tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post7222295952256322656..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Repeating lies does not make them trueAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-5593306209139473832014-01-20T18:47:36.572+01:002014-01-20T18:47:36.572+01:00Right, when proven liars speak, I jump. HA HA HA H...Right, when proven liars speak, I jump. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-79855910954025244942014-01-20T05:41:31.366+01:002014-01-20T05:41:31.366+01:00Anonymous, did you read the cited article that I r...Anonymous, did you read the cited article that I referred to? Several hundred thousand Americans defend themselves every year with a firearm. You would trade 30,000, of which two-thirds are suicides, for several hundred thousand?Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-64356187942956143632014-01-19T20:19:13.825+01:002014-01-19T20:19:13.825+01:00Hunting for food hasn't been a necessity for m...Hunting for food hasn't been a necessity for more than 100 years.<br />"If a single human life is preserved......" No mention of the 33,000 victims (dead) because of misuse of guns. Because of course, 33,000 deaths mean nothing to these lying criminals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-69995827386556638472014-01-19T20:16:12.954+01:002014-01-19T20:16:12.954+01:00Just on general basis because I'm not a member...Just on general basis because I'm not a member of your lying criminal cowardly group of gun loons. Deceit is the MO of you lying criminal cowardly gun loons who refuse to answer questions and lie about what they say, even though their words are posted for all to read. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-65508522081590755892014-01-19T08:11:24.689+01:002014-01-19T08:11:24.689+01:00Even if you do not intend to deceit, you are still...Even if you do not intend to deceit, you are still wrong.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-29732285318400283212014-01-19T08:10:05.387+01:002014-01-19T08:10:05.387+01:00If a single human life is preserved by the use of ...If a single human life is preserved by the use of a firearm used in lawful self defence, then it is your right to acquire firearms to defend yourself.<br /><br />Most however seek the use of firearms as a means by which to obtain food or for other recreational sporting purposes such as target shooting. In such hands, they are nothing more than sporting equipment, in the same context as golf clubs or fishing rods.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-2295544907695619082014-01-19T05:18:54.771+01:002014-01-19T05:18:54.771+01:00I never said it would liar?
Why do you have to li...I never said it would liar? <br />Why do you have to lie to make a false point? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-18829006594312597872014-01-19T03:41:16.416+01:002014-01-19T03:41:16.416+01:00Anonymous, people killed each other at a much high...Anonymous, people killed each other at a much higher rate in the centuries gone by. Removing guns would not change human nature.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-64093097984507297542014-01-18T23:59:32.546+01:002014-01-18T23:59:32.546+01:00"partly due to the legal and commercial avail..."partly due to the legal and commercial availability of guns in our society."<br />Exactly<br />Make them harder to get and less available, killings will go down. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-66180312705870099962014-01-18T23:57:11.439+01:002014-01-18T23:57:11.439+01:00Speaking of logic, if there were no guns, there wo...Speaking of logic, if there were no guns, there would be no gun shot deaths. <br />You are the one who agreed that guns are the weapon of choice for killings. <br />I see no reason you cannot walk around with an ice pick, or a baseball bat, or any other item that can kill, but there would be a lot less collateral injuries.<br />A baseball bat won't kill if you drop it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-37395233068731565802014-01-18T22:19:46.808+01:002014-01-18T22:19:46.808+01:00And there are a many uses for a bar of soap. but i...And there are a many uses for a bar of soap. but it was made to wash with. Why do you deny a gun is made to kill? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-79162182528023026432014-01-18T20:46:50.082+01:002014-01-18T20:46:50.082+01:00Simple solutions for simple minds.Simple solutions for simple minds.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-53959181212757224742014-01-18T20:45:58.420+01:002014-01-18T20:45:58.420+01:00Anon,
That is an agonizingly simplistic approach ...Anon,<br /><br />That is an agonizingly simplistic approach that makes it painfully clear that you did not (or lack the cognitive ability to) read and understand the entirety of my post where I conclude that gun ownership is generally irrelevant to intentional homicide. <br /><br />If you extend your logic of " the fewer guns, the fewer killings", then if there where no firearms on civilian or state hands, there would thus be no such killings, and thus humans are incapable of killing without firearms. This is an absurd notion. In the scarcity of firearms, those with nefarious intent to cause death and mayhem, will resort to other, more primitive means. One needs only to look overseas to bask in the macabre horror that can be inflicted with simple farm equipment.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-71902881504875346962014-01-18T20:10:59.065+01:002014-01-18T20:10:59.065+01:00Anonymous, you're neglecting other uses, and y...Anonymous, you're neglecting other uses, and you're ignoring the fact that in many cases of self-defense, lethal force is necessary to defend an innocent life.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-2132356431258669302014-01-18T18:07:10.793+01:002014-01-18T18:07:10.793+01:00Whether it's a good guy, or a bad guy; guns ki...Whether it's a good guy, or a bad guy; guns kill, that's what they are made to do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-42449754472804073382014-01-18T18:05:06.539+01:002014-01-18T18:05:06.539+01:00"That is almost entirely due to the fact that..."That is almost entirely due to the fact that firearms are the most convenient means of inflicting death in American society, partly due to the legal and commercial availability of guns in our society."<br /><br />So you would agree then, that the fewer guns, the fewer killings?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-54617348152598700742014-01-18T09:32:31.376+01:002014-01-18T09:32:31.376+01:00AHHH, the old if I don't see it on the news, i...AHHH, the old if I don't see it on the news, it doesn't exist argument.<br /><br />epic failAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-89999623675868291382014-01-18T07:40:09.042+01:002014-01-18T07:40:09.042+01:00That is almost entirely due to the fact that firea...That is almost entirely due to the fact that firearms are the most convenient means of inflicting death in American society, partly due to the legal and commercial availability of guns in our society.<br /><br />Most gun control advocates point to the elevated number or rate of gun deaths which is comparatively endemic to American society when compared to nations of similar economic means, while ignoring the per capita murder rate (when all weapons or means of killing are taken into account) of other nations. Gun control does not change the violent nature of humanity, as can be seen when firearms are less convenient or cost effective for criminal acquisition other means of destruction take their place in the hands of murderers, and the killings continue with no regard for the means by which the victims die. <br /><br />Gun control does not make most criminals or potential criminals less lethal, it simply makes them meet out their destruction in a different way. <br /><br />As the current situation is understood by most keen observers, imposing arms control on an (unwilling) American populace would only result in the widespread flouting of the law, with those few who the state is actually able to disarm, simply becoming unable to defend themselves against possible threats (bears known to prey on humans roam much of the American west) in an adequate manner (especially considering the physiological condition of many corpulent Americans when compared to their foreign counterparts). The average American may have good reason to own and carry a firearm for the purpose of self defence, as he may be physically incapable or of diminished effectiveness when defending himself against a potentially lethal threat, whether it be a violent felon in an urban metropolis, or the grizzly bears that roam much of the countryside in the West and Northwest. Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-61769962835810643512014-01-18T03:34:51.827+01:002014-01-18T03:34:51.827+01:00It could be said, but the overwhelming choice of w...It could be said, but the overwhelming choice of weapon, is a gun. 33,000 gun shot deaths a year and going up. No one is choosing an ice pick, a rope, more knives, some even a car, but guns FAR outweigh any other weapon used to kill. Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-58992986881306851642014-01-18T02:25:44.484+01:002014-01-18T02:25:44.484+01:001. Guns save lives
Have you not read the report ...1. Guns save lives<br /><br />Have you not read the report from the National Academies of Science that said that guns are used defensively several hundred thousand times a year? More interesting facts here:<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html<br /><br />2. I'm sure that other countries have mentally ill people. Many of those countries also have excellent healthcare.<br /><br />3. Guns are inanimate objects. The moral character of their use comes from the persons using them.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-72877609661403486222014-01-18T01:14:08.437+01:002014-01-18T01:14:08.437+01:00Laci,
"Firearms are weapons."
An objec...Laci,<br /><br />"Firearms are weapons."<br /><br />An object is only what its user intends it to be.<br /><br />Weapons indeed, in many circumstances.<br /><br />But the same could be said for baseball bats, both useful as an instrument of death and as sporting equipment. It is the character of the user and the nature of the intended use that ought to be the subject of society's voyeur, as opposed to the crude and arbitrary regulation of the instrument.Iannoreply@blogger.com