[FreshChops]

Originally Posted by chicka

If you noticed I didn't post in here for over two weeks as I just avoided this thread and when I finally decided to read it again there you were with your same argument about protecting your property so what am I supposed to think? Then of course I'm stereotyping you and everybody who owns a gun. Then the great ole argument to end all argument "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Guns Kill people yes they're used by people but it's the guns that do the killing. If all these gangbangers had to fight with their fists half of them would be scared shitless and run the other way cause they might get hurt. Shit though give me a gun and I can walk right up to somebody and end it all in one pull of a trigger.

There is a way over time to stop it all no guns that's all let's see 5.5 people per 100,000 that means if my math isn't failing me 55 people per million times roughly 300 million people comes out to 16,500 people per year senselessly killed. Sure seems like a worthwhile number to me to get rid of guns completely. But dam I have a right to own a weapon cause the constitution says so and I'll be dammed it you're taking my right away. The real joke in the whole thing is that a lot of these folks who would never give up that right are the same jokers that want to overturn Roe vs. Wade because to them that's senseless killing. For the record I'm for overturning
Roe vs. Wade as many people are more than willing to adopt these unwanted fetuses.

OK, so what you're saying is that because I continue to validate the legitimacy of owning a firearm for home protection.... you revert to dumbing down the reality to abstract stereotyping?

Everything else you followed with is typical rhetoric and completely unrelated to everything I said, but worth it if you made Knox feel better I guess.

You have stupped to the ultimate low by stereotyping. All y'all have are stats. I know that y'all are not too dense to understand that stats can be misleading, yet you cling to them desperately to detest your disgust towards the common and responsible gunowner (who also happen to make up the majority of gun owners all together).

I hate the fact that there are armed "gangbangers" which really account for almost all of the firearms murders, at least in the U.S. They do represent the epidemic of any gun control problems if ever there was one. The reality is that there are so many contributing factors behind the violence and murders that the end result of murders by firearms just the very tip of the iceberg. Demographics and drug epidemics are what dictates the levels of crime in the areas that account for significant statistics for murders. I live right outside of the city with the highest murder rate in the U.S., New Orleans. I know intimately the routines and scenarios of murders. It is chronicled daily through my news outlets. My best friend is a parole offer in New Orleans, and the the worst areas of New Orleans (including the 8th ward). I know all about it. I know about how the reality of the violence comes to be reality. I had a friend who was a rapper and a drug dealer.... and watched his life lead up to getting murdered on a street corner.

It seems that the noble argument would focus thought on how to address issues at the root of the culture that account for all of the crime. Drugs, lack of education, unemployment, etc. The problem is, those epidemics are so far out of reach from turning around and for the most part, the people themselves aren't inclined to improve themselves. Guns are the laymans scape goat. They are the evil that the Government and the "industry" would have everyone address as the convenient culprit. Criminals kill people, not the guns alone.

What could be addressed however is more aggressive law enforcement. Even as simple as more strict punishment for crimes of violence. They could go as aggressive as a no-tolerance to crime of violence and if you commit a crime with a weapon, a 20 year mandatory sentence, regardless. The threat of going away for even getting caught with an illegal gun or caught with a gun while on probation or with a record and being put away for 20 years would scare the shit out potential abusers. The problem is, and I can tell you from the perspective of New Orleans is that it's a failed judicial system. And I mean FAILED on the most epic proportion. It is terribly common for them to bring in a criminal on murder charges, they get out on bail in the mean time due to a "no-snitch policy" practiced by these communities and the suspects go right out and murder people again (gun or no gun). It happens ALL of the time. This is just a small example how negligent the system is to properly punish and take the criminals off the streets.

While guns are used in the majority of murders, many murders are done by stabbings and beatings all the same. I think if guns didn't exist in the world, then unarguably we'd see less murders in all.... that's a given but not a solution, and not even a remote possibility. The problem is that the gangbangers are the products of failed upbringing and a government neglected drug industry.

The simple fact is that there are two different worlds in regards to owning firearms. One accounts for the stats you elude to while the other gets miscued into the argument out of ignorance and convenience. One, making up the majority of gun sales, is the common household owning firearms for protection. The other is illegally owned guns by small clumps of concentrated regions of crime.

... but, to criticize the common, household gunowner as eager murders to-be, especially sharing the same argument's murder statistics is just silly.

Stats are great when they are hand selected to support ones point (Knox)... but I really wonder if you bothered to do any research on stats that would contradict your theories aside from just feverously seeking stats to support your claims? That should be interesting. Look at the murder and crime stats of Washington D.C., a completely gun free city. How does it differ from others.

Point being, this thread is just riddled with carefully crafted stats, readily available by anti-gun lobiest with subtle and not so subtle stereotyping and bigotry towards others who share contradictory views, through lifelong experiences. This, while completely dismissing numerous experiences that myself and others have shared that contradict the views of the gun-free enthusiast.