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  • Home %100 will cover this.

    Also, when filing, make sure you list everything down to the brand and model. If you put socket set, the insurance guy is gonna find the cheapest socket set out there. Like $10 pot metal shit. This goes for all of it. It’ll take time but don’t skimp on this. Insurance is there to make money and pay as little out as possible.







  • I am literally responding to the question you proposed. But yes, a total ban seems most prudent.

    I didn’t get an answer, but at least you’re honest in your insane idea.

    The key difference, as I already said, is intent. People aren’t setting out with the intention to get drunk, drive and kill someone.

    Lol that doesn’t make it better. It makes it worse.

    So yes, we should do more to prevent drunk driving. There is a lot more that can be done. Why do we have to pick between reducing drunk driving and reducing murder. As you already said, we’re never going to eliminate murder,bit we can make it harder.

    Again. How do you propose that? You plan on putting breathalyzers in everyone’s cars?

    If he didn’t gave access to a gun, he wouldn’t have shot her.

    Naa he’d just have stabbed her to death. Or beat her to death with his hands.

    Anything beyond that is speculation. But in my opinion, whilst abusive men best their partners to death with depressing frequency, the majority stop somewhere short of actual murder.

    https://sanctuaryforfamilies.org/femicide-epidemic/

    Furthermore, when compared to male homicides, femicides tend to be more violent and intimate in nature — **women are less likely than men to be killed in a shooting, but more likely to be beaten, stabbed, or strangled. **

    They really don’t.

    Whereas when they grab a gun, it tends to end in death.

    As the above states…no they don’t.

    Guns are th great equaliser? So like I said before, this woman should have been sitting on the sofa with a loaded gun at Christmas?

    No, this woman should have had the ability to leave her abusive husband, and not had to rely on him for food/shelter and income. Hence the safety nets I keep talking about.

    Guns used in self defence are a myth, the overwhelming majority are used by an aggressor.

    They’re not. https://ammo.com/research/defensive-gun-use-statistics#defensive-gun-use-sources-references

    I hate using this site, but the sources are from the FBI stats. DGUs happen all the time, most of the time a shot isn’t even fired.

    Exactly, spur of the moment. And when that moment passes, people change their mind. Relatively few murders are actually planned, and when the ‘passion’ fades so does the desire to kill.

    Yep, and you think people stabbing someone to death have a change of heart mid stabbing?

    What the fuck are you even trying say with your cherry picked statistic here? From your own statistics page, undisclosed firearms make up more deaths than every other non forearm category combined. All firearm combined make up 15x the combination of every non firearms category.

    All firearms combined equal that many because of suicides. My point was that you act like guns are a one trigger dead and require no thought, because they’re at a distance, and people wont kill as often because knives or hands take more thought…which isn’t true.

    Yes. Extensive research into the knife crime ‘epidemic’ in London has shown this happens in about 75% of cases where one person had an knife and intended to stab another.

    Source? Cause that’s not the case here in the USA.

    Ah American exceptionalism. To go with your personal exceptionalism. The beliefbthst you are special, and deserve to keep you guns, no matter the cost to society as a whole.

    As I’ve stated. We are different. We have no safety nets here, we’re massive and have a huge issue with lack of education. So yes we are way different.

    He says, whilst dismissing it. I care about it. Hence including it in my statistics.

    I didn’t dismiss it. I called it out multiple times that without guns(magically disappearing somehow) they would still kill each other. You fix the societal problems that create gangs, the war on drugs, the for profit prisons, the lack of funding for education, the lack of proper paying jobs, the lack of healthcare, etc…that’s how you fix gun violence as a whole. Not by trying to remove the tool that’s being used.

    Moving the goalposts. You were talking about how you need a gun to protect yourself from the fascists in power. Well, they’re still in power. And getting more power everyday. And the only ones using their guns are… The fascists.

    Again. We’re not at the ammo box yet. And while fascist are around, you wanna disarm everyone…real genius idea.





  • One of you? I may be the only one. This isn’t a widely accept idea.

    Naa, amongst the anti-2a crowd. Those who think more laws will magically fix things are just quietly wanting all guns banned but saying that to the rest of the populous won’t have people jumping on board. Instead they give vague “common sense” gun control bullshit as rhetoric.

    Most Americans refuse to specific the height of the dead child pile needs to be before they tap out.

    Most Americans don’t actually research shit. They watch 24 hour news channels and assume that a mass school shooting happens 5 times a day.

    All of that combined doesn’t come close to approaching the gun death rate of children.

    Yea it does, removing suicide, it’s higher. Nearly 1k kids a year drown, 250+ a year from drunk drivers…

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/child-health.htm

    You’re the kind of dismissive asshole that requires the repeal. You’re the reason we cannot have nice things.

    My firearms have never harmed anyone. What they have done is stand between cops and BLM protestors. They also have killed a many number of paper targets.

    I don’t expect you to accept it anymore than a child rapist can accept a child wasn’t flirting with them. Both you and them would immediately eat a bullet the moment you understood your culpability.

    Lol yea I’m the dismissive one. What a childish thing to say.


  • Well, funny, I thought we had whole body’s of professional lawmakers to handle the details like that, didn’t realise I had to do it personally. But OK. A staged approach over 5 or 10 years, with increasing severe penalties for possession, starting with amnesty and buyback, ending with life sentences.

    So far your body if lawmakers have failed.

    So you’re end goal is a total ban. Good luck finding people who want to go door to door removing firearms from people…and the criminals will still keep theirs.

    How does alcohol kill more? Are you talking health effects or drunk people killing people?

    12k~ people a year are killed by drunk drivers. https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

    Removing suicides, DGUs and cops killing us(1k a year)… you’re left with around 11k deaths homicide wise.

    Number of firearms used to prevent the fascist takeover which is currently in progress in the country: 0.

    Yes because I remember now that we defeated Nazis with thoughts and prayers.

    Number of firearms used to kill a mother and cause life changing injuries to a teenager on Christmas eve: 1 (at least. Let’s face, there were probably more)

    And you think that it was the guns fault? Not that an abusive piece of shit did this…

    Also, we’re not at the ammo box stage yet. You don’t start a war when you have voting options left.

    Guns are the most common murder weapon in the US. Combining several categories to obtain a higher rate is disingenuous. Stating that other weapons are also used in murders does not detract from the fact that guns are overwhelmingly the murder weapon of choice.

    Yea because how someone is murdered doesn’t matter…cause only guns count right? You snap your fingers and magically make the guns vanish and…you really think that people are just gonna stop being violent and killing each other?

    Your comprehensiom skills need some work. A swimming pool is not the go too murder weapon in the majority of cases. If it were, we could and should discuss how to deal with that. But it’s not.

    We were talking about kids, and more kids die from drowning than from school shootings, but you want guns banned because…kids die? If we’re going to use your logic then pools probably should go first.

    Most murders are perpetrated against a specific victim with whom the murder has some sort of grievance. Not random acts of violence. Even so, if cars were being used to murder people at the rates guns were, I’d expect action.

    Yep, and it’s mostly gang violence, not random, but no one gives a shit about that. It’s only when a school gets shot up. Which means you’re assuming that taking the guns away is going to stop people from murdering each other…and they’re not going to use some other means.

    It doesn’t really matter why though.

    It absolutely does matter. Crimes of passion are very few, most are from as you stated between two people who know each other and done spur of the moment. Most of which is gang/drug violence. Which is grown from people who don’t have safety nets or support systems to help get out of the loop.

    A decision is to kill, and the means to do so, against which the victim is completely defenseless, is instantly available.

    Are you suggesting that a 110lb woman would be able to defend against a 200lb man if he didn’t have a gun? Firearms are literally the greatest equalizer.

    Moreso than any other weapon. Even if you decide to stab your girlfriend to death, you still have to at least get close enough to do it.

    Do you think that most murders happen at a large distance? Do you even know how many people are killed each year via knives alone? I’ll give you a hint, it’s 4xs higher than all rifles.

    A gun is just instant murder. Which means there is no time for second thoughts or changes of heart.

    You’ve never fired a gun have you? It’s not a 1 shot kill machine. Do you really think that someone who’s stabbing someone stops and thinks “I shouldn’t do this”…

    The US has a higher murder rate than any comparible country precisely because murder in the US is so easy

    There is no comparable country. That’s the problem.






  • Prohibition is entirely irrelevant, I never said to ban Alcohol i said it should be far more restrictive. Yet we do still have laws restricting alcohol like you point out, with it being you need to be 21.

    Cool, you ever try buying a firearm? It’s a lot easier to get alcohol. No law you can dream up, short of an entire ban and then a forced door to door confiscation is going to stop violent people from being violent. Even if you did pull it off, they’ll still use knives, hammers, their fists, their cars.

    You can also look at car related deaths due to alcohol, compare a lax laws and restrictive state like Wisconsin versus Minnesota, which has far more consequences for drinking while driving.

    Lol that shit isn’t stopping anyone from driving drunk, murder is already illegal, it doesn’t stop people from doing it.

    You don’t get rid of guns, you heavily restrict them, require a purpose, and also have to adhere to quite a few rules for the privilege.

    And how do you propose that? You know how many firearms are in civ hands in the USA? 450+ million.

    Our current firearm laws are an absolute joke, and the gun death/crime rate shows.

    66+% is suicide. 5% is domestic violence, 5% cops killing people, 14% homicides, 10% is the rest, DGUs, accidents, etc.

    There actually are quite a few examples that you could look at, for instance Switzerland has a comparable gun ownership percent. Yet they don’t have school shootings, gun violence, and all the other problems that USA does.

    Yes because I forgot how much Switzerland doesn’t have any safety nets at all. And they have a huge issue with people becoming homeless and gang violence as well. Yep totally comparable.

    I really really wonder why that is.

    You know why it is. You just want to burry your head in the sand and scream it’s the guns…and not the example you just gave that says otherwise.

    I personally don’t care to argue with you, because no matter how many sources or stats that I showed you, you would never care.

    Considering all the stats in the world will not magically prove anything, because the US is not comparable to any of the countries you would call out. Because the countries you will try and use have safety nets and give a shit about their citizens. Just like you’re about to do…

    So, if you actually cared about gun safety and having proper restrictions and laws on them, go look at literally any other country and how they handle guns, because this is such a uniquely American problem with such an easy solution that you just don’t want to accept.

    Yup, like I said.

    Here’s one for you. Brazil or Mexico. Civ gun laws banned. Go tell me how little firearm homicides they have. I’ll wait.