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Board Politics & Society
Re: Assault weapon bans
by
kokjo
on 08/09/2013, 15:33:19 UTC
it must be really nice to live in a NAP based world, having gun races with one's neighbors like it was the cold war, or spending all time when you are awake at the gun range, so that your shooting skills is not average but slightly above, and not sleeping at night in case you neighbor decides that mutual destruction is the only way to 'win'. And after that getting cancer from all the pollution and shit put in the air, which you are perfectly fine with, the air is owned by no one right? and then not have money to pay for your really expensive hospital trip, because you felt some sense of guilt of using(stealing!!!!) someone else's money that he is too rich to be able to spend himself.

Yeah, i really wanna live there.

Not gonna lie; I have no fucking clue what you're on about Tongue  But if that's the world you want, by God, go for it, kokjo.

I feel it's necessary to say, I'm not a gun-person.  In fact, I spend most of my free time writing, painting, on the piano and playing video games--and on this forum, too.  Simply because I know how to handle a weapon does not mean I actively go forth and seek people to shoot and kill; the last thing I ever want to happen to me is to be in a position to use a weapon against a person, but on the gigantic list of priorities I keep, being alive outranks not shooting my attacker.

no i believe that the person is smart enough to do it when im a sleep, or otherwise surprise me.
So you are pro-shooting-people-person.

That's ideal.  But murderers aren't necessarily the brightest bunch, otherwise they'd figure out how to take from you without having to kill you (unless it's your life they want, in which case, good luck either way.)  And no, I'd rather not shoot a person unless I have to, but I'm not going to wait until the moment after I'll say, "Damn, I should've shot earlier!"  Lets just agree that you not enter my home uninvited, and I'll not enter yours; do you not prefer peace over violence?  The gun is just a promise of violence if violence is used against me; as mdude points out, the more this promise is made, the less violence ensues.  The less this promise is made, the easier it is for violence to happen; nobody wants to attack the armed man, but the criminal flocks to a disarmed people.
You still sleeps with a gun under your pillow. People was unhappy and afraid under the cold war, and the gun under the pillow(the bomb) did not help, it was what they feared.