DANGER Los Angeles Hammer Attacker Hitting People In Heads.

With all the violence that has happened in the news recently and the weapons being used it appears that it is not only guns that need to be banned.

Hey I know, let's now have background checks required and bans placed on not only guns but on anyone that wants to purchase hammers, knives, machetes, baseball bats and automobiles (they have been driven into crowds).

People have been killing each other since time began with sticks, rocks, slings, spears, bow & arrows, poison etc and people will always be killing each other with one form of weapon or another.

It's not the weapon being used for the violence folks.......Hammers, guns, machetes, baseball bats, knives and autos etc don't kill people.......People Kill People.
 

IKE said:
With all the violence that has happened in the news recently and the weapons being used it appears that it is not only guns that need to be banned.

Hey I know, let's now have background checks required and bans placed on not only guns but on anyone that wants to purchase hammers, knives, machetes, baseball bats and automobiles (they have been driven into crowds).

People have been killing each other since time began with sticks, rocks, slings, spears, bow & arrows, poison etc and people will always be killing each other with one form of weapon or another.

It's not the weapon being used for the violence folks.......Hammers, guns, machetes, baseball bats, knives and autos etc don't kill people.......People Kill People.
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Yup, ban all that stuff and they'll be doing it with their bare hands. Maybe we should ban the now prevalent attitude that "life owes me whatever I want, whenever I want it, and I've got a right to kill/main anyone who gets in my way or pisses me off, or even just for kicks."
 
This is extraordinary. I think if it were where I live, I'd carry something to defend myself.
 
IKE said:
It's not the weapon being used for the violence folks.......Hammers, guns, machetes, baseball bats, knives and autos etc don't kill people.......People Kill People.
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But that doesn't serve the anti-gun agenda, so regardless of how true that is or how much it's repeated, it falls on deaf ears.
 
SeaBreeze said:
But that doesn't serve the anti-gun agenda, so regardless of how true that is or how much it's repeated, it falls on deaf ears.
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What would it take to get the right people to listen though. This is serious. If people don't have guns, they attack each other with whatever weapon comes to hand even home made bombs. We have some serious issues to address.
 
chic said:
What would it take to get the right people to listen though. This is serious. If people don't have guns, they attack each other with whatever weapon comes to hand even home made bombs. We have some serious issues to address.
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The prevailing state of anger and entitlement and the fact that many resort to violence over the smallest slight is really scary, I agree. I was reading in the news yesterday where a 14 year old girl broke in to another girls house and beat her almost to death (stabbed her, too, I believe) -- the reason? The first girl thought the victim was interested in her boyfriend! Just blows my mind.

How did we get to this? When I was 14, the idea of physical violence over something like that would NEVER have even crossed our minds. We might have said something snotty behind her back, but VIOLENCE? Never! I just don't understand how we got to this.
 
Butterfly said:
The prevailing state of anger and entitlement and the fact that many resort to violence over the smallest slight is really scary, I agree. I was reading in the news yesterday where a 14 year old girl broke in to another girls house and beat her almost to death (stabbed her, too, I believe) -- the reason? The first girl thought the victim was interested in her boyfriend! Just blows my mind.

How did we get to this? When I was 14, the idea of physical violence over something like that would NEVER have even crossed our minds. We might have said something snotty behind her back, but VIOLENCE? Never! I just don't understand how we got to this.
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Lack of civility. Parents are not teaching their children how to think or act, the entertainment industry provides the "role models", the internet provides the social sewer...oops I mean social media enviornment, which is all important to youth, these days. :shrug:
 
When altercations on the street escalate to violence, I doubt if it is because of poor upbringing or lack of proper training, it is probably because of mental illness, which has become an epidemic in our society, especially in big crowded cities. Many mentally disturbed individuals may not be getting treatment and could be on street drugs roaming the streets, driving cars and using public transportation -- it is best not to interact with anyone who looks like trouble and definitely best not to make eye contact. Some don't even have weapons, just attack with their fists.
 
IKE said:
With all the violence that has happened in the news recently and the weapons being used it appears that it is not only guns that need to be banned.

Hey I know, let's now have background checks required and bans placed on not only guns but on anyone that wants to purchase hammers, knives, machetes, baseball bats and automobiles (they have been driven into crowds).
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I think its overdo we should sign a petition to sue Home Depot for encouraging so much violence : )
 
Shalimar said:
There was violence when I was young, we just didn't hear about it as much. No social media, not much coverage elsewhere. This was before the age of sensationalism.
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I don't blame the media. When I was young we grew up with fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war all the time. But I don't recall kids shooting their fellow students and teachers in school. I don't remember foreign terrorists wearing concealing clothing beheading priests while they said mass. This kind of violence just plain didn't exist back then in the U.S. (Or in France). I don't know what to say, but I don't believe the media has created this. There are serious issues that need to be addressed in the world today.
 
Debby said:
You have to admit SeaBreeze, most of the anti-gun folks aren't calling for banning, but they are calling for tighter restrictions and laws. Big difference.
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Baby steps Debby, baby steps. Why would they try to call for something they can't possibly get now? They're smarter than that.
 
And I STILL go back to my old point that tighter purchase restrictions won't do anything to restrict the bad guys from getting their hands on guns. Doesn't stop them from getting drugs -- why should guns be any different??
 
Debby said:
You have to admit SeaBreeze, most of the anti-gun folks aren't calling for banning, but they are calling for tighter restrictions and laws. Big difference.
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Code for regulate and tax them into oblivion. Along with the occasional midnight rushed legislation. Heard an anti gunner slip during a DNC interview. The radio interviewer debated them about guns and 'the fact that they are legal' was his response to a question. Then quickly backed off focusing on specific issues. Anti gunners are what if theoreticial worlders supreme.
 
WhatInThe said:
Code for regulate and tax them into oblivion. Along with the occasional midnight rushed legislation. Heard an anti gunner slip during a DNC interview. The radio interviewer debated them about guns and 'the fact that they are legal' was his response to a question. Then quickly backed off focusing on specific issues. Anti gunners are what if theoreticial worlders supreme.
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WhatInThe, I don't know what you mean by that last part. Sometimes I'm a little slow.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Baby steps Debby, baby steps. Why would they try to call for something they can't possibly get now? They're smarter than that.
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This is so true and that's my fear about gun control. It won't control the people who are most dangerous from acquiring guns.
 
Butterfly said:
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WhatInThe, I don't know what you mean by that last part. Sometimes I'm a little slow.
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A lot of the extreme anti gun crowd can't stand the fact that guns are even manufactured let alone that the public can legally buy them. They are John Lennon "imagine if" hippy types. They want that hypothetical world.
 
Butterfly said:
WhatInThe said:
Code for regulate and tax them into oblivion. Along with the occasional midnight rushed legislation. Heard an anti gunner slip during a DNC interview. The radio interviewer debated them about guns and 'the fact that they are legal' was his response to a question. Then quickly backed off focusing on specific issues. Anti gunners are what if theoreticial worlders supreme.
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WhatInThe, I don't know what you mean by that last part. Sometimes I'm a little slow.
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That's just more right-winger code for...whatever it is right-wingers see as being... what reality is. :shrug:
 

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