Exactly ... The guy was trying to protect his home that he worked for and yet he got charged . What a fucking joke.
American's obsession with guns.WTF
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So much for liberal tolerance and understanding; only tolerant and understanding of views that align with yours. If you want to paint an entire group of people with a broad brush and treat them like criminals based on your idiotic misconceptions, you'll get no sympathy from me when someone else decides to do the same to you.
Pervert.
Pervert.
You might have had an argument if one of the articles I supplied was written by, or used information provided by the NRA. But since we're talking about the lack of success of AUSTRALIAN gun control, where the National Rifle Association has no influence, you don't have an argument.
You are strawmanning the anti-gun position by assuming that everyone is advocating an all-out ban on firearms. I am sure that most are merely suggesting there be restrictions on what can be owned and where it can be openly carried.So much for liberal tolerance and understanding; only tolerant and understanding of views that align with yours. If you want to paint an entire group of people with a broad brush and treat them like criminals based on your idiotic misconceptions, you'll get no sympathy from me when someone else decides to do the same to you.
Pervert.
Using your same flawed reasoning should I assume you are saying there should be no restrictions at all? Should I be able then to own a machine gun? Tank? Artillery? How much firepower does one need for "protection" against a bear in rural areas or a home invader? Is a high powered extended ammo semi auto rifle necessary?
And your attempt to equate the "unjust misunderstanding" of gun owners to pooners is weak as well. I am sure that while most here would like prostitution to be legal they would also expect it to come with some limits.
No one is advocating we should be able to pay for sex with 15 year olds and do it in Yonge Dundas Square. Why? Because it is anti-social behaviour that is not in the best interest of society at large and that should supersede the interest of consenting adults.
Just like carrying a fucking rifle in an airport.
Did you know there is shooting in the Olympics? Not just the winter Olympics, but also the summer Olympics. I'm pretty sure the Olympics is a sports competition where nobody is hurt, maimed or killed with a firearm.
In fact, there's an entire field called the shooting sports! There's precision rifle shooting, trap, skeet, IPSC, speed steel, multigun, smallbore rifle, cowboy action, etc. That's a lot of people out and about learning to kill according to your narrow view.
In fact, here's an example of someone waiting to hurt, maim or kill with her firearm!
Jessie Duff from Burlington, WA[1] is recognized as one of the most accomplished competitive shooters in the world. She is known to be the first female shooter to achieve the rank of Grand Master (GM) in the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA).[2] She achieved the rank of GM in USPSA’s Open, Limited and Single Stack National Champions with her Taurus 1911. In earning this prestigious classification, she must achieve an average of 95% or higher in the classification courses. Duff practices in five different shooting disciplines which include Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun shooting, Action, and 3-Gun. With this, in 2001, She has won more championship tiles in the state, regional, national, and world competitions that any other female shooter.[3]
Career[edit]
Jessie Duff began her shooting career at a young age with her father, also a world champion. Duff’s first World Champion title was earned in the Cowboy Action Shooting competition.[4] She has also earned national and world titles from the prestigious Bianchi Cup, Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships.[5] Duff is part of Team Weatherby as a celebrity spokesperson for the conservation of the sport of shooting and hunting.[6] She is also the Team Captain of Team Taurus[7] where is competes in world and nation championship titles. Other than competing, Duff is also a co-host on the popular Friends of NRA television show on the Outdoor Channel where she helps promote the sport of shooting.
Do you have any comment on his need for a 100 round mag?
I get that American laws make open carry legal in many places but I wonder about the psychology of someone who feels the need to carry around a 100 round rifle.
Not always true in the states. Many states allow private sales or sales at gun shows with essentially or actually no oversight.
As for firearms being a tool, there is no purpose for that tool in a city. If you want a potentially dangerous tool in a city for a hobby then expect regulations. In rural Canada, you pretty much never see Canadians walking around shopping with their guns, just when hunting(ish) or actually dealing with wild animals. I have no problem with that. I generally don't take issue with Canada's gun laws. Hand guns IMO deserve more regulation because they aren't meant for the rural purposes you list. Handguns are meant as a weapon against other people.
My biggest concern with US gun culture is not the existence of guns but rather a culture that sees each other as so dangerous that 100 round magazines are seen as useful.
And is joe airport going to blast 100 rounds at a guy on a killing spree?
As for illegal gun use, people have to get those guns from somewhere. The ATF in the US is basically prohibited from acting on the small number of gun dealers who facilitate straw purchases and one study I saw said the significant majority of guns used in crimes came from them. Stronger US legislation on gun sales would make illegal guns harder to get.
I don't care if it's belt fed, there are disadvantages and drawbacks to everything. Drum mags are notoriously unreliable, much more expensive, bulky, cumbersome and unwieldy. Why do cops need standard capacity magazines? Why does anyone need a vehicle capable of exceeding 100 km/h?
All rifles, including AR types as well as virtually anything other than a pistol, make up like 4% of violent crime statistics in the United States. Clearly the bias against them is wholly emotional and idealistic, not factual.
Maybe it's growing up with too many US movies but as kids we always assumed there were guys with sniper rifles and SAM missiles on the roof. A few trained guards there doesn't bother me.
p.s. Is it ironic when you misspell the word missile and one of the suggested corrections is misspell?
I'll bet there's a good number who have violated laws on safe storage of weapons. That would make them criminal wouldn't it?
Virtually everyone on this board is breaking the law, but when the law is unjust...
Or if we're strawmanning:
Don't like genocide, don't kill anyone.
Don't like necrophilia, don't sleep with corpses.
Don't like theft, don't steal anything.
And a very small percentage of planes are hijacked and flown into buildings. And yet we have all sorts of rules and regulations on what can be carried on to planes because the potential for destruction is great enough to warrant a limitation on our rights.
Just like the potential for destruction is greater with increasingly more powerful weapons. You didn't answer my question. What is your limit (if any) and why?
But what is the utility? Is there any conceivable purpose where this guy would need 100 rounds while walking around?
At a range would be a different story but he wasn't on the way to the range (and I bet that mag would reduce the accuracy of the gun).
...we pick up guns to protect ourselves from tyranny?
I thought we advocated to get the law changed.
p.s. I don't think any of us say we need the right to pay for sex in an airport.
You picked a poor example. The rules and regulations are mainly for the passengers, who are not supposed to control the aircraft. If you follow your example, people not using the firearms, but being with a person using a firearm would be the ones under the rules and regulations.
The final blow to your comparison is U.S. pilots are also allowed to carry firearms as a result of planes being hijacked and flown into buildings.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125224
I don't give a shit about need. If someone wants it, has the means to acquire it and uses it responsibly, I don't care.
