Everyone is scared, everyone has guns.

[mrsleeve]

if you go through this thread you will also learn (from the FBI as well) that Knives kill 5 times more people than ALL rifles kill people.

Lets ban Knives and High Capacity Cutting Devices

[Q5Quint]

I think the sentiment following gun legislation comes from several places. Most of our country is 'safe'. That is a fact. But people still lock their doors.

Do locks make our country 'safe'? What does it mean to be 'safe'?

Back in the day, and the reason we are all gun-toting american cowboys, is that you had to make yourself safe. Locks, guns, guards for the stagecoach and wagon train etc. It was up to you, personally, to assure your own safety. It was a dangerous world out there.

Now people will say the world has changed. But has it really changed for the better? If you were a huge douchenozzle in 1950 chances were high somebody would knock your punk ass straight in the face. Today it doesn't take much to know that hitting anyone, for any reason, even if they hit you first, is going to end up in court and be a lawyer battle.

I feel that people are less able to stand up for actual values, and more prone to getting shitted on by assholes, because of the nanny state our justice system has turned into. 'Mom he hit me first waaaah!' + a good lawyer and you could go to jail for defending yourself.

We are having to use laws to force people to make responsible decisions because they are incapable of doing it themselves.

The 'family farm' or 'little house on the prairie'.... and as far away from the prairie suburbia is for most people... we are going against that kind of 'take care of it yourself' mentality and moving to a 'cops will take care of it' mentality. But are we really? Do we still lock our cars and lock our doors? Do we still see stories of dirty cops in the news? Have you had something stolen and cops tell you 'tough shit'?

Personal responsibility is not something people are learning from public education. The sheep are trained to follow the wolf. The guy who posted the craigslist and mentioned he is packing a weapon might have had a shitty situation happen to him before, and he got told 'tough shit' by the cops that are supposed to protect him. After all, they cant be everywhere all of the time.

On another interesting note my neighbor got attacked by a pitbull yesterday. She fought it screaming as it dragged her and her dog down down the stairway of her apartment down the driveway into the street for 10 minutes. A neighbor heard and ran out beating it with a snow shovel to get it to let go of her dogs head. Then it got her leg, but let go quickly to follow the dog into the woods. The cops showed up and had to pepperspray it and taze it 3 times to get it to let go of her dogs neck. They didnt want to shoot it because we live in downtown just off main street.

Now the pitbulls owner, who was a friend of her downstairs neighbors, had the dog and another pitbull on a leash, but on seeing her dog (a small-medium sized mutt) at the top of the stairs it decided to break the leash and attack her in her own home. This was the 5th time this dog had attacked another dog or person and the owner did nothing and just watched the whole scene go down with the other pitbull on leash.

If you are going to have a pet critter that has nearly the hp, damage resist, and melee attack of a small bear you need a means to subdue the thing if it were to attack something. again. He should have at least had pepperspray and 3 tazers since that is apparently what pitbulls take if he was going to take responsibility for his critter.

I want to make a law that only allows you to have pets with lower hp than you have, unless you can make up for it with a gun/tazer etc.