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1-Year-Old Boy Shot In The Head In New York City Dies

In this case that wouldn't have made a difference. The point was that if all these laws are so freaking necessary then they'd also work....but that doesn't seem to be happening in NYC any more than it does in Chicago or anywhere else.

You're wasting your breath, Luther. The fact of more stringent gun laws are lost on some people. They can't make the connection between more stringent gun laws doesn't magically make violence or illegal gun ownership go away.

They won't be happy until there are no guns. Funny thing about that...will that even work?

Nope. But don't tell them that. It's not what they want to hear.

Next time someone gets their heads bashed in with a rock, someone gets choked to death by a scarf or nylon rope, or someone gets stabbed multiple times and dies...I want to see those same people rallying against abolishing these things as well.
 
You're wasting your breath, Luther. The fact of more stringent gun laws are lost on some people. They can't make the connection between more stringent gun laws doesn't magically make violence or illegal gun ownership go away.

They won't be happy until there are no guns. Funny thing about that...will that even work?

Nope. But don't tell them that. It's not what they want to hear.

Next time someone gets their heads bashed in with a rock, someone gets choked to death by a scarf or nylon rope, or someone gets stabbed multiple times and dies...I want to see those same people rallying against abolishing these things as well.

It worked fine in Australia. Actually more than fine.

Did gun control work in Australia?
 
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Wrong place wrong time, but guns don't kill people remember, that's what they'll say anyway.
The gun didnt kill this toddler. a bullet was the final instrument of the death and the gun the intermediary, but unless you are the worst kind of fool you cant POSSIBLY believe that the gun woke up that morning and said "**** it...Ima go out and dust me a baby!" No...the person RESPONSIBLE for the childs death was the scumbag that decided pulling the trigger indiscriminately would be a good thing. Guns DO NOT kill people. PEOPLE kill people, and they do so with all MANNER of weapon and device.
 
And it isn't true. Adam Lanza's guns murdered a truck load of children and adults.

No, Adam Lanza murdered a truck load of children and adults. He just happened to use guns, just like he could have used a bomb or other device.
 
Guns are for killing things, their only purpose, in this case it was a baby. And so it goes.

I guess deer hunters should throw rocks at the deer in hopes of maybe killing one?
 
No, Adam Lanza murdered a truck load of children and adults. He just happened to use guns, just like he could have used a bomb or other device.
He could have used a blue whale dropped from a space shuttle but he didn't. He used what people normally use when they want to kill something, a gun. And see, it worked exactly as designed, leaving us lots of dead bodies to bury, many in very small coffins.
 
I guess deer hunters should throw rocks at the deer in hopes of maybe killing one?

No they should take a gun. That's what guns do, they kill things.
 
He could have used a blue whale dropped from a space shuttle but he didn't. He used what people normally use when they want to kill something, a gun. And see, it worked exactly as designed, leaving us lots of dead bodies to bury, many in very small coffins.

50 million legal gun owners with 200 million legal guns didn't kill anyone last night.
 
Guns are for killing things, their only purpose, in this case it was a baby. And so it goes.
I have what many would call an aresnal. Except fot the hunting shotguns, none of them have been used to do anything more than put holes in paper targets and provide me and my family with hours of enjoyable range time. I carry concealed and in 33 years of doing so have had to pull a weapon 4 times, point it at someone twice, and pull the trigger...never. SO...they have done their job admirably there as well without taking a life. 20 years in the military...thats a different story, but then...thats a different story.

People that believe guns 'only' exist to kill things are narrow mind fools.
 
Ten kids will die, TODAY, from accidental poisoning. Where are those threads?

Maybe this is why?

Children Act Fast...So Do Poisons!

"Every 15 seconds, a Poison Control Center somewhere in the United States gets a call. More than half of these calls are from an adult tending to a child who has swallowed a potentially poisonous substance. These substances include medicine, household chemicals and pesticides. In addition, lead-based toxins also pose a serious health threat to children in this country.

According to the Centers For Disease Control, there are approximately 2 million poison exposures in the United States every year - 57 percent among children under the age of six. Tragically, approximately 30 children die every year due to accidental poisonings."
Children Act Fast...So Do Poisons! | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
 
50 million legal gun owners with 200 million legal guns didn't kill anyone last night.
I think your numbers are off by about half but your point is absolutely correct. That news headline should read "200 Million Guns Last Night did NOT go on a Killing Spree". Shocking...I know...
 
Maybe this is why?

Children Act Fast...So Do Poisons!

"Every 15 seconds, a Poison Control Center somewhere in the United States gets a call. More than half of these calls are from an adult tending to a child who has swallowed a potentially poisonous substance. These substances include medicine, household chemicals and pesticides. In addition, lead-based toxins also pose a serious health threat to children in this country.

According to the Centers For Disease Control, there are approximately 2 million poison exposures in the United States every year - 57 percent among children under the age of six. Tragically, approximately 30 children die every year due to accidental poisonings."
Children Act Fast...So Do Poisons! | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Not as fast as a bullet but apparently you're okay with killing kids with poison. You are anti-gun, then post this stuff which weaken your anti-gun position (far more die by something other than guns).
 
Today is Labor Day. 100 kids will die today in a miriad of scenarios: auto accidents, drownings, falls from a jump-jump and backyard inflatable eater slides, chokings, burns, atv accidents, boating accidents.
 
And it isn't true. Adam Lanza's guns murdered a truck load of children and adults.

They did? They just decided to do that, loaded themselves and walked to where they could fire upon a "truck load of children and adults" all on their own with no person around?
 
They did? They just decided to do that, loaded themselves and walked to where they could fire upon a "truck load of children and adults" all on their own with no person around?
Sounds ludicrous, doesn't it.
 
Today is Labor Day. 100 kids will die today in a miriad of scenarios: auto accidents, drownings, falls from a jump-jump and backyard inflatable eater slides, chokings, burns, atv accidents, boating accidents.

Well, obviously we should BAN autos, water, falling, choking, fire, and accidents. It's for the children, ya know. :roll:
 
aw how cute, the truth is revealed.
Move along, nothing to see here...
 
TOL and every other liberal just offer red herrings and excuses. If I don't pay attention to the road and run over a pothole that flattens my tire, they want to blame the pothole. Typical.
 
Hard to imagine how this could possibly happen in a city with some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country. I figure that if this batch of laws hasn't worked it's high time for NY to make some more laws. Maybe they could have a "SUPER SAFE Act".

Look man, you can't play the "X happened but there was a law against it so therefore that law is useless" just because something is illegal or has legal control built against and it ends up happening, it doesn't mean that the law or the control is entirely worthless.

Point in case, states that have extremely lose gun laws, the point of which being in part to allow people to defend themselves and their property, suffer murders as well. So if you're going to blast states with strict gun control laws whenever they have a murder, because the gun laws didn't prevent that murder, why would you not also blast those states with lose gun control laws whenever they have a murder as well?

Both types of states have taken measures to attempt to limit murder, something everyone wants, and obviously neither is 100% effective and it would be unreasonable to expect anything to be 100% effective, yet your attention is only drawn to those times when the law doesn't work in strict gun control laws however there's nothing but silence for when the law allowing lose firearm controls fails as well to prevent a murder.
 
Guns are for killing things, their only purpose, in this case it was a baby. And so it goes.

This has been refuted time and time again. The most popular firearms in the county are 22 rifles that are illegal to use for hunting all but small game because they lack the power to effectly kill larger animals. By far the highest number of rounds of any caliber sold are 22lr, and since you can't "kill" a paper target your assertion is wrong. Your ignorance of firearms disqualifies you from reasonable discussion on the matter, your bias insures that you will never understand it well enough to comment on it, therefore any posts you make on the subject are nothing but intentional trolling which is against forum rules. Reported.
 
Look man, you can't play the "X happened but there was a law against it so therefore that law is useless" just because something is illegal or has legal control built against and it ends up happening, it doesn't mean that the law or the control is entirely worthless.

Point in case, states that have extremely lose gun laws, the point of which being in part to allow people to defend themselves and their property, suffer murders as well. So if you're going to blast states with strict gun control laws whenever they have a murder, because the gun laws didn't prevent that murder, why would you not also blast those states with lose gun control laws whenever they have a murder as well?

Both types of states have taken measures to attempt to limit murder, something everyone wants, and obviously neither is 100% effective and it would be unreasonable to expect anything to be 100% effective, yet your attention is only drawn to those times when the law doesn't work in strict gun control laws however there's nothing but silence for when the law allowing lose firearm controls fails as well to prevent a murder.

The difference is that one approach makes a valuable, legitimate, intelligent attempt to limit senseless killing by helping the innocent to defend themselves in additional ways. One approach essentially sticks their fingers in their ears, closes their eyes, and shouts "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA".

Realism has an amazing, long-standing track record over idealism.
 
The difference is that one approach makes a valuable, legitimate, intelligent attempt to limit senseless killing by helping the innocent to defend themselves in additional ways. One approach essentially sticks their fingers in their ears, closes their eyes, and shouts "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA".

Realism has an amazing, long-standing track record over idealism.

Which approach is which? You didn't really make it clear and I don't want to asssume.
 
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