A criminal is risking his own life by breaking into someone else's house. Even if you ban guns, there's always a risk that the houseowner has something else up his sleeve; a knife, a sword or something similar.

And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was good as gold

[ 05-05-2004, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: Davros ]

Why don't soldiers fight with sturdy automotive vehicles instead of those shooty things? Could it be that those shooty things are more efficient?

And Tuesdays aren't all that great either.

And Tuesdays aren't all that great either. </font>[/QUOTE]Exactly! Right back to the 'MEDIA' "Gotta have my face in the paper!"
Like the article points out however, the weapons didn't do it, the thugs did it! Along with the use of explosives. Now there's a concept, use explosives with weapons. Where are we seeing that now?

This was a tragic event. I'm not playing it down, just pointing to the root.
But to contrast, how many shots did Timothy McVeigh fire?

And they can see "no reasons"
Cos there are "no reasons"

First, we're talking about an urban situation, or a village square, some crowded area that everyone imagines when we talk about urban shootings and you get the knee-jerk "OMFGZ! Teh baby killing gunz can kill 20 peeple in a minute!" type arguments, in those situations, an automobile would be FAR more dangerous, as it's 2 tons (or more, in the case of trucks and SUVs) of steel and rubber crashing into people who crumble like silt under a shoe. While someone is in the vehicle, and they don't crash into anything too sturdy, and people are in front of them, people will continue to die, across a matter of 5 or 6 seconds, in a crowded throroughfare, a dozen could be killed, quite reasonably.

Then you move into Combat, a far more diverse and complicated SERIES of scenarios, not just one incident. Combat is not, has never been, and for the good of mankind I hope it never becomes a purely mathematical or clinical affair. The weapon you depend upon for use must be capable of use in a very broad range of scenarios and possibilities... Given that, the rifle is the best choice for the individual soldier (though some would contend in favor of light machineguns) in most situations.[/quote]

[ 05-08-2004, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: Oblivion437 ]

And nobody's gunna go to school today
She's goin to make them stay at home.

That's cos they are "trailer park girls", and they "go round the outside, round the outside".

I don't like mondays