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Years of martial arts paid off.
The 2nd amendment also seems anachronistic, but there's a higher chance of me being pushed out of a plane by Jaws without a parachute and surviving than there is a chance of that being repealed.
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Indeed. Could the 'protectionists' on here explain a bit more how it works?
I mean I presume you need to carry your piece wherever you go otherwise there's no point in having it as you can't predict when you are going need to return fire against nutters/Muslims/blacks/Hispanics/the government?
Every morning do you casually slip your Berns-Martin triple draw holster under your jacket when you go to the office (actually that sounds pretty cool to be fair) or do you blatantly carry your assault rifle down the street with the safety off? I would've thought the latter as then any miscreants will think 'That guy is protected. I'm not going to mess with him.'
How does it work if you go swimming say? Do you push your gun along on some sort of inflatable or do you opt for a harpoon gun instead?
It must be a constant annoyance when you need to pop to the shop or put the bins out to remember to take your Armalite with you though mustn't it? I think I'd keep forgetting. Do you have a big neon warning sign by your door that says 'Don't forget your protection on the way out'?
Given the number attending the concert was around 40k you have to wonder why there was no return fire until the SWAT team arrived. You'd think a few people in the crowd would have been carrying 'protection' wouldn't you?
Also there wasn't much 'protection' at Sandy Hook either was there? Presumably if children were allowed to bear arms to 'protect' themselves too that massacre would have been stopped in its tracks?
I don't pretend to know anything about the American political system (as long as you can keep your guns and get hit with a $500k bill for something as simple as having your appendix out you're happy right?) but I do understand the English language:
amendment
noun
1. a minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc.
"an amendment to existing bail laws"
synonyms: revision, alteration, change, modification, qualification, adaptation, adjustment; More
2. an article added to the US Constitution.
noun: Amendment; plural noun: Amendments
"the First Amendment"
It may come as a surprise to some but the constitution is not set in stone. Articles can be added to repeal older ones and 'amend' it, as if they could not you wouldn't even have your precious 2nd amendment to cling to in the first place just the original text.
Could anyone trotting out the old line that the 2nd Amendment is untouchable so guns are going nowhere explain to me how it would be different to the 18th and 21st Amendments?
Of course the fact that there is no reason it couldn't be done tomorrow is separate from the fact that the politicians are too gutless, the NRA call the shots and the majority of the population would be aghast at having their 'protection' removed.
Yes a knife twice and I had no gun and the fellow ended up having one neither. Truth to be told both times I was in an area alone at night were it was not very smart to be anyhow.
A gun would not have helped and neither would fifty as you only can use two at the time. But I am not the Shadow. ;)
Bad shit happens guns do not improve on those situations at all.
I disagree. My aunt had a shot gun and was robbed at gun point she managed to grab the gun and fire off a few rounds, they panicked and left.
Another thing is that you don’t always have to shoot the gun in a situation like that sometimes just showing them you have a gun is enough to make them bolt. Of course we all live in difference places and different countries. I can tell you right now if you were out in the country in Texas and they caught you with some hunting rifles and a beer they’d ask you how you did hunting wise and you’d be free to go. In my city they’d arrest you for having an open container of alcohol and probably freak out that you have guns. I guess it’s different for everyone. I am pretty used to seeing civilians walking around at stores, malls etc with a hand gun on their hip.
I stand corrected. I just plucked that figure from some article on Google without reading it properly. Makes the point even more valid though. Out of 200k there was not one person who whipped out their gun to 'protect' themselves and others?
Most people don’t carry assault rifles at concerts. I doubt a hand gun could’ve reached the shooter from that distance in the dark.
I don't hunt. Don't target shoot. Don't live in a high crime area.
Thus I have no need to own a gun. And I don't believe private citizens should have the right to own gas-operated (semi-automatic) firearms.
Personally, I believe private citizens in the U.S. should be restricted to shotguns, bolt-action or lever-action rifles, and revolvers... All legitimate uses for firearms -- by people who aren't police officers or in the military -- are ably met by such weapons. And the constitutional "right to bear arms" is maintained.
Well they clearly need to as they can't 'protect' themselves!
Imagine how different things would've been if all 200,000 had opened up on the guy's hotel room with a malestrom of hot lead?
I don't think the 2nd amendment goes far enough. I propose a change to the law that citizens must be armed at all times when outside their house. That way there is maximum 'protection' for everyone.
Police and military shouldn t be exempt.
That, or possible accident. They happen, you know.
Agree, but they are certainly shutting the area down?
Looks like no one was seriously injured thankfully, but it definitely looks deliberate from the driver. He was pinned to the floor by Police.
Looks like a nice Aston Martin got damaged as well according the pictures on the BBC....
'Crash'????
In my work I see crashes every day of the week and that's the first time I've seen the police pin some poor sod to the floor afterwards.
One always thinks the worst about incidents such as this, in this current heightened terrorist threat climate.