OK, Let's do it again. Why do you Brits have such retarded, faggotty gun laws?

[odeon]

I don't have a solution to prevent it, but I would say that it would help to start by making things harder. And if you think that's entertaining, good for you. Me, I think it's kind of sad.

As a teenager living in the US, it was easier for me to buy pot than it was to buy a 6-pack of beer. Drug dealers don't ask for ID or make you fill out paperwork. A robust black market in guns will make it easier for criminals to get guns, not harder.

Back in 1933, a 10 year old kid could walk into a hardware store and walk out with a FULLY AUTOMATIC THOMPSON SUB-MACHINE GUN. What is your explanation as to why there wasn't an epidemic of school shootings back then??  (again, this aught to prove entertaining)

Funny how you'd pick 1933. What part of the link I gave earlier (http://www.vakkur.com/hx/guns/guns_kia_79_99.htm)  did you find was so difficult to understand? And again, if you find this entertaining, good for you, but that fact alone is kind of sad.

I read the link and the data doesn't prove what you think it does. The majority of those gun deaths are suicides which made the act of suicide less painfull. That's a good thing in my book.

I picked the year 1933 because that was before the passage of the Firearms Control Act of 1934 which required a special permit to own fully automatic weapons. It was passed because of all the gangster violence surrounding prohibition. The violence decreased not as a result of the gun law of 1934 but because of the repeal of alcohol prohibition.

The majority? About a half of them. But I'm sure you think of the glass as being half full.

Oh, and what do I think it proves? I can't recall having told you so obviously you can read minds now.

[Jack]

Shooting is far too messy.

Used to think women are more likely to poison, because blood is icky and women are sneaky bitches like that. About 40% of women killers in the US use guns, as apposed to about 70% of male killers. While guns are the most common method, women are still seven times more likely than men to use poison, and twice as likely to use a knife.

[Icequeen]

Shooting is far too messy.

Used to think women are more likely to poison, because blood is icky and women are sneaky bitches like that. About 40% of women killers in the US use guns, as apposed to about 70% of male killers. While guns are the most common method, women are still seven times more likely than men to use poison, and twice as likely to use a knife.

Sneaky I am.

 

[Pyraxis]

Surely a knife produces more icky blood than a gun does.

Poison may produce vomiting and that's its own type of icky.

[Jack]

Poisons rank low on the list in general for both genders. Knives are second place for both genders.

["couldbecousin"]

  My mother kept a baseball bat in the living room, for whatever that might have been worth in a crisis.
  We lived in a quiet suburban neighborhood, no break-ins, no need ever arose to swing the bat. 
  My mother was of two minds about guns.  Personally she was afraid of them and wouldn't have had one
  in the house, yet she used to quote  "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns,"  and
  "I will give up my gun when they pry it from my cold dead hand"  as if she liked the ideas, even though
  she couldn't bring herself to be a gun owner for real.  I have a feeling she'd have been a great shot. 

[odeon]

Surely a knife produces more icky blood than a gun does.

Poison may produce vomiting and that's its own type of icky.

Dead bodies are sort of icky anyway.

[Pyraxis]

Just got to let them decompose long enough and then they're perfectly clean.

["couldbecousin"]

Just got to let them decompose long enough and then they're perfectly clean.

  Let us clean it up for you!  We're here to help!   

[odeon]

Just got to let them decompose long enough and then they're perfectly clean.

True, but before that happens it's quite icky.

['andersom']

Just got to let them decompose long enough and then they're perfectly clean.

True, but before that happens it's quite icky.

That's why you go on a long holiday right after leaving the person to water your plants some poisoned biscuits for the effort.

[Gopher Gary]

You freaks are going to frighten away the n00b. 

[benjimanbreeg]

What noob?

["couldbecousin"]

You freaks are going to frighten away the n00b. 

  You already did, you fuzzy little bastard!   

[Gopher Gary]

What noob?

FourAceDeal. 

You freaks are going to frighten away the n00b. 

  You already did, you fuzzy little bastard!   

But I'm adorable.