Lord Londonderry
Banned
No. We have lots of them.
Thats part of why I own "assault weapons":m16:
God help us!!!!!!!!!!:biggun: :9mm: :m16shoot:
No. We have lots of them.
Thats part of why I own "assault weapons":m16:
No, it's the fact that real assault weapons (NOT the ones they usually try to ban) like the Kalashnikov and AR-15 were originally designed to be used in combat, and are most useful in this role.
God help us!!!!!!!!!!:biggun: :9mm: :m16shoot:
God help us!!!!!!!!!!:biggun: :9mm: :m16shoot:
I'd rather not myself, I'd rather have a good assault weapon so I can help myself and those about me.
If you are one of these mealy mouthed God botherers who believe that "the meek will inherit the earth", I would strongly recommend that you see about getting your medication reviewed.
"God helps those who are willing to get off their a*se and help themselves."
I asked this question in another thread but didn't get a reply, how are the militias regulated in america? What kind of system is in place to decide whether a militia is or is not regulated?
The home of every male Swiss national between the ages of 19 and 48 contains at least one military weapon. This is estimated at 460,000 - 490,000 weapons, yet the Swiss have one of the lowest rates of homicide or crime involving firearms in the world.
But I don't know what your opinion is on private full-auto ownership but I'll say this anyway for the whole forum.
Despite claims that Switzerland is one of the most armed countries in the world, only 27% of Swiss households have firearms, 60% of which are military weapons.
So only after the rigorous training you are put through in basic training are you allowed a rifle, you can't use it for your own self defence either. So only about 11% of swiss homes have privately owned weapons.After basic training, each soldier receives a military firearm and ammunition to keep at home, to facilitate rapid mobilisation of the armed forces. The ammunition is received in a sealed box, which may be opened only in a warlike emergency. The box and the seal on it are checked during every service, that is at least once every year.
http://www.gca.org.za/facts/briefs/10switzerland.htm
So only after the rigorous training you are put through in basic training are you allowed a rifle, you can't use it for your own self defence either. So only about 11% of swiss homes have privately owned weapons.
Sounds like an argument for gun control.Do you not think that persons can purchase ammunition of their own?
So it can't work in every country?Unlike South Africa, with its high firearm ownership and homicide rate
Maybe because the standard of living in Switzerland is so much higher than the US and other countries.Your post in no way refutes the fact that there are in excess of 460,000 military weapons in Swiss homes, and that the by their own admission they have one of the lowest rates of criminal activity involving firearms in the world.
Read it again, these people are given weapons because they are soldiers.Why would you offer such a ridiculous argument for gun control, we have just pointed out that regardless of the availability of military firearms held by the general population, they already have one of the lowest firearms related crime rates in the world.
Ban them then, if you an offer an alternative.I do notice that you never try to answer my question regarding the saving of many more lives by the banning of the use of non essential use of motor vehicles.
I took the quote from the article you said you had read.http://www.gca.org.za/facts/statistics.htm pretty grim.I am really interested to hear you expound your vast knowledge on this subject as you do with many other subjects you obviously know little or nothing about.
Someone has a difference of opinion and you call them a fake? You don't know my general military knowledge or my weapon skills because we have not talked about them. I carried a rifle for 3 months 24/7 without a single problem and will do so again for 6 months, a bit more responsibility than that shovel you carried in your service.I am rapidly coming to the opinion that you are not a military person at all, but more likely a poser who gets his jollies off by going onto sites and passing himself off as a member of the services. Your general military knowledge and weapons skills are at very best abysmal. If you are actually a serving member and I ever find out who you are I would be very tempted to send your CO some of the drivel that you have posted here, I'm sure he would be horrified.
The term Assault Weapon was created in the USA to describe the semi-automatic rifle of military design. And I hate to burst your bubble.
ANY WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF A MADMAN IS DEADLY. It coulbe be a tire iron or a nuclear device.
http://www.gca.org.za/facts/briefs/10switzerland.htm
So only after the rigorous training you are put through in basic training are you allowed a rifle, you can't use it for your own self defence either. So only about 11% of swiss homes have privately owned weapons.
It is not Switzerland's cultural makeup, or its gun policies per se, that explain that low crime rate. Rather, it is the emphasis on community duty, of which gun ownership is the most important part, that best explains low crime rate.
In Cities With Little Crime, author Marshall Clinard contrasts the low crime rate in Switzerland with the higher rate in Sweden, where gun control is more extensive. The higher Swedish rate is all the more surprising in view of Sweden's much lower population density and its ethnic homogeneity. One of the reasons for the low crime rate, says Clinard, is that Swiss cities grew relatively slowly. Most families live for generations in the same area. Therefore, large, heterogeneous cities with slum cultures never developed.
Thus, American gun owners must win the gun control argument based on conditions in America, not conditions in Switzerland. The implicit argument of Clinard (and of most American gun controllers) is that while the Swiss may be responsible enough to own even the deadliest guns, Americans are not.
Before rejecting this argument, American gun owners might wonder if an unmanned American mass transit system could count on payment by the honour code. Further, America obviously has a large criminal class of gun abusers, and Switzerland does not.
What have we learned from Switzerland?' Guns in themselves are not a cause of gun crime; if they were, everyone in Switzerland would long ago have been shot in a domestic quarrel. Cultural conditions, not gun laws, are the most important factors in a nation's crime rate. Young adults in Washington, D.C., are subject to strict gun control, but no social control, and they commit a staggering amount of armed crime. Young adults in Zurich are subject to minimal gun control, but strict social control, and they commit almost no crime.
America-with its traditions of individual liberty-cannot import Switzerland's culture of social control. Teenagers, women, and almost everyone else have more freedom in America than in Switzerland.
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