News Do Americans Wonder Why The World Makes Fun Of Them? Answer Here!

[Rumors]

This is exactly how I eat breakfast in the morning...lol

 

[RussH]

very accurate, but their is not enough bacon on the plate:)

 

[Ronin]

... I was just about to ask if that few bacon would do.

 

[Rotorhead]

If course it is useless to argue or contradict someone that has established their opinions on their recourses of their information. I must ask you to read the actual stats of the world health org., the FBI, and so many other statistic and factual non-bias organizations world wide. They all would prove your information of Australia's violence vs gun ownership incorrect and a farce. That is just another source of the leftist liberals to make up and justify their agendas with reports or stats that are construed by members of their like beliefs. Several facts I can confirm as True is, A entire generation and I were born and raised in a environment or house hold with guns of all sorts. The Grand difference is the major factor of my generation and today, the lack of discipline, respect of Authority and parents who will take the time and effort to teach children. In my home no guns were locked up, hidden or lied about to us kids. When I was old enough, 4-5 years old, being a child I became curious about my dads "real" guns and compared to the toy guns all kids and I played with, you know cowboys and Indians, imitating our HEROS such as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and all the other role models that were the icons of law biding, defenders of justice that would always bring the bad guys to be judged and punished in accordance to the law. Never hurting or abusing innocent bystanders, never with ruthless, brutal, violence of vivid random slaughter of the innocent to get to wipe out the supposed bad guy. My father begin teaching me and taking me shooting, that removed my curiosity of real guns and because I had such respect and discipline to honor the authority of my father, no touching, handling of guns was ever done without the permission and presence of my father, never. If ever I thought about or considered getting my hands on the real guns, I would wait till my father was home and ask if I could hold his guns. He would kindly take me to the gun I wanted and always, always demand I follow the 3 steps so essential to firearm safety, unload, never point the gun at anything I didn't intend to shoot, treat the gun if it was always loaded. Never was I allowed to "play" with any firearm, Never. I begin shooting and hunting with my father at the age of 7 and not once was there any so called accident or was anyone ever injured with a gun in my family or anyone that was around us. As it was the same in all other households with guns and children. A statistic no one can accept today is the fact there were more guns in the home during my generation than there is today, but the rate of violence from firearms is over 500% greater now than it was from 1970 to the present. What changed? Fact, heads of house holds today purchase a gun, inspired by some yahoo at the gun store that has no knowledge of what weapon is best for the purchaser. The new gun owner has no knowledge of the responsibly of gun ownership, safety and most important proper use. The perfect recipe for disaster, whose fault is it when a stupid senseless accident happens, a child gets ahold of the gun and shoots another? The gun? Only a tool? No, a ignorant dumbass that bought it and never had the brains, motivation or care to be trained to use what they now owned. Today our children are hardened by the vivid, realistic, and graphic slaughter of such life like video games that actually allows them to actually have the sensation of blowing off heads, arms, etc. with all the blood and gore of reality. It just increases their Score to kill innocent bystanders as they go after the villain, not only seeing the bodily dismemberment of their shooting results but the reality of the screams and cursing of the agony they have inflicted. Team that with the Bull Shit of almost every big hit movie from Hollywood that is only a "hit" at the box office if it depicts more and more gore, graphic, massacre, blood and innards splashed all over the screen. Watching as the so called "hero" blasts his or her way through a hail of bullets, bombs and tanks from a entire army or group that is labeled as the "bad guys". Always out number, usually 100 to 1, the hero always over comes these odds with his super skills and abilities, only to get slightly wounded in the less immobilizing area always in the arm, leg, etc., and continues to kill the bad guys regardless. Finally, with all the hundreds of evil foes obliterated by this single person, he comes face to face with the "main enemy" and ruthlessly, savagely, and gore abound slaughters them. All of everything so depicted and ingrained in the developing brains of the young by Hollywood is absolute, completer bull shit and not one spec of actual reality, just false sensationalism to desensitize the viewer, now possibly living in that fantasy realm he just witnessed. Of course in the process removing all aspects of the law of justice,or any ethical process of our legal system that is essential to instill in these children to be decent people. The list of activities and exposure is long and evident in direct rise of violence directly proportioned to the lack of discipline, respect and obedience of authority. (law enforcement and parental). If you want the references of the numerous, I'll be happy to give them.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Hell no I do not worry what other people think of me anymore. Spent far too much of my life doing just that. I think what others think is their thing but not mine. My two cents from the peanut gallery.

 

[Anarchy]

This is exactly how I eat breakfast in the morning...lo

and a mug that celebrates diversity too! just a shame it has coffee in it...

 

[RussH]

I revisited the American breakfast picture, and it is missing a plate full of pancakes.

 

[Loris]

As an American,I am often mortified by the narrow "It is my right!! "attitude of gun owners.

Go ahead,own a piece of metal whose only use is to destroy. But,before you can buy/own that gun, I want to know that you have gone through a thorough background check. Very thorough. Meaning that many people would be excluded because of criminal or mental history. Obviously, a waiting period. And if that gun ever leaves your possession,it is followed by a paper trail....accounted for. And that the type of guns produced/available,must be limited.

There are no logical/decent/ethical arguments against the obvious need for stricter gun control laws,

Why do all arguments against stricter gun fall on my deaf ears? And should for any thinking/caring human being? ?
Look at the faces of children killed by guns. Look at the faces of women killed. Look at the faces of innocent people killed.
Killed in the increasing number of gun deaths. Of massacres. In homes. In schools. In churches. In public places. On the streets of every town and city.

Look at the faces of those whose lives ended by a bullet. Then tell me again how your right to own a gun...outweighs the value of those lives. Go ahead and tell me how stricter gun laws are going to inconvenience you and rationalize it with numbers and words. Tell me how your gun is more important than the toddler who just shot himself. Or the mother who was shot by an angry husband. Or the teacher who was shot trying to save her students. Or the hundreds of other tragic stories which will happen in the next few weeks in our country… of people who were killed by a bullet, that was fired from a gun, whose trigger was pulled by a human. A human who should not have had access to a gun, should not have been sold a gun, should not have been allowed to own a gun.

And if you truly feel that your right to own guns is more important than any single life that has, or will be lost....then you are exactly who should not be allowed to own a gun.

 

[Rumors]

@Loris
Quite judgmental. I have never shot anyone for fun or hate or anything in between...please don't lump me into a group that I don't associate with or even understand. However, if such crazies come knocking on my door looking for trouble, I will be prepared.
I don't feel like my right to own guns is more important than a single life, but that comparison isn't exactly fair. I do, however, feel that my right to own a gun to protect myself is a right that I am afforded by the law therefore it isn't really up for debate as it pertains to the current status. If you would like to strategize on how to amicably keep guns out of drug dealers hands and fanaticals with a previous history, I think that is a discussion worth having.

 

[Anarchy]

There are no logical/decent/ethical arguments against the obvious need for stricter gun control laws,

please cite the arguments you are dismissing, and the refutations of them

also please cite the arguments, with links to supporting evidence, for why laws - which by definition are acts of coercion are an "obvious need"

as someone who is recommending coercion (which, is ultimately achieved by people with guns directly threatening people who have committed no aggression), that burden of justification lies with you. Kindly elaborate it, and without resort to straw man arguments.

 

[Weemie]

i'll just say, i live in canada, and here pepper spray isn't even legal. i have to purchase bear spray from the army/navy store, and i get a lot of weird looks because i don't look like i've ever even seen the outside world. you can't carry a pocketknife or weapon of any kind, because it is illegal. most people do, though, i don't think it is very heavily enforced. i know i do.

there is also a stigma regarding firearms around here, but i am looking into getting my certificate because owning a firearm, knowing how to operate one, would make me feel a lot safer. there's only so much self-defense can teach you, at the end of the day you have a significant advantage if you have a gun on your side and you know how to use it.

this is the canadian gun license form: Link Removed. it is extremely thorough & requires 2 references & a photo guarantor. on some level i am glad that these restrictions exist, because at the very least it weeds out some people who may otherwise have access to a gun when they shouldn't.

 

[Anarchy]

at the very least it weeds out some people who may otherwise have access to a gun when they shouldn't.

can I qualify that?

It weeds those individuals out from having a gun license, it doesn't prevent them from acquiring through the underground part of the market.

Many drugs are illegal, yet we know from the size of some seizures that they are smuggled in in consignments that can be several tons in weight, and that while drugs are not at the price they'd be if there wasn't prohibition, the street prices still keep on coming down, and black market drugs are available even in relatively isolated and rural communities.

Those ever falling street prices are still sufficeint to entice people to smuggle the drugs, and to provide the security to do so, without them being stolen.

The ability to smuggle by the ton, and the need for black market security suggest that they also have a reason to smuggle guns, and the ability to do it. If the price is right, they'll sell those smuggled guns just as happily and with as few qualms as they'll sell the smuggled drugs.

An interesting question is,
with all of the licensing and security hassles to be a legal seller of guns, and all of the hoops that people like you have to jump through to legally buy a gun, the price of legally sold guns is going to be much higher than if there were less interference with that market.
which market will have the lower prices - the legal market? or the underground market?