Bowling for Columbine

[BFG]

Guns.... Oh boy here is a topic i would be happy to write about for years and years and years... and thats quite a damn lot.

To be honest I am amazed about the gun culture in America. Here, the only people who own guns tend to be farmers or game rangers, who shoot nothing more than the odd rabbit, crow, and the culling of badgers and fox's where necessary...

Did you know what the percentage of americans who get shot by their own gun is? Unfortunatly iv'e forgotten what it is... but its hi... very hi.

Americans only had this bloody 'right' to carry guns a couple of hundred darn years ago what with the freakin revolution etc. It wasn't meant to last for a couple of hundred years and to be honest when people say 'oh we have to protect our consitution and its my right to carry a gun"... well bull shit. guns are used for one thing and one thing only, to kill. Animals or people. You live in a city and you own a gun, then your owning it for the sole perpose of killing someone. You might say no, your owning it to protect yourself. You think that is going to stop people? Someone gets a gun, so for their 'protection' everyone else gets one... so the first person has to get a bigger, faster, more powerful gun, so everyone else has to. Who has need to own a machine gun, or a shot gun, or any bloody gun.

Shooting someone on your own property? Oh my god. it makes me wonder who is more in the wrong... someone on someone else's land... or someone commiting murder....

Then again I expect very very little from a country that still has capital punishment, and gass's, poisens, electrocutes, and hangs its population.

Seriously Fucked up world we are living in isn't it!

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

guns are used for one thing and one thing only, to kill.

Not true.. for some .. like me.. we enjoy the sport of target shooting.. Wether its clay, paper targets.. or just odd cans and bottles.. I enjoy shooting them. I dont own a hand gun.. but i do like to go to the shooting range a rent one for a few hrs and do some target shooting. I find it helps releive stress b/c you have to use consentration and you teach your musles to keep steady. I takes skill to hit you targets right.. try shooting clay flying in the air some time and say that its not fun to do!! Yes guns were invented for killing.. but that does not mean that peeps only use them for one thing!!

[BTs_GhostSniper]

guns are used for one thing and one thing only, to kill.

Not true.. for some .. like me.. we enjoy the sport of target shooting.. Wether its clay, paper targets.. or just odd cans and bottles.. I enjoy shooting them. I dont own a hand gun.. but i do like to go to the shooting range a rent one for a few hrs and do some target shooting. I find it helps releive stress b/c you have to use consentration and you teach your musles to keep steady. I takes skill to hit you targets right.. try shooting clay flying in the air some time and say that its not fun to do!! Yes guns were invented for killing.. but that does not mean that peeps only use them for one thing!!

Exactly.

Although I do own guns for protection in my house, I also like to go target shooting.  I even did a really great Science Fair project in high school with the ballistics of certain types of bullets.  I won that year.[/size]  

[spike]

Rofl, GS, stop, this is like what, the fifth pointless post? I'd say this is spam plan and simple. These threads died for a reason, nothing constructive is going to come out of re opening them. If I was an admin I would put a stop to this...but I ain't so I think I'll call up one of my own...

[crypt]

GS, you wouldn't even have to lift a finger to win a science fair with your 180 IQ.

[BFG]

Is this all part of the "Ghostsniper attmepting to reach 2000 posts tonight by bringing up old and dead topics to spam about" mission?

[spike]

Yes, and me attempting to reach 800


oh, wait


[size=22]800!![/size]

[BFG]

LOL Congratulations Spike, SPEACH!

[spike]

Ehm...

Once there was a boy who came to the forums, merely a noob. He created stupid topics, and generally n00bed himself up. And then he posted another eight hundred worthless posts, and now he is almost a god. The End.

[BFG]

Wow. that was deep, sure you don't want to thank your mum and dad, uncle, the guy who lives next door, the guy who gets the papers for the paper boy that delivers the paper to the guy next door,... oh and god?

[spike]

I will thank the guy who handed out candy in my neighborhood, he was a dear, it's too bad about that pit in his basement..

[BFG]

LOL, so whens his parole

[spike]

Depends when Bubba loses interest in his brown eye

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Is this all part of the "Ghostsniper attmepting to reach 2000 posts tonight by bringing up old and dead topics to spam about" mission?

Not quite....It's GhostSniper's attempt at reaching 3000 posts before you do.[/size]  

[pink rat]

weapons HAVE been made for killing  

[BTs_GhostSniper]

weapons HAVE been made for killing  

Of course.  I just hate it when people say the ONLY reason to have guns is for killing people.  That isn't true at all.

[crypt]

Guns are made for defense. Although a lot of people take it further, it's not the guns that kill people. It's the people with the guns who kill people.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Guns are made for defense. Although a lot of people take it further, it's not the guns that kill people. It's the people with the guns who kill people.

Exactly.  People kill people....end of story.  I can kill you with a gun, a knife, or with my bare hands.  In the end, it still takes a person on the other end of the weapon to do the killing.

[Brutha]

True, the motivations for killing must lie in something living, and guns are not living. BUT...and this being one of the biggest ones out there, at one point we must ask ourselves, do we want the tools for killing to be easily accessed? I can see why having a gun for hunting game is legal..and why it should continue to be legal. But I cant see why a man in a city should be allowed to carry a gun. You might say for defence, because criminals have guns...well, how did the criminals get these guns??? Did they create their own??? You see, there is something flawed when the system allows this. Guess I am spoiled in this matter, since I live in 1 of 3 countries where police is still unarmed...

[c| Lone-Wolf]

GS, quit gravedigging.  If youre that desperate for posts, use the spam drop box, its there for a reason.  Further gravedigging isnt going to be received well.  Like spike said, this, and many other threads, died a normal death. Leave them alone.

Sorry to pick on you GS, but this is the one that i decided would be the limit. However this also applies to everybody else who is sifting through the 140 some odd pages of old threads with the same idea:

No more gravedigging.[/color]