Quote Originally Posted by Hobaginator View Post
Those of you who are against civillians owning guns, I imagine very few of you have had some homeboy from the hood point an unregistered pistol with the serial number scratched off at your face. Or some criminal phony pretending to be a cop try to rob you at gunpoint. If it happened to you and by sheer luck you lived to talk about it, I guarentee you'd seriously consider getting a Concealed Carry permit. I speak from experience. Both of those happened to me. The first one dry fired at my face point blank. He forgot to chamber a round. That's the only reason I'm sitting here typing to you right now. If I had a gun in that instance, he would have been one dead spade. I'm sure he's gone off to rape some 14 year old girl and stab some old lady for her purse since our run-in. Had I been armed when we met, he'd be nobody's problem. Same with the faux-deputy robber.

I still stand by my reasoning that if the moviegoers had been allowed to carry their firearms on premesis, this tragedy could have been prevented, or at least lessened. I blame gun control for their deaths and injury. Psychos are everywhere, but we need a way to strike them down when they get out of control.
I understand where you're coming from given your past, but have you ever stopped to think that if you didn't live in a country packed full to the brim with guns that maybe neither of those instances would have happened? Guns are extremely easy to come by in America, legal or illegal. I've never seen a gun in Britain, and I've only once heard about gun crime in britain on the news. Sure, there are groups who own guns, I don't know about them but I'm pretty sure they exist in this country, but you don't really hear of gun crime in this country at all. Why is that? Because barely anybody has a gun, not even the cops carry guns unless they're going to a crime scene where the perpetrator is armed and dangerous. Fact is if guns werent so easy to come by in America it's extremely unlikely that either of those situations would have occured to you.