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Originally posted by RickyM I know, nobody really needs a gun in their house. Doesn't stop guns being cool though

I feel the same way they look cool, I've fired them, but I have no desire to own one. I don't think I could shoot someone and wouldn't want the responsibility of have a deadly weapon in my home.

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Originally posted by eckmek What i've never gotten is the most common answer gun owners provide when asked about why they own guns: "It's my right as a U.S. citizen" or "It's in the Constitution". You can boil that down into "because i can and i want to", which i think we can all agree is a fucking stupid reason for anything.

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Everything you own, you have because it's allowed and you then choose to purchase it. Millions don't own guns because the have interest in them. Just like race cars, motorcycles, RV's, golf clubs, cdjs, if there is an activity you enjoy you buy the tools to enjoy such activity. I enjoy shooting therefore I own guns legally.

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Originally posted by squirrelly On the topic of why do people collect them - My boyfriend collects them because he's a hunter. And what he kills, we eat. And for different kinds of hunting, it requires different kinds of guns. And yes, we have several handguns, but to practice our shooting and for protective reasons - not to kill people. And yes, we both have concealed weapons permits (which, ps, you have to take a class on shooting before you can have one), and yes, you DO have a wait period before you can just leave with a gun. I don't have ninja skills, so if someone breaks into my house, I can't exactly throw a knife at them and hit them - nor would I seem scary with it either. However, when I come down the hall with a shotgun - and they hear the 'click-click', chances are that person is going to think twice about continuing with the break-in.

What the fuck, your boyfriend goes out and shoots your dinner? What on earth sort of things is he hunting that requires such an array of weapons? Unless you're confusing your boyfriend with Rambo...

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan First number is total, then it's Homicide Suicide Unintentional and finally Undetermined Scotland 1999 No. 25 7 14 0 4 United States of America 1998 No. 30,419 11,802 17,432 866 319

Scotland 5,062,011

USA 303,824,640

Population numbers

US has 60 times greater a population. From your numbers, any idea what numbers correspond to legally purchased firearms.

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Originally posted by shadow_419 US has 60 times greater a population.

eh, I'd give you a 5/10, but only because of the territory.

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Originally posted by shadow_419 Scotland 5,062,011 USA 303,824,640 Population numbers US has 60 times greater a population. From your numbers, any idea what numbers correspond to legally purchased firearms.

303,824,640 / 5,062,011 = 60.02

math ftw

Foolish, never go back to a previous statistic, you run the risk of letting others in on a single slip-up and could blow your entire cover.

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hahaha i like to live on the edge

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Originally posted by shadow_419 303,824,640 / 5,062,011 = 60.02 math ftw

here's another comparison......

State of Indiana... Size about 92900 sq Km, population 5.5M (about)
Scotland Size about 78772 sq Km, population 5.0M (about)

so you would agree that these are two comparable entities by landmass and population,,,,


1999 Gun murders in Scotland... 7 according to the previous poster
1998 Gun murders in Indiana.... 454 according to source


and Indiana is lame compared to some of the trigger happy hot spots in the US........

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

Gun crime

"Applying a hotspot perspective to firearm crime suggests a focus on both places and people. Research in Indianapolis found that only 3 percent of the city's addresses accounted for 100 percent of the gun crimes"

It's the people not the guns.

btw Indiana ranked 20th in 2006 for murder rate per 100,000 people.

Murder Rates

Precisely. People are not responsible enough to be trusted with owning guns, so they should have them taken away.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi gun lover or not, if this doesnt turn you on you're a fag

lol pure win