And St. Louis...
Posted on 05/28/2018 8:59:05 AM PDT by gattaca
Edited on 05/28/2018 9:40:07 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
And St. Louis...
Comparing Iceland to St, Louis is like comparing halibut to Asian carp.
For us, it would be really strange if you could write stories about guns and you had no idea how they worked.
"I would find it very odd if [a gun owner] had never even learned which is the pointy end and which is the trigger end."
I would find it very odd if a [journalist] had never even learned which is the pointy end and which is the trigger end.
Then this diatribe ends with a typical piece of propaganda when it calls AR-15's "military grade," whatever the heck THAT is.
And we won't even get into the idiocy of comparing Iceland with the United States, in terms of ideology, geography, history, government, economy ...
To Liberals, "common sense" gun control includes repealing the Second Amendment.
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Give Iceland a million illegals.
Sorry, I didn’t realize I did that.
That’s right. Iceland is pretty much homo genius.
And yet if you drop out the statistics for something like 3 or 4 major cities, democratically controlled cities I might add, cities with some of the strictest "gun control" laws in the US... Remove them from the US statistics and the US drops to one of the safest, lowest-rate Countries in the world. Hmm. It isn't a nation-wide problem. It is a problem with crime and violence concentrated in a very few places.
In many places in the U.S., it's still possible to buy a semi-automatic rifle in minutes with only patchy background checks.
Wildly, intentionally misleading and sensational. Every, every firearms retailer in the US uses the exact same national system run through the FBI. There are no "patchy" areas here or there where it is easier, or as they imply possibly to circumvent it. This kind of BS makes it impossible to take anything they say seriously when they are demonstrably distorting facts.
But guns are everywhere in Iceland, about one for every three people, and many here are staunch advocates of their right to own a firearm.
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Most guns here are used for hunting or competitive shooting. Crime of any nature is so infrequent that few if anyone argues that they need to own a weapon for self-defense.
Exactly. Crime and violence are a criminal problem. That is what makes proposing "gun control" legislation to "solve" the problem so idiotic. All "gun control" is based on the stunningly stupid notion that criminals will for some reason obey these laws while breaking so many others. The willful ignorance behind such notions is simply awe inspiring.
East St. Louis number 1.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/highest-murder-rate-cities
I hear they have a lot of gun control there because they are at only 63 murders per 100,000.
As opposed to about 6 per 100,000 in Austin Tx where "it's still possible to buy a semi-automatic rifle in minutes with only patchy background checks."
But I am sure they picked St. Louis based only on the population...
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“I would find it very odd if a [journalist] had never even learned which is the pointy end and which is the trigger end.”
Shhh, don’t tell them.
100% of all babies with Downs have been murdered.
NBC News has no common sense just liberal platitudes.
Hardly nobody lives in Iceland. Only 334,252 people on the island nation. America has 325.7 million residents that are legal. Apple to oranges comparison. Nothing there can be applicable to here.
Sorry, but the solution is easy. Kill ANYONE with a gun and the owner of the GUN gets charged with the crime, including wrongful death.
Sorry, but the solution is easy. Kill ANYONE with a gun and the owner of the GUN gets charged with the crime, including wrongful death.
You pinpointed the answer exactly. Both Iceland and Japan have one important thing in common: homogeneous populations and very little immigration.
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