This So Called Weapons Ban

[Sludge]

Technically, if you use your hands to commit a deadly act, it is then calssified as a deadly weapon. Sort of makes sense when you think about it. A cop told me it's the intent of the act of using your hands that counts and whether you had any martial arts training.

So if asked, you don't know shit about karate, quick kill, jui-jitsu, or even karoake. All them words.

My hand accidentally landed on his solar plexus.

In my case the entire scenario is hysterical. My hands are many things, but deadly is obviously not one of them.

 

[vikingr12]

I thought mine were too. I was wrong.

 

[Jimmy1]

Here in the land of Oz we had a weapon buy back scheme. You can still own a weapon, you just can't carry it in the street. You can keep it in your home, but it has to be in a safe, ammo separate. Home safety wise, it's ridiculous as all the criminals have weapons and carry them on them, but seriously, the police don't do checks to see they are locked away, it's more for safety from the children. The only downfall, is that you have to be a member of a gun club/sporting shooters club. Not hard. Farmers are different, they can have a variety of weapons without joining a club. But you know, it works.
Me, I love weapons. I could still strip and assemble every weapon I was taught blindfolded I reckon. I was a good shot too, just missed on my Queens Rifles qualification.
You put a ban on weapons in the USA and it would not change a thing. It would be like drugs.

 

[Sarg]

My hands are weapons....to me. I hurt myself with them all the time!

Sarg

 

[Jimmy1]

Same, I used to defuse fights all the time by telling them I know origami. I would fold them into a duck them pull their arse and their head would move.

Now I don't bother, I would rather fight.

 

[Sludge]

Here in the land of Oz we had a weapon buy back scheme. You can still own a weapon, you just can't carry it in the street. You can keep it in your home, but it has to be in a safe, ammo separate. Home safety wise, it's ridiculous as all the criminals have weapons and carry them on them, but seriously, the police don't do checks to see they are locked away, it's more for safety from the children. The only downfall, is that you have to be a member of a gun club/sporting shooters club. Not hard. Farmers are different, they can have a variety of weapons without joining a club. But you know, it works.
Me, I love weapons. I could still strip and assemble every weapon I was taught blindfolded I reckon. I was a good shot too, just missed on my Queens Rifles qualification.
You put a ban on weapons in the USA and it would not change a thing. It would be like drugs.

I actually find the entire gun control argument here hysterically funny. Right now there is an ongoing shortage on ammo. Again. Why? Every time there is a rumor about a "gun ban", everyone goes out and panic buys. Call me a conspiracy whack-job if you want, but I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the manufacturer's, suppliers, and lobbyists deliberately make things sound "bad" every chance they get to drive up demand, raise prices, and make more money.

That, my friends, IS the American way. Fear is good, big business. Period.

Too bad the bulk of "We the People" are too damned stupid to make similar observations. (Or they do and are too stupid/zealous/blissfully blind to make the connection....)

Don't know about the rest of you all, but if I was the mindless mayhem type of crazy, I don't need guns, or even gun powder to make a "mess". Give me a trip to the DIY store and a few hours and I can build much more frightening stuff than a silly old firearm. NOT that I would EVER do such a thing. Ever. But, my point is if my stupid ass can do it, anyone can. Shit, look at those two dumbf*cks up in Boston. They were both complete and utter idiots and they used nothing but a few google searches to do revoltingly awful stuff....and look where their firearms got them. (And they STILL built their bombs the hard way. they used low velocity explosives from fireworks.)

I guess what I am saying is that in the US anyway, giving in to "gun ban" hysteria is a waste of time and energy. If "they" were gonna take our guns, they would have done it a long time ago, the criminal element wouldn't have them, and civilians wouldn't need them. It will never happen. It cannot happen. There are far too many guns floating around and not enough money to fund a Nazi-style "round them up" type scenario. It is all fear and money talking, and this silly unfounded panic made millions for all the firearms makers.


Mark my words. As soon as sales slow, they government will start the ban hammer rumors again and business will be booming again.


Hmmmm. Now I'm all paranoid....

I wonder if they still make those combination small caliber/tomahawk rigs...;)

 

[Sarg]

I think it's more of a statement than a bit of plastic and steele. A huge percentage of the population see a direct correlation between the ability to own a firearm and what they think of as freedom. Then, there's us plinkers. Plinking to me is a sport. I try to improve my aim, try being the important concept and if I do, I enjoy it.

Nothing is harmed, nothing suffers (except my aim) and there is no threat to anything. I don't care for "ball" sports, like football, B-ball, ect. So, that's my sport. Sport. Not a religion, not a maniacal menace warp. A sport.

Scenario...Monday morning, the American Congress outlaws professional football. Wait for it, you'll hear it. The scream heard all the way to Jupiter. But far more football players get injured than the whole of the legitimate Shooting clubs.

In summation...the only reason people look down on my sport and up to football is how many liquor stores have been held up with footballs?

No?

Sarg

 

[vikingr12]

I enjoy a plink plink now and again too but I know I have developed a different attitude about guns. When I was 12 years old, a kid with a Mauser shot me twice with what Thank God were WWII bullets. One hit me square in the leg and the other splattered on my tough leather coat. That incident might account for me being somewhat unforgiving when it came to enemy contact. I still have trouble with Vietnamese people. I get along but I watch'em.
But now, all I want is a couple of good shotguns, a rifle (7.62 is fine with a bolt), maybe a good bow, and I want to go hunting, real hunting in the woods with horses and stalking and binos. With people that KNOW guns so I don;t have to worry about getting shot accidentally.
That will help my PTSD a whole lot. To go back to the scene of the crime and win this time without my hands tied behind my back. And just enjoy some good open country again.