Shooting at Virginia Tech

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

Handguns are NOT DESIGNED to kill. They and every other firearm have other uses, like say, protection. You can shoot someone in the knee and you do NOT have the motive to kill them.

Grenades aren't designed to kill, either. Carefully used, you could use the pressure wave to stun or remove several toes to incapacitate your attacker.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Everything about me trumps everything about everyone else. Didn't you know that? Start listening.

Were you talking?

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Yea, most women fear it.

The one time I feared one I just lopped it off with my kitchen knife. No gun needed. Other than that they're pretty blah. Very few men are good with it. God bless the ones who are. God help the ones who just think they are (stop looking around the room, you know who you are.)

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Were you talking?

Yep, if you'd quit staring at my tits and jacking off, you might hear something from time to time.

[freshnesschronic]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

NOW we get to the root of it all: gun as penis...penis as power.

Hey! Tangent--- go check out the penis power video I posted in Nothingland! Intriguing stuff.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

The one time I feared one I just lopped it off with my kitchen knife. No gun needed. Other than that they're pretty blah. Very few men are good with it. God bless the ones who are. God help the ones who just think they are (stop looking around the room, you know who you are.)

Ha!!! good one.
Did you remember to pull it out after you cut it off?!?! I think it may still be up your twat. It's starting to smell.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Yep, if you'd quit staring at my tits and jacking off, you might hear something from time to time.

Those aren't tits! those are bug bites.:p

[Shawnee123]

Well that explains a lot. Wonder why my doc didn't find it?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Well that explains a lot. Wonder why my doc didn't find it?

Ok, Ms. Babbit.

[Shawnee123]

[Kitsune]

What's that I hear? Did someone in here ask for more statistics?

In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.

...

By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

What the hell is so funny? I'm sure the gun owners here did not buy them because they aim to kill anyone. They probably bought it for PROTECTION.

How are they going to "protect themselves"? Seriously, follow it out to it's logical conclusion - ultimately, you have to kill someone to "protect yourself". Anything short of that leaves you unprotected. Got it?

And if you're not "protecting" yourself or a loved one, is it worth killing for?

Watched and read his bullshit.
Religion.

If it were not for handguns I would be dead and/or injured many times over. The argument against them is lost on those like me, who have used them for what they were intended, as a tool.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

So has Laura Bush's. Your point?

Her point, O Spexx The Irrational, Tedious And Purblind, who refuseth ever to see, in saecula saeculorum -- I could go on but I dislike boring myself -- is that if murder is in your heart, you'd do it with a big wet rock, and if murder is not in your heart, you wouldn't do it with a case of weeping, overage dynamite.

[SadistSecret]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

ultimately, you have to kill someone to "protect yourself"

No you don't. You can shoot someone in the arm or the leg. That generally disables a potential attacker, and if nothing else, makes them think twice about coming after you. Your enemy cannot fire his gun if you disable his firing hand/arm.