malestrithe said:
Knobody13 said:
1. It would benefit all of us if you remember to cite your sources. You can use any of the top 5 Google links because it is the same information on all of them.
2. Most of those homicides are from states with right to carry laws and relaxed gun control regulations. Places with strict gun control laws do not have nearly as many homicides. I wonder why?
3. Quit the knee jerk reaction whenever someone talks about gun control. It makes you look reactionary and does not help your case. No one is going to take your guns away.
4. With 273 million legally registered firearms out there, it does seem hypocritical to cry foul whenever gun control is brought up. Unless you already know people are going to go a long with it, that people follow rules wherever possible, and that you have to get the angry 10 percent to speak for the silent 90 just to make headway on this issue.
1.Im legitimately sorry for that; I was tired and too lazy. As you said, it was just the first couple google links. It would have been beneficial for u to have more details but i was only interested in a broad comparison. Again, I'm actually sorry.
2.I dont see any sort of reliable trend to support this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state
could you link me?
It seems to me that smaller blue states are less violent and less gun violent, but we cant assume thats from stricter gun control laws
3.A couple people on here have assumed I'm a gun toting, fox news watching, honest, hard working 'merican. I'm actually a dirty college liberal. I just grew up in a town where it was not unusual for an 8 year old to be given a shotgun for her birthday. I just happen to have an opinion that differs from your average obamanite(voted for him please don't assume im a racist fuck).
4.I dont really understand your last point. I think your saying that 90 percent of the country disagrees with me, and its just us noisy guns rights activists holding back progression. There are 2 problems with this argument though
1)I'm not against regulation -_- just the outright banning of weapons. I'm 100 percent fine with the laws as they are right now
2)Even if i was in the minority of people that believed something that does not make me wrong. There is no such thing as a statistically insignificant opinion. If we held that attitude we would never make any social progress. That is the whole point of freedom of speech! I bet 17th century plantation owners wished the vocal minority would stop talking about their slaves too(there he goes with is "hyperbole" again).
but here you go http://www.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx I am far above a minority