andfRa

3732 pts ยท May 11, 2013


Thanks for the spoilers!

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Should rocket propelled grenades (or anything that falls under "destructive device") be legal?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Again, not one-to-one. Both deal with restricting what you can do. But fine. Lets try something else.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, the court ruled in favour of NRA and the authorities are forced to return those. They also changed the law after that.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Again, if you want background checks to work, there needs to be oversight over the whole chain, not just retailers/wholesalers. (2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but isn't that database limited to the retailers/wholesalers. It is a bit hard to track if firearms if resold. (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is reasonable that I should be punished for not performing a background check. But how would they trace the firearm back to me? (2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think I get why they added registration. Lets say the gun I sell is used to murder someone. The prep has a criminal history. (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you want to stop criminals from getting firearms, you need to keep track to who and how firearms are being sold. (3)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The statistics here are unreliable, because there is no way of keeping track.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I remember looking up where criminals get their guns. About 30% was stealing, the rest was reselling or under the counter dealing. (2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lets say a criminal is caught with a firearm he shouldn't have. How would you trace where it came from? (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And lets not forget how the public will react. Again, USA is unique in that aspect. (3)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

,but USA has a tradition and far too many firearms to make confiscation practical. Switzerland is the closest and they still have theirs.(2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think you can compare USA and the rest of the western world in that aspect. If we were talking about e.g. GB, then sure, but (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Analogies are not supposed to be one-to-one. We are talking about people being responsible, yet there are laws in place for the tool (car).

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Umm... the upper one is a poliece car and the lower one is a SWAT vheicle?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Ok, I just looked up military spending by GDP (wiki). Saudi Arabia > Iraq > Israel > Russia >USA.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How would you measure fallout? (I'm not trying to argue here)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What's wrong with registration?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Point here is that without knee jerk reactions nothing will get through. I'm not in favour of this. That's just a byproduct of 2 party sys.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Again, no disagreement. Why do people always assume I'm in favour of banning all guns?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, it's not supposed to be forced. No disagreement there.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you agree that there should not be car safety laws? Why? (2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok, here is an anology... I hate seatbelts (car safety) being manditory. I'm a good driver. It's people who are the blame, not cars. (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I understand what you are trying to say. In theory it is all good. In practice, its a big mess.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but that the problem. The parties are not capable of working together. The only way something goes (gets forced) through is by emotion

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's the problem. If you are not willing to offer good legislation, the the other side will do it for you. You will not like the result.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gun legislation is the obvious example. It would take something very extreme to force your gov to deal with the problem.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you sure it works like that? To me it seems the opposite. Emotion seems to be the only way to power legislation through bicam.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0