RedEyeView t1_j4ph1pq wrote
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There's a couple of people I'd quite like to unalive... in theory.
In practice, I'm just not that good at violence.
Fortunately we don't have easy access to something that would level the playing field in the UK.
-Raskyl t1_j4q9wy3 wrote
Right, because knives, and hatchets, and metal pipes, fertilizer/propane bombs, those have never hurt anyone. Only guns.
Doesn't matter where you are or what is available. If someone wants to cause violence and chaos, there is a way, guaranteed.
RedEyeView t1_j4zwp1f wrote
Knives, hatches and pipes require me to get within punching distance or close too. Like I said, I'm not very good at fighting.
A bomb requires planning and a certain amount of technical knowledge.
To kill you with a gun I just need to lose my temper when I have the gun and I can kill from the other side of the room.
It turns a small, angry man like me in to a very dangerous one. My anger is self limiting usually because like I said, small, not very good at fighting, if I over step the mark I get my ass beat.
Not if I've got a pistol in my coat.
-Raskyl t1_j4zwvjt wrote
So now your argument is that those weapons don't level the playing field enough, lol.
Point is kids in England hurt eachother with weapons all the time. Just because they aren't using guns, doesn't mean there aren't people with problems.
RedEyeView t1_j4zxpk8 wrote
No. My argument has been the same. You're the one moving the goalposts in order to avoid dealing with my point that a gun makes it extremely easy to kill someone in way that those other weapons do not.
-Raskyl t1_j4zxtne wrote
I never moved the goal posts. I pointed out that other weapons are also considered equalizers.
You are the one moving the goal posts by declaring these other weapons to not equalize enough.
RedEyeView t1_j4zxyvb wrote
Got to love intellectual dishonesty.
-Raskyl t1_j4zy2bt wrote
And your denial
RedEyeView t1_j4zybpb wrote
No denial. You've wilfully misrepresented what I said, moved the goal posts from killing to 'hurting' and are trying to argue in favour of gun ownership by claiming they're no more dangerous than a baseball bat.
Which is why wars are still fought with swords and clubs.
-Raskyl t1_j4zykiw wrote
Lol, I didn't misrepresent anything. You in fact did misrepresent what I said though.
RedEyeView t1_j4zy4eh wrote
Here's a question. If guns aren't more dangerous than knives or bats, why do you need one?
-Raskyl t1_j4zyi30 wrote
I never said they weren't more dangerous. I said other weapons are also dangerous.
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