Despite the outcry, the majority of July's best-selling games weren't violent

[ShagnWagn]

They're a killing device often used for recreation, yeah. Target "practice" is practicing on inanimate objects.

And no, for me a gun also serves recreational purposes, as I frequent the shooting range. It's for fun, yes. But the reason firearms trainers and other responsible gun owners religiously preach proper handling and safety is because GUNS ARE DESIGNED TO KILL.

phear my rubber band gun!

I'm sure the police sandbag guns are "designed to kill"... Need I go on? /rolleyes

Next we will hear leftists trying to pry bow and arrows from our hands. Javelins will be next. Rocks to follow!

Know what the real problem is? People and our sinful nature. Until that is fixed, it will continue on. http://www.goodpersontest.com/

 

[Evernessince]

This is the dumbest, most narrow-sighted meme you could pick. A gun has one sole purpose - to kill. Cars are tools of transportation which can have undesired side effects of killing.

This is the most narrow-sighted false claim you could pick. For you, a gun has one sole purpose - for you personally to kill someone. I use them for target practice and recreation. Care to try again?

lol@QuantumPhysic's "thank you"

Yes and other people enjoy Russian Roulette and making bombs. Using a dangerous weapon in a recreational activity doesn't suddenly make it non-lethal or change it's intended purpose. If you really only wanted to shoot targets there are paintball guns which are non-lethal. Otherwise target practice is practice for shooting live creatures. That has always been their primary purpose. Recreational activities develop around them just like every weapon before them. It's a guy thing for sure.

 

[wiyosaya]

Here's an interesting article on the matter - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/201...oked-in-36-cases-of-violence-and-threats.html

Report: Trump Invoked in 36 Cases Involving Violence and Threats

For anyone invoking TL;DR - The two previous presidencies, Bush and Obama, had no such instances of violence in their name.

 

[gusticles41]

phear my rubber band gun!

I'm sure the police sandbag guns are "designed to kill"... Need I go on? /rolleyes

Next we will hear leftists trying to pry bow and arrows from our hands. Javelins will be next. Rocks to follow!

Know what the real problem is? People and our sinful nature. Until that is fixed, it will continue on. http://www.goodpersontest.com/

Well thanks for proving my point from another thread about jumping to confiscation, when no one is calling for confiscation.

You can sit around and blame sinful nature while others try to actually implement policies that save lives. As others in this thread have stated, limiting sales of assault rifles will not be the ultimate fix for the problem. But keeping high powered weapons out of the psycho's hands WILL save lives.

And yeah, please do go on but try to stay on the topic of assault rifles. Not non-lethal forms of guns.

 

[wiyosaya]

phear my rubber band gun!

I'm sure the police sandbag guns are "designed to kill"... Need I go on? /rolleyes

Next we will hear leftists trying to pry bow and arrows from our hands. Javelins will be next. Rocks to follow!

Know what the real problem is? People and our sinful nature. Until that is fixed, it will continue on. http://www.goodpersontest.com/

Wow! This is a reach. I find it strikingly similar to all the other reaching on this site and elsewhere.

My advice: Quit before you get further behind.

 

[ShagnWagn]

Wow! This is a reach. I find it strikingly similar to all the other reaching on this site and elsewhere.

My advice: Quit before you get further behind.

So us "reaching" is because your wisdom is far above ours? How proud! It shows your persona when you talk down on others because they don't share your same opinion. You mean like you reaching in and wanting to control everyone else's lives? I guess you don't understand freedom. Feel free to apply your stipulations to yourself. You are probably one of the liberals that enforced the law someone can't park in their own grass for even an hour. Because ya know... more government is better!

You might want to look at yourself in the mirror, as we all should.

My advice: Quit before you get further behind.

 

[gusticles41]

So us "reaching" is because your wisdom is far above ours? How proud! You mean like you reaching in and wanting to control everyone else's lives? I guess you don't understand freedom. Feel free to apply your stipulations to yourself. You are probably one of the liberals that enforced the law someone can't park in their own grass for even an hour. Because ya know... more government is better!

You might want to look at yourself in the mirror, as we all should.

My advice: Quit before you get further behind.

It's like there's no conversation to be had. You're generalizing, and it's painful.

Can you believe there are left-leaning people, like myself, who support responsible gun ownership?!

 

[m4a4]

If I go crazy and want to kill as many people as possible, I'm going to the gun counter and walking out with an assault rifle. Not the knife section for a machete. Dude in Dayton killed 9 and wounded 27 in 30 seconds. Aside from a homemade bomb in a crowd, name another legal weapon/device that could do that?

"Liberal agenda" mostly consists of REASONABLE and LOGICAL checks and balances to restrict access to high powered weapons. No one's going to knock on your door demanding you throw your guns in a shredder. Preach about the 2nd amendment all you want, but I want you to have to prove you're worthy of owning that deadly weapon.

Anything can be used as a weapon to mass kill other humans if planned out. Don't pretend that the tool is choosing to kill.

And reasonable and logical? Ha! Restrict or take away guns, and the violence doesn't magically disappear (as implied above). What logic.
Or the use of vague terms to peddle an agenda to those who don't know better isn't reasonable.

Also, I could care less about the topic of the 2nd amendment. I'm pointing out flaws in the argument. The one magical point I singled out still hasn't been properly addressed.

Oh, and my favourite part of asking about that "reasonable and logical" "liberal agenda": Define "assault rifle" and "high powered weapon". You can't use those vague buzzterms until they're properly defined.

 

[gusticles41]

Anything can be used as a weapon to mass kill other humans if planned out. Don't pretend that the tool is choosing to kill, or that the tool isn't practical in other ways.

And reasonable and logical? Ha! Take away guns, and the violence doesn't magically disappear (as implied above). Or the use of vague terms to peddle an agenda to those who don't know better.

Also, I could care less about the topic of the 2nd amendment. I'm pointing out flaws in the argument. The one magical point I singled out still hasn't been properly addressed.

Oh, and my favourite part of asking about that "reasonable and logical" "liberal agenda": Define "assault rifle" and "high powered weapon". You can't use those vague buzzterms until then.

Y'all gotta stop with this "take away guns" thing.

Just think about this again - 9 dead, 27 injured in 30 seconds. As a gun owner and advocate myself, I cannot lie to myself and say things like "well anything can be used as a weapon". Yeah, just about anything can be a weapon. But it's too easy to legally obtain an Assault Rifle, and/or modify guns to be as deadly as a military grade weapon.

And if you want me to argue that an Assault Rifle isn't technically one unless it's fully automatic, spare me. We all know how easy it is to modify something that shoots the same rounds. Hence the 9/27 in 30s stat.

 

[m4a4]

And if you want me to argue that an Assault Rifle isn't technically one unless it's fully automatic, spare me. We all know how easy it is to modify something that shoots the same rounds. Hence the 9/27 in 30s stat.

Doesn't matter, it's disingenuous to use those vague terms to make things sound worse than they actually are.

 

[ShagnWagn]

It's like there's no conversation to be had. You're generalizing, and it's painful.

Can you believe there are left-leaning people, like myself, who support responsible gun ownership?!

I did not say *you* were a liberal. I was pointing that this is what the liberal side wants, which is fact. If you agree with those points, then you align with that part of the liberal opinion. Obviously it's generalizing since I am not pointing at you. I do not claim to be on either "side" as well, as there are points on both sides I support. You can't paint me into a box as most people try to, and it blows their mind if they can't.

 

[gusticles41]

Doesn't matter, it's disingenuous to use those vague terms to make things sound worse than they actually are.

Worse than they actually are? Our mass killings are nothing short of a crisis that no one wants to reach a bipartisan stance on. This isn't an argument about definitions of words. Call them pewpewshooters, idc. The things that several crazy white dudes have used to murder masses of people on multiple occasions.

Here's a fun joke - The US currently classifies the Dayton shooter's weapon as a "pistol" beacuse of a barrel modification. Give me a break. It's an AR-15 with a 100 round drum that shoots .223. THESE are the types of loopholes I would love to see fixed. A simple background check for a criminal record is not nearly good enough.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...may-have-exploited-legal-loophole/1927566001/

 

[Cubi Dorf]

Americans politics fighting is annoying. You will not change minds. There is no winner. Everyone is loser.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Preach about the 2nd amendment all you want, but I want you to have to prove you're worthy of owning that deadly weapon.

We wouldn't have to preach, if you would bother to interpret for your self. Nowhere does it suggest cherry picking worthy.

 

[Markoni35]

Hello Kitty is a game where you nail pussies, right?
In the year 2019 that doesn't sound politically correct.