I want you to pay really close attention this time: “Without guns” there can be NO SHOOTINGS. Read it again. Let me put it another way: NO GUN = NO SHOOTING. Is it sinking in now? It’s not very difficult to understand if your English comprehension is even rudimentary.
That's under the leftist delusion that can possibly be accomplished, but it can't. There is no possible way to confiscate every gun in the US, and prevent people from bringing in more just like they do with drugs.
Absolutely. That would mean far less murder.
How would it mean less murder? If somebody wants to kill another person, the inability to get a firearm isn't going to stop them.
You are most definitely wrong on that point. The “breakdown” is in response to your statement about “people” not “guns” being responsible for shootings. It is required for a person to pull the trigger in order for a gun to discharge, right? Do we agree? So, if the gun doesn’t fire all on its own then all of those murders (and accidents) by guns must have been the fault of the person handling the gun, right? Are we still in agreement? It is abundantly clear, therefore, that Americans (in particular) should definitely not have access to guns … as the murder rate proves. Do you have a problem understanding that?
I think you're the one with the problem. If I need to saw a board in half and circular saws were illegal, I would either get one off the black market, or use a hand saw. One way or another, if I want that board sawed in half, I'm going to get it sawed in half.
You have this hangup about getting shot and not murder itself. Murder is murder. In fact, if somebody were to violently kill me, I would rather get shot than carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Terrorists and MS-13 kill people that way because it's the most horrible way to go. I'm not focused on how people die like you, I'm concerned about people dying period.
Yes, they do. But they do not assist so greatly in that task. Pulling a trigger takes little physical effort.
Oh, so you believe you can stop murders by making it less convenient?
Who knows. Let me know the murder rate once guns are eliminated and then I’ll give you my answer.
Guns will never be eliminated here. They are protected by our US Constitution.
There is a fair chance that I am more well-informed than you and have more experience in the U.S. than you.
You don't even understand our politics.
Ah! Another good point about “freedom”! We are free to join in on any political forum we want. Of course, we learn several languages so the “freedom” is much easier to utilize.
So you're free. Big deal. I'm free to find a French forum, a Canadian forum, a German forum, but I don't. Why? Because those are boring places and I have no interest in discussing their policies or politics. I don't need to go there like you foreigners who need to come here.
Says who? The White House and CIA? Yeah, the same people who brought us non-existent WMD’s in Iraq and has intentionally and systematically destroyed Democracies around the world. Believe me (no, you won’t) Europe has more freedom than the U.S. by a long shot and we are at the top of world-wide Democracies while the U.S. is nowhere near us.
Irrelevant to my comment about being the world police. If you ever got attacked by a force like China, who would you be relying on to save your ass, Ghost Busters? We've done it before and we'd do it again.
Your claim is that you lived here for 20 years. If your country is so great, why did you move here in the first place? I have no desire to live anywhere in Europe. I may want to go there for vacation one day, but no desire to be part of it. I belong to the greatest country on earth and therefor have no desire to be anywhere else. Yes, we have our share of problems like your country, but we are not a culture thousands of years old. We became the world power and economic leader in just a few hundred years.