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[xnomad]

Cars kill more people than guns? How is that even an argument?
What are cars for, they are for transportation they are a necessity, their purpose is to propel you.

What's a gun's primary purpose? To kill people! Really guys, if you use that argument you really need to back off and go rethink your logic.

As for guns, they are just too easy to use, point and click..... knifing someone, or beating them to death requires a lot more intent. You'd also have trouble knifing a whole school if you were on a rampage.

Saying all that though, I do believe that we should at least be allowed to carry non-lethal weapons. Here in New South Wales you can't own anything that can be used as a weapon, so I can't even get my wife some pepper spray or a stun gun. They are incredibly strict here, I had to throw away all my airsoft guns when I moved here. Oh and all my deactivated ammunition. You need a bloody license to own inert/deactivated ammunition! And here's the best part; to even own plastic airsoft bb's you'd need to have a license! It's nuts!

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by xnomad

Cars kill more people than guns? How is that even an argument?
What are cars for, they are for transportation they are a necessity, their purpose is to propel you.

They are also extremely deadly.

Well there were the three men in Birmingham that were deliberately run down last week. In my own home town 46 year old woman was deliberately run down out side her home a week ago as well. The dirver jumped the kirb and then dragged her 50 yard down the road just because she yelled at him to stop doing burnouts in their street.

You had that guy in the eastern state a year or so ago who killed his three young sons by driving them into a dam after he lost custody.

In Western Australia it is widely recognised that men in rual areas suffering from depression (many family farmers are falling on hard times) are using thier cars to commit suicide by running into trees at high speed. If they used their guns their families wouldn't get insurance payouts.

It just goes to show that if a person is determined enough they will use any means at their disposal to meet their ends.