tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post5328413736303764650..comments2023-09-03T04:39:12.983-04:00Comments on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Home...: Guns, Part IIAccidentally Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01869100744451468800noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-58504721393950530122007-04-25T12:12:00.000-04:002007-04-25T12:12:00.000-04:00I will never relinquish my right to bear arms. ΜΟΛ...I will never relinquish my right to bear arms. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10938912795785045319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-55230824654888864872007-04-24T22:35:00.000-04:002007-04-24T22:35:00.000-04:00p.s. for all we know, someone might have sent you ...p.s. for all we know, someone might have sent you a very persuasive piece on why people should own guns and you just didn't post it because you filter comments. Until you are transparent...don't expect us to believe you only get "love & agree" comments.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714207579669974050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-88581372327681269302007-04-24T22:34:00.000-04:002007-04-24T22:34:00.000-04:00I think you have chose to bang your head against a...I think you have chose to bang your head against a post. Who am i to enable you? <BR/><BR/>You think you are right, have all of your "research" and try to pull a heart string here or there. <BR/><BR/>After you have spent ANY time working in the criminal justice system we can talk ....until then...rant all you want. <BR/><BR/>As I said before...you are wasting your time. <BR/><BR/>and you gotta love Aaron...even if he did take your bait.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714207579669974050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-54516976985709208742007-04-24T13:51:00.000-04:002007-04-24T13:51:00.000-04:00I chose not to "speak up" because I thought it a w...I chose not to "speak up" because I thought it a waste of our time. You already mentioned your <B><I>hate</I></B> of firearms. I doubt I have any real compelling arguement to combat that (in your eyes).<BR/><BR/>But, ok, I'll bite. Exactly how many stories do you wish to hear about how a firearm has been used for good? How about all the times I've either used or witnessed a firearm being used for good. I'll bore you with a few:<BR/>1. Attempted car-jacking in Atlanta. I just got in my car and a guy walks up and attempts to enter my vehicle after attempts to smash the window fail. He quickly changed his mind and fled when I introduced him to Smith & Wesson.<BR/>2. Attempted robbery. I just left a Taco Bell and pass a guy in the parking lot who promptly pulls a menacing knife on me and demands my money. I'm packing (I did a lot while living in Atlanta) and produce my firearm. He promptly beats a path across the parking lot.<BR/>3. Burglary. My family returns home immediately after someone breaks in the house. The guy leaves post-haste after my Dad discovers him in the house. (Dad was armed.)<BR/>4. Home invasion. Someone breaks into the house while the family is sleeping. Again, Dad produces a firearm but the guy escapes.<BR/>5. Aggresive animals. A neighbor's dog was known to attack kids when it got loose. It had just finished attacking a neighborhood kid in my back yard. Dad shot the dog. The deputy that responded to the call was actually thankful that was one less call he'd have to answer about that dog.<BR/><BR/>Now, feel free to pick any of these apart as you see fit. I <I>want</I> (and apparently need) a firearm to protect myself, my loved ones and my property. The police are not obligated to fill this role. Don't believe me? If the police fail to respond to your residence in a timely manner to prevent burglary, assault or murder, try to sue them and let me know how that works out.<BR/><BR/>So I imagine I'm incapable of apathy because my best friend hasn't been shot. How about a good friend that died at the hands of a DUI. I suppose we should <I>hate</I> the car manufacturer or the liquor company or the distributor. Maybe we should regulate these items? Oh, we already do. Just like firearms are heavily regulated. (Just not to your liking.) Your best friend got shot. I'm truly sorry. If you must hate something, hate the individual, not the <I>tool</I> used to commit the crime.<BR/><BR/>How traceable does an item need to be? All firearms produced in our lifetime has a serial number. Do they require some GPS location device? Please explain how a microchip will prevent such violence? It'll identify the gun shop that distributed the gun? The first owner that purchased the gun? So we know who got what and where. That helped perevent WHAT?<BR/><BR/>What does regulating ammunition have to do with anything? Ammunition is rediculously easy to produce. If anything, it's just time consuming and your average consumer doesn't have the materials or tools to do it. (Which in and of themselves are just as "easy" to aquire. Put that on the list to regulate.)<BR/><BR/>OH, my favorite installment of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" arguement involved someone on the Internet placing a gun on a table and putting a webcam on it 24/7 to illustrate the point. Brilliant. :)<BR/><BR/>Any effort to create a national gun database is dead in the water before it starts because such a database (is thankfully) illegal by current law. If history has taught Americans <I>anything</I> it's that registration proceeds confiscation. Take Australia most recently or Nazi (Germany) in the past. You most likely won't buy this arguement, but since we're asking a lot of what-ifs, why not: I wonder how many Jews would have survived had the Germans not known who owned the firearms and subsequently confiscated them?<BR/><BR/>Oh, we can regulate them. To some degree. Think they'll go away? Ha! ahem, black market. So what about other countries? Gun crime in Australia and the UK are on the decline. Obviously, guns are heavily regulated or confiscated from the populus. VIOLENT CRIME is on the rise. Why? Because criminals know a law-abiding citizen has one less means to defend themselves.<BR/><BR/>I negate your arguement by suggesting that most of these murders would have still occured, but by other means. You're an intelligent being. You should know that statistics can be skewed to support just about any cause when presented accordingly.<BR/><BR/>AM, I own a firearm. Do you hate me to?Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00584354669062073865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-14112397210811067162007-04-24T13:23:00.000-04:002007-04-24T13:23:00.000-04:00i think the tracing/micro chip thins is a great id...i think the tracing/micro chip thins is a great idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-60091040501701904912007-04-24T12:21:00.000-04:002007-04-24T12:21:00.000-04:00Here is another comment agreeing with you, even if...Here is another comment agreeing with you, even if it is not what you are looking for. I am definitely in the apathy group of people. I can tell you were a poli-sci major because you have clearly invested more thought into the subject than I have. I think I saw "Bowling for Columbine" and just agreed with all the arguments and am, to quote john mayer, waiting for the world to change. Also, it seems like after this tragedy at VT the media is focusing on all the wrong things which, as a comm major in college, doesn't surprise me at all. Everybody is like "well, he got the guns by going through the right procedures" and then leaves it at that to focus more on his past behavior or what his peers had to say about him. It just enables everyone to continue focusing on what happened and not how to change things for the future.notbubblyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518410914317761379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-15886662355015110742007-04-24T11:07:00.000-04:002007-04-24T11:07:00.000-04:00You really have some interesting points in this po...You really have some interesting points in this post. I agree with all of them. Especially the one about the microchips. Why HASN'T that happened yet? Probably because people who are against gun control have more money\power\influence than those of us who don't. Also those people are most likely not reading your blog, so don't be too disappointed if no one goes against your very valid points.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36379445.post-64023230891412878872007-04-24T10:21:00.000-04:002007-04-24T10:21:00.000-04:00I think you make really good and valid points. Whi...I think you make really good and valid points. Which is why I personally cannot be the person to make that argument.annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439772399487069107noreply@blogger.com