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December 15th, 2009, 10:00 AM
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toldailytopic: Guns: Good thing? Or bad thing?
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December 15th, 2009, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by antiknight
I think it's pretty easy to imagine how much better the world would be without guns.
Or even box cutters
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I hate to break it to the peeps, but your chances of being killed or wounded in a terrorist incident are so close to zero that they might as well be zero. Worry far more about slipping in the tub.
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December 15th, 2009, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by antiknight
I think it's pretty easy to imagine how much better the world would be without guns.
Before guns, people were hacking at each other with swords, axes, and maces or shooting each other with slings, bows, and crossbows or impaling each other with lances and spears. Yeah, it's pretty easy to imagine how much better off we'd be without guns.
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Before guns, people were hacking at each other with swords, axes, and maces or shooting each other with slings, bows, and crossbows or impaling each other with lances and spears. Yeah, it's pretty easy to imagine how much better off we'd be without guns.
Great point. It's much easier to deal with lesser weapons. Guns amplify the bad guys ability to commit his crimes.
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December 15th, 2009, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by antiknight
Great point. It's much easier to deal with lesser weapons. Guns amplify the bad guys ability to commit his crimes.
So does a nuclear warhead magnify greater than that. Depending of course who you think the bad guy is on this scale. Just sayin.
I hate to break it to the peeps, but your chances of being killed or wounded in a terrorist incident are so close to zero that they might as well be zero. Worry far more about slipping in the tub.
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December 15th, 2009, 11:04 AM
Inanimate objects are not moral agents....they are neither good nor bad.
You might just as well ask if a rock is a good or bad thing.
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To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
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December 15th, 2009, 11:05 AM
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Great point. It's much easier to deal with lesser weapons.
Tell that to every nation that found itself ruled by the sword under the Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Roman empires.
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"What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason." - Voltaire
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