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Target shooting maybe?
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I can easily shoot 80 to 100 rounds in about 1/2 a day on the range, practicing for a rifle match. 10 days worth of shooting is not much really. Don't worry, I only use one target.
Radar, have you been to Iraq? Another shooting in another mall, is why we should ban guns? There was another death on the highway somewhere in the U.S. up to 40,000 a year...every year. We are not banning cars anytime soon. Guns serve a purpose, cars serve a purpose. Right now, those purposes outweigh the need to ban either one. |
One does not need to go to Iraq to know what is happening there and what has happened in the past. That is the beauty of modern technology and communication methods.
Luckily I finished my time in the military before the first gulf war and were I still in and ordered to go to Iraq now, I'd refuse that unlawful order because I took my oath seriously. |
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Wikipedia offers the following list of murder rates per 100,000 people (most recent data): USA: 5.9 UK: 2.03 Canada: 2.01 Australia: 1.28 You're MUCH more likely to be murdered if you live in the US than one of the other countries you claim have higher levels of violent crime. Meanwhile this site (NationMaster, they say their figures come from the CIA world factbook) gives figures for assaults per 1,000: US: 7.569 UK: 7.459 Canada: 7.118 Australia: 7.024 Which are more pretty much the same. What this says to me is that these cultures are about equally violent, but in the US the violence is more likely to lead to death. This site also gives the figures for robberies per 1,000 (which combine violence with property crime) UK: 1.574 USA: 1.385 Australia: 1.160 Canada: 0.823 Ok, second out of four, but first for assaults and clear first in murders. I suspect that this is simply because it is so much easier for an assault to become a murder when one or both parties have guns. Maybe this is the price the USA chooses to pay in exchange for the benefits of an armed populace, and that is the decision of those who live there, that is, you and not me. But you will be more persuasive if you can keep your facts correct and refrain from disparaging other countries. |
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Wait, I'm not an American but I thought the 2nd Ammendment says right to bear arms and militia meant: ( and here's my gap in understanding) At that time the said Amendt. was written the American militia defeated the Brits. To me the militia in the 2nd Amendt actually refers to the Armed forces as it was then - The USA Army as it is known today? N'est pas?
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All these articles still agree that the US leads the list for murders and rapes. You haven't got anything about Canada or Australia. |
On the contrary, you do need to go to Iraq to really know what is going on. To different Areas as well, as a broad example Diyala is different then Anbar. Both are different then Baghdad.
The only weapons that are confiscated in Iraq are the RPK heavy machine guns, RPG launchers with or without warheads, and like items. Oh yea, large ordinance like 155 Artilary rounds, Det cord and bomb/IED making materials. The Ak-47's that are confiscated are the ones that are hot to the touch, having been recently fired at U.S. or Iraqi troops or police. Every household in Iraq is allowed to have one AK-47. It's Iraqi law. It is unlawful for an Iraqi citizen to posses an RPG launcher, much as it is unlawful for an American citizen to posses an AT-4 rocket launcher. U.S. troops support Iraqi law. So, you would advocate all military personnel to refuse service or deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, The Pacific Rim, Europe, and South America? Under the grounds that they have received unlawful orders to do so? |
Also the article on Britain's crime figures is from 1998 and was from a US Department of Justice report which suggested the UK was in some ways a more dangerous place to live than America.
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I'll pm ya! :D |
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Where do you get your information that guns in the U.K. are common?
I'm an ex-brit. I lived in London and on the outskirts for 62 years. I have, truthfully, never seen a real gun other than in a museum, in my life and I never walked in fear of one. I was however fearful of being mugged after dark and never ventured out at night. I accept there is a high crime rate in the U.K. What I don't accept is that the use of guns is anything more than a minimum inside of those figures. |
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