You say; "I don't know about the rest of you, but I hate having my government waste money on incarceration, if the only thing it's going to do is turn an already troubled person into an even bigger anti-social one."

I make no apology for saying that is one of the stupidest comments I have had the misfortune to read. Your "solution" to ever increasing crime is what? "Now johnny, you don't go around selling drugs, shooting people,raping, car jacking, burglarizing and mugging. DON'T DO IT AGAIN. Here, take these free tickets to Disney, and only come back when you are sure you have stopped this anti-social behavior."

The mugging scene always gets me when he starts to dance. Goddamn funny moment and I love everything about that movie.

i love Blankfist but fuck him-"May he rear his ugly mug and show himself for the wanna-be-here-sock-puppet-fuck that he chooses to remain, no love lost or anything but a welcome back open door should he decide to discard infamy/ego for proper pajamas-

I don't quite understand, what you mean by external and internal threats?
Are you speaking about "normal" safety, about chances of being mugged, stabbed, killed by random stranger; they are the same as years ago, despite their increasing share in the news. Most areas are safe and you don't need a gun. And YES, they're also districts, where you need a gun to survive.
But maybe you mean something else, but in those cases a gun wouldn't safe you.

Would the absence of guns have prevented this murder? Maybe, maybe not. The killer could have used a knife, a hammer, a lead pipe, a screw driver, a frying pan or any other potentially lethal object instead. Granted, it would have been harder, but considering that the majority of violent crimes are committed with melee weapons, it's not improbable.

The issue here is what lead to the killing and how such incidents can be avoided in the future. Banning guns isn't going to suddenly rid the world of paranoia, racism, PTSD, senility, irresponsibility, psychosis, poverty, desperation, ignorance or any of the multitude of human conditions. People who want to hurt other people will always do so unless you address the root of that desire.

As an aside, there is a practical reason for civilians to own guns. Although the gun was misused in this particular case, criminals do exist and there are many who like to rob/mug/rape/murder innocent people. If there weren't, we wouldn't need laws. All weapons, especially guns, are equalizers. They allow physically inferior people to defend themselves against physically superior people who want to abuse their superiority. They allow a single person to defend themselves against multiple assailants. Melee weapons can do the same but are far less effective due their dependence on physical prowess. To claim that guns serve no purpose is short-sighted and ignores these facts.

I didn't have to see this ugly mug swearing at me for eight minutes, but he'd make an excellent DVD audio track for Randi's videos.

Some people live where there really are a lot of home invasions, muggings, and other violent crimes.

Everyone else lives where the local news wants them to believe that there really are a lot of home invasions, muggings, and other violent crimes.

To hell with the spider! Where do I get a coffee mug with a BLACKBOARD ON IT!?

Good post.

There are always so many things could have an influence. A simplistic explanation is always going to be self serving and misleading.

Example: I bet just the move to credit cards (cash-less society) has lowered violent crime (muggings) by at least a small amount.

As a Criminal Justice student we reviewed studies on the effects of gun control (ineffective in the U.S.), death penalty (ineffective as deterrence), etc.

A very large influence to the crime rate was inequality and the number of people who feel disenfranchised from the mainstream.

The availability of social programs and safety nets (or lack of) also had a great effect.

That was years ago and the analysis has been out there for a very long time - but never used in any meaningful way.

That is one beautiful mug of eggnog. Thanks!

You're just being facetious. "They're demons that much be purged by fire raaah raaah".

That's nice.

It doesn't have much to do with academic achievements, it's just about being able to maintain a healthy living. Having guns freely available is outdated; it's turning the US into the wild west, and civilization has moved on from there. Get with the times.

I wouldn't want to be in society where just anyone and everyone had a gun on them. Much less a high school or college - fuck those people are all retarded, I don't want them to have a gun.

I'm all for having a weapon in your home to protect yourself from intruders; it's your home, so it's outside of everyone else's "realm of protection", but in the public space minimizing weapons is a good thing. There will still be violent muggings - you have to avoid the places where these things happen, not go in brazenly with a gun - but less people on both sides will be killed outright, because the weapons that make kills easy aren't readily available.

Denmark's muslims aren't mistreated, they're coddled. We have muslim gangs and shit, that I would love to quash, but I don't want to go in there guns blazing. If I see a big group of "suspicious people", I just turn away and go some other way. And in general I just avoid the places that they roam in.

How do you mean "average as high"? Salary? Violence? I think you accidentally a word.

@chilaxe solving it by giving everybody guns is not a solution at all. The knuckle draggers come from somewhere, setting in there would be better. Making harsher gun laws, or rather, making it harder to get a gun legally in all of the US would be a potential short term solution. Mutually Assured Destruction is not really a good idea, since it will just escalate it anyway. Maybe the crazies who wants to attack schools will start wearing kevlar vests, so to stop them you need to have armor piercing bullets.

I feel for you and your friends, but the reason your friends get mugged is what needs to be worked at. Are they just bored youths? Poor, desperate people? Gangs? Muggings are rarely completely random, if everyone had a gun, wouldn't they just still mug them, but some times either side would be shot?

@Jerykk if people are crazy enough, they'll suicide bomb with nukes. You'll be a martyr anyway, so it's all good. People are fucking insane, making everyone have an easy way to put metal inside other people is not a good idea.

Guns don't kill people, but they make it damn easy for people to do it.

@gwiz665

I'm guessing you've never had your friends murdered by the knuckle-dragging animals that make up an increasing portion of US society.

My friends routinely get violently mugged in the far-left city I live in because the politicians and voters are incompetent.

Concealed carry weapons are rarely used in crimes, and likely save far more lives in self-defense than the small number of lives they cost.

Upvote for mugging at 0:35

>> ^chingalera:

What is a poll anyway, if not the whim of the pollster and a few willing participants?>> ^TheSluiceGate:
Are you fucking kidding me. How about a poll for "Ugliest Gold Star Videosifter"?

I'd do odds on the side that my mugs more comelier than yours-Care to slap a recent photo up against one a mine of yer self there, Sluicegate?? Recently shorn~


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