On a business trip a few years ago, there were a couple of grenade attacks in the city I stayed in. Motorcyclists would pull up with a pinoy sitting on the back, they’d toss a grenade or two into the open shop of the target (3 wall shops abound there) and drive off. Sure, there was always collateral damage, but that was probably preferred.

Of course, I also saw a huge amount of gun toting guards while I was there, so I’m actually surprised to hear that they actually have this level of gun control.

Really; team lefty pulled out arguments for healthcare that have been used for ten years… and already debunked / had great responses laying around… that no one heard.

“Some knights used war hammers.”

heck, most of the two handed swords were just hammers with the edges sharpened…

I can’t lift them and if I did; my back would go out. 🙂

My view is that a key reason the left supports gun control is for a cultural reason: guns make for an independent people.

rickl Says:

January 4th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
I don’t have the link, but I recently read that violent crime in England has skyrocketed since their gun ban.

It shot up sharply after the late 90s handgun and semiauto bans. They banned ALL handguns (the olympic team has to travel elsewhere to practice with .22 handguns) and ALL semi auto rifles. All that is allowed are shotguns and manually operated rifles, and those are strictly regulated.

IIRC, the year after the ban gun crime shot up 40% aned the following year a further 60%, at a time US rates were dropping. I think it is the decay of culture in the UK, along with immigration, which is the key problem, but the inability of Brits to defend themselves can only make things worse.

Now the US non-hispanic white rate is about 2.5, the black rate about 17. Despite the fact that
Americans own more and better guns then ever.

Places like Russia and most of Latin America have rates in excess of 20 per 100,000, despite strict gun control laws.

This.

If the liberals are serious about gun control, let them start in the ghettos, if they dare, because that’s where most gun violence takes place. Homicide is the leading cause of death of black males 15-25 or so, and most of that is by firearms. So start there, comrades. Or shut up.

“What I wonder is, has gun control every worked, anywhere?”

Germany, USSR, Turkey…

At what point do we rid ourselves of these fundamentalist control freaks? Talk about unsustainable.

I also think it’s important for newspapers to publish interactive lists of those who have had abortions (neighbors who murder kids are in the ‘public interest’), are on psychotropic drugs (you need to know the crazies around you), are on welfare (my money, so no expectation privacy), food stamps (see welfare), live in Section 8 housing (see welfare), are on probation for any crime (public interest again), and other such people directly impacting public safety.

I really am getting awfully fed up with all the demonization of legal gun owners exercising their 2nd Amendment RIGHT (not ‘need’) coming out of progressive totalitarian thugs’ mouths. Enough of this Tyranny.

I do believe it’s time to fully exercise our 2nd Amendment rights in the way Jefferson, et.al. intended: Hunting tyrannical politicians (and their media propagandists), thereby watering the Tree of Liberty.