@philokalia saidIf you can't see why, you need empathy training. For instance, some assswipe with an AK47 using a 30 bullet magazine can as you have seen, kill many people in seconds. So how many people will a crazy with a knife kill in ten seconds?
Why should the victim of a gun related murder be honored more than the victim of a knife related murder?
@sonhouse saidWhat about flame thrower victims?
If you can't see why, you need empathy training. For instance, some assswipe with an AK47 using a 30 bullet magazine can as you have seen, kill many people in seconds. So how many people will a crazy with a knife kill in ten seconds?
@shavixmir saidFree expression of ideas is one of the thinks soldiers pledge to die for. Yours too, of course.
I have no problem talking about gun control, as you well know.
However, talking about it on remembrance Sunday, in a thread relating to remembrance Sunday and asking if gun related violence in the US deserves equal recognition... no.
Probably just me.
@philokalia saidThey shouldn’t. How many knife murders took place in that time period?
Why should the victim of a gun related murder be honored more than the victim of a knife related murder?
@sonhouse saidlast time I ran off 30 rounds it was 1.8 seconds. get your facts straight. 😀
If you can't see why, you need empathy training. For instance, some assswipe with an AK47 using a 30 bullet magazine can as you have seen, kill many people in seconds. So how many people will a crazy with a knife kill in ten seconds?
@shavixmir saidI'm not wishing to denigrate Armistice Day.
17.000.000+ people died in WW1 and 60.000.000+ people died in WW2.
I pretty much think that rembrance Sunday, especially on the 100th aniversery of Armistice day (end of WW1), is not the proper place or day to bring up American gun culture.
How aweful it is, it’s pretty insignificant compared to Tannenberg, the Somme, Verdun, Stalingrad or the battle for Berlin.
I pay my respects every year.
But I was shocked by the figures and it does put it into context.
@js357 saidAwww poor wolfgang people are threatening his right to free expression.
Free expression of ideas is one of the thinks soldiers pledge to die for. Yours too, of course.
Except they're not, they're expressing their own ideas about what a bore wolfgang is using veterans day to flog his hobby horse because sad wolfgang feels he isn't getting enough attention on the other threads about gun control in the US, a topic I doubt has been far from the front page here at RHP for years. Sad wolfgang wants to show us how serious he is about it, we're impressed.
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@shavixmir saidYeah, we really have to watch out for those vicious flame thrower terrorist, it happens just TOO often....
What about flame thrower victims?
Pretty dangerous, look at the big flame thrower they used in Hiroshima....
@wolfgang59 saidAw, when you said this
Are they?
But it is a sobering thought that the American lives lost in total in
ALL wars is less than gun related deaths in US since 1968 some 100,000 less in fact.
Shouldn't US have a special day to remember them?
It sounded like you were implying a day of remembrance specifically for those who died of "gun violence" like this was a day specifically to draw attention to a critique of the second amendment.
If that wasn't your intention, forgive me.
@philokalia saidWell I have at least gotten a free meal at Applebee's for my service.
Aw, when you said thisBut it is a sobering thought that the American lives lost in total in
ALL wars is less than gun related deaths in US since 1968 some 100,000 less in fact.
Shouldn't US have a special day to remember them?
It sounded like you were implying a day of remembrance specifically for those who died of "gun violence" like this was a ...[text shortened]... draw attention to a critique of the second amendment.
If that wasn't your intention, forgive me.
