Umpteenth shootout in the US, this time near New York's Empire State building

[kittenOFchaos]

so you think we'd have less shottings if all guns were muzzle load?

Well, duh.

[Felch]

Yes, the police!

Are you not worried about the trigger happy carelessness of a profession that is supposed to be good at firing their weapons and is regularly trained for such an event!?

The scenario of a bunch of concealed carry Dirty Harry wannabees letting rip in a darkened cinema is just incredible for its comedy death value!

Dirty Harry wannabees go to the range every weekend and shoot because they love to shoot.

Police go to the range once every three months and shoot because their supervisors require them to qualify.

I'll take the wannabees, thanks.

[BlackCat]

What percentage of our guns do you imagine are handguns? What percentage do you believe are shotguns? What percentage of our guns do you think are bolt action or rimfire rifles? And what percentage do you think are semi-automatic military caliber carbines, AK and AR knock-offs?

Are you seriously trying to claim that the us population are armed to fight a profeessional army such as th the US army ?

[kittenOFchaos]

Are you seriously trying to claim that the us population are armed to fight a profeessional army such as th the US army ?

They did it to our professional Hessians.

[Al B. Sure!]

Indeed, I'm just trying to purge out a certain scene from 'Full Metal Jacket':



Al is either a master-troll, or a complete and utter fool.

That's a movie, fool


And what does me not having interest in guns in my personal life have to do with my ability to use them professionally?

Do you use Microsoft Excel at work? Does that mean you always love to use it at home? Not necessarily.

[BlackCat]

They did it to our professional Hessians.

Well, that was a disaster from the beginning - germans lead by brits

[Felch]

Are you seriously trying to claim that the us population are armed to fight a profeessional army such as th the US army ?

No, I'm seriously trying to claim that we are nothing like Syria, and that we could use our tremendous number of guns to murder collaborators. I'm just curious about what sort of misconceptions you have.

[BlackCat]

No, I'm seriously trying to claim that we are nothing like Syria, and that we could use our tremendous number of guns to murder collaborators. I'm just curious about what sort of misconceptions you have.

This really dosen't make any sense - US is more or less 50/50 demo/rep, so at leat half of the guns will be on the gov side. Actually, the army will probably just wait while the civilians kill each other

[Asher]

Dirty Harry wannabees go to the range every weekend and shoot because they love to shoot.

Police go to the range once every three months and shoot because their supervisors require them to qualify.

I'll take the wannabees, thanks.

[Felch]

This really dosen't make any sense - US is more or less 50/50 demo/rep, so at leat half of the guns will be on the gov side. Actually, the army will probably just wait while the civilians kill each other

Democrats and Republicans all basically believe in the same things. I don't think that there's likely to be a civil war between the two parties, or at all in the foreseeable future. Guns contribute to domestic political stability, just as ICBMs contribute to world peace.

[BlackCat]

Democrats and Republicans all basically believe in the same things. I don't think that there's likely to be a civil war between the two parties, or at all in the foreseeable future. Guns contribute to domestic political stability, just as ICBMs contribute to world peace.

Oh, so there are no tyrant that have to be kicked off the throne, well goodbye SAII

ICBM*s only contribute to peace if other people have ICBM's. If common people stop having guns, so will criminals and lo and behold - a more peaceful society may arise

[MrFun]

GUNS EQUALS FREEDOM!! MORE GUNS EQUALS MORE FREEDOM!! AMERICA, **** YEAH!!

[SlowwHand]

So foolish.

[kittenOFchaos]

And what does me not having interest in guns in my personal life have to do with my ability to use them professionally?

Experience - some guys will have been shooting from a very early age. They'll know if they have the aptitude to fire weapons and will have developed it. I haven't seriously looked at entering the armed forces (poor toilet facilities and I like my limbs being attached to my trunk), but out of mere curiousity I took the opportunity to fire a whole range of guns whilst in the Czech Republic - I loved the automatic shotgun. You're not even curious.

There appear to be very few aspects of the Marines that you have experienced - firing a gun, driving, swimming. I just don't understand where your motivation comes from...and I think you'll be a fish out of water.

[Alexander's Horse]

how about freedom from guns? that's nice, no nutjobs in the shopping malls with lethal and deadly firepower, just harmless nutjobs who can easily be disarmed, muttering blue murder while people just point and laugh, like we have in Australia,

Americans always concentrate on "freedom to", we like freedom from more I think