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Chris Chamber Admin.
Join date : 2010-01-30 Location : Oak Park, Michigan Posts : 23201 Rep : 330
| Subject: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:47 am | |
| Do you think that a society without guns (the police didn't have any either) would be better or worse? | |
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Supernova The Book Chamber
Join date : 2010-06-22 Posts : 11954 Rep : 182
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:31 am | |
| It doesn't matter if everybody else didn't have them because criminals are ALWAYS going to have guns, so take them away from the law abiding citizens and you are just asking for a massacre. | |
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CeCe …is a Chamber DEITY.
Join date : 2010-06-30 Posts : 11962 Rep : 326
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:47 am | |
| If you mean that guns didn't even exist, I think people would just improvise with other weapons & knives, bats, pipes & homemade weapons would be used. I don't think society would be all that different. The problem isn't so much the guns themselves but the evil that exists in some people. Guns just make things easier for them. Everything that leads to the use of guns would still be there. | |
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Shale ...is a Chamber Royal.
Join date : 2010-09-27 Location : Miami Beach Posts : 9699 Rep : 219
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:35 am | |
| - Chris wrote:
- Do you think that a society without guns (the police didn't have any either) would be better or worse?
Aren't you describing England in the 1960s? Where the murder rate was much lower than in comparable US populations. | |
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Marc™ …is a Chamber DEITY.
Join date : 2010-01-30 Location : Michigan Posts : 12006 Rep : 212
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:14 pm | |
| - CeCe wrote:
- If you mean that guns didn't even exist, I think people would just improvise with other weapons & knives, bats, pipes & homemade weapons would be used. I don't think society would be all that different. The problem isn't so much the guns themselves but the evil that exists in some people. Guns just make things easier for them. Everything that leads to the use of guns would still be there.
I agree. Without guns, knifes would just become a more proper commodity. And truth be told, guns are necessary. Makes hunting a lot easier....and as far as I'm concerned, a police force without firearms are just security guards. Some bad guys need to be shot. | |
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Forgiveness Man …is a Chamber Royal.
Join date : 2010-06-25 Location : Chilling on your sofa Posts : 6657 Rep : 153
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:20 pm | |
| It'd be no different, maybe worse. Assuming guns didn't exist AT ALL, we'd find something else to kill each other with. And assuming only the cops and law-abiding citizens didn't have them, we'd just be at the mercy of the crooks who DO have them. | |
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Alan Smithee ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
Join date : 2010-09-03 Location : 40º44’18.33”N 73º58’31.82”W Posts : 25792 Rep : 381
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:45 pm | |
| - CeCe wrote:
- If you mean that guns didn't even exist, I think people would just improvise with other weapons & knives, bats, pipes & homemade weapons would be used. I don't think society would be all that different. The problem isn't so much the guns themselves but the evil that exists in some people. Guns just make things easier for them. Everything that leads to the use of guns would still be there.
That's how it was before firearms were invented. Today, people get shot. Before that they were stabbed with swords and spears. Before that they were beaten with clubs and rocks. See the pattern? It's not the weapon, it's the species. | |
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Nystyle709 ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
Join date : 2010-03-16 Location : New York Posts : 27030 Rep : 339
| Subject: Re: A society without guns? Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:41 pm | |
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