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(4,846 posts)I don't need to hear a third rate homophobic, sexist, rapper's take on gun control.
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iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)but it sure makes it take a lil more work and conviction if ya wanna kill someone without 'em.
what were guns designed for again ?
oh, that's right.. to injure or KILL another living creature. only purpose.
De Leonist
(225 posts)Because banning something for being designed to kill living things would mean that we should ban bow'n'arrows, crossbows, javelins, swords, and a whole host of other objects that are used far more for either collecting, sporting, or historical interests. While I agree for the most part that our gun ownership laws have gotten out of hand the "logic" underpinning your argument is rather simplistic and more rhetorical than rational.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)A ban only makes it harder for some nutbag to kill a bunch of people.
I cannot believe he's this stupid.
PoliticalPothead
(220 posts)We need to change our culture of violence and start looking at violence in third-world countries the same way we see violence here in America. It's disgustingly hypocritical that we get all worked up and emotional over the Sandy Hook children but we ignore the innocent children in other countries being killed by our own government. Tech is right, banning guns won't change our violent society. The only thing that will is if people stand up and demand and end to ALL violence, not just the violence that affects them personally.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)spot on.
valerief
(53,235 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)and deadly high-speed bicycle chases.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)banning all guns is the answer, either. What I think this country (and especially CA) needs to do is invest more money into funding mental health services, and perhaps an assault weapons ban for those who are not part of the military or the police force. But if not that, then Congress should at the bare minimum allow background checks on all gun purchases.
De Leonist
(225 posts)Reduce Poverty and Increase upward mobility, especially for the poor. I'm pretty sure Immortal Technique realizes this and this is why he probably doesn't advocate increased gun control. He also realizes that more often than not the laws that are meant to crack down on violent crime are used by Law Enforcement to harass the same people who live in what is one of the most atrocious forms of economic violence, poverty
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Registration to stop those prone to violence to get weapons? Now these measures won't change our violent society, but will save many from death and very painful injury. Let's be real. ACT.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)it's indigenous people(nations) subdued by EXTREME gun violence. It was built into the society we inhabit by enslaved people subdued by EXTREME gun violence. The violence in our current society is an extension of that history and the 'wild west' mentality revered by a lot of americans of all racial, ethnic and political persuasions. Change the macho mindset, economic conditions that breed inequality and hopelessness, which will take generations now, and the society ill of EXTREME violence by guns can change. Period. Just my take on this problem.
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)There is not one serious proposal to ban guns under consideration by any legislative body in this country. How many times must it be said that GUN REGULATION <> BANNING GUNS! And the persistent efforts by the gun lobby to turn every discussion of reasonable gun regulation into a discussion of the effectiveness of banning guns, when no such proposal is anywhere under consideration, is a dishonest, cynical attempt to cloud the issue!