Oregon Campus Shooting

Started by Time-Immemorial29 pages
Originally posted by Omega Vision
Yes, what's the point we're missing?

the stupidity is the point.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Wasn't trying to but from how it sounded, that university in Oregon didn't have as much security as one would've thought. Teachers at least should be allowed to carry a firearm for they would be more trusting with one than a student.

Except for the times when teachers shoot people.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Except for the times when teachers shoot people.

Suppose I should say add more cops to the campus but even then they have controversy with guns too. Point? What other suggestions are there?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Suppose I should say add more cops to the campus but even then they have controversy with guns too. Point? What other suggestions are there?

Well, gun control for one.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, gun control for one.

How would you define it? How would you keep someone from taking advantage of it?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
How would you define it? How would you keep someone from taking advantage of it?

These are odd questions. There has been gun control laws for centuries, this is not an unsolved issue. And you would punish those who have illegal guns and confiscate them. In time it would decrease the ready availability of guns.

Originally posted by Bardock42
These are odd questions. There has been gun control laws for centuries, this is not an unsolved issue. And you would punish those who have illegal guns and confiscate them. In time it would decrease the ready availability of guns.

While borders are open? You think the Australians, when they enacted gun control, left theirs open?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
While borders are open?

Yes. Those are not related. Particularly because guns come from the US and flood Mexico, not the other way around.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yes. Those are not related. Particularly because guns come from the US and flood Mexico, not the other way around.

And who do you think keeps bringing them back and forth? Not the law abiding.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
And who do you think keeps bringing them back and forth? Not the law abiding.

No, not back and forth, just to Mexico. Again, this is not a good argument against gun control.

Originally posted by Bardock42
No, not back and forth, just to Mexico. Again, this is not a good argument against gun control.

When criminals can't get guns at the stores, where do you think the weapons come from?

Look, the point here being is you enact gun control in the US, you're gonna be left with the criminal civilians owning firearms.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
the stupidity is the point.

Ah, so you were bluffing. Nice poker face.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
When criminals can't get guns at the stores, where do you think the weapons come from?

Look, the point here being is you enact gun control in the US, you're gonna be left with the criminal civilians owning firearms.

Initially you will have the civilians who a) break the law to have guns or b) want to perpetrate crimes with guns with them, that's correct (both groups already have guns however, so it doesn't make that worse in any way). However, over time, as the prevalence of guns decreases it will be harder and harder for criminals (or civilians who want to have guns) to attain guns. Gun violence will go down, quicker in the cases of rampages, somewhat slower for organized crime and gangs...but it will go down nonetheless.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Wasn't trying to but from how it sounded, that university in Oregon didn't have as much security as one would've thought. Teachers at least should be allowed to carry a firearm for they would be more trusting with one than a student.

Teachers MAYBE. I personally wouldn't, and I think the idea of teachers carrying guns is resigning yourself to living in a shitty gun-dominated dystopia. The end-result of gunowner logic, where every gun problem is answered by more people being armed, is a world where just about no one is unarmed, and everyone has their gun on them at just about all times. I don't want to live in that world. I'd rather live with a small risk of getting killed by a psychopath in a freak rampage than deal with a constant threat of gun-related accidents because everyone is packing.

You and I have different ideas for a utopia.

Originally posted by psmith81992
You and I have different ideas for a utopia.

I never said anything about utopia. I said that a world where everyone is armed at all times is a dystopia. You do know the difference between utopia and dystopia, don't you?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
When criminals can't get guns at the stores, where do you think the weapons come from?

Look, the point here being is you enact gun control in the US, you're gonna be left with the criminal civilians owning firearms.

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Yep. While the law-abiding citizens are left defenseless. We've already seen how banning guns in "gun-free" cities (like Chicago) have worked out "oh, so well". 🙄

Chicago has less a gun problem and more a gang problem.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
We have security and cops for a reason, we don't need armed students. Please don't try to lecture me on how a university should function.

Bold on if you don't think students should be armed then why does the law saying they can't be armed terrify you?

Originally posted by Star428
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Yep. While the law-abiding citizens are left defenseless. We've already seen how banning guns in "gun-free" cities (like Chicago) have worked out "oh, so well". 🙄

People keep using this argument but there is no data to support it.

In countries where heavy or full gun control laws have been enacted we don't see the criminal element raising up and controlling the civilians. In fact gun crime tends to go down and other types of crime don't tend to go up.

So the argument of you're only preventing people from being able to protect themselves just seems to be a chest beating cry that is not grounded in reality.

LOL. The point still stands. You can't dismiss it by saying "Oh, but that a gang problem. It doesn't really count". 🙄

It's pathetic how u libs try and downplay everything that doesn't support your ridiculous arguments. If anything, the fact that gangs still carry their guns despite the gun restriction laws in Chicago, actually supports my point. 👆