Today's mass shooting in the US

[hornetstinger]

How many people are killed with darts?

That's besides the point.

When you play darts do you have in your mind "right I'm practising so I can get better aim, to hit someone's eye"

Nope. You play to get better, to socialise, it's a hobby.

Have you ever owned and fired a gun?

 

[Rroff]

That's besides the point.

When you play darts do you have in your mind "right I'm practising so I can get better aim, to hit someone's eye"

Nope. You play to get better, to socialise, it's a hobby.

Have you ever owned and fired a gun?

Think you missed some of the context of what I was replying to - I'm not against gun ownership or even with some restriction handgun ownership but there is very little reason outside of some exceptions for general ownership and every day carry of handguns even in a society where some degree of firearm ownership and carry is permitted.

Most sport/hobby type use involving firearms can easily be satisfied with bolt action type mechanics and some limited semi-automatic reducing the ability for an individual to quickly cause mass death.

 

[hornetstinger]

Most sport/hobby type use involving firearms can easily be satisfied with bolt action type mechanic.

If you want to buy machine guns, gatling guns it's fun.
Expensive for the bullets though.

for an individual to quickly cause mass death

sigh...

 

[Rroff]

sigh...

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[hornetstinger]

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How many people did this guy shoot in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84r8gMGxFQ

 

[FlakGunna]

Love how a predominantly British forum is arguing about how another country should handle it's gun laws.

 

[hornetstinger]

Love how a predominately British forum is arguing about how another country should handle it's gun laws.

Just short sighted, blinkered people

"Why would you want to own knights armour, sword and shield - you must want to kill people"

sort of idiotic attitude

 

[Rroff]

How many people did this guy shoot in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84r8gMGxFQ

Again you are missing the context of what I'm saying.

Love how a predominately British forum is arguing about how another country should handle it's gun laws.

A lot of people are very very anti-gun and I find it amusing how indignant they get about firearms laws in a country they will likely never live in and in many cases never visit.

 

[hornetstinger]

A lot of people are very very anti-gun and I find it amusing how indignant they get about firearms laws in a country they will likely never live in and in many cases never visit.

That's not the point.

Why not bad violent computer games, after all in your mind you want to "kill people" what is different to shooting a real gun at a paper target, to playing COD in the mission where you gun down virtual people in the shopping mall?

I found that game far more disturbing than any paper target..

 

[Rroff]

That's not the point.

Why not bad violent computer games, after all in your mind you want to "kill people" what is different to shooting a real gun at a paper target, to playing COD in the mission where you gun down virtual people in the shopping mall?

I found that game far more disturbing than any paper target..

Your reading comprehension seems to have gone out the window tonight.

How many people have been killed with a video game firearm?

 

[Vonhelmet]

That's besides the point.

When you play darts do you have in your mind "right I'm practising so I can get better aim, to hit someone's eye"

Nope. You play to get better, to socialise, it's a hobby.

Have you ever owned and fired a gun?

I've never owned one, I have fired one.

The point is that thousands of people are killed with guns in America every year, never mind sport. At some point you have to look at something and assess whether it's really worth the cost.

I can't readily find anything about anyone being killed with darts. You know what I can find, though? Lawn darts. They're like regular darts but bigger, and you throw them down the garden at a target. In 1987 an American girl was killed by one. Guess what? They were banned.

Lawn dart linky.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Love how a predominantly British forum is arguing about how another country should handle it's gun laws.

Is that against the law now?

The Americans certainly don't mind weighing in whenever we have any hint of violence. "OMG, if only they had gunzzzzzz this would never have happened!"

 

[FlakGunna]

Is that against the law now?

Obviously not, but if you want to waste your short time on this earth arguing about something that will never affect you or alter your life in anyway then go ahead.

 

[hornetstinger]

Your reading comprehension seems to have gone out the window tonight.

How many people have been killed with a video game firearm?

So by that logic it's fine to play IS games where you kill infidels?

 

[Rroff]

So by that logic it's fine to play IS games where you kill infidels?

How has that got anything to do with what I was posting about?

 

[Vonhelmet]

Obviously not, but if you want to waste your short time on this earth arguing about something that will never affect you or alter your life in anyway then go ahead.

Dude, you're on a web forum. We're all wasting our short time on this earth arguing about things that will never affect us or alter our lives.

 

[Sankari]

Friend of mine in the States just confirmed that one of his best mates was killed in the shooting.

 

[Zenduri]

W

Friend of mine in the States just confirmed that one of his best mates was killed in the shooting.

Well thats ******

Going back to what a few other have said. The people.who tend to be very anti gun in the uk either dont know or understand gun ownership and use or are effected by illegal guns.

The illegal guns are the problem and the overwhelming majority of the time of these have never been in licensed public ownership. They then blanket everyone with the same argument and petitions for tighter control when on reality there is nothing wrong with how it is. They need better policing against the funs and **** gangs import in and deal with that and not punish legit owners which ia all that tends to happen.

 

[VincentHanna]

Well thats ******

Going back to what a few other have said. The people.who tend to be very anti gun in the uk either dont know or understand gun ownership and use or are effected by illegal guns.

The illegal guns are the problem and the overwhelming majority of the time of these have never been in licensed public ownership. They then blanket everyone with the same argument and petitions for tighter control when on reality there is nothing wrong with how it is. They need better policing against the funs and **** gangs import in and deal with that and not punish legit owners which ia all that tends to happen.

Well this guy bought a gun from a shop in San Antonio, but shouldn't have been able to.

There are questions over whether the Air Force even bothered to enter him in to a database.

 

[Zenduri]

Well this guy bought a gun from a shop in San Antonio, but shouldn't have been able to.

There are questions over whether the Air Force even bothered to enter him in to a database.

Thats either a clerical error or deliberate negligence by either the USAF and the shop owner.

Please bear in mind my previous comment was about the uk not the usa