Open carry in Oklahoma

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by CCIP

And yet another side to it is the fact that lack of guns does not mean lack of violent crime. Some parts of Britain for example are having a pretty serious problem with knife crime, something that is ultimately very difficult to regulate. Most of my own experience with violent crime was in Russia where despite guns being illegal and rarely used outside in crime of gang warfare, the murder rate was through the roof during the 90s, and most of said murders were committed with knives or blunt objects. Like gun crime in America, I think those things reflect cultural and social problems more than they do attitude to weapons.

While I have no principled connection between guns and freedom like some US citizens do, I do see how the idea of taking guns away from, say, your average guy who lives up in the hills of Tennessee is pretty absurd. It's almost like taking knives away from housewives or hunters - all it is is just another tool in the shed, one that they might be just a little attached to culturally, but honestly it's not the insane thing that some people seem to take it for. Handgun bans in DC or Chicago may make some sense, but at the same time, whether/how well they worked is still pretty difficult to say. The US is a big and complex country, culturally-speaking. No single solution to crime problems is ever going to work on a federal, or even state level. I think people need to pay less attention to guns, though, and more to what causes violent crime and how it can be dealt with better on a community level.

Some good points! Guns are much more humane than being gutted with a knife or battered to death with a club. Imagine a world without guns, even knives, where people would have to resort to forks and spoons to kill.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Armistead

and spoons to kill.

LOCKSLEY!!!!

[Onkel Neal]

Well, it happened again, our cycle shop was robbed a month ago, but this time the robber just grabbed an armful of Go Pro cameras and ran.

Then last week, in the Verizon store next door, two bandits held them up at gunpoint. It just so happened there were two off duty cops in that store, so a gunfight ensued. As far as I know, neither the cops nor the tards hit each other or anyone, but one of their stray bullets did penetrate the wall in our store and take out a full-face helmet.


So, I am applying for hazard pay

[soopaman2]

Just replying to Oberon.


Alan Rickman is god of all bad guys, you should see him as Rasputin in the HBO original film of the same name, awesome.

"no, a spoon will hurt more, you twit"

On gouging eyes out, and what implements would work better.

I bow before Alan!

[yubba]

Gee I wonder why there is so much crime isn't the wealth getting spread around enough, what people ain't getting their fare share so they just take it from others . Maybe they ought to think about banning subway trains. Didn't they just lift the pay freeze on federal employees this last friday, some got a raise , heard uncle Joe got a raise by executive order ,, how do you like that they get a raise and we get taxed that is just about, as bad as that super strom Sandy Pork fest bill they where trying to pass with 21 billion dollars weaved into it, on non storm related prodjects. No wonder I got hired as an armed door man at a gunshop.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by yubba

Gee I wonder why there is so much crime isn't the wealth getting spread around enough, what people ain't getting their fare share so they just take it from others . Maybe they ought to think about banning subway trains.

:h mmm:

No wonder I got hired as an armed door man at a gunshop.

Coming soon to a elementary school near you Yubbaguard

[geetrue]

Well, it happened again, our cycle shop was robbed a month ago, but this time the robber just grabbed an armful of Go Pro cameras and ran.

That looks like a perfect (almost) cut from a glass cutter and then a long sleeved arm premeditated quick grab on the side of the store without much traffic.

A real or a fake security camera you can see from every window should cure the problem ... then send the improvement to your insurance company for a rate deduction.

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Ro...y/-/index.html

You gotta love this story from Neals link
http://www.click2houston.com/news/Me...8/-/index.html

[Oberon]

Meanwhile in Arizona:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20923201

*sigh*