Do guns kill people?

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16 Feb 2018, 1:05 am

It is about choice. America has decided that to sacrifice people for second amendment rights. America has decided to sacrifice privacy and constitutional rights for convenience and anti terrorism.. America has decided to accept far greater carnage then people with guns cause for the convenience of automobiles. There is no such thing as no risk, no collateral, damage. Even the best political decisions that help 98 percent of the people will unfairly screw somebody over.

Annual United States Road Crash Statistics

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Over 37,000 people die in road crashes each year

An additional 2.35 million are injured or disabled

Over 1,600 children under 15 years of age die each year

Nearly 8,000 people are killed in crashes involving drivers ages 16-20

Road crashes cost the U.S. $230.6 billion per year, or an average of $820 per person

These statistics do not take into consideration road rage, pollution and environmental damage and displacement of people and destruction of neighboorhoods.

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16 Feb 2018, 1:21 pm

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. And I'll shoot anyone who disagrees with me! :twisted:

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16 Feb 2018, 5:48 pm

hearts will have to soften before this mess corrects itself.

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16 Feb 2018, 5:49 pm

Take guns off people, give them to cows.

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16 Feb 2018, 6:26 pm

auntblabby wrote:

hearts will have to soften before this mess corrects itself.

In some cases those hearts will have to evolve from having three chambers to having four.

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16 Feb 2018, 6:44 pm

some creative legal minds need to get together to see how hard they can hit the NRA in their greedy pocketbooks.

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16 Feb 2018, 11:40 pm

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So both the object and the people are tools :roll:

Precisely. Both people and objects can be manipulated so both people and objects can be used as tools.

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17 Feb 2018, 2:52 am

ISIS is crashing trucks into crowds of people, getting out, and stabbing them with knives.

Guns do not kill people.

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17 Feb 2018, 3:20 am

Yeah. ISIS probably doesn't even have any guns.

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17 Feb 2018, 3:43 am

[quote="Esmerelda Weatherwax"]Stephen Paddock fired over 1000 rounds, in a ten minute period, from his hotel window in Las Vegas. This injured over 800 people and killed more than 50, at the country music concert nearby.

Yesterday's school shooter killed 17.

Let's dispense with the disingenuous pretense that guns are merely precision metalsmithed artworks for the discerning collector. Symbols of precious freedom.

Guns are weapons, intended for one and only one use. To kill.

And the guns currently favored by our Messrs. Paddock and Cruz and their emulators are specifically designed to kill as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible. That is their entire purpose.

Gun rights advocates need to stop carrying on about how people can choke to death on tapioca pudding, or trip over their own shoelaces and fall and break their necks, and nobody wants to outlaw tapioca or shoelaces do they?

Because if the tapioca is poisoned, or the shoelaces are deliberately replaced with razor wire, you bet your butt that's outlawed. And that's what it would take to make either one even remotely as murderous-by-d

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17 Feb 2018, 6:18 am

Hey, gun advocates are all about personal freedom and liberty. It's not like they're being manipulated by corporations or anything :wink:

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17 Feb 2018, 12:45 pm

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Do shoes kick people?

No, but they might trip you when you don't pay attention :evil:

especially in the dark

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17 Feb 2018, 12:59 pm

Whoop Whoop , that's the sound of the police
Guns don't kill people rappers do, I seen it in a documentary on BBC2

^ comedy rap video

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17 Feb 2018, 4:03 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:

ISIS is crashing trucks into crowds of people, getting out, and stabbing them with knives.

Guns do not kill people.

At least trucks and knives are useful for what they were intended for. Guns were created for one purpose and one purpose only.

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17 Feb 2018, 11:00 pm

We have automobiles that are created for war. We have knives and swords that are created for killing humans (especially in this house).

I feel like most average American gun owners have them for hunting and maybe one or two for protection.

There are many sides to every argument. I doubt anything will change any time soon. Even if they made guns completely illegal, most criminals do not obtain their firearms by legal means.

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17 Feb 2018, 11:10 pm

what other western nations have made mass murder more or less routine?

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