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« Reply #75 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 23:21:38 » |
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If that guy didn't have a gun and used a knife instead he wouldn't have killed half of those people.
He didn't have a gun - he had the consumer version of the M16 military assault rifle. If he'd had a gun he wouldn't have killed half the people as he'd have been over powered whilst reloading all the time - you can get 30 bullet cartridges for the AR-15 (which he used). |
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« Reply #76 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 23:27:01 » |
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gun (plural guns)
enPR: gŭn, IPA: /ɡʌn/, X-SAMPA: /gVn/
Rhymes: -ʌn
Noun
Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
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It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care.
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Flashheart
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« Reply #77 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 08:09:24 » |
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You do come out with the most bizarre comments at times Johnny
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Nemo
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« Reply #78 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 08:26:06 » |
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It's a strange phrasing but it's pretty clear what he meant, suggesting that a military grade Assault Rifle is the same as a Pistol or something is clearly silly.
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« Reply #79 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 11:50:20 » |
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it's pretty clear what he meant "He didn't have a gun" I think it's pretty clear he's a chump |
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« Reply #80 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:05:02 » |
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The problem with blaming it all on their high gun ownership is that it doesn't happen in other countries - it's only the USA that has a high number of gun related homicides.
Is it really? Aren't parts of South America (Columbia?) bad or that just a myth? |
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jonny72
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« Reply #81 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:11:30 » |
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Not sure how I could have been much clearer with my "he didn't have a gun" point. It wasn't a handgun, it was the consumer version of the assault rifle that is a weapon of choice for the soldiers of many armies. It's not for self defence, it's not for hunting, it is designed solely to kill as many people as quickly as possible. Sure it's technically still a gun but then using one of the definitions posted above, so is a nuclear submarine. Is it really? Aren't parts of South America (Columbia?) bad or that just a myth?
Not sure about the dodgier countries, I was referring to the countries that are generally safe places to go. Canada has high gun ownership as does at least one of the Scandinavian countries for example, but neither have anything like the homicide rate you get in the USA. Obviously the easy access to guns enables it but on it's own it's not the cause. |
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« Reply #82 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:17:11 » |
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Sure it's technically still a gun but then using one of the definitions posted above, so is a nuclear submarine.
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« Reply #83 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:17:29 » |
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He didn't have a gun - he had the consumer version of the M16 military assault rifle. If he'd had a gun he wouldn't have killed half the people as he'd have been over powered whilst reloading all the time - you can get 30 bullet cartridges for the AR-15 (which he used).
Overpowered by who, exactly ? |
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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Nemo
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« Reply #84 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:17:41 » |
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Do you have the right to bear nuclear submarines in America?
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« Reply #85 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:18:42 » |
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Do you have the right to bear nuclear submarines in America?
It polarises opinion. |
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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jonny72
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« Reply #86 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:20:46 » |
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Wasn't my definition of what a gun is. Submarines fire missiles (projectiles) from tubes. Which apparently means it's a gun. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
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« Reply #87 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:22:13 » |
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As, presumably, is a penis? Meets that description quite neatly.
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« Reply #88 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:25:35 » |
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Overpowered by who*, exactly ?
*whom |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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« Reply #89 on: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 12:26:20 » |
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*whom
Thanks, never quite sure on that one. |
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Paolo Di Canio, it's Paolo Di Canio
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