It's not guns that kill people, it's stoopid that does.

[Lost User]

It takes a lot longer to beat someone to death with an mp3-player than it does to shoot them dead though. I'm fairly certain I'd get tired and give up long before death occurred.

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[Eytukan]

If you read our local news papers, you'll disagree with yourself. Out of 10 murder attempts by knife or sharp weapons, at least 3-4 recover through first aid and immediate admission into ICU. And when you look into most cases, they say "The victim bled to death". Which means the victim has been unattended for hours after the attack. Only few cases end in immediate death. Like a stab straight to the heart, slitting the throat. etc. But all these can never draw parallel to a head shot. Am I right?

Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

[Eytukan]

And too many stupids spend the entire day reading a book. I mean Facebook! those doomed Facebook addicts rot their time into darkness. X|

Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

[Pete OHanlon]

:laugh: I'll grant you that.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

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[Michael Bergman]

You can run away from a knife or a club. You can't run away from a bullet.

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

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[FyreWyrm]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

What could he have used that would even approach a firearm?

How about some of the homemade grenades he booby-trapped his apartment with? He had over 30 of them in his apartment wired up to traps. What if he walked in and lobbed a half dozen grenades into the crowd. More than 12 people would have died. What's your argument now? How about we ban all of the items that could possibly be used to make explosive devices. There goes all modern technology, cleaning supplies, gardening supplies, gasoline/diesel. If people want to kill, they will find a way, regardless of how well regulated anything is.

Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

[wizardzz]

As if dating someone who thinks The Walking Dead is realistic weren't embarrassing enough. If it's so realistic: How are their cars so clean, while their clothes are so dirty?

[PIEBALDconsult]

"Serpentine! Serpentine!" -- The In-Laws :cool:

[soap brain]

FyreWyrm wrote:

How about some of the homemade grenades he booby-trapped his apartment with? He had over 30 of them in his apartment wired up to traps. What if he walked in and lobbed a half dozen grenades into the crowd. More than 12 people would have died. What's your argument now? How about we ban all of the items that could possibly be used to make explosive devices.

Very few people can successfully make explosives. Moreover, explosives require preparation, more often than not. Consider Anders Breivik - he killed eight people with his car-bomb and sixty-nine with his guns.

FyreWyrm wrote:

There goes all modern technology, cleaning supplies, gardening supplies, gasoline/diesel. If people want to kill, they will find a way, regardless of how well regulated anything is.

If people are determined, they will. Most shootings are not so premeditated; nobody mixes up some fertilizer explosive immediately after he catches his wife cheating on him.

[Lost User]

ChrisElston wrote:

It takes a lot longer to beat someone to death with an mp3-player than it does to shoot them dead though.

You'd be surprised. As though as the human body is, it's still a fragile system.

ChrisElston wrote:

I'm fairly certain I'd get tired and give up long before death occurred.

Adrenaline makes sure you don't get tired before you're "out of danger". Rage and anger might have a similar effect, blocking logical reasoning.

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[BobJanova]

So if I go out and kill 1 it's less reprehensible than killing 12?

Uh, yes. I don't understand how you don't see that :confused: That's why we've all heard of Anders Breivik and not the thousands of people who kill one other person.

[Lost User]

She shouldn't have been criticizing the show. It is inexcusable that we live in a world where a woman would feel like she could do that.

[realJSOP]

You can try, but you'll just die tired.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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[jschell]

ChrisElston wrote:

But if he'd had to look for another weapon he'd have forgotten what he wanted it for by the time he found it.

Or not since the story basically said otherwise... "...and became so heated that she returned to his house to check on him — and found him waiting for her with a gun."

[jschell]

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

So if I go out and kill 1 it's less reprehensible than killing 12?

Certainly that is true in most of the US based on the law. Multiple deaths are more likely to result in a death penalty or more severe penalty. Certainly true in the press. Single deaths are unlikely to lead to national coverage. Certainly true to some extent in the international community. I don't recall any calls for international war crime trials because someone killed a single person.

[jschell]

Michael Bergman wrote:

You can't run away from a bullet.

And yet people do in fact run away successfully.