kill guns

[Ozarks]

one of the kids guns went off

Guns are mechanical devices, they don't go "off", Rule #2 Keep your finger off the trigger.

[activedenial]

If there were no guns people would be hacked to death by knives. If there were no knives, people would be stoned to death. People make killing devices out of almost anything.

[Hamlet]

"If there were no guns people would be hacked to death by knives. If there were no knives, people would be stoned to death. People make killing devices out of almost anything."

Noted.... I heard a report on NPR just yesterday about banning knives in Scotland because of all the stabbings. Guns and weapons are always going to be around whether we like it or not. They're never going to go away. What we lack are sane and responsible citizens. That's the issue we need to work on because it's the only real option we have.

[delta9thc06]

If there were no guns people would be hacked to death by knives. If there were no knives, people would be stoned to death. People make killing devices out of almost anything.

Well put:thumbsup:

[likemclever]

one of the kids guns went off and killed the guy who was in the front seat

Kids shouldn't play with guns. They also shouldn't drink battery acid.

[canucktoker]

If guns were no more. Tell that to any woman who has ever been raped. Also, guns weren't the cause of your friends death, its morons who shouldn't have them riding around in a car.

Tell it to the women raped at gunpoint.
Do they brianwash you people down there? Always hear the same american drone about keeping the king of england out of your face. Whats that all about? Like you are far less free than most british subjects, and the idea a mob of bubbas is going to rebel against uncle sam is hilarious.
Anyway i would rather meet a mugger with a knife than a gun.

[graymatter]

Tell it to the women raped at gunpoint.
Do they brianwash you people down there? Always hear the same american drone about keeping the king of england out of your face. Whats that all about? Like you are far less free than most british subjects, and the idea a mob of bubbas is going to rebel against uncle sam is hilarious.
Anyway i would rather meet a mugger with a knife than a gun.

Funny, I'd rather meet a mugger with a gun... actually, me with the gun and he/her with the knife.

[likemclever]

The rest of the world will never understand Americaâ??s love for her guns. We donâ??t love our guns because we are afraid of being raped or mugged. We donâ??t love our guns because we give a fuck about what anyone in England thinks about it, much less the King/Queen (besides we sorted that problem out ages ago). We love our guns because it is our right and no government (especially our own) has the right to take them away. We love our guns because as Noah Webster put it â??Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.â?� We love our guns because we are not ruled by our government we rule it and we have guns to ensure that never changes.

[Hamlet]

Like you are far less free than most british subjects, and the idea a mob of bubbas is going to rebel against uncle sam is hilarious.

That's the difference-we're citizens, not subjects...

...and we choose to accept the responsibility. That's the difference you see, because we have the power to choose to accept that responsibility for ourselves. The woman being raped at gunpoint has the right to have a gun of her own.

A mob of bubbas rebeling against Uncle Sam or good King George I'm sure would seem hiliarious to you. But I suppose that's why you're still over there and we're over here


So 'keeping the King of England out of our face' has really become a metaphor, hasn't it? We choose citizenship, and philosophically, we choose to keep the king of england out of our face and out of our form of Government.

(by the way Likemclever, very nice post)

[smoke it]

if i may quote that redneck dude on t.v. "guns dont kill people, people kill people. that would be like blaming misspelled words on my pencil".
sorry about your loss though