[quote=enron_by_the_sea][quote=ocrenter][quote=CA renter][quote=Blogstar]The argument about using AK 47’s to fight the government is ludicrous.[/quote]
Why? Do you really believe “it can’t happen here”?
No offense, but that’s incredibly naive.[/quote]
but to argue for the utility of semi-automatics in our society on that point is bordering on clinical paranoia.[/quote]
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that people cook up hypothetical scenarios where they need such weapons to protect their life & liberty. However their actions actually take lives and actually reduce liberty of everyone else in the real world.
I guess, protection life and liberty of your own, even in extremely unlikely scenario, takes precedence over the real world life and liberty of others![/quote]
Let’s hope it’s an extremely unlikely scenario. Aside from that, once you’ve gotten the “semi-automatic guns” out of the hands of all law-abiding citizens, what would you do to stop this:
“Modern
Hezbollah’s attacks in 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War are the first examples of the modern suicide terrorism.[14] Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) used the first suicide attack in 1996, and al Queda in the mid-1990s.[14] The number of attacks using suicide tactics has grown from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 180 per year between 2000 and 2005,[15] and from 81 suicide attacks in 2001 to 460 in 2005.[16] These attacks have been aimed at diverse military and civilian targets, including in Sri Lanka, in Israel since July 6, 1989,[17] in Iraq since the US-led invasion of that country in 2003, in Pakistan since 2001 and in Afghanistan since 2005 and in Somalia since 2006.[18][19]
Between 1980 and 2000 the largest number of suicide attacks was carried out by separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka. The first suicide attack by LTTE was in 1987.[14] The number of attacks conducted by LTTE was almost double that of nine other major extremist organizations.[20]
In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, suicide bombings have been perpetrated generally by Islamist and occasionally by secular Palestinian groups including the PFLP.[21] In 1993, Hamas carried out the first suicide attack.[14] Between October 2000 and October 2006, there were 167 clearly identified suicide bomber attacks, with 51 other types of suicide attack.[22] It has been suggested that there were so many volunteers for the “Istishhadia” in the Second Intifada in Israel and the occupied territories, that recruiters and dispatchers had a ‘larger pool of candidates’ than ever before.[22]
In the ten years after September 11, 2001, there were 336 suicide attacks in Afghanistan and 303 in Pakistan, while there were 1,003 documented suicide attacks in Iraq between March 20, 2003, and December 31, 2010.[23] Suicide bombings have also become a tactic in Chechnya, first being used in the conflict in 2000 in Alkhan Kala.[24] A number of suicide attacks have also occurred in Russia as a result of the Chechen conflict, notably including the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 to the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004.[25] The 2010 Moscow Metro bombings are also believed to result from the Chechen conflict.
There have also been suicide attacks in Western Europe and the United States. The September 11 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks killed nearly 3000 people in New York, Washington D.C and Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2001.[26] An attack in London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 people.[27]”
If a sociopath wants to kill, they are going to kill. Making a certain type of weapon illegal is not going to stop him.
You are totally ignoring the **cause** of these mass murders. What is it about our society that is causing people — usually young men — to take a weapon (any kind of weapon) and use it against innocent strangers?
I think it’s imperative that we look more closely at the evidence showing how violent video games and movies affect developing minds, and how technology is affecting people’s ability to empathize.
This study focused on adult males. Can you imagine the effects on young brains that are still developing?
