Background checks are required to be performed by all dealers. The only way around it is the private sale loophole, which they should definitely close. But felons routinely carry firearms in the streets of Chicago, for example, which is the nearest major city to me. No amount of background checks will stop them from getting guns because guess what there are always people with clean backgrounds willing to make money by selling guns to them.
That "option" is utterly absurd and everybody knows it-- including serious anti-gun people.
I’ll buy in that the U.S. is less “free” than many nations but New Zealand is most definitely not one of them lol
Lol yes, it’s really just a play on my username which is a long story.
You can still but a WOT and make any AR platform full auto but not, if your crafty you can even mod any gun yourself
cant go past nvida amd intel apple ibm sun microsystems cisco silicon graphics microsoft ........Hmm, I share your sentiments in some ways, and yet feel 'technology' may be a bit too sweeping and generic of a statement to be meaningful. When I think of hi-tech cars, for example, I actually think German engineering, maybe Japanese, but really never American. Though there is definitely Tesla, but then that's owned by a South African. And there are those weird bouncing car things y'all love (j/k), but the French developed and perfected the finest hydropneumatic suspension.
Then there's computers. Definitely I tend to feel the US pioneered and leads here - who else?! Think Silicon Valley, and all that sweet dosh pumped in by DARPA and the defense industries over the last 70 years, leading to all kinds of hi-tech domestic offshoots and products. And yet pretty much all the mobile and embedded devices we now use run on British microprocessors, manufactured in Taiwan under their expertise in miniaturization, using etching machines manufactured solely by the Dutch. And the internet as we know it - wasn't that actually a European project?
And aerospace, well, I'd definitely think NASA holds a lead in many aspects of space technology, though the Ruskies, Japs, Euros and Chinese all have certain areas of expertise where they do things as well or arguably better. Meanwhile the pioneer of much advanced civilian aircraft technology is actually European (Airbus) not American (Boeing), and more people fly Airbus, which is also the world's biggest manufacturer.
Which leaves the arms industry. Where again I'd say the US seems to hold a technological lead in most areas, hardly surprising given the vast sums invested in the defense industry by US taxpayers: think F-35s or the Gerald Ford class aircraft carriers. Though clearly not hypersonic missile technology, where the Chinese and Russians appear to be ahead. And then when I think about it, lots of the other inventions we take for granted come from other countries, like advanced tank armor (Chobham-type), jet engines, or VTOL etc.
So I dunno. The more you look in to technology, the harder it is to unpick the complex interconnected web of innovation and information exchange and say oh yeah, we definitely do that better...
Statistically you're (several times) more likely to be killed by lightening than you are to be in a mass shooting event. The only reason people care is because the media is pumping it up to further an agenda. Seriously, 2000 people are killed by lightning yearly. A mere few hundred at most are killed in a mass killing involving semi-automatic weapons, and it is painfully obvious that the root cause of these shooting events is societal ills and unregulated boys/young men. I might even argue that they aren't even random events, but rather planned killings by a shadow wing of the Democratic party attempting to sow fear and cause us to all throw our arms up and say, "Please save me Democrat Jesus!" I don't like right infringements but I don't view 18 year olds as adults, I barely view 21 year olds as adults. They're the ones committing these atrocities. Ban young men. Not the harmless inanimate objects we use to defend ourselves from young men or any other yahoos for that matter.
Statistically you're (several times) more likely to be killed by lightening than you are to be in a mass shooting event. The only reason people care is because the media is pumping it up to further an agenda. Seriously, 2000 people are killed by lightning yearly. A mere few hundred at most are killed in a mass killing involving semi-automatic weapons, and it is painfully obvious that the root cause of these shooting events is societal ills and unregulated boys/young men. I might even argue that they aren't even random events, but rather planned killings by a shadow wing of the Democratic party attempting to sow fear and cause us to all throw our arms up and say, "Please save me Democrat Jesus!" I don't like right infringements but I don't view 18 year olds as adults, I barely view 21 year olds as adults. They're the ones committing these atrocities. Ban young men. Not the harmless inanimate objects we use to defend ourselves from young men or any other yahoos for that matter.
We don't have crazy people driving lorries into crowds and mowing 50 people down in one go. Y'all should ban all lorries, it's for your own good. Butter knives too, they could potentially be sharpened into shivs.
It seems silly the way English folks (and English colonials) look at America, the only ones who said "Go fuck yourself England," and fought a war to throw off THEY'RE imperial, tyrannical yolk they had us in, and act like we're not happy with how different we are from y'all. I'll take mass shootings over living in England any day of the week. I'm proud to be an American even in the face of the anti-abortion movement (which sucks, yes... hate Evangelicals with a passion personally) because we're one of very few countries who still tell the world, "Get the fuck out of our politics, it ain't yer business."
So I am proud of American Exceptionalism. I'm proud of our military might. We protect Europe from falling to Putin. I know that dickhead Trump tried to pull that out from under y'all but even most Republicans agree we need to be helping y'all out.
We're here for you Europe. I will personally always vote for a strong military to help keep the world in order. You're welcome
As usual I agree with a lot of what you say here.Statistically you're (several times) more likely to be killed by lightening than you are to be in a mass shooting event. The only reason people care is because the media is pumping it up to further an agenda. Seriously, 2000 people are killed by lightning yearly. A mere few hundred at most are killed in a mass killing involving semi-automatic weapons, and it is painfully obvious that the root cause of these shooting events is societal ills and unregulated boys/young men. I might even argue that they aren't even random events, but rather planned killings by a shadow wing of the Democratic party attempting to sow fear and cause us to all throw our arms up and say, "Please save me Democrat Jesus!" I don't like right infringements but I don't view 18 year olds as adults, I barely view 21 year olds as adults. They're the ones committing these atrocities. Ban young men. Not the harmless inanimate objects we use to defend ourselves from young men or any other yahoos for that matter.
We don't have crazy people driving lorries into crowds and mowing 50 people down in one go. Y'all should ban all lorries, it's for your own good. Butter knives too, they could potentially be sharpened into shivs.
It seems silly the way English folks (and English colonials) look at America, the only ones who said "Go fuck yourself England," and fought a war to throw off THEY'RE imperial, tyrannical yolk they had us in, and act like we're not happy with how different we are from y'all. I'll take mass shootings over living in England any day of the week. I'm proud to be an American even in the face of the anti-abortion movement (which sucks, yes... hate Evangelicals with a passion personally) because we're one of very few countries who still tell the world, "Get the fuck out of our politics, it ain't yer business."
So I am proud of American Exceptionalism. I'm proud of our military might. We protect Europe from falling to Putin. I know that dickhead Trump tried to pull that out from under y'all but even most Republicans agree we need to be helping y'all out.
We're here for you Europe. I will personally always vote for a strong military to help keep the world in order. You're welcome
Not a joke; inanimate objects do not do things on their own. And what purpose does a weapon serve if it is not designed to kill human beings? Why even create it (hunting purposes aside; I don't hunt and never will, I don't relish killing animals, they're more pure in soul than humans)? I'm not ashamed to say I bought my rifles with the thought in mind, "I might have to use this against humans."
I'm half serious. I'm starting to buy into the plausibility of such an evil plot. There are an increasing amount of indicators showing government officials are at the very least not trying to stop these shootings (aside from robbing us of our rights), if not encouraging them. In the same way I know that 9/11 didn't just happen out of nowhere, I don't think these recent shooting incidents did either. There's something fishy about how hard Democrats are pushing for bans.
No, I was mostly joking about how much knife problems the U.K. has, or thinks it has. Obviously the lorry comment was serious though, that's a real issue and claims more lives in one go than shooters do by and large.
That's the same question I ask myself about liberal minded folks who think there's no need for armed citizens.
