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Jitro
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07 Nov 2012, 11:45 am

By destroying all the existing guns in the world?



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07 Nov 2012, 11:55 am

Jitro wrote:
By destroying all the existing guns in the world?


If the knowledge of gun craft is not eliminated then guns have not really been destroyed. Just recycled.

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07 Nov 2012, 12:05 pm

Jitro wrote:
By destroying all the existing guns in the world?


There is no greater fear for the oppressive despot than an armed populace.

Murdering with a gun is no different than murdering with a bat or a knife. Someone dies in the end.

The prepared militia seeks to keep it's own leaders in check, as well as the enemies of the state.

The first action of oppressive regimes is to disarm it's citizens.


The world would be no better off if you took guns out of the picture.



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07 Nov 2012, 1:04 pm

DiscardedWhisper wrote:
Jitro wrote:
By destroying all the existing guns in the world?


There is no greater fear for the oppressive despot than an armed populace.

Murdering with a gun is no different than murdering with a bat or a knife. Someone dies in the end.

The prepared militia seeks to keep it's own leaders in check, as well as the enemies of the state.

The first action of oppressive regimes is to disarm it's citizens.


The world would be no better off if you took guns out of the picture.


It's alot more difficult for someone to kill multiple people at a school if all they have is a knife.



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07 Nov 2012, 1:18 pm

Not so difficult with a can of petrol and a match.


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07 Nov 2012, 1:28 pm

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Not so difficult with a can of petrol and a match.


fuel doesnt burn hot enough to melt most metal guns.

And as someone said before, why would we want guns gone? The problem isnt in the guns, its in the violent nature of humans. Weve been more than handily mass murdering each other for thousands of years before guns existed. Heck, before the stuff that allowed guns to be made existed. And with guns gone wed still find a way to do it. So why not just keep the guns anyways?



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07 Nov 2012, 2:19 pm

Why would you do that?

Do you magically think that eliminating all guns would solve problems? Do you think that removing guns would stop criminals from committing crimes?

If you do, your sadly, sadly mistaken.



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07 Nov 2012, 2:33 pm

Take away Firearms(Explosives ect) We'd use Bows and a swords again, Take way those we'd use a wooden spear, Take away that we'd kill each other with rocks. Take our rocks away!. . . All hail our Shoalin overlords.

It's in our nature to fight. You want the world to be a better place? Find away to kill half of the human emotions.


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07 Nov 2012, 3:08 pm

MXH wrote:
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Not so difficult with a can of petrol and a match.
fuel doesnt burn hot enough to melt most metal guns.

I was referring to Jitro's post above mine:
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It's alot more difficult for someone to kill multiple people at a school if all they have is a knife.

Try to keep up with the rest of us.


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07 Nov 2012, 3:13 pm

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It's alot more difficult for someone to kill multiple people at a school if all they have is a knife.


It's also much harder for an innocent victim to defend him/her self against an attacker who is twice his/her size with a knife.



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07 Nov 2012, 3:28 pm

You know, might just be me but I would actually like to see everyone walking around with swords again.

I honestly can't understand why people went from carrying a weapon at all times and learning to protect themselves to relying on a small group of thinly spread, moderately trained, often abusive people to protect them.
It boggles the mind.

Also cloaks, I don't understand why people stopped wearing cloaks. Cloaks are awesome.



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07 Nov 2012, 3:34 pm

If you find a way to destroy all guns plus erasing all knowledge about them... no that's simply not possible, Even then, someone would probably invent them again.


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07 Nov 2012, 4:01 pm

Mike_Garrick wrote:
Also cloaks, I don't understand why people stopped wearing cloaks. Cloaks are awesome.


Cloaks were to protect the wearer from the elements. Basicly as we devolped better fabrics and materials cloaks became obsolete.


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07 Nov 2012, 4:01 pm

Why would you want to do a damn fool thing like that?


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07 Nov 2012, 4:03 pm

Mike_Garrick wrote:
You know, might just be me but I would actually like to see everyone walking around with swords again.

I honestly can't understand why people went from carrying a weapon at all times and learning to protect themselves to relying on a small group of thinly spread, moderately trained, often abusive people to protect them.
It boggles the mind.

Also cloaks, I don't understand why people stopped wearing cloaks. Cloaks are awesome.


Because, as it has been alluded to in this thread, it's much easier to keep an unarmed populace at bay.



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07 Nov 2012, 4:10 pm

thewhitrbbit wrote:
Why would you do that?

Do you magically think that eliminating all guns would solve problems? Do you think that removing guns would stop criminals from committing crimes?

If you do, your sadly, sadly mistaken.


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