Debate about Gun Control

[Galen]

(09-28-2016, 12:20 AM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-28-2016, 12:08 AM)Galen Wrote:

(09-27-2016, 12:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I am angry about the constant shootings in America. I am grieved for the lives lost and for their families. I am outraged that Americans continue to support permissive gun laws. I am angry that too many police (not all, but some) have no respect for black lives. The shooting of unarmed black men, while white men are not shot, is beyond unjust.

This lady would be dead if she wasn't armed.  This is why people like to keep firearms.  Anyone want to bet these fine upstanding members of the black community are obeying the current gun laws?  Even if they were unarmed I doubt this lady would have lasted very long unarmed against these men.  Truth is, her odds were better with a firearm than they ever would have been without one.  Who knows? Maybe the other two will wise up after seeing the lady plant their buddy in the ground.





You would rather have seen her dead just to feel better and this is why I truly despise you.  Even on the low side of 50,000 defensive uses of firearms means that there are net more people alive because of private firearms ownership.  The numbers are probably much higher since nobody really wants to deal with law enforcement, who are overly militarized, if they can avoid it.  The Hemenway  and the Violence Policy surveys were done by people with an ax to grind and their methodology was a joke.

That case is a fantastic reason to have a gun as that is what they should be for. When you need to defend yourself and partly why i do not support a ban on them. For certain people who are not mentally sound then again how do you test for something like that? Or people who definitely have been convicted of violent crimes no gun (then again, the lawless will not abide by laws i mean duh). There are some seriously questionable behaviour from the police force though on how those who do not shoot straight away are fired and that does make me question what goes on in their training. I think a good suggestion for how to handle a gun safely for instance in some cases children can get hold of guns and accidentally use them shooting someone or themselves. Finger print identity on the trigger that allows for only the owner of the finger print to shoot would be ideal. A button device that scans and unlocks the trigger. That could be a start for some cases.

That technology is not a good idea because it is not very reliable.  I make a good living fixing broken electronics and all software has bugs which further reduces the reliability.  In short this could get people killed and as desktop manufacturing gets better people will build their own firearms if they can't buy what they want.  Distributed Defense is taking the first steps in that direction now.