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Old 12-25-2012, 08:13 AM
 
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BBC News - China school pupils rammed by car

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The man reportedly packed his car with firecrackers and a gas tank and tried to set the vehicle alight.
State-run Jinghua Times said the students, in the northern Hebei province, were leaving school for a lunch break when the car hit them.
China has seen several attacks on schools in recent years, including a knife attack two weeks ago.

Once China gets car control and knife control up and running violence against kids should cease, thank goodness.
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Old 12-25-2012, 09:30 AM
 
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Uuuh yep.

Another of these posts that takes an item that could possibly be used to commit a violent act and compares it to an item DESIGNED with nothing but a violent act as it's PRIMARY and ONLY purpose.

Infantile musings do nothing for your cause.
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Old 12-25-2012, 10:31 AM
 
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Uuuh yep.

Another of these posts that takes an item that could possibly be used to commit a violent act and compares it to an item DESIGNED with nothing but a violent act as it's PRIMARY and ONLY purpose.

Infantile musings do nothing for your cause.
How is propelling a thousand pound hunk of metal forward at 65 miles per hour "non-violent"?
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Old 12-25-2012, 10:41 AM
 
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How is propelling a thousand pound hunk of metal forward at 65 miles per hour "non-violent"?
I see my response went right on over. No surprise there.
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Old 12-25-2012, 10:44 AM
 
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This will turn into another gun control debate thread. Calling it.
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Old 12-25-2012, 10:53 AM
 
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I see my response went right on over. No surprise there.
Nope.

A gun lying on a table: non-violent

A parked car: non-violent

A gun being fired: violent and potentially dangerous

A car being propelled forward: violent and potentially dangerous

I do not understand why this is such a hard concept for people to understand.
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Old 12-25-2012, 11:19 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Uuuh yep.

Another of these posts that takes an item that could possibly be used to commit a violent act and compares it to an item DESIGNED with nothing but a violent act as it's PRIMARY and ONLY purpose.

Infantile musings do nothing for your cause.
Guns, of course, are the opposite of what leftist big-govt whiners keep trying to make people believe. Their primary purpose is defense and deterrence, not death. The leftists can only see the death, as usual, and so they think (or hope) others will see only that too.

As usual, study after study (including those done by the U.S. Dept. of Justice under leftists such as Bill Clinton and Janet Reno) has shown that guns stop or prevent far more crimes than they cause, and so they fulfill their primary purpose admirably.

The leftists' efforts to get rid of them, are essentially efforts to increase the number of crimes and deaths, far more than they will ever increase the safety of the law-abiding. That's something else the leftists are trying their best not to see.

Trying to ban and remove guns from the law-abiding, is the government-uber-alles equivalent of trying to remove fire from the life of man because it may burn him, or removing all water because it may drown him.
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Old 12-25-2012, 11:23 AM
 
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Guns, of course, are the opposite of what leftist big-govt whiners keep trying to make people believe. Their primary purpose is defense and deterrence, not death. The leftists can only see the death, as usual, and so they think (or hope) others will see only that too.

As usual, study after study (including those done by the U.S. Dept. of Justice under leftists such as Bill Clinton and Janet Reno) has shown that guns stop or prevent far more crimes than they cause, and so they fulfill their primary purpose admirably.

The leftists' efforts to get rid of them, are essentially efforts to increase the number of crimes and deaths, far more than they will ever increase the safety of the law-abiding. That's something else the leftists are trying their best not to see.
Guns also provide the means to eat for many families who don't exactly choose to live near grocery stores.

Liberals forget that in places like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas there are still some American families that live off of the land and don't wish to become slaves to Uncle Sam.
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Old 12-25-2012, 12:32 PM
 
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Nope.

A gun lying on a table: non-violent

A parked car: non-violent

A gun being fired: violent and potentially dangerous

A car being propelled forward: violent and potentially dangerous

I do not understand why this is such a hard concept for people to understand.

A gun, that's only raison-d-etra is for the purpose of inflicting deadly harm lying on a table....etc.,

A parked car, that's origional and comtemporary design was for non-violent purposes......etc.,

There I fixed it for you. I also do not understand why this is such a hard concept to understand.
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Old 12-25-2012, 12:39 PM
 
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Guns also provide the means to eat for many families who don't exactly choose to live near grocery stores.

Liberals forget that in places like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas there are still some American families that live off of the land and don't wish to become slaves to Uncle Sam.
Liberals have got nothing to do with this debate you're making a hash of.

Here's a thought for you: Anyone living off the land in Idaho, Wyoming and the Dakotas would be ashamed to be caught out hunting with anything with a 20 shot clip or magazine and you know it!

If they are using an assault weapon to do the table setting; they AIN'T no hunter!

I have nothing but disdain for these idiots that sit up in a tree with garbage bait below so they can kill themselves a bear. THAT little *sport* has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting.

Putting meat on the table needs nothing more than a three shot weapon, max, and anyone who jumps on here to state otherwise is going to make a complete and abject fool of themselves.
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