It's time to ban axes
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Plastic bags are made to carry groceries. But they are sometimes misused.
Glock .40 cal handguns are made to provide a portable means of self-defense. But they are sometimes misused.
Butcher knives are made to cut meat. But they are sometimes misused.
Remington 870 shotguns are made to shoot ducks. But they are sometimes misused.
Diesel fuel and fertilizer were made to run engines and fertilize fields. But they are sometimes misused.
Axes are made to chop wood. But they are sometimes misused.
AR-15 rifles are made to shoot varmits, targets, or defend your liberty. But they are sometimes misused.
Baseball bats are made to hit baseballs. But they are sometimes misused.
Gasoline was made to run engines, matches to light cigarettes. But they are sometimes misused.
There is absolutely no moral difference in the misuse of any of these items.
They were invented for the sole purposes of murdering trees.We must also ban automatic axes.
And rival gangsters.
No safety goggles.We must also ban automatic axes.
We don't need no stinking safety goggles
Just ban A$$holes, problem solved. Leave guns, knives, axes, machetes, rocks alone. It's puzzling how many people miss this simple solution. Build concrete bunkers to house the a$$holes.
And for good reason, people are generally on their best behaviour when getting shot is a distinct possibility. There is one problem that creeps in, that is how do you prevent clumbsy, stupid, spastic people from packing hand guns?
You still do not quite understand the problem. If someone goes on a rampage with a plastic bag, they are unlikely to kill more than one or two people, if that. The same is true of most tools, including axes.
Guns make it very easy for the depraved or insane to kill and maim many people in a very short time, as has so recently been shown in Aurora, Colorado and Norway. In fact, guns are the murder weapon of choice in most murders due to the fact that they require little strength or skill to operate. There is also another aspect to firearms that axes, baseball bats, and so on do not have, and that it the fact that most people can run away from a person armed with a baseball bat or axe, but running away from a person with a firearm is much more difficult as Anders Breivik so aptly illustrated.
Morality really has nothing to do with it. It is the ease of access to a deadly instrument and its ease of use in dispensing death that is most important. I also suspect that most nut cases choose firearms because it gives them a real feeling of power to use a weapon that can kill so many in so short a time. In other works, mechanisms designed to kill are much more deadly than mechanisms designed for peaceful purposes; just as they should be, otherwise why use firearms at all if plastic bags work just as well? I'll leave it to you; would you rather see someone come after you with a varmint rifle or a can of gasoline?
When I was three my grandfather gave me a hatchet. I used it to prepare kindling. I wasn't given a rifle or handgun, Colpy.
.... or anti-gun rubbish.
Um, that means rubbish is rubbish regardless of whose mouth it come from.
Laws do not have any effect on people who break laws. It's as simple as that. Same for bans and limits implemented by lawmakers. All those do is increase blackmarket activity.
lol But you seem to forget that the original intention for people making weapons was to acquire food and for defense against nastier species. Yeah, that means killing. And people that want to kill people will use whatever they want regardless of its proper usage.
Some are. Some aren't.
Axes chop, saws saw. lolWe must also ban automatic axes.
If your argument is just about numbers, then it doesn't take much ANFO to kill and maim many people. And you can be long gone by the time the effects of it occur. Want to ban fertilizer and diesel fuel?
I can find cover, get close enough to jam it up his ass, shoot back, etc.
I can scoot and hope the SOB won't pitch it into my house before I can plug him fulla lead.
Either way, laws likely won't be sufficient to stop him.
People who break laws don't care what laws there are.
And, sopeaking in terms of numbers again, I think you seem to think that the ratio between people who use firearms for sensible purposes in comparison to those who don't is not much. In Canada, it's less than 5 per 100,000. In fact, in 2006 there were twice as many homicides from items other than firearms as there was for firearms according to StatsCan.
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On one side the anti gun groups "i guess" do not want honest people to have guns,the kids might play with it [isn't there gunlocks sold in stores now?] and on the other side,some gun nuts like the NRA seems to think having access to guns permits one to have anti aircraft weapon.
when does one hunt with that much firepower?
when does one hunt with that much firepower?