JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Noliving
People are murdered every single day in every single country by a variety of means, what makes dying by a gun so special?
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Noliving
People are murdered every single day in every single country by a variety of means, what makes dying by a gun so special?
That is not true at all and you know it, there is gun control in the US, if you have a criminal and or a mental background you can't purchase a firearm, it is illegal to be a straw buyer, it is illegal to point and or discharge a firearm at someone unless it is in self defense, etc.
Says the person who purposely ignores the fact that gun violence, both per capita and grand totals, has been falling for the past 15+ years in the US. If gun violence has been falling for the past 15 years in the US why in gods name would you need stricter measures when the current measures already work?
Why is the NRA so evil to you?
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Noliving
Your being disingenuous. You know what he means and that is a fully loaded gun with the safety off will not harm anyone unless someone squeezes the trigger, he is not saying they can't be used to harm people. A question for you, lets say I take a gun, load it and turn the safety off and put it on the table and no one touches it, what are the chances that the gun by itself will discharge when it is not touched at all?
Obviously your argument is that guns are too efficient at killing and hence should be "banned" from private ownership but again your being disingenuous in your argument by deliberately ignoring that he is correct in stating that a loaded gun with the safety turned off **will never ever **harm someone unless someone is either purposely squeezing the trigger or is negligent in their handling of the gun. Keep in mind that he is not disputing that guns are efficient at killing just that they can't kill unless someone uses them to kill or is negligent in their handling of them.
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Noliving
What evidence is there to suggest he was openly carrying his firearm?
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Noliving
Oh that is definitively true but that so far appears to only be a problem in the four border states with Mexico that are exported to Mexico. The other problem is that straw buyers are essentially impossible to stop. Whats interesting is that number 1 source for guns to criminals is friends and or family, what is really interesting about that is that the reason why those friends and family bought those guns was not for the criminal but for themselves but when their friend or family member asked to use their gun they let take possession of the gun. So they are not a straw buyer either because the average time it takes for a gun to be used in a crime from the date of purchase is around 3 years. So clearly not a straw buyer. The next largest source was drug dealers.
If they are non licensed gun dealer at a gun show, meaning a private seller, they don't have to by law(but that depends on the state) to do a background check. However though pretty much everyone at a gun show is a licensed gun dealer. Basically gun shows are trade shows and at trade pretty much its only businesses there selling things not a private individual.
Gun shows are pretty much a gigantic trade show for licensed gun stores. Now private individuals will walk around trying to sell their guns at these places but the vast majority of sellers are licensed gun stores, meaning they are required to do back ground checks.
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Noliving
Oh please, the problem that is you don't put things into context and your being disingenuous in stating that guns are "Easily bought" in Virginia. You talk of easily available guns but you don't define what that is. You make it sound like those that have criminal backgrounds and have mental histories can just walk in and buy a gun.
Why is it you can't define what "easily bought guns" means?
When you place the total number of guns that are "exported" across state lines you find nearly 6% of them are from virginia. 6% is a very small number. To help put this into context, of the guns that are traced back to the US from Mexico 40% come from Texas.
The simple truth of the matter is that guns are not "easily bought", whatever that means, in Virginia. Nor is Virginia just exporting guns like Texas is. The other problem your facing is according to your source nearly half if not half of all gun crimes is simple possession. Meaning that half or less of the tracing is due to robbery, assaults, murder etc. Meaning that a person who has no criminal intent legally purchases a gun in Virginia and then transports that gun to a different state that has different laws on possession as a result they run afoul of the law even though there is no criminal intent. A perfect example of this is Brian Aitken, he legally purchased a gun in Colorado and after his divorce decided to move to New Jersey to be closer to his son and family, after an argument with his ex-wife he became distraught and as a result his mom called police fearing he might commit suicide. The police search his car, even though he was in his house, they found two locked and unloaded guns in his trunk. He was charged with possession and sentenced to 7 years in prison for the sole purpose that he was in possession of legally owned firearms with no criminal intent.
This is another problem that I have with you, you don't seem to do a lot of research at all. Nearly 50% of if not 50% of the gun crimes that you cited are non violent gun law offenses.
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Noliving
Besides you have yet to explain how guns are easily bought when the person in Virginia has to go through a background check to buy their guns.
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Noliving
Ya that is pretty low considering there are 4.5 million guns sold each year in the US and of those 4.5 million only 43,254 of them crossed statelines and of those that crossed state lines 2,557 of them were from Virginia. That is pretty low.
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Noliving
Define easily bought, people who buy firearms in Virginia have to go through a background check.
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Noliving
Well Paulinusa do you mind sharing with us the facts and figures of Virginia firearms being used in crimes in other states? I'm willing to bet it is very low.
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Noliving
What are you talking about? It is illegal for people with criminal and or mental problems to own a firearm, it is illegal to discharge a gun in public unless it is in self defense and it is illegal to point and or shoot a gun at someone unless it is in self defense. It is illegal for you to carry a firearm in public without a permit and there are dozens more gun laws in Virginia. What more do you need?
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Noliving
Guns don't kill people, just like how nuclear weapons don't kill unless someone uses them or is negligent with them. Guns and nuclear weapons can make killing very efficient but they don't kill people the only time they "Kill" is if someone uses them to kill or is negligent with them. It is the same with cars.
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Noliving
Chances are they were. If you have been following the war you would know that Pakistani border routinely attack Afghan and US forces.
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Noliving
bwahahahahahaha. Your a riot!
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Noliving
How would you know when your not even there?
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Noliving
Snowing in October isn't unheard of. In fact I would imagine that it snows every october in the US. Just not as frequently as it does in December and or January.
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Noliving
@yubaru hey look believe what you want to believe but not all Yakuza are cut from the same cloth, and not all participate in the hard core crime that you are talking about either. You evidently look at a person for what they are and not who they are.
You didn't answer his question, do you boast to your family that you have friends that are members of Yakuza.
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Noliving
What are you talking about? Syria has oil, it produces 385,000 barrels per day. In case you haven't noticed but the possible fallout from a military intervention in Syria are far more serious than in Libya. Why do you think the US military didn't intervene in Bahrain? I mean that has oil and not only that but is in a very strategic place in terms of world wide distribution of oil.
Plus they technically or legally can't because China and Russia will block any resolution that would authorize military force.
Having a one size fits all policy is bad policy especially when dealing with the mideast.
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Noliving
Sorry, asking the U.S. government to level the playing field is to much of an ask.
They are, perhaps you didn't notice but the US and Russia have recently signed a deal to reduce their nuclear weapons.
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Noliving
Your either really ignorant or your purposely lying/distorting the fourth amendment.
This is what the fourth amendment says:
The fourth amendment is talking about Protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The term "Persons" is referring to the searching of and seizure of whatever it is on the individual itself. Meaning if your walking on your private property or public property, law enforcement can't just walk up to you and start searching you without a warrant or probable cause. It doesn't mean the person has the right to be secure from violence or crazy people that want to do harm to them.
I can't believe with either your ignorance or your downright fabrication of what the 4th amendment means that you are accusing ArrestPaul of not knowing the basics.
So which is it, are you that ignorant or your purposely fabricating what the 4th amendment means? I seriously want to know which is it.
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