropped. As for the difference in what Uranium is used makes no never mind. It is the purpose it is designed for. Canada sold Candu Reactors for many years but we were quite careful about what could be used as a weapon and what was used for generating energy Good grief but this must be the most illogical and bent thread on the internet.

 

[Jinentonix]

Canada sold Candu Reactors for many years but we were quite careful about what could be used as a weapon and what was used for generating energy Good grief but this must be the most illogical and bent thread on the internet.

The beauty of the Candu is it uses elemental uranium and doesn't really produce any weapons grade material. It does produce tritium but the process is not efficient for weapon purposes, not to mention that tritium is created in situ during a hydrogen bomb explosion anyway so the need to produce it for nuclear weapons is superfluous.

 

[AnnaG]

How does a weapon scare another nation when it is kept a secret until it was dropped. As for the difference in what Uranium is used makes no never mind. It is the purpose it is designed for.

The USA dropped leaflets and also broadcasted the impending attack on radio. Geez
Of course it matters which U is used for what purpose. U238 can be made into U235 (weapons grade) but it is costly and complicated. And U238 was not designed. It is the most common isotope of uranium ore on the planet.

The beauty of the Candu is it uses elemental uranium and doesn't really produce any weapons grade material. It does produce tritium but the process is not efficient for weapon purposes, not to mention that tritium is created in situ during a hydrogen bomb explosion anyway so the need to produce it for nuclear weapons is superfluous.

Zackly. =)

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Meanwhile, in Maryland, we have a new wrinkle. Since late 2013, no-one can buy a handgun without a "Handgun Qualification License." The requirements for the license are:

1. Fifty bucks.
2. Fingerprints from a private fingerprinting firm (another fifty bucks).
3. Certification of a training course (which can be a certificate, a military discharge, or evidence of a handgun owned prior to the enactment of the law).

So, any honest person who wants to buy a gun needs to jump through these hoops and shell out a hundred beans. Meanwhile, your average drug dealer or gang banger picks one up on any of several convenient street corners in PG County.

Good job, Maryland General Assembly. Yer keepin' us safe!

The USA dropped leaflets and also broadcasted the impending attack on radio. Geez
Of course it matters which U is used for what purpose. U238 can be made into U235 (weapons grade) but it is costly and complicated.

Yes but can it be made into U2, for good rock with an unfortunately down-the-nose moral tone?

 

[Curious Cdn]

The beauty of the Candu is it uses elemental uranium and doesn't really produce any weapons grade material. It does produce tritium but the process is not efficient for weapon purposes, not to mention that tritium is created in situ during a hydrogen bomb explosion anyway so the need to produce it for nuclear weapons is superfluous.

You can also fuel a CANDU with any old crap ... like plutonium from weapons ... and make the world a slightly better place, in the process.

 

[JamesBondo]

Excuse me but what part of designed to kill do you fail to understand!! The first use of a gun was to kill, so was the Atomic bomb.

I understand what you are saying, I just don't agree with your logic.

By your logic, the use of warfarin was to kill, so that somehow overshadows the fact that it can be successfully used to prevent heart attack and stroke.

Imo, you are failing to see that a gun in a good person's hands does good things. Farmers use them to protect cattle, police use them to do their jobs, hunters use them to put food on their family's table, biathlon athletes use them in a benign competition that challenges the body and mind. A women might use a gun to defend herself from a brutal rape/beating.

Bad people use them to do bad things.

Good people use them to do good things.

What part do you not understand?

 

[Curious Cdn]

... another mass shooter.

This one is rather late, this week.

If everyone in that college was armed to the teeth, blah-blah-blah.

 

[JamesBondo]

... another mass shooter.

This one is rather late, this week.

If everyone in that college was armed to the teeth, blah-blah-blah.

What is your solution?

 

[Curious Cdn]

What is your solution?

Disarm the whole lot of those moronic *******s. Anyway, they seem to like their anarchy. Someday it will destroy them. Who needs a solution then?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Disarm the whole lot of those moronic *******s.

And how do you intend to accomplish that?

 

[Curious Cdn]

And how do you intend to accomplish that?

Why should I even care?

It appears to me that the Yanks LIKE hunting each other.

Build a wall.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Why should I even care?

It appears to me that the Yanks LIKE hunting each other.

Build a wall.

No idea why you should care, but you surely do run your mouth about it a lot.