We're Still Number One !!!

Jul 27, 2016 9:00 AM

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Fuck you.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Political cartoons are fucking cancer.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 5

Wow what a subtle and nuanced argument. You truly swayed me

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 10

I don't get why they're using a redneck to represent gun violence. Probably because it would be "racist" to depict a black gang banger.

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 8

Because it's the white guys who cry when they fear someone will take their precious toys away

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 28

I imagine it's because most gun advocates and NRA members are white southerners, but okay.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

If only they banned guns in Germany and France... Oh wait.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Or we could let people decide what's best for themselves instead of pushing more useless laws that won't actually help stop violence anyway.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile 19 people were killed in Japan last week when an attacker went crazy with a knife.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

But that's in Japan, the circlejerk is about anti-America.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

SHALL

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I really wish everyone could just acknowledge the gun issue for what it really is. An ego problem.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Yup, because all gun owners promote gun violence...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

-http://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You should see the 2014 version. It's a lot lower.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This was through a quick google, you have a link to the '14 one? Id be interested in seeing it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't as it takes up too many characters. But if you type in 'fbi table 8 2014 expanded homicide' it should be the first suggestion.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Very interesting, thanks!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn, Americans are really stupid.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So much wrong with this cartoon. This was made by a very uneducated person.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 5

Fuck off, OP.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

A simple response to a simple post. I like it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fun Fact Every single nation in the Americas has a higher homicide rate than the UK. Even Canada's is 50% higher than Great Britain.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

'Cos Britain for the most part is a shit hole.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

1.37% of homicides in Albania are linked to firearms, meanwhile .83% in America. If you're gonna complain about guns being linked to 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

murder. Maybe you should do it against a country with the largest problem of it, than one in the cultural spotlight which is the target 2/3

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

of circlejerks because of it's point in a cultural spotlight. A spotlight given by having the largest access to social media. 3/3

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good luck America for your next inevitable mass shootings.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 14

Good luck Europe for your next inevitable suicide bombing / beheading

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Good luck France and Germany seeing they aren't doing to hot either with some of the strictest gun laws in the Western World!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

The problem is any time either side proposes a form of gun control that actually works its shot down. Dems say racist Reps say unconstitutnl

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yay over simplification

9 years ago | Likes 237 Dislikes 66

Sure because political comments have the ability to portray a fucking 12 page senior thesis in their drawings. Your life is overly simple.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 38

If a thesis is 12 pages, that's what's overly simple...

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

That's what a political cartoon is supposed to be.

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 4

True, still funny though lol

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 37

Is it though?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Good satire can be funny and depressing at the same time. See: any good comic featuring trump

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@OP, you got balls posting this on Imgur. Props.

9 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 29

I dunno if I would go that far.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Never mistake bravery for foolishness

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

Poster must have not seen the unarmed civillians in Honduras, mexico and etc that get mowed down by the cartels.banning guns is awesome

9 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 22

@Heyallwatchthis must have not seen the very few mass shooting in the rest of the first world...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Yeah, look at France and Germany! Absolutely no mass shootings in the last few months. Let's follow their lead

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Wolverines!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

You idiot that's different their cops can't even handle the cartel at all. We don't have cartels in states and we have police/army to protec

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Why has it always gotta be one thing or the other in the US. Either a gun for every man women child and dog or no guns at all. Just regulate

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

That's how it is already. Federal background checks, no guns for felons or the dangerously mentally ill, further regulations by state.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's how it is already, though.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The fucking things and make them harder to get to that so not just any psychotic idiot can easilly get there hands on one

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

We already have laws to prevent "just any psychotic idiot" from getting guns. Criminals do not follow the laws already; more won't help.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Every time i see this argument i have to tell the person they are already regulated. People should learn the laws before they criticize them

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 28, 2016 1:10 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

there is federal regulations in place... and then states add even more regulations to those on top of it...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 28, 2016 1:10 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Real question: when did imgur move toward the right more? I'm not complaining, it's social media and everyone deserves a voice but 1/?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

It seems like the demographic has strayed to slightly more conservative values. Apropos to the comments, not the post.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I just want lesbians to be able to get married and defend their pot farm with guns.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Petty simple really. Imgur's not one person. You see circle jerks from both the left and right.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I noticed it too. All of a sudden imgur started shitting on lgbtq people and championing gun rights.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

Cyclical voice. Demographics are the same, those who feel the need to post has shifted a bit.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, they use the radicals as straw men arguments to discredit legitimate concerns. Saying this as a straight white male.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

99% of imgur couldn't define a "strawman" argument you guys throw that word around on virtually any post you don't agree with.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's been several posts illustrating what it means--it's pretty well known lol

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yet imgurians consistently call things strawman when they aren't

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've no clue on the lgbtq hatred, but imgur champions gun rights because a large part of the userbase is from the US, where they view owning

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

guns as part of their culture. You grow up with that, it kind of makes sense you're gonna defend it a tad viciously if you're pro guns.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's also many users who have decided anything mildly PC is a SJW strawman, so they go hyper conservative as a knee-jerk response.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mental illness is very mis understood. But of course it is. We cant know All the shit clanging around in people's heads.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 5

Guns are the problem, not mental illness.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Grew up in a republican family so I have heard the opposite. Now at this point I'm not against trying anything to solve the problem I guess.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cars are the problem. Not drunk drivers

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The mentally ill are far more likely to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators, statistically speaking. They get proper screwed :(

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not all gun violence can be explained by mental illness.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You're right. Most is gang on gang violence or suicide.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

You're right. I live in the suburbs of Syracuse NY . I get a news update on my phone at least 3-4(sometimes 5-6 depending on the week.) 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

About someone killing someone in the city. Syracuse is a small-ish city and has a huge gang violence issue.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually here was just an article of someone randomly getting shot at on the highway yesterday. Second time it's happened.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mass shootings carried out by NRA members in the past year - 0

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 5

5 million NRA members VS. roughly 100 million gun owners in America...maybe not everyone should have guns

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 6

my point being evey anti-gunner LOVES to blame the NRA even though almost all mass shooters have been registered democrats

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Because the NRA is just a mouthpiece for the gun industry? It is no longer about responsible ownership.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 8

If it isn't about responsible gun ownership, then why don't NRA members commit mass shootings?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

what... I think EXACTLY what i just said just destroyed your argument...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I wonder if japan should ban suicides and if brazil should ban armed robbery, you know since bans protect people.

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 9

Look at Australia and please tell me how many gun related deaths there have been since they banned guns.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

This! People don't realize bad guys don't normally buy guns legally

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 5

That argument is actually retarded. Since criminals don't follow the law, let's get rid of all laws!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

look at case studies from countries who have banned guns, and gun violence in those countries. use facts, not baseless assumptions

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Mexico is a clusterfuck, Germany and France are having increased terror attacks, and Switzerland has relatively open gun laws and is fine.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I wouldn't use this argument. With anything, for any side. It's the equivalent of saying "why ban anything at all," which is baffling.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

This subtle and nuanced comic has convinced me that we should change the constitution and abolish the second amendment.

9 years ago | Likes 446 Dislikes 108

Second amendment doesnt give you the right to own guns. It gives you the right to be in an organized militia which has guns.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

You claim to prefer nuance but don't personally apply it to your own arguments, eh?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

SHALL

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd settle for the NRA no longer being allowed to obstruct research into gun violence.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

a special permit for weapons inside metropolitan areas makes sense. beyond that, cats out of the bag

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 10

Licenses and permits are privileges. NOT rights.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But it's so clear and well written, and for something so important it's not at all open to interpretation. How could you abolish it?!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

Good, if the thousand of victims couldn't at least the comic could.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 19

I say, we in the rest of the world just send you a lot more weapons, isolate you and then wait until you've killed eachother off.* (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

*[The previous statement may contain trace amounts of: milk, nuts, soy, eggs, gluten and sarcasm] (2/2)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Soy D:

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*subtle and nuanced

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I think the strongest argument for abolishing the second amendment is that it was written at a time when a skilled rifleman

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 59

I mean yeah, back then they used fucking muskets if all these crazies would have been using those we wouldn't have a problem

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

That stupid. Semi auto was invented then to some degree, the founding fathers even tested them for the army but turned it down due to cost

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 3

could fire *maybe* three shots a minute, and hit a target roughly half the time.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 47

And the first amendment didn't have cellphones and the Internet....

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

And the fourth amendment was written in a time before cars.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

It's like these amendments were written without accounting for technology advances

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Why do you people think the argument is for banning guns out right?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I've never heard people who clamor for more gun control describe restrictions like in DC/Chicago/etc. as anything but "reasonable" laws.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because all successful gun control measures in the US are immediately followed with calls for more. Compromises are derided as "loopholes".

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Down with the Constitution! It's so old and outdated. We need to update it based on Facebook likes.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Well modern democracies actually update their constitutions. And again, in such democracies not every idiot can own a gun so there's that.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I guess that is the only option huh? Nothing in between, no room for compromise, just from wild west to no guns at all.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Wild West had some pretty strict gun laws. Meanwhile, Hitler actually loosened gun laws during his rise to power.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But why? Guns are fun.

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 15

that's why they rhyme

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Nuns with guns make tons of fun puns.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

He was being satirical

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

But seriously though. Guns are fun to shoot.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

they can be, but they're not toys

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

While we are at it we need to do away with the 1st amendment as well.

9 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 8

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 27, 2016 3:31 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

You literally have no idea what freedom of speech means.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 29, 2016 9:50 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

A private citizen saying he'll go to the cops doesn't remotely meet the burden of violating your 1st amndt rights. The cops would lol at him

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thats not free speech. Free speech is being able to call the president a fuckwad in public without brownshirts coming to your door. ~

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 29, 2016 9:50 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 29, 2016 9:50 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Free speech is standing on a corner protesting an injustice and not being arrested for it. You being banned from a private site is not.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

If only there was an option somewhere between "everyone should have guns" and "nobody should have guns."

9 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 7

Everyone SHOULD have guns. We'd live in a safer society. There was a county in Georgia that mandated gun ownership, and crime plummeted.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

There's a problem with this mentality, every time more gun control happens pro-gun control advocates immediately forget and demand more

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

These assholes are going around collecting signatures for more here in WA just two years after they got universal background checks passed.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, the opinion of anti-gun people: "Only the government should have guns."

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 12

These emerge from discussion, but no important topics are being discussed. I wonder why that is?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If you mean on imgur, 140 character limit. If you mean broadly, too many profitable agendas attached to the debate.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We exist in that middle ground right now.

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 8

And it's not working. Which means we need to tweak things more until it does.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 13

It could work perfectly fine if people bothered enforcing current laws. But they don't and they won't.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

That's kind of by design. There's a reason the ATF has been defunded so much.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

So it doesn't. So there needs to be tweaks.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

No one has called for an abolishment of the second amendment. We curtail the first amendment all the time, and that is a more important one.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Pretty sure I can't own a machine gun, so..

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

YOu can own a gun that can be modified into a machine gun just fine.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Once I convert my rifle into an automatic weapon, I just commited felony.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You can, it's just time-consuming and exorbitantly expensive.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When did we curtail the first amendment?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The 1st Amendment doesn't apply in many cases. Mostly, in schools and when speech is considered inciteful ("fightin' words")

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's insanely complex, but so tired of mofos who are like "free speech is officially dead because I was an ass and someone told to shut up."

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

See: Free Speech Zones

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'll concede that. There is a bullshit loophole that allows free speech zones to not actually violate the first amendment legally.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Never go full retard. Second protects the first.

9 years ago | Likes 199 Dislikes 77

and 5 because 5 is really the most important one, and protects well all of them.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, it's prevented the concentration of media into a tiny number of corporate owners, ensuring tough questions never get asked. Yay second!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No it fucking doesn't. If the government wanted to become tyrannical, civilian gun owners wouldn't stop them.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And yet, you've never actually USED the second to protect the first. You usually shoot the people who use the first.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 8

Top kek

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You went there.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you really think your gun is going to protect you from the government I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you...

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 14

Just fyi, roughly 80% of the military is right wingers that would oppose an order to kill "right wing" rebel civilians.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

There are lots of factors to take into account. My point is that if the government comes for you, there's little you can do about it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Die with a rifle in my hand and take as many of those fuckers as I can.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You won't take anyone. You'll disappear in the night and nobody will hear from you again.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

And that point assumes compliance.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Saying "the second protects the first" is going full retard already. You having a gun has nothing to do with protecting your freedom

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 30

Truuuuuue

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 12

Maybe for you, it does for others.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

How so?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Honest question, how do you figure?

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Because an AR-15 won't stop a tank. Besides, there are many nations where every moron doesn't own a gun, and they aren't dictatorships.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Why do you have to label us morons? Name calling just makes your arguement weak. Second your statement has nothing to do with the comment

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Roughly 70 % of the countries in the world are "free", most have gun control and people don't need guns to keep their freedom.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The US government has Drones. You're bringing a gun to a drone fight. Good luck actually using the 2nd Amend. for its original purpose.

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 12

Who's flying those drones? Right wingers. Hillary should fear a military coup if that cunt wins.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

Jim Jefferies reference?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shove off ya cunt. (Jim Jefferies for "yeah").

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Although I have had this sentiment as an American long before he made it realllly funny.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah I think I've pondered that before him. Your AR won't do much against a ballistic missile

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The 2nd amendment guarantees (should) the right for citizens to own nukes. The right to bear arms shall not be infringed by any barriers.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Good luck getting a nuke without the CIA/ NSA/ FBI breaking down your door and making you "disappear"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yeah, but the amendment dictates that they shouldn't be able to take it from ya.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

they can sure as hell label you a terrorist and take it from you. And it's a lot easier to do say you're a terrorist when you have a nuke

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And in Vietnam we had tanks and helicopters and the local population had AK47s. Guess who won.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 10

Despite winning, they died at a rate of about 10:1, possibly more. So yeah, they won, but at a massive human cost to both them and the civs.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The VC were a well organized and well equipped guerilla army. Joe Bob and his 30-06 from Cabela's ain't gonna stop anyone.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Hahahahaha thank you for this comment.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The Viêt Cong won because we were on their turf and the Viêt Cong had much more weaponry than that. They had funding from the USSR.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

In Denmark we have all but one of the rights of the 1st amendment, and it is well protected without the rights of the 2nd amendment.

9 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 29

Blah blah blah works for Denmark must work for a ginormous country 4x its size

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

You dont have the corruption or gangs that we have here in the states

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 8

Oh there are gangs in Denmark. Who do you think imports and distributes drugs? Most gun violence in Denmark is due to gangs.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Most corruption in the US is legal.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Then make more anti corruption laws. Use more money on putting your youth on the right track.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 6

It's not that easy, A LOT of it has to do with culture and the influences of the youth over the last 30 years. It's a complex social issue

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Anti-corruption laws? Hahahaha... right. Let's tell our government to pass laws making their corruption more illegal.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

I don't know why we didn't think of that sooner!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Oh... Thats all it takes. Wish we knew that earlier this whole thing would have been fixed.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 6

It isn't all, but it will help a lot.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

You also have a population that's less than NYC. You're comparing apples to oranges.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

I never understood what population has to do with anything

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

A country of 318.9 mil is more likely to have violent incidents than a country of 5 mil. Statistical probability.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Population and population density have vast effects on how a society functions and interacts with itself. Different social pressures.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Population density has some effects on certain things, such as public transportation, but total population really doesn't matter.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Psst, a lot of people believe things that work in other countries won't work here because we're just too gosh darned racist.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It also protects you at 3am when someone breaks into your house and the cops have a 20min eta.

9 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 12

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9 years ago (deleted Jul 27, 2016 2:05 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Right. A society full of violence, inequality, low social standards, no self-reflecting attitude you better get a gun to shot that bastard!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 15

No society will ever be equal. Even in the face of a unisex and unirace species, people's actions will set their value...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, no, no! You should just let him shoot you. After all, guns are dangerous, why would you want one?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So you keep your gun accessible from your bed where your kid can take it and shoot your other kid by accident?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I didn't know a Strawman just broke into your house

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't have kids. If a gun owner has kids then they should responsibly store their firearms.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then they're not protecting anyone! If people are breaking into your house, you don't have time to go pull your gun out of the safe

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sure you do. They make many hand gun safes that you can open in seconds with a fingerprint or a certain push button code.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

how many times has that happend to you?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 11

Does it need to happen before you're eligible to have a home defense weapon?

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

0, and he wouldn't be able to do a fucking thing if it actually did. Thinks he's rambo

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 19

You're just as naive to believe there's no people capable of protecting their home. What do you feed your horse to get it so high?

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

I've never been in a car accident, but I always wear my seatbelt to protect myself

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

What a dumb question. My house has never caught on fire. Still have extinguishers and smoke detectors.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

There were nuclear bunkers during the Cold War, how often did a nuclear holocaust happen again?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Sound logic. Because you've never needed a gun in suburbia then no one should have one. There are bad neighborhoods in the world.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

If noone had a gun noone would be killed by gun violence. and yes i know its not that simple but americas gunlaws are retarded.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, then there'd be more victims of violent crime. What a great option!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They can just kill me if that happens.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

Boy, you sure convinced us to lay down our guns!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I wasn't trying to. I'm saying that I'd rather just be killed

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You guys can have your guns and do whatever you want. I just know that I can't trust myself with one.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't worry: If you're unarmed, they will.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I support the right to guns but this notion that every burglar is prepared to murder is fucking retarded. Bad argument.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

So we should just play on the burglars good will?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Even if I was armed there's no way I'd be able to do anything. Please just kill me now

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Pulling a trigger isn't hard, and it could mean saving your life

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nope, not even top 10 actually, unless you're using absolute instead of per capita numbers.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 7

please name one first world country higher than America

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

#18 for gun homicides, #11 for gun deaths total, per capita.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Shhhh. Don't bring facts into a speculation debate.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

see comment above. Also, the numbers havent come out yet and i hate to speculate, but i imagine our death rate has increased since 2014

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because BLM is making cops reluctant to patrol problem neighborhoods?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

...no, because the number of mass shootings has drastically increased. Way to bring racism into a gun debate

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Mass shootings are a small portion of the total homicides. The vast majority is gangland.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

again though, both of us are speculating. Making non fact based assumptions, something both parties have been doing way too much recently

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It should also be noted that homicide rates have been droping steadily since the early 90s, but occasional peaks are expected in statistics.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2014's murder rate was about 1/3rd of 1991s murder rate, IIRC. 3.9 vs 9.8. Hmm about 40%.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Notice how all of those aren't first world countries. That's like saying you're rich because you have more money than a homeless guy

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you remove the 10 biggest cities from the data, the rest is much closer to the rest of the first world.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All I did was show that OP is factually wrong. But yes, the US has higher crime than most first world countries, mostly in the big cities.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

... Affect those people that shouldn't own guns, have to apply to everyone. Thus the law has to control guns because as a society we have...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

... People that shouldn't own gun from owning them. Unfortunately for all the good gun owners, we are all equal under law so laws that...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

My biggest issue isn't crime in general. It's the mass shootings. Gun control isn't meant as an f you to the gun lovers, it meant to stop...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

But it doesn't, criminals gonna crime. Mass shootings are planned, that means they can get illegal guns that gun control won't stop.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

France, Belgium and Germany get mass shootings, with much stricter gun control.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And the most effective way to stop a mass shooting is with guns, from good citizens already on the scene.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

.... To walk as our slowest member

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

So your argument is collective punishment to the lowest denominator, effectively you're a wannabe Handicapper General.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You basically went "You can't trust a paranoid schizophrenic with a fork, so nobody can have a fork."

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0