Virgina Tech Shooting!!!
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my stats where pulled from:
Australian Bureau of Statistics, “Crime and Justice - Crimes Recorded by Police”, 2000
Australian Institute of Criminology, “Report #46: Homicide in Australia, 2001-2002", April 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald, “Costa targets armed robbers”, April 4, 2002
you can ASSume what i'm saying any way you want
what I AM SAYING is here is an example of why gun bans dont work
Australian Bureau of Statistics, “Crime and Justice - Crimes Recorded by Police”, 2000
Australian Institute of Criminology, “Report #46: Homicide in Australia, 2001-2002", April 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald, “Costa targets armed robbers”, April 4, 2002
you can ASSume what i'm saying any way you want
what I AM SAYING is here is an example of why gun bans dont work
dont get all homotional because im arguing with you. gun bans work. we havent had a massacre of this sort since the 1980s. whereas, you seem toi have one every 6 months. ok, so it's not a gun issue, as you say. what is it? are you all just a lot of crazy fucks who need firearms and violence to settle their problems? uh oh. or is that just the bush administration? your call buddy. all im saying is that in this country, gun bans HAVE been effective (i pointed it out in the statistics i posted). anywho, you can think what you want. guns arent a necessary part of life, and to have them banned to avoid further massacres would be appropriate in my eyes ( and in the eyes of many others). Ok, you're adamant it wont work. then what should we do to alleviate the problem here? just sit back and do nothing? atleast with maintaining some sort of regulations, and introducing legislation that would place difficult restrictions on firearm purchases we could work to trying to reduce the number of massacres.
hey, atleast i'm offering something that MAY (most likely WILL) help the situation. there wouild be no harm in banning gun laws for a period of several years to test its effectiveness. if it doesnt work, which you stubbornly maintain, then we could scrap it. but atleast there was an attempted solution presented, which is more than your "this wont work, that wont work" approach. oh wells.
*oh and btw, i havent "ASSumed" anything (always leading to the insults when you become homotional ay?). like i said, i presented statistics which you are yet to acknowledge
hey, atleast i'm offering something that MAY (most likely WILL) help the situation. there wouild be no harm in banning gun laws for a period of several years to test its effectiveness. if it doesnt work, which you stubbornly maintain, then we could scrap it. but atleast there was an attempted solution presented, which is more than your "this wont work, that wont work" approach. oh wells.
*oh and btw, i havent "ASSumed" anything (always leading to the insults when you become homotional ay?). like i said, i presented statistics which you are yet to acknowledge
i presented stats , stats from your country no less. you havent exactly acknowledged them. instead you resort to call ing me a homo. try actually looking at stats on both sides of the issue. i have, including yours you posted, which are questionable with its wording, and my conclusion is that bans only do more harm than good as the stats show. you cant ban illegal guns. you cant put a ban on guns on the black market.
you can make assumptions that what you are offering will work but studies say the opposite. dont like my opinions? fine. deal with it. after all you arent exactly being rational here with your name calling
you can make assumptions that what you are offering will work but studies say the opposite. dont like my opinions? fine. deal with it. after all you arent exactly being rational here with your name calling
when u ban guns, u get gun runners...more ppl running guns becuz the business is much more lucrative n' hence brings more crime....doesn't mean it brings more murders but u do have more crime.....don't ban guns cuz of a few nutcases in the streets....this is a big ass country n' not all of us go on killing sprees...when i go home, i love to hunt n' shit...nothing like it...i don't hunt for sport, i hunt n' use guns cuz it's a way of life....that i legally use
Quebec, Canada has a ban on guns yet there was that shooting at Dawson College a couple months ago. Fucked up people kill people...this shit can happen anywhere. My bad if this has already been said before cuz i havnt gone thru the five pages of posts...but still some fucked up shit...R.I.P to all those passed.
I think the biggest issue here is the degree of accessibility and availability of firearms within the U.S. It gets to a point that firearms are SO widely accessible that it really begins to question the relevance of having an outline of what is considered a legal purchase and what isn't. Meaning that because they're so easy to obtain, the whole "legal" way of doing things becomes a complete joke. If the Columbine kids could access the firearms so easily (by just asking one of their buddies to purhcase it for them - straw purchasing), then questions really do need to be raised about why firearms are so readily available in the US.
Another thing, which I am not sure is corroborated with fact as I haven't researched it - is the idea that this easy accessibility leads to the emergence of a gun culture. You cannot have a gun culture if there are no guns present - and I'm just putting forth the idea that this availability has done nothing but provide the seeds for the gun culture to grow from.
Availability is the issue here, and it is one of the core problems behind the US gun massacres and other gun-related deaths. It's a problem that should be addressed in order to have the problem alleviated any time soon.
Another thing, which I am not sure is corroborated with fact as I haven't researched it - is the idea that this easy accessibility leads to the emergence of a gun culture. You cannot have a gun culture if there are no guns present - and I'm just putting forth the idea that this availability has done nothing but provide the seeds for the gun culture to grow from.
Availability is the issue here, and it is one of the core problems behind the US gun massacres and other gun-related deaths. It's a problem that should be addressed in order to have the problem alleviated any time soon.
here's a good article that gives a good description on how troubled this nut case was
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/virginia_tech_shooting;_ylt=ArLdwZ4wxQdCfVLqmnQbPoWm1OFF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/virginia_tech_shooting;_ylt=ArLdwZ4wxQdCfVLqmnQbPoWm1OFF
So basically, this guy, Cho Seung-Hui, had a facebook account, that was deleted after his name was revealed.
Someone else then set up a fake profile under the same name, as he knew people would be searching for it. I joined the fake Cho's friends list and then recieved the following message an hour or so later:
Crazy shit.
RIP to all involved, you live on in our hearts and minds.
Someone else then set up a fake profile under the same name, as he knew people would be searching for it. I joined the fake Cho's friends list and then recieved the following message an hour or so later:
Crazy shit.
RIP to all involved, you live on in our hearts and minds.
I feel sorry for those that were involved, but I gotta say, you american kids are real wimps, 20k+ Students Vs 1 Guy with a gun, and not one of them had the balls to try and take him down. If some guy tried that here in the UK, he would get the shit beaten out of him before he even pulled the trigger, and he'd be leaving without his mobile phone, wallet and any jewellery.
Its not hard to kill some one with a fork, all it takes is a shot to the heart. People get stabbed everyday in the UK, its become a custom here, and its kids that are young as 11 that go round killing people here. In the last 2 months 7 teenagers have been stabbed to death by other teenagers, all between the age of 11 and 17 (Victims and murders).
ALSO, MY POINT WAS, IT DOESNT MATTER THAT HE USED GUNS, IF HE WANTED TO KILL PEOPLE, HE WOULD HAVE DONE IT GUNS OR NO GUNS
Its not hard to kill some one with a fork, all it takes is a shot to the heart. People get stabbed everyday in the UK, its become a custom here, and its kids that are young as 11 that go round killing people here. In the last 2 months 7 teenagers have been stabbed to death by other teenagers, all between the age of 11 and 17 (Victims and murders).
ALSO, MY POINT WAS, IT DOESNT MATTER THAT HE USED GUNS, IF HE WANTED TO KILL PEOPLE, HE WOULD HAVE DONE IT GUNS OR NO GUNS
If you follow the news carefully, you'd see that there were numerous heroic attempts done by students, Prize Gotti. However, he was armed with two firearms, had a vest on, and most likely a large amount of ammo. On the other hand, students were equipped with graphing calculators, pencils, and camera phones.