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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Apr 7, 2008 15:50:18 GMT
I'd love to own a gun out of personal interest, I find clay pigeon shooting a very enjoyable pastime and would like to try rifle shooting and pistol shooting as well. But that doesn't change the fact that no matter how responsible the majority of people are, guns only have one purpose other than sport, and that's shooting people.
Banning guns does make it more difficult for people to spontaneously shoot someone but it doesn't change the fact that if you really wanted one you could get your hands on one. As many of you know I live in Moss Side which really is a gangland, if I wanted a gun I could probably walk out of the flat and get my hands on one pretty easily.
I'm trying to think of the word for when they told everyone to give their guns in and they wouldn't press charges but for the life of me I can't remember what it is... But anyway, the problem with that type of thing is that the only people who gave in their guns was the law abiders who'd never shoot anyone anyway. The real criminals wouldn't give a toss and they'd keep them or sell them and they're the people who would shoot someone.
It's a very difficult conundrum... People will always find different ways of killing each other, so it's stupid to try and eliminate one way over anything else.
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Post by serpico on Apr 7, 2008 15:57:02 GMT
Gun Amnesty ?
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Post by Dallas Cowboy on Apr 7, 2008 16:07:28 GMT
I like your new avatar, serpico. ;D
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Post by serpico on Apr 7, 2008 16:09:09 GMT
Hah! i bet Ronaldo couldn't do that
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Post by Rebelliousjukebox on Apr 7, 2008 16:09:24 GMT
Interesting to note that you make no mention of Mr. Heston's active involvement in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Somewhat strange behaviour for a "racist," don't you think? But I guess that if you have deemed him a "racist" then a racist he must be. Indeed, but don't you think his shift to the right politically in more recent years - that will be commented on more simply because they're more recent - is all the more regrettable in that light?
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Post by Dallas Cowboy on Apr 7, 2008 17:04:09 GMT
I think it is regrettable to label someone a racist when the facts speak to the contrary.
The views Charlton Heston held were between him and his conscience. Who am I to stand in judgment? I respect his right to hold the views he held just as I would expect him to have respected my right to hold opposing views.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Apr 7, 2008 18:03:25 GMT
"Amnesty," that's the bugger, what a simple word. I feel ashamed; I was thinking "armistice".
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