Here's what I don't understand about Lit's and Scrap's stance on guns: They both know that guns kill. They both know that it's the only reason for their existence. Fewer guns means fewer deaths. Stricter gun laws means it's harder to get guns (that includes getting them illegally because a good gun law will restrict more than just buying guns or ammo over the counter). There are enough incidents in the US and elsewhere to demonstrate that easy access to guns will result in tragedies. Witness Columbine and many, many others.
This is why, and I quote myself:
--guns will never completely go away from this planet. --- the criminals and governments will never give up their guns voluntarily. Gun laws just disarm honest and decent people.
Are you so naïve that you don't realise that really
gross criminals will always get guns, even if private guns are totally banned from every country on the planet? Are you even more naïve, thinking that the
governments will be willing to give up
their guns, once the people did? Or are you even
that naïve that you think that the governments will act properly and never abuse their power, if they're the only ones allowed to have guns?
I don't know how many times Lit and Scrap have been faced with armed criminals but judging from their posts here, it would seem like it happens just about every day. I doubt it, though; I'm not sure if either of them has actually faced an armed criminal, at all. I know Lit found use for guns, taking out his anger on road signs. He also confessed that in younger years, he could well have created a Columbine incident himself, right here in Sweden, had he had easier access to guns. In all likelihood, innocent people would have been killed or seriously hurt.
If you had read my post carefully, you would have seen that it was a homemade bomb, not a gun. I blew that road sign up, because the cops were standing on the motorway fining otherwise law abiding people for violating the speed limit instead of doing their job and catching
real criminals, like rapists, blackmailers, drug dealers, white slave traders etc. That road sign will cost the state at least 5 times more than I had to pay for violating the speed limit.
And if my dad had been a hunter or a member of a shooting club, I might have tried to make my own Columbine, yes, but I would
never had shot people randomly, never.
As for Scrap, I don't know. I have no idea if he shoots road signs in anger or plans to "defend" himself against bullies. I hope not.
He has told me that he scared some low-lives trying to rob him, using his .45. What would you have done against three robbers? Sung "Give peace a chance" or "We shall overcome"?
I'm very glad that none of these two gentlemen are in any position of power here or elsewhere in the world.
I would let you arm yourself like a man, if I were in power, like they do in Vermont; you just go in and buy the gun. No licenses are needed, not even for concealed carrying. And I'm sure that Scrap would certainly make 100 times better a president than mr Bush.