It's the circle of life (aka, fear)...  ...

I need a gun, because the bad guys have guns.  and I need a bigger gun and more bullets, because the bad guys have bigger guns and more bullets.

...and SUV's...
I need big car because everybody else drives big cars, and a little car isn't safe against them...
...and I need a bigger one now,.. because everybody went and bought a bigger one to be safe...

..and now, we're all totin' UZI's driving 6,000lb cars to get kiddies to day care...
Have we invented the bulletproof child car seat yet?...
It'll be next big thing.... ...

To Paraphrase: ‘ Bigger & Better’.

Yea, that’s where we are now.

Tomorrow, can it change?
Sure, when the, 'other people’,
LEARN, that they are, NOT, ‘More Equal’.
Are,  NOT,  Taught and Told, they are,  ‘More Equal’.
Do, NOT depend on, ‘hand-outs’.
AND, LEARN,  how to live in a Society, with respect for others.
Etc, Etc, Etc.,  
It would be nice, NOT, to have that, ‘bigger/better, attitude.
But, Today, one must!

The answer is NOT, taking ‘Away’, The answer is, ‘Education’.
And until, ‘other People’, who do NOT, know, how to live in a Society, with respect for others.
‘Bigger Better’, is the only solution.

I enjoy, making holes in a piece of paper, and seeing how close together I can get those holes.
Just like some other people enjoy, hitting a ball of tightly bound, rubber bands, and counting how many times they have to hit it, before it falls into a hole in the ground.
I would greatly prefer, to spend money on firearms, that accomplish that goal, better.
Than spend more money, on small, lightweight, not very accurate ones.

And tomorrow, mayday I could do that.

But NOT, today!

Serowbot wrote on 07/25/15 at 09:21:39:

What did you say earlier about comparing apples to apples?
There are so many societal variable between the UK and the US that this is a pointless comparison

Another point
in the last ten years, firearms laws have been getting gradually more, relaxed
In those same 10 years, in the places where that rel;axation has occurred, crime rates, and especially violent crime rates, have been dropping
Strong correlation

Makes as much sense as taking guns from a potentially suicidal person.
Hose, tailpipe, rope,limb, drugs,
Motivated people are able to accomplish things..
Murder is murder.

Art Webb wrote on 07/26/15 at 09:22:40:


In terms of tools, you can kill people with a slight squeeze of one finger using a gun. It's a lot harder to kill yourself, others, class-mates, etc, with a pointy stick.

If the British army had wooden spears and the Zulus had machine guns.....

I'm not saying that 'writing' would stop if we banned pen ownership, but it would make it a lot harder.....

Hmmm, making it harder for people to kill people, sounds like the right thing to do.....

Would Jesus have carried a gun?

HovisPresley wrote on 07/26/15 at 09:29:05:

UK society is a different demographic from American, less prone in modern times to settling disputes with violence on the whole
In fact the UK never had a 'gun murder' problem, they had isolated incidents

HovisPresley wrote on 07/26/15 at 09:39:16:

You can kill even more, more easily, with a bomb, you know, like terrorists used to do in the UK?
reducing gun murders doesn't reduce murders, so it doesn't make you any safer, and if it doesn't make you safer, why would you do it?
it's nothing but feel good legislation against those 'evil guns'
Jesus Disciples were armed, so, yeah, probably so