Comments on: Gunfight! What do you think? http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think A Blog of Atheist Thought Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: billh http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79217 billh Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79217 Ah... 1st!<br /> <br /> Obvious answer. Outlaw guns, and only the criminals will have guns. Ah… 1st!

Obvious answer. Outlaw guns, and only the criminals will have guns.

]]> By: Hoodlum http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79218 Hoodlum Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79218 Everyone in Iraq carries weapons and it's an Amish paradise. <br /> <br /> Geez, does anyone study the Middle Ages anymore? God wasn't the only thing they had everywhere, they also had weapons. Almost everyone in the Dark Ages carried the small arms of the era (knives, axes, cutting tools) and the end result was a murder rate that put Baltimore to shame.<br /> <br /> Poor Hobbes, nobody gets pass his amusing phraseology. Everyone in Iraq carries weapons and it’s an Amish paradise.

Geez, does anyone study the Middle Ages anymore? God wasn’t the only thing they had everywhere, they also had weapons. Almost everyone in the Dark Ages carried the small arms of the era (knives, axes, cutting tools) and the end result was a murder rate that put Baltimore to shame.

Poor Hobbes, nobody gets pass his amusing phraseology.

]]> By: emebit http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79219 emebit Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79219 I think you are jumping the gun a bit. The SCOTUS just heard oral arguments today. Decision on this case (DC's <em>handgun</em> ban) is expected by June.<br /> I think you are jumping the gun a bit. The SCOTUS just heard oral arguments today. Decision on this case (DC’s handgun ban) is expected by June.

]]> By: billh http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79221 billh Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79221 hoodlum:<br /> everyone has cars too. sooooo hoodlum:
everyone has cars too. sooooo

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79222 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79222 Why did this even need to be heard by the SCOTUS? Doesn't the Second Amendment apply in the District too?<br /> Why did this even need to be heard by the SCOTUS? Doesn’t the Second Amendment apply in the District too?

]]> By: mxracer652 http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79223 mxracer652 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79223 Cars, smokes and McDonald's kill more people on their own than all gun assaults do.<br /> <br /> If you ban one, you need to ban all the others with a higher mortality rate to at least stay logically consistent.<br /> <br /> I say this as a non gun owner. Cars, smokes and McDonald’s kill more people on their own than all gun assaults do.

If you ban one, you need to ban all the others with a higher mortality rate to at least stay logically consistent.

I say this as a non gun owner.

]]> By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79224 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79224 No, the energy of a small explosion being mostly transferred and concentrated into the momentum of a small aerodynamic bit of metal that is designed to kill things on impact has many practical and constructive uses, such as .... shooting animals for food, killing terrorists, aiming toward the center of a target of concentric circles to see how accurate and precise you can aim, science experiments having to do with aerodynamics and conservation of momentum, shooting clay saucers out of the air, and of course the testing of certain shields or armors.<br /> <br /> Of course many of these things have been replaced with computer simulations, shooter video games, commercialized farms and slaughterhouses. However, there is nothing like the feel of shooting a real gun or killing a real animal or doing a real experiment, so I say they shouldn't be outlawed unless democratic consensus deems it necessary. No, the energy of a small explosion being mostly transferred and concentrated into the momentum of a small aerodynamic bit of metal that is designed to kill things on impact has many practical and constructive uses, such as …. shooting animals for food, killing terrorists, aiming toward the center of a target of concentric circles to see how accurate and precise you can aim, science experiments having to do with aerodynamics and conservation of momentum, shooting clay saucers out of the air, and of course the testing of certain shields or armors.

Of course many of these things have been replaced with computer simulations, shooter video games, commercialized farms and slaughterhouses. However, there is nothing like the feel of shooting a real gun or killing a real animal or doing a real experiment, so I say they shouldn’t be outlawed unless democratic consensus deems it necessary.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79226 karen Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79226 Sure you can have your gun, Dave. You just can't have any bullets. :-) Sure you can have your gun, Dave. You just can’t have any bullets. :-)

]]> By: phreedm http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79230 phreedm Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79230 This ruling is expected by the end of June...<br /> <br /> Depending on how the Supreme Court does rule...we may only have 49 states...<br /> <br /> http://www.progunleaders.org/ This ruling is expected by the end of June…

Depending on how the Supreme Court does rule…we may only have 49 states…

http://www.progunleaders.org/

]]> By: thx1138 http://atheists.org/blog/2008/03/18/gunfight_what_do_you_think/comment-page-1#comment-79231 thx1138 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-79231 Sadly, the second amendment is unclear on the gun issue. People on both sides think otherwise, of course.<br /> <br /> The fact remains, guns and bombs are for one thing and one thing only: to kill, usually people. I think Gandhi got it right. <br /> <br /> RIP Arthur C. Clarke Sadly, the second amendment is unclear on the gun issue. People on both sides think otherwise, of course.

The fact remains, guns and bombs are for one thing and one thing only: to kill, usually people. I think Gandhi got it right.

RIP Arthur C. Clarke

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