For or against?

Do any of you actually live in dangerous neighbourhoods?

Don't piss out with 'irrelevant'.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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It has nothing to do with being a "hero". Simple fact is, when you call the cops, it takes them time to get to you. It maybe be 5 or 10 min before the police arrive. Alot of shit can go down in that time. I for one don't want to be left helpless while I await the arrival of law enforcement...

Again, what the fuck? How often does the average American expect to have to deal with law enforcement authorities in their lifetime?

Say the right wasn't enshrined in a bill and a buyback scheme (SHOCK) was doing the rounds in congress? Is this argument really as piss-weak as I think it is, or is defence of person and property actually an everyday problem in your country?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So basically your ethics are defined more or less by what is and isn't legally sanctioned and you value your HDTV more than human life.

OK

How ya doing, buddy?

I get the feeling you care more about reducing criminal violence figures than actually bringing about a further degree of community safety.

Either that or you're merely pissed you mightn't be able to go quail hunting with an M60 because democracies have this niggly habit of legislating for majorities.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

If you're not going to read while on Internet then why even have a modem?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by David

Life is about taking risks. You take a risk just by getting out of bed each morning. You take a risk every time you step out side...I think someone else has already said this, but here in the US crime rates dropped as well, without any change in gun laws. Therefore I'd argue that it wasn't nessisarily the buy-back program that caused Australia's drop in crime...

Could you stop trying to discount foreign sensibility with bullshit arguments and irrelevant US statistics?

There are democracies in the world who would mediate the intersection of individual liberty and the public good instead of blithely defend an ultimately destructive freedom because 'everything a man does is innately risky anyway'.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by David

Australian statistics are ok, but US statistics are irrelevant? Why is that?

Using US statistical trends to attribute or misattribute a decrease in firearms deaths upon another country's introduction of a buyback scheme makes you one of the blunter knives in the draw, but then again:

Originally Posted by Wesker

and it is a mostly homogeneous society, as compared to the large and bvaried etnic populations in the U.S.

Timmyyyy

How ya doing, buddy?