guns

Another Mall shooting in the US. When are you guys going to ban hand guns, semi-automatics and other firearms designed to shoot people?

Some people's stupidity knows no bounds. "A US man has injured himself in both legs after attempting to loosen a stiff wheel-nut by blasting it with his gun...Shooting at the wheel from arm's length with his 12-gauge shotgun, he was peppered with buckshot and debris." It's bad enough that this...

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_219222607.html It seems the NYPD responded to a complaint made about a man threatening someone with a weapon. The above link contains a video of this story and a partial transcript. In the video, reporter Brendan Keefe claimed that "silencers are...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6662213.stm I could put a few dozen puns here, but I'll control myself for fear of flying tomatoes.:duck:

From Minn Star Tribune: (sub may be required) Alt story here.

After 200 and more years of shelping from the first to third amendments with out a second thought, more and more Liberal Law professors have discovered the Second Amendment protected an individual right and not a collective right. Says Lauernce H Tribe , a low professor at Harvard, My...

Separate thread to highlight this article. The Gun Ban and the Gunman (Jacob Sullum in Reason)

As I was riding my exercise bike this morning, I was flipping through channels on TV. I came across "Leave It to Beaver" on TVLand. In this episode, the students in Beaver's 5th grade class have to make and bring in something representative of the Revolutionary War. Beaver paints a poster of...

Mister Jim Zumbo has been a long-time writer on activities such as hunting and outdoor life. While on a hunt one day, he was told that AR15's as well as other semi-automatic rifles are commonly used for hunting game animals. The original link to his blog is also not available but can be read...

Too bad the police killed him instead of just blowing his kneecaps out, then throwing him in a dumpster somewhere. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251603,00.html PS: how about some mandates for metal/etc detectors in malls like they've done in schools? Sad that it's come to this, but it...

The attached link tries to blame American made rifles for the violence in Mexico. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0116americanguns0116.html Part of the article is just crap, starting with the sentence right below the headline reading “Arms race among drug cartels, end of ban in America...

Well, I've got some good news and some bad news; the good news is that burglary and home invasion crimes are down, the bad news is that firearm accidents and spur of the moment passion crimes are up. U.S. town may encourage firearms POSTED: 2:43 a.m. EST, December 8, 2006 PHILADELPHIA...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19225722.900-fewer-cheap-guns--fewer-criminals-with-guns.html Violent criminals tend to be not too bright, opportunistic and impulsive. Raising the price of guns removes their access to a cheap weapon, cutting crime. Makes sense to me.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/veteran.robbery.ap/index.html The key thing to realize is that more often than not, the bad people want something from you, and they need you to comply in order to get it. Having some set of skills that helps you fight back will usually make a difference.

Does anybody know if it's possible to make a low voltage, simple rail gun? I don't know enough about Lorentz forces to know it's possible to make a simple circuit that could move a projectile at a low velocity. Basically I want it to demonstrate the concept of a Lorentz propelled object...

On the panhandling thread, we learn from BPSCG and Mephisto that they keep handguns in their homes for self-defense. I’m very, extremely, superlatively confident that many other posters here, and not just Americans, keep handguns and perhaps rifles at home for the same purpose. That saddens...

Should we outlaw them or not? I know that this is probably the most sensitive topic on the JREF's political forum but this is one issue I am undecided on and I would like to hear both sides.

This link leads you to a post on the Stormfront forum where a moderator have extracted the article from Matt Nuenke. I haven't recieved my ex of the book by Jared Diamond yet, therefore I have refrained from responding to this post, awaiting further investigation. I would appreciate to hear...

I'm being made to read a few chapter's of Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" in a literature course (We're only reading the chapters that are relevant to animal sacrifice.) Anyone care to share their opinions on Diamond or this book? Just curious to see what other people think.

In some recent thread I deconstructed the notion that guns, per se, are designed to kill. I pointed out that there are many things that are functionally "guns" what are pretty harmless and that if one, dishonestly, plays with definitions appropriately certainly the end point will be that the...

The statistics in this study are very alarming if they are accurate. I'm surprised that parents would even admit that they had loaded guns in the house for fear that someone would contact Child Protective Services. Are the participants in the survey just being cynical that these people would...

Who here, if they could, would click there fingers and have all the guns not in the hands of the police or army of their country disappear? I would, and I'm interested to hear about Americans' views on this issue in particular. For the record, I'm not sure if I lived in the US that I would be...

Must be time for another gun thread. I can't see that having ready access to guns at a time of civil breakdown has achieved anything positive, but plenty of negatives.

FYI: three part series premieres July 11th Guns, Germs and Steel on PBS website

What a great Independence Day gift! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=V200CY1JBFIR1QFIQMFSM54AVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2005/07/04/wirq04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/04/ixworld.html Somehow, when I read this, I am reminded of Douglas Adams and his Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy...

Here. Debate the more-than-silly comparison here. Reference thread here for anybody that's actually interested: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58899 This has been a public service announcement.

Wash Times has a blurb (bottom of page) describing some mystery weapons turning up in insurgent's hands. How difficult would it be to procure such weapons? Aside from just strealing them outright?

There was a discussion on these devices a while back. I just watched a segment "future guns" on one of those Military Channel programs. No idea when the segment was put together, but it seems they are achieving some progress. The device they displayed developed some 10 million amps during...

Somehow, I've managed to get through life without guns. I can't ever remember thinking "I know what would improve this situation --- more firearms!" Nothing bad happened to the UK when we introduced strict gun control laws. Why would it? What would? And yet there are people in the USA who seem...

Guns yes, boxcutters no! More than 40 terror suspects bought firearms in the United States last year. In each case, background checks showed the buyer had no felony convictions and was not an illegal immigrant, according to a government report released Tuesday. The report by the Government...