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Post by Lobstrosity on May 28, 2005 17:23:31 GMT -5
What if you're not at home? What if you are wandering a dark alley in the middle of the night and some guy with a knife tries to take your wallet? What are you gonna do, tell him inside every bully there's a coward? No! You pull out your magnum and blow him away!
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Post by Vash on May 28, 2005 17:32:34 GMT -5
What if you're not at home? What if you are wandering a dark alley in the middle of the night and some guy with a knife tries to take your wallet? What are you gonna do, tell him inside every bully there's a coward? No! You pull out your magnum and blow him away! Tell him "Hey man! This schools got rules!" j/k But seriously, you do have a good point there. But theres also always karate, or some form of martial arts to protect yourself.
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Post by Lobstrosity on May 28, 2005 17:52:15 GMT -5
Not everyone has the skills or time to learn martial arts. Also there is a certain danger factor if you are inexperienced at martial arts and try to defend yourself from a guy with a knife. It's a lot easier and safer to shoot him. Or even just point the gun at him and threaten him if you are averse to killing people.
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Post by chica on Jun 9, 2005 13:05:36 GMT -5
easier, yes, safer no way! if they come at you you just need to know how to defend yourself WITHOUT putting a bullet in his heart.
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 9, 2005 14:23:55 GMT -5
What if he has a gun or a knife? It would be a bad idea to go and try to fight a guy with a gun or knife. Especially if you are bad at martial arts like I said. You could even just threaten him, you don't have to kill him.
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Post by chica on Jun 17, 2005 0:44:26 GMT -5
i know that's what I wanna do. I wanna buy a gun and not load it but know how to make that clicky noise so it sounds like i'm gonna shoot and then just threaten burglers and bad people like that.
oh and btw in martial arts most of them teach you how to take a gun out of someones hand just letting you know and that also goes for a knife too
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 17, 2005 0:46:46 GMT -5
suppose the guy is standing just a bit too far away for you to disarm him and he has a gun. Then martial arts isn't gonna help. What would help is if you shot him.
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Post by chica on Jun 17, 2005 0:57:01 GMT -5
how about jus threatening him with a gun? I mean he thinks it has bullets and you are gonna shoot him so wouldn't it work just as well?
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 17, 2005 1:10:50 GMT -5
It's a start, but you don't wanna end up in a stalemate with a guy who has a fully functioning weapon while you have a gun with no bullets. That's just asking for trouble. You could have bullets just in case...
But anyway, no matter if you threaten him with a gun, or shoot him with it, the topic is gun control, not loaded gun control. If we had more gun control laws, threatening the guy with a gun might not even be an option.
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Post by chica on Jun 17, 2005 1:23:58 GMT -5
true but still I mean if it's not an option then you wouldn't even be in the situation in the first place cuz how would the attacker get the gun?
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 17, 2005 11:10:02 GMT -5
Trust me, if anyone really wanted to get a gun illegally they could do it. You think all those murderers who shoot people bought those guns and have gun owner licenses? I doubt it.
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Post by chica on Jun 17, 2005 11:12:10 GMT -5
yes I know that's true but with more gun restrictions then we wouldn't have so many people owning them LEGALY so it would make it harder or at least more sneaky for someone (a bad guy) to get a gun so therefore it would deter all crimes even if just a little
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 17, 2005 11:20:14 GMT -5
It would prevent a few criminals from owning guns, yes. But it prevent even more good people from owning guns for self-defense, because good people don't get guns illegally, but criminals do. So by having the gun laws, you have a few criminals without guns, but even more good people without guns. The result could quite possibly be even more deaths resulting from people being unable to defend themselves from those remaining criminals with illegal guns.
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Post by chica on Jun 17, 2005 11:22:18 GMT -5
yeah
but going back to the hunting thing, there would be so much less hunting and animals dying if there was more gun control. what about if we just said no hunting but you can use it for defense against a criminal?
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Post by Lobstrosity on Jun 17, 2005 11:31:21 GMT -5
Are you joking? People like to hunt, and not everyone cares about deer and stuff like you do. Also hunting is actually good for the environment. Carefully regulated hunting keeps the deer population down. Those deer would otherwise be eating all the plants (bad for the plants) and then too many deer would not have enough food (bad for the deer). So actually shooting some deer is beneficial to the rest of them. What do you have to say to that?
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