CB Saint Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/21/nra-full-statement-lapierre-newtown Biggest. Tool. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 In the wake of the Connecticut massacre, Obama has announced that he may consider a ban on the sale of automatic weapons to the general public, and even to enforce the existing law that firearm shops have to carry out a background check on people buying their guns. At times like these, its crucial that the President is seen to be pretending to do something. banning the sale of automatic weapons...well, its a start.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 (edited) People like the NRA always say there cannot be any infringements of their right to bear arms because to do so would be unconstitutional. Often the supreme court has agreed with them. Its clearly a stupid claim because there already restrictions - private individuals cant own machine guns, RPGs, Apache attack helicopters - its just a question of degree. You dont have to be a wooly liberal to think buying semi automatic assault rifles without any background checks whatsover (at gun shows) is a bad idea. Edited 21 December, 2012 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 The NRA plan for an armed guard at each school will obviously need more work. One guard would be easily overcome so they will need at least 2, probably 3. Then what to do for the likely mass attack of nutters? For safety they will almost certainly need a machine gun post overlooking the school. Then what happens if the nutters buy a second hand tank? To be sure each school protection unit will needs several sets of antitank munitions, not to mention the threat of attack from above so need to add some stinger missiles to their arsenal. What could possibly go wrong?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 The NRA plan for an armed guard at each school will obviously need more work. One guard would be easily overcome so they will need at least 2, probably 3. Then what to do for the likely mass attack of nutters? For safety they will almost certainly need a machine gun post overlooking the school. Then what happens if the nutters buy a second hand tank? To be sure each school protection unit will needs several sets of antitank munitions, not to mention the threat of attack from above so need to add some stinger missiles to their arsenal. What could possibly go wrong?? All valid points, but its skirting around the real issue; what we really need is to arm the children. If the first thing they were taught was how to use a gun, any one of the poor mites could have shot the gunman. The program could be named "Born with a gun in my hand", every child to be issued with a firearm from birth. Better safe than sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey-deacons-left-nut Posted 21 December, 2012 Share Posted 21 December, 2012 They really are ****ing mental.... This was on the sa forums.... Alright, I'm coming up with 138,925 public, private, and post-secondary schools in the United States. Assuming three guards to cover the full school day (buses start arriving around 6:30, you'll need at least two guards there during the day so that their is coverage during lunch breaks, bathroom breaks, etc., at least one guard during basketball and football games and other post-school activities), at the median security guard salary of $31,000 annually, plus the cost of benefits bringing the average cost per guard up to around $35,000, you're looking at $14,587,125,000 annually for security guards in each school. Given that the median cost for a child's health insurance is around $940 a year, you could insure every one of the 7 million uninsured children in the United States twice for this amount of money. This would prevent 850 child deaths a year, compared with the around ~50 child deaths due to school shootings annually. Given that it's children you're worried about and not your guns, I trust you'll support a universal healthcare program for every child under the age of 18? It will cost less than half the cost of hiring security guards for every school and save around 9 times more lives. Citations: http://nces.ed.gov/f...splay.asp?id=84 http://www.indeed.co...ty-Officer.html http://www.cnpp.usda...CRC/crc2011.pdf http://www.census.go...highlights.html http://healthland.ti...ildrens-deaths/ http://en.wikipedia....ed_States#2010s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 10 January, 2013 Share Posted 10 January, 2013 The American debating technique...shout loudly and often... [video=youtube_share;AtyKofFih8Y]http://youtu.be/AtyKofFih8Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 10 January, 2013 Share Posted 10 January, 2013 The American debating technique...shout loudly and often... [video=youtube_share;AtyKofFih8Y]http://youtu.be/AtyKofFih8Y Alex Jones doesn't represent the American mainstream. He's famous for running a bunch of conspiracy websites, not even that respected amongst (ahem) "moderate" conspiracy nuts. I wish we had better representation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 10 January, 2013 Share Posted 10 January, 2013 WE..? this has nothing to do with you pap...unless I am mistaken and you are a yank..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 10 January, 2013 Share Posted 10 January, 2013 WE..? this has nothing to do with you pap...unless I am mistaken and you are a yank..? When I say "we" I refer to my status as conspiracy nut job, not my nationality. You are mistaken, but more so than you thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 31 January, 2013 Share Posted 31 January, 2013 @SkyNewsBreak: Reports: Two people have been shot at a middle school in Atlanta, Georgia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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