Guns.

CommandoDude · 2011-04-28 23:41:31

I've used mace to defend myself before. The only effect it had, was the attacker was stunned that I had actually used it. It helped he had been wearing sunglasses that deflected the blast, but it was literally a point blank shot into his face.

Even if he had been well weakened by that I couldn't have won if the fight had accelerated.

Mace will NOT incapacitate an opponent, and will, at best, simply serve as a deterrent, or perhaps a distraction needed to escape/get a good kick in.

Any kind of ranged stun gun is problematic because you could very well miss.

Diamonnes · 2011-04-28 23:41:36

Don't ruin my badass conception of a country where people murder people bare-fisted and possibly fry sharks for breakfast. T_T

XD

Tnu1138 · 2011-04-28 23:42:44

home invasions are a crime here unless they're being done by government then it's perfeclty normal for somer eason regardless of a specific part of the bill of rights protectign against that.

Nova · 2011-04-28 23:43:09

The only reason there isn't any here is that we're scared of what would happen if two Australians went at it, mano-to-mano.

TuefelHundenIV · 2011-04-29 02:22:58

I will simply say this. Different nations, different approaches, different results.

TheConductor · 2011-04-29 03:42:57

I am completely against guns. I don't think anyone in the world should have them in the world at all. Course that's just fantasy.

Realistically, the only people who I think should have access to gun ownership are; teachers, soldiers, high ranking police officers, farmers, and hunting should be tightly regulated so you have to rent a gun and return it once you're done.

Hatter · 2011-04-29 04:52:36

The issue I've always had with gun control arguments is that they all seem to be based around the assumption that there's a universal watershed of lethality, beneath which it's all fine and dandy but above which you need to get a federal marque of approval, triple authenticated by everyone including your aunt and several forms of government I.D. before you can speak with a Southern accent within fifty metres of a firearm.

That might even be an acceptable measure, if that watershed wasn't based on feelings instead of cold, hard facts. Backyard swimming pools (luxuries) are a hundred times riskier than firearms, but the worst pool owners get is a slap on the wrist if the pool's shape brings down property values. Yet firearms, which have legitimate utility to a citizen in good standing, are treated as a sort of bogeyman that will waltz into your kitchen and shoot and/or molest little Timmy if you don't make sure the Second Amendment is treated as a typo rather than an actual Constitutional principle.

Deboss · 2011-05-01 12:18:45

Chagen, I can guarantee that the pistol you held did not fire a larger round than the revolver I posted. It might have been a .50 caliber round, but it was not bigger than a .50 BMG. You can stab someone with a .50 BMG.

Chagen · 2011-05-01 13:27:07

I meant that the gun itself was much larger.

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-05-01 14:30:42

"Realistically, the only people who I think should have access to gun ownership are; teachers, soldiers, high ranking police officers, farmers, and hunting should be tightly regulated so you have to rent a gun and return it once you're done. "

umm wut

Vorpy · 2011-05-01 14:32:48

^ So they can protect students from columbine shooters.

GLORIOUSLeader · 2011-05-01 14:33:55

I'm fairly certain there was a news article about one state trying to pass a law allowing teachers to carry guns on their person at all times.

I loled heartily.

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-05-01 15:04:11

"lolumbine"

Who

Vorpy · 2011-05-01 15:09:35

.....fuck.

I meant to put columbine.

GLORIOUSLeader · 2011-05-01 15:16:20

It seemed intentional.

Vorpy · 2011-05-01 15:17:06

Wasn't, too used to writing lol in front of words.

TheConductor · 2011-05-01 16:41:37

Yes, Vopry hit the nail on the head. To protect the children.

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-05-01 17:14:41

In that sense why not parents?

Deboss · 2011-05-03 00:22:52

I think it's currently legal for some teachers (I forget what kind, I want to say college professors) to carry weapons here.

glennmagusharvey · 2011-05-03 12:45:04

Is it legal for them to write erotic fiction under a pseudonym?

Vorpy · 2011-05-03 12:49:28

Yes.

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