The majority of guns are designed for target shooting.
The 1813 Anschutz smallbore rifle is designed specifically to be accurate enough to hit the center of a target from 100 yards away. It is an object that accurately projects an object through air into a target area. This is common with most rifles and pistols.
Whilst the army and police may want assault rifles they are the MINORITY of gun users around the world.
Their notion that they are designed to kill comes from their original intended use. Well here's news for you. If you ban guns you will have to ban baseball bats (evolved from clubs to beat animals/people to death with), the javelin (spears), archery (hunting tools) and a whole host of other sporting and everyday items.
If the world was completely rid today of guns, nutters would still kill people with baseball bats, poisens, bottles and most likely (and much more common than guns around the world) knives. Would we ban these too ? It is much easier to kill somone with repeated stabbings than by shooting them with a single shot anschutz 1813.
Let's get a grp shall we and stop making excuses for people. The kill because they can and want to, not becasue they have a gun.
Okay, I will concede that the original creator of a device has little to do with how it is used now... but surely you must see that comparing cars and p2p apps to guns is stretching it a bit? p2p apps don't kill. Cars kill in accidents. Guns are WEAPONS. Furthermore I absolutely do not accept that 99.999999% of guns are used for target practice. I would guess (can't find figures to back it up) that most guns (or a very large fraction of them) are owned by the military, or by para-military groups.
I could have chosen any one or these type posts to reply to in this thread but this one stands out for me. Guns are weapons yes, so are knives, so are baseball bats. while 99.99999% does seem a little high it might not be as far away as you think (or are trying to justify anyhow) to the percentage of guns/bullets used for practice. After all, how many rounds do you think a military personel has fired in practice in comparison to those aimed at hurtings, killing or even scaring people and animals ? Probably at least 99 out of 100. Also many millions of people use guns for recreational and sporting uses.
The most important thing to think about with gun law is simply this, how many people were killed last year by LEGALLY registered guns ? A hell of a lot less than by illegal ones. Here in the UK we banned a wide range of handguns after one incident of a man killing kids in a school. Since then all legally registered firearms covered by this ban were handed into police and the owners recieved less than half the price of them.
Gun crime in the UK is now at an all time high, especially with handguns. The problem was never with legal guns in the first place.
It is the same with file sharing. Restrict it's use by legal means and the only people who will comply will be those who were using it legally in the first place and small time sharers who are scared off. The big users, pirates and crackers will still use it and develop newer more subvertive ways.
I am not one of these nutters who believes every home should have a gun or every music track should be intillectually free. I just think we should address the real problems.
As far as guns go, tackle the reason people get involved in gangs.
As far as file sharing goes, tackle the reason people are not willing to pay for the CD/DVD. I can tell you straight up what they are.
DVD - Bloody expensive, within six months of release most are half the price.
CD - Music in general at the moment is in a dire state. Record companies puching pop idols and boy bands down our throat, where are the Led Zeppelins, Queens, Pink Floyds and mozarts of our age ? Doing dead end jobs because thier image wasnt what the RECORD COMPANIES wanted.
Besides all this most people who use file sharing do so in order to ry out ne stuff. Try software and music before buying. Would you ask us to buy a car without test driving ? or even a t-shirt without trying it on ? The music and film industry do.
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The majority of guns are designed for target shooting.
The 1813 Anschutz smallbore rifle is designed specifically to be accurate enough to hit the center of a target from 100 yards away. It is an object that accurately projects an object through air into a target area. This is common with most rifles and pistols.
Whilst the army and police may want assault rifles they are the MINORITY of gun users around the world.
Their notion that they are designed to kill comes from their original intended use. Well here's news for you. If you ban guns you will have to ban baseball bats (evolved from clubs to beat animals/people to death with), the javelin (spears), archery (hunting tools) and a whole host of other sporting and everyday items.
If the world was completely rid today of guns, nutters would still kill people with baseball bats, poisens, bottles and most likely (and much more common than guns around the world) knives. Would we ban these too ? It is much easier to kill somone with repeated stabbings than by shooting them with a single shot anschutz 1813.
Let's get a grp shall we and stop making excuses for people. The kill because they can and want to, not becasue they have a gun.
Okay, I will concede that the original creator of a device has little to do with how it is used now... but surely you must see that comparing cars and p2p apps to guns is stretching it a bit? p2p apps don't kill. Cars kill in accidents. Guns are WEAPONS. Furthermore I absolutely do not accept that 99.999999% of guns are used for target practice. I would guess (can't find figures to back it up) that most guns (or a very large fraction of them) are owned by the military, or by para-military groups. I could have chosen any one or these type posts to reply to in this thread but this one stands out for me. Guns are weapons yes, so are knives, so are baseball bats. while 99.99999% does seem a little high it might not be as far away as you think (or are trying to justify anyhow) to the percentage of guns/bullets used for practice. After all, how many rounds do you think a military personel has fired in practice in comparison to those aimed at hurtings, killing or even scaring people and animals ? Probably at least 99 out of 100. Also many millions of people use guns for recreational and sporting uses. The most important thing to think about with gun law is simply this, how many people were killed last year by LEGALLY registered guns ? A hell of a lot less than by illegal ones. Here in the UK we banned a wide range of handguns after one incident of a man killing kids in a school. Since then all legally registered firearms covered by this ban were handed into police and the owners recieved less than half the price of them. Gun crime in the UK is now at an all time high, especially with handguns. The problem was never with legal guns in the first place. It is the same with file sharing. Restrict it's use by legal means and the only people who will comply will be those who were using it legally in the first place and small time sharers who are scared off. The big users, pirates and crackers will still use it and develop newer more subvertive ways. I am not one of these nutters who believes every home should have a gun or every music track should be intillectually free. I just think we should address the real problems. As far as guns go, tackle the reason people get involved in gangs. As far as file sharing goes, tackle the reason people are not willing to pay for the CD/DVD. I can tell you straight up what they are. DVD - Bloody expensive, within six months of release most are half the price. CD - Music in general at the moment is in a dire state. Record companies puching pop idols and boy bands down our throat, where are the Led Zeppelins, Queens, Pink Floyds and mozarts of our age ? Doing dead end jobs because thier image wasnt what the RECORD COMPANIES wanted. Besides all this most people who use file sharing do so in order to ry out ne stuff. Try software and music before buying. Would you ask us to buy a car without test driving ? or even a t-shirt without trying it on ? The music and film industry do.