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Yes. That is their sole purpose. It's not to put flowers in, it's not to use as a leg for a table, a gun's purpose is to put an end to something, be it a target, an animal, a ceramic disk or a human. If anyone thinks otherwise they shouldn't own one to begin with.
I am so glad pretend moralists like you are there to tell me what I should and should not own. What a shame being a busybody is no longer known to be a character flaw.
And factually, you err specifically as to the AR-15/M16/M4 family of weapons that shoot the .223 caliber round.
you are there to tell me what I should and should not own
Her statement was contingent on whether or not you know what a gun is for. If you believe she was talking to you, you are admitting that you don’t know what a gun is for.
If's not being a "moralist" or a "busybody" to say guns are designed to kill. It's stating an obvious fact. Such a shame people who don't know that can own them.
Now we have the Jewel that thinks in it's shallow mind that a gun puts the end to a target or a ceramic disk. Both can be remade Jewel you are aware of that ?
Shooting an animal is a tax base Jewel !You Progressives are all about taxes !
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior announced a new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that shows that 101.6 million Americans—40 percent of the U.S. population 16 years old and older—participated in wildlife-related activities in 2016, such as hunting, fishing, and wildlife-watching.
The survey illustrates gains in wildlife watching—particularly around the home—and fishing, with moderate declines in the number of hunters nationally. The findings reflect a continued interest in engaging in the outdoors. These activities are drivers behind an economic powerhouse, where participants spent $156 billion—the most in the last 25 years, adjusted for inflation.
Now Jewel do you Progressives want to see what is reported by the Department of Interior( Note for you Dummies the Government) as tax dollars be erased ?
Not the point Jewel ! What you hear is your Progressive bunch whine and cry about gun control all the while ignorant to the money being put into the DOI by hunters !
By the way there Jewel the DOI is part of the Federal Government. So what is the problem with guns ? DOI has no problem with guns. It is only the lemmings of the party that are confused ROTFFLMMFAO
Government income needs guns all the while the Progressives cry Gun Control ! It is amazing to watch the stupidity of Progressives who are so devoid of reality !
I ask again do you Progressives want to take guns out of the hands of hunters ? How is it then that you Progressives will get the tax dollars you so need ? Confusion Reigns Supreme in your world and i do enjoy watching you drown in your own Stupidity !!!!!!!!!!
The vast majority are. If the goal instead was just hitting a target accurately then most rounds would be low power and low caliper like Annie Oakley used to do her amazing shooting shows.
Well, I'm not a "progressive". But I'm happy to point out that if all guns fired tiny pellet shot packets that weighed an once and a half and had a range of 30-60 feet (like Annie Oakley) then you'd see virtually all opposition to guns dropped.
Guns were invented during the 14th century specifically as a method of more efficient and deadly warfare.
There are air rifles designed for nothing more than target practice, of course, but that's a denomination of guns themselves.
A vehicle is designed for travel, but different types of vehicles have different purposes for travel. A lorry is designed for delivering goods rather than people, for example.
Just because a few guns (in the MODERN era) are designed for target practice doesn't mean that guns, in and of themselves, weren't initially and still are made for the main goal of killing and harming other human beings.
Progressive if all the firearms were confiscated than what would organizations like PETA have to complain about and how would they profit from that non-profit organization ?
No, they can be used for knee capping, or target shooting, or to intimidate staff in an armed robbery or for giving a warning shot to the back of the head of intruders.
Guns have so many uses the biggest of which is THE PROFITS THEIR SALES MAKE FOR THE WEAPON MANUFACTURERS.
I didn't say target practise I said, target shooting., as in competitions, such as the Olympics.
Whilst some modern air rifles may be able to kill they are not designed to kill but are used primarily for the sport of target shooting, loosely in much the same way as darts are designed to be thrown at target boards.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that DUI is a greater killer than the death toll caused by armed crazed assassins, but as prohibition didn't work all we can do is continue to proceed with the ''damage limitation '' process of keeping drunk driving under control through roadside sobriety checks, etc.
Those who call for the wholly unrealistic measure of banning all firearms are a bigger hindrance to finding an achievable solution than the NRA.
There is a fine line, a very fine line between a drunk driver killer and an armed assassin.
The armed murderer goes out with death in his/her blackheart, whereas the criminally reckless drunk driver kills, theoretically, by accident.
Those who call for the wholly unrealistic measure of banning all firearms are a bigger hindrance to finding an achievable solution than the NRA.
No, idiots like you are the hindrance, because you make up your own false facts. For example, it is not true that it is "wholly unrealistic" to ban all firearms, because it has been successfully achieved in NUMEROUS different countries. You are distorting reality quite purposefully, either because you are a sociopath or because you are a paid internet shill.
I didn't think that there were people as thick as you on the face of God's earth.
Smell what it is you're trying to shovel
We say to the 33,000 ( thirty three thousand) heavily armed gangs who number an officially estimated 1.2 million gang members many of whom have infiltrated the military,;- eh, excuse me chaps, you're jolly well going to have to surrender your firearms. .
Don't be shy, come along now like good fellows
You're one of the stupidest fucks ever post a reply on this forum- you really are.
These illegally held firearms are in addition to the estimated 270 to 320 MILLION legally licensed weapons to which their owners feel they have a constitutional right to retain, which they have.
Do you in your wildest dreams honestly believe that a dirty little, insignificant shit-head mother fucker like you had the answer to the gun crisis in your back pocket all the time while the nation's best brains have been struggling with this constitutional issue for years? , naa, you couldn't be that big a dick head. You're just winding me up, right?
HOW ABOUT WE SEND YOU ALONG INTO ''DEEPEST GANGLAND'' AND DEMAND THAT THE NASTY ROTTERS HAND OVER THEIR FIREARMS FORTHWITH.
There’s this weirdo country called Canada, and they got this stupid thing where people have to register and take classes to procure semi auto assault rifles, and have to have a sponsor that testifys to state of mind. So dumb hey, personal responsibility and civically minded people would want others to take responsibility?!!?!? Dumb.
We say to the 33,000 ( thirty three thousand) heavily armed gangs who number an officially estimated 1.2 million gang members many of whom have infiltrated the military,;- eh, excuse me chaps, you're jolly well going to have to surrender your firearms.
You offer them the alternative of five years in jail, like every other sane country has done, you sophist wanker. It isn't complicated. Not only does this eradicate the problem of legal guns, but it also all but eradicates the problem of illegal guns, since petty criminals would be looking at a longer prison sentence for carrying a firearm than the offence they are actually convicted of.
You can load your language as much as you like, but anybody with half a functional brain cell understands that you are a cretin. You are throwing make believe obstacles in the path of something which needs to be done, purely because you are too selfish and afraid to accept reality. It isn't the case that it can't be done, because the facts prove the opposite. It is a case of you wanting to find any excuse why you should not have to try.
You offer them the alternative of five years in jail, like every other sane country has done, you sophist wanker
Already been tried. American libs claim it is systematic oppression & racist because almost all gang members are nonwhite.
Thanks for admitting that a right wing argument makes sense though. It's amazing how libs can use rational thought when they don't know the leftist talking points on an issue.
You offer them the alternative of five years in jail, like every other sane country has done, you sophist wanker.
They are already committing crimes that are punished with years in prison.
It isn't complicated
It is in a country with every culture and race on Earth where everyone tribalizes and is suspicious of all of the other groups & the cops & where you have enough gang members to create a new country.
Now that you have revealed yourself and outed yet another alias,, everything is explained.
We glibly overrule the 2nd amendment and confront 1.2 million armed criminals by saying;- '' if you lot don't hand over your guns we'll lock you up for five years.
YOU JUST COULDN'T MAKE IT UP.
From where do the additional, already overcrowded prisons come from?
You couldn't honestly believe that such a stark move wouldn't result in near civil war with the streets running with blood.
You shouldn't use the shocking event in parkland Florida to play stupid games in an obvious attempt to have a go at me.
The Floridian tragedy and the gun problem deserves significantly more respect and reverence than a dirtball loser like you would ever be able to show.
YOU'RE A DISGUSTING, UNFEELING TRAMP, AND I DETACH MYSELF FROM YOU COMPLETELY.
No, for example, the AR-15/M16/M4. The .223 cartridge is designed to wound, not kill. The Army believes that wounding a man takes three people off the battlefield (the wounded man and two men to carry him) while killing a man takes one off the battlefield. But fact mean nothing to liberals who will accept any tyranny that gives them the warm and fuzzies.
A Gun holds not more danger than a hammer or club……
The bullets are what can be designed to kill…….. And at one time a bullet was the most popular way to obtain meat to eat. Cars and Plastic Trash bags are not designed to kill but are both a greater cause of teen deaths then bullets. T.V’s have been found to cause a high number of untimely deaths as well.
"Guns are technically understood to be designed to kill first, they are in fact designed and sold by power and accuracy. The problem is hunting generally requires that an animal is not alive when it is eaten. Note not all animals kill there food and let it cure before eating.
Technical guns are a tool to fire a bullet at someone who is firing a bullet at you. Guns can just as easily be seen as a piece of moving art as machinery, or a mathematical practical mechanism to demonstrate physics and calculus. A gun can be used to drive a nail into a piece of wood, though not as fast as the FYI nail gun. The problem is your lack of intelligence has given you the impression everyone can be indiscriminately punished due to the actions of others. Which may be the real reason behind your fear of a common defense to the general welfare.
If you think guns are not designed to kill and that an automatic assault rifle capable of firing hundreds of rounds of scorching hot lead at thousands of feet per second in mere moments is no more dangerous than a club then you are hopeless. And literally too retarded or moronic to even argue with.
I'm also guessing that due to your blinding and truly impressive ignorance of fire arms that you've never even been near a battlefield nor seen gun damage first hand.
You're a sissified NRA sycophantic dipshit.
Stay the fuck away from me. And other combat vets who you are nor even worthy of wiping our assez for us.
The last I knew, targets are not alive so how can the gun kill it?
The last I knew, defending ourselves from intruders is self defense and if you are trying to say we have no right to self defense, then go live in some gun hating socialist European nation.
You might have to use the sword or the knife in those nations to protect your family from intruders.
Do you have a problem with your moms decision not to abort you?
Is your argument that she needed someone in government to make the decision for her? Is it your argument that women don’t know what they are doing and should be stopped? Is that really your argument that if your mom was raped, she should be forced by the government to raise a felons child because YOU have stupid opinions?
People who own guns for self-defence or target practice aren't going around and killing school-kids. They aren't the problem (except when they're using their right to self defense as moral justification for any shit-bag who wants to kill kids being able to lay his hands on a weapon). << and there IS the problem: a maniac can get a hold of an automatic firearm easier than he can get a hold of a portion of Haggis.
Guns, despite what you use them for, are designed for killing things. The first firearms were made by the Chinese for use in war during the Jin Dynasty, and since then, they have been used to kill hundreds of millions of people.
So while I don't have an issue with anybody's right to defend themselves, I do have an issue with the fact that it is so easy to get a gun in America that you can acquire one without so much as a crash-course in shooting, or a mental health check, or a licence exam, and go into a school and to shoot kids dead. Fuck me, you need a licence for a car but not for a fully automatic gun??
"Oh but our rights, our liberty, our freedom". Fuck right off. Freedom is being able to go to school as a 13 year old kid without the fear that you're going to be riddled with bullets because some idiots care more about lead than kids.
And I'll illustrate how perfectly retarded the response to the incident in Florida is. It has the NRA calling for teachers to be able to be armed in schools so that they can defend their students from attackers. Meanwhile, the fucking armed cops who rushed to the scene were too shit-scared to go into the building. So the NRA and the gun-nuts expect a teacher -- someone who got a degree in teaching to live a life that didn't include the responsibility to be a fucking crackshot professional soldier -- to be armed and capable of defending an entire school from psychos with automatic guns, but the police can stand outside and do nothing except look on in terror with wet-panties?
He who lives by the swors dies by the sword. -Jesus.......................................................................................................................................................................
