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Old 2012-12-16, 20:00   Link #513
GundamFan0083
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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan View Post
I don't believe in that personal defense thing. If someone wants to do competitive sport shooting, recreational target shooting or biathlon, just go register yourself into such centers. However even then, those guns should NOT leave the physical boundaries of those centers. And even if that's not case, I'm all in favour of a very very lengthy procedure and tight background check (that includes owners & relatives) by police units to even earn the right to own a gun for such purposes.

Japan did everyone quite a favor by banning most firearms from getting into civilian hands and they ARE the example to follow. We talk about a nation that has seen guns from as far back as the time the first English settlers arrived in North America.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/339130



Sorry to break it, but the US have come to a point there's a need for something radical such as what is done in Japan in order to solve a big part of the issue at hand.

edit: I've seen the AR-15 and M-16 pictures above. Even then, it's so easy to turn a semi-auto rifle into a full-auto rifle; that's a known fact.
I don't believe in that disarmament thing, and here's why:

Gun-control doesn't work, and never has in the US.
In 1934 the National Firearms Act was passed which banned citizens from owning a sawed off shotgun or machinegun without registering them and getting a Federal Tax Stamp liscence.
In 1938 it became illegal to sell weapons across state lines without a Federal Firearms Liscence, yet millions of guns are bought and sold illegally all over the US yearly.
In 1968 congress passed the Gun Control Act of 68 which required every gun buyer to fill out form 4473 and effectively ended mail order sale of guns by non-FFL dealers, it also banned the sale of assault rifles (real, fully automatic/machine rifles, tri-burst, commonly called "select-fire") without a liscence are reclassified them as machineguns (which they are not).
In 1986 the sale of new machinguns to citizens was banned entirely.
In 1989 Bush Senior banned the import of foreign made militia rifles (semi-automatic military style weapons that are NOT assault rifles).
In 1994 the "Assault Weapons Ban" was passed that banned militia rifles and high-capacity magazines. Yet the North Hollywood Bank robbers used real assault rifles (fully automatic) in 1997.
Clintion pushed for an got passed the "Gun Free Schools" Act of 1995, yet in 1998 Eric Harris and Dylan Kleebold violated that law when they entered Columbine with two sawed off 12-guage shotguns and two tech-nine semi-auto pistols with high-cap magazines.
In 2002 the DC Sniper caused a reign of terror for weeks with an AR-15 and low capacity mags (5-rounds).
School massacres started in North America in 1764 wtih the Pontiac Rebellion Massacre in Delaware where 10 school children were killed, and have continued ever since.

Einstein (attributed to him) once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results", let's stop making the same mistake by banning guns or pushing for more gun-control. History has proven that it doesn't work.

What does work?
The Israeli model of armed teachers, and citizens and requiring them to train and become proficient in the use of arms to protect not only themselves but our children.
Jeanne Assam proved this works in the US in 2007 at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs when she stopped an active shooter from committing an atrocity.

When we as a society take responsibility for ourselves and our loved ones, instead of passing the "buck" to government, then we will lessening in the frequency and damage of mass murderer attacks.

Until we do that, they will continue no matter how many bans, or restrictions, or other non-effective gun-control laws are passed.
Hell, there was another shooting on Saturday in California, no one was hurt, but the man had hi-cap mags in a state that banned then in the 1990s.
There was another one at a hospital in Georga, but an armed police officer stopped him...dead.
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