[quote="TheLionPrince"]First, you didn't answer my question as to why people need assault weapons
instead of handguns.
Second, how would you stop
gun crime in America then?[/quote]
You stop
all crime. Which means doing the hard thing and putting resources into finding out why people would commit a crime, how to prevent it, and how to spot crimes about to be committed. If you simply ban guns, some people will simply move on to the next lethal weapon, say a knife. And as you know, now Britain wants to ban those too, because the first time they banned a weapon, crime didn't drop for some reason...
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[quote="DGFone"]I felt perfectly safe surrounded by 15 or so guns.[/quote]
You shouldn't.
Households with guns have a greater chance of firearm injury[/quote]
You know why I felt safe? Because I know how to handle a gun safely, and the guy I was with also knows how to handle guns safely. It's not the gun, but the person. As my brother told me in Montana: You get gun crime and accidents there too. They always happen from some drunk coastal born frat boy who never held a gun in their life before. Combine that with beer, and you get a recipe for disaster. On the other hand, the native Montana residents can get drunk, but have it built into them that you never hold a gun unless you can drive.
[quote="TheLionPrince"]Exactly, which is why we should ban assault weapons. 90% of criminals get them from straw purchases (which means they got someone to legally purchase them) To be fair, it's not worth arguing because America will never realize there is no reason to own one of those particular guns.[/quote] See below.
[quote="TheLionPrince"]You want to lead a revolution? Do what Ghandi and Martin Luther King did. Ghandi was up against the British army (Spoiler Alert: They had guns). Peace works better. The only people who think guns are the most powerful weapon are gangster criminals and militia governmentphobes.[/quote]
Seriously, you ban everything but handguns, and gun crime will drop not bit. In fact, I am certain it will rise up. Gun crime relies on concealment.
Concealment. How are you going to hide an AT-4 in your back pocket? Or even an M-16 or an AK? You can't. So criminals don't use them unless they plan to go in guns blazing...
...Where you better have a good gun to fight back with. Those guys are not planning to stick around long enough for police to arrive. Or leave witnesses.
Time to spoil your politically correct school teachings: Ghandi at first chose an armed revolution. In fact, he served in the British army. The only reason he didn't go with one was that he knew that an armed revolution would get crushed. Martin Luther King went with the peaceful approach because I grantee you: no one ever told him that Gahndi wanted war first. But I admit, those peaceful revolutions worked.
Now where they didn't: East Germany, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Iran, ... geez, can I go on. These are all where peaceful revolutions failed. Determined armies don't listen to a bunch of screaming civvies. They do listen to a bunch of screaming civvies who actually shoot back.
Where armed revolutions won: USA, France,
Britain, Vietnam, Libya, Syria is making some progress... Same: geez, can I go on.
[quote="TheLionPrince"]I'm more worried about this country reaching 50,000 gun deaths a year, while England has 30 and Japan has 10. But hey, that's just me.[/quote]
Obviously you don't have relatives from a Communist nation. There's a reason why ex-commies are all Republicans: The know what "safety" means. Also, no one there had any guns either. Murder was an every-day occurrence
everywhere.
And as for gevernmentphobia: If you say that you support individual rights and is willing to fight for them, even if it's simply defensively? According to Obama, you're a terrorist.
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/patrio ... -presidenthttp://www.franklincountyvapatriots.com ... terrorist/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/07 ... errorists/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politi ... 042490.phpAnd another thing to add about why it's a very good idea to actively avoid creating another communist nation, directly or indirectly:
How much do you really want to wipe your behind with newspaper after you go to the bathroom?