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pretty stressed out, my chem final is tomorrow morning and I AM NOT PREPARED.
After the Batman shooting, I see all these anti-gun control people saying things like, "if only someone in the theater had a gun to take out the shooter" and "criminals don't follow laws."
Okay sure. But it was a dark theater and everyone was panicking... I can barely find my friends in their seats if they don't yell "WE'RE OVER HERE" at me. If someone tried to shoot him, they'd probably either miss or hit someone else, and even if they did shoot him somewhere on his body, he was WEARING BODY ARMOR so it would do no good. You would probably be confused as a second gunman at that point, because the place was in such chaos.
My second point about gun control is that NO CIVILIAN NEEDS AN ASSAULT RIFLE. Period. Ever. The point of the weapon is to kill and maim as many people as possible, not self defense. There is no reason for any hunter or self defender to have that sort of thing. America gets mad when countries like Iran have possible nuclear weapons, right? Where are the anti-gun control people then? Where are the chants of "nukes don't kill people, people kill people"? I like my liberties as much as the next person, but I don't develop a paranoid fear of the guvment coming to storm my house and not having an assault rifle JUST IN CASE that happens. That doesn't happen to anyone except poor brown people anyway. You probably haven't even heard this news story of police shooting unarmed Latinos:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10569-anaheim-police-on-a-rampage
So what are white conservatives so angry about anyway? The government is pretty much on your side... What are we all paranoid about? Like a Zombie apocalypse will really happen?
All I'm saying is that the less violent weapons available to anyone on the mass market, the less violence there is going to be. A resourceful killer can stab you with a pencil, but if a sociopath has free access to machine guns, he will use the machine guns.
When I was young, I was on a train in China. Suddenly the train came to a screeching halt. It turns out that someone in the dining car started stabbing people. I squeezed past the guy with blood all over him because we had to evacuate the dining car. Now, if that guy had access to an assault rifle, I'd be fucking dead right now. He only stabbed one man before security subdued him. Yes, he could have been a very clever criminal and orchestrated a gun smuggling operation and smuggled guns in because that's what the baddies do. But a lot of criminals are NOT resourceful nor are they smart. So they use what they can get their hands on. I'm glad all the fucker had available to him was a knife. When we sell lethal weapons at the store and it's as easy to purchase as candy from 7/11, there's a problem.
After the Batman shooting, I see all these anti-gun control people saying things like, "if only someone in the theater had a gun to take out the shooter" and "criminals don't follow laws."
Okay sure. But it was a dark theater and everyone was panicking... I can barely find my friends in their seats if they don't yell "WE'RE OVER HERE" at me. If someone tried to shoot him, they'd probably either miss or hit someone else, and even if they did shoot him somewhere on his body, he was WEARING BODY ARMOR so it would do no good. You would probably be confused as a second gunman at that point, because the place was in such chaos.
My second point about gun control is that NO CIVILIAN NEEDS AN ASSAULT RIFLE. Period. Ever. The point of the weapon is to kill and maim as many people as possible, not self defense. There is no reason for any hunter or self defender to have that sort of thing. America gets mad when countries like Iran have possible nuclear weapons, right? Where are the anti-gun control people then? Where are the chants of "nukes don't kill people, people kill people"? I like my liberties as much as the next person, but I don't develop a paranoid fear of the guvment coming to storm my house and not having an assault rifle JUST IN CASE that happens. That doesn't happen to anyone except poor brown people anyway. You probably haven't even heard this news story of police shooting unarmed Latinos:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10569-anaheim-police-on-a-rampage
So what are white conservatives so angry about anyway? The government is pretty much on your side... What are we all paranoid about? Like a Zombie apocalypse will really happen?
All I'm saying is that the less violent weapons available to anyone on the mass market, the less violence there is going to be. A resourceful killer can stab you with a pencil, but if a sociopath has free access to machine guns, he will use the machine guns.
When I was young, I was on a train in China. Suddenly the train came to a screeching halt. It turns out that someone in the dining car started stabbing people. I squeezed past the guy with blood all over him because we had to evacuate the dining car. Now, if that guy had access to an assault rifle, I'd be fucking dead right now. He only stabbed one man before security subdued him. Yes, he could have been a very clever criminal and orchestrated a gun smuggling operation and smuggled guns in because that's what the baddies do. But a lot of criminals are NOT resourceful nor are they smart. So they use what they can get their hands on. I'm glad all the fucker had available to him was a knife. When we sell lethal weapons at the store and it's as easy to purchase as candy from 7/11, there's a problem.