Originally Posted by
Nightshade
Source for qualification of your statement please.
you serious? you are an idiot if you did not know guns were made for killing, injuring or intimidating. if you think the gun was invented to look as a fancy decoration for countrymen and not to be used as a method of war you are mistaken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun
gunpowder was invented for
warfare by the chinese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_warfare
as for killing open up your mind for a second.
doesnt ALWAYS mean people. also means for food. stop thinking so 1 sided dude.
Originally Posted by
spanky
This is my argument as a whole.
Criminals have guns. They always have and they always will. They will not, no matter what laws you pass, give them up.
If you ban semi-autos, guns, handguns, extended magazines, etc, only law abiding citizens will give those items up.
As such, our criminals will be more heavily armed than our law abiding citizens whose sole purpose for possession (aside from hunting & sport) is self protection.
Why should I allow my government to disarm myself so that I am put at the mercy of criminals who refuse to obey those laws?
The "thats what the cops/military/etc" are for is futile. There will never, without huge exception or amazing coincidence, be a cop or military personnel close enough to you to protect so that you do not have to take your protection into your own hands.
those words i will not disagree with spanky because you are spot on.