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Question: who likes guns

Total votes: 34
everyone shood have guns (duh)6 votes (18%)
ugh guns are bad14 votes (41%)
dond realy care2 votes (6%)
havent thought about it0 votes (0%)
i like automatic weapons8 votes (24%)
Gunz=fun4 votes (12%)
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posted on January 13th, 2006, 5:41 pm
Well if people look safe then how is anyone going to tell that they mean to do harm? That could also apply to someone looking really pretty, but having a lousy personality. There are just somethings that you cannot tell about people until stuff happens. Or perfectly sane people sometimes become schizophrenic and off the wall. That is unpredictable and unstoppable.

Sometimes stuff cannot be prevented even with the best planning. And the best planning is not eliminating all of what the suspected problem is.
posted on January 13th, 2006, 9:08 pm
Sometimes stuff cannot be prevented even with the best planning. And the best planning is not eliminating all of what the suspected problem is.

well i'd say that would be a big start :P
posted on January 13th, 2006, 11:57 pm
we have no use for guns in the guneral public thay ether are toys to pepal collecters idoms or for paranoid people a sefty blanket.

guns serv no fuchtion eny more in the hands of the gunral public unless it hunting.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 2:08 am
Just let them blow each other to heck. I'll just move to New Zealand and come back when its over :P
posted on January 14th, 2006, 2:10 am
sounds like a good idea exsept i likt canida more non frich speeking canida.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 2:28 am
Cant stand Canada. They make Boston look conservative.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 6:26 am
canada has more guns per-person then the united states does, with hardly any gun related crimes. so if guns are the cause of all the death in the states how come canada hasn't wiped itself out yet?
posted on January 14th, 2006, 6:31 am
Last edited by RFO Cairo1 on January 14th, 2006, 6:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
ok first off in ordre to own an automatic weapon (which lots of people do) first you must get a class three license which costs $200 second before you buy the auyyomatic weapon you must sign a sheat that goes to the gonverment and tells them everything about you includeing your psycholagical profile all this is reviewed ovre an 8 day pirod. then if the check is ok the police will bring it to your house make shure that it has a place to be locked up. and then at anny time anny law enforcement man can either inspect it or simply take it away. if you do anny crime you loose it and things are worse if you have more then one.

second an auttomatic is not inaccurate at all only the marks man is on auttomatic anny thinh will have kick. nowone will fire on auttomatic becaus of two reasons A. you are innacurate B. it hurts your sholder and your ears C. you will empty a 40 round clip in 5 seconds.

third (lol) nowone can possess a weapon that is more powerful then the millatery as in hand held weapons or anny thing else. a gun that civillans cant own for example an M203, a H&K-79, SAW, RPK, RPG (my dad used to have a smoke greanade LAW but not an explosive fire ing one) and of course id like you to nake a weapon that a civillian can havethat is more powerful then the millatery hand weapons

fourth guns dont kill pepople ammunition dose :P but searously their are some bullits that will shot you in the head and not kill you. to kill peple you shoof use a millatery round (which is leagle) then their are howallo point bu;llits which acn knock you flat. (but still kill you :P ) btw me grandma used to shoot a automatic gun and she is terrofied of them [(it was my dads MAC 11)which wasent illigle]
so...

put that in you pipe and smoke it ewm
posted on January 14th, 2006, 12:12 pm
Last edited by ewm90 on January 14th, 2006, 12:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
but the fact is thay dont work pepal still get guns and shoot ech uther.

thare is no binfafit that a guns give us that out ways what we loos.


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Victoria Washington

Killed by gun July 17, 1999, at age 2


Victoria was born on July 22, 1996 at Cedar Sinai Hospital. She was a very special little girl, very bright and happy. I called her 'Mama' because she would tell my other three children, all boys, what to do. She loved to dress up and model for her dad and I. Victoria was in church every Sunday. She would play the tambourine and sing, "Jesus is on the main line; tell him what you want." She would greet everyone with a hug.
She loved school even though she never started. She rode in the car with me every morning to take her big brother Jerome to school, and she would take her coat off as if she was staying at school. I miss her and love her; no words can express it. She was loved by many and touched a great number of other lives, at the age of two. We love her.

By Vickie Johnson, Mother

whay dont you tell that to Vickie Johnson
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1-15-06

SWAT Team Shoots 'Armed' Fla. 8th-Grader


By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer
45 minutes ago

on news.yahoo.com

LONGWOOD, Fla. - It was in an instant, with a SWAT team surrounding him, that Christopher David Penley slipped into an alcove in a school bathroom and raised what officers believed was a black 9 mm Beretta handgun, authorities said. Moments later, a deputy shot him.

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Penley, 15, who was on advanced life support Friday night, was holding what turned out to be a pellet gun, authorities said. Earlier, he had pointed the weapon at another student at suburban Orlando's Milwee Middle School, then traversed the campus before ending up in the bathroom confrontation, investigators said.

At a news conference after the shooting, authorities put the weapon side-by-side with a Beretta. It appeared to have black paint covering the red or pink markings on the muzzle that may have indicated to officers that it was a nonlethal weapon.

"As you can see, it doesn't take a professional to see how close this looks to the real thing. I would not be able to tell the difference," said Joyce Dawley, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agent in charge of the investigation.

Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said the incident began about 9:38 a.m., when another student saw Penley with the weapon and struggled with him for it. Pointing the gun at the other student's back, Penley directed him to a closet, dimmed the lights and left the classroom, Eslinger said.

The school went into lockdown.

From there, the sheriff said, he "traveled with this firearm throughout the campus" before ending up in a bathroom. By then, more than 40 officers, including SWAT and negotiators, were on scene. He refused to drop the firearm, Eslinger said.

"During this standoff, and during the chase, the student said he was going to kill himself or die," Eslinger said.

Phone calls to Penley's home were not answered, and a person who answered the door declined comment.

Those who know Penley say he was unhappy and being bullied at school. He had run away from home several times, said Kelly Swofford, a neighbor whose 11-year-old son was friends with Penley.

"He said he had something planned," said Jeffery Swofford, 11. "He said `I hope I die today because I don't really like my life.'"

He also said that Penley was in a disagreement with someone, allegedly over a girl. There was going to be a fight Friday, he said. "I heard a rumor that he had a BB gun, but I didn't think he really had one," he added.

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, buses were called in early and parents who saw live television news coverage hurried to pick up their children. Resource officers were called to consult with faculty, and social workers were on scene to talk with children who remained waiting for a ride.

Sarah Tivy, a 12-year-old seventh grader, said some students were frightened during the incident, but she was calm.

"I just figured that if someone is going to bring a gun to school, then they need to be taken out of school," she said.

Marie Hargis, whose 14-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter go to Milwee, stood in front of the school with a sign that read "Stop the violence."

"My youngest daughter is just very emotionally messed up," she said. "She started crying and said, `Mommy, I don't want to go back.' They should not fear having to go to school."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060114/ap_on_...chool_evacuated
posted on January 14th, 2006, 1:04 pm
why is is that everytime someone gives good reasons you start throwing those family murders?
posted on January 14th, 2006, 1:08 pm
Last edited by ewm90 on January 14th, 2006, 2:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
i dont see it as a good reson. eny thing that take away the life of some one elss needlisly is not a good reson.

i feel realy asmaed at america for selling thes weponds.

what is a beter respose than showing thare afect thay have on pepal.

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Arthur Raymond Negrete, Jr.

Killed by gun October 5, 1998, at age 18


Arthur Negrete, Jr., was 18 years old. He was a victim of a drive-by shooting on October 5th, 1998, at 12 PM, five minutes away from home. He was the oldest sibling of two sisters. He had goals and dreams of becoming a U.S. Marine and had just received his high school diploma. Ever since "Artie" was a young,boy, he knew he was going to be a Marine. He wanted to be proud of his dignity as a man in a uniform to serve his country. And I, as a mother, could have hardly waited to see my son stand proud in a position he set forth to so much believe in.

He was a very mature 18 year old. He wanted a life. He was a gentle brother, proud to be the big brother whom his two younger sisters admired and looked up to and respected. He was our little man. We depended on his strength around our home. His smile; his laughter; the smell from his cologne; his warm, gentle conversation we miss so much. It's indescribable. We keep his spirit alive by always talking about him and sharing our thoughts. I find my sincere therapy by reaching out and helping young men and ladies find positive directions for a peaceful frame of mind and to recognize life does incorporate positive action.

By Liza G. Negrete, Mother

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you only get one life one chase after that no more life is involubale.

we dont need weponds to take away pepal lifes thare is no justifactation for giving weponds to the joral puplic.

i hope all you how have agrued Pro gun one day learn how fragil and presih life real is. i beg you dont buy weponds made to end tham.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 2:51 pm
you know you are repeating yourself in the reasons why and why did you stop for 3 or 4 pages? but yuou should also be ashemed that so many amercans get killed just by falling and slipping on a banana because that was cause number one. makes you think how smart people are. just like car accidents was higher then death by a gun
posted on January 14th, 2006, 8:33 pm
but the fact is thay dont work pepal still get guns and shoot ech uther.

I thought we already discussed this!

Even if there were no guns allowed for civilians to own, that does not mean that someone could not buy a gun from somewhere else (ie. another country, black market, etc.) and shoot people.

I think we should be less tolerant with the sentances we hand out. More executions for murders, less life sentences. People need to know that taking someone's life deservers to have their own taken.

People are the problem, they always will. Focus on the people aspect and that might make more progress.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 8:56 pm
ewm, every time someone starts talking about guns you put up more pictures of dead people. once was enough. and if guns were outlawed in civilian markets, that just means that criminals will have less resistance, because criminals don't care if they break the law, but unarming decent folks is just going to make them cannon fodder.
posted on January 14th, 2006, 9:41 pm


guns don't kill people, ammunition does

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good piont, ewm. Adress it, and stop dodging it with these pity parties.
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