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By: Fitzcomm on 3/12/10
Should a crime be committed with one of those firearms, the owners should be prosecuted. With freedom comes responsibility.
Should a crime be committed with one of those firearms, the owners should be prosecuted. With freedom comes responsibility.
By: Owl on 3/12/10
Fitzcomm, Your comment makes no sense. Do you expect to be prosecuted yourself if someone breaks into your house and steals your personal property?
Fitzcomm, Your comment makes no sense. Do you expect to be prosecuted yourself if someone breaks into your house and steals your personal property?
By: Fitzcomm on 3/12/10
If I had guns in my house, I would keep them in a secure enough location that some two-bit burglar couldn't find them and walk away with them. If your guns are that easy to steal, you shouldn't be allowed the privilege of their ownership.
If I had guns in my house, I would keep them in a secure enough location that some two-bit burglar couldn't find them and walk away with them. If your guns are that easy to steal, you shouldn't be allowed the privilege of their ownership.
By: BoltAction on 3/12/10
Last time I checked, anything inside your house is considered secured.
What if someone broke in and stole a kitchen knife from you, walked next door and stabbed your neighbor. Should you be prosecuted?
Part of the problem with this country is that everyone wants to blame the victim. Maybe if there were stiffer penalties for these types of crimes then the criminal may think twice.
Last time I checked, anything inside your house is considered secured.
What if someone broke in and stole a kitchen knife from you, walked next door and stabbed your neighbor. Should you be prosecuted?
Part of the problem with this country is that everyone wants to blame the victim. Maybe if there were stiffer penalties for these types of crimes then the criminal may think twice.
By: Fitzcomm on 3/12/10
Well, BoltAtion, you may have beaten a blog record for your oh-so-original kitchen knife defense. Ponder this: What are guns made to do and what are knives in my kitchen made to do? Do you realize that you have taken the side of unsafe gun ownership? The NRA would frown on you -- if the organization's purpose were on the side of gun owners. Unfortunately, the NRA sides with criminals every time.
Well, BoltAtion, you may have beaten a blog record for your oh-so-original kitchen knife defense. Ponder this: What are guns made to do and what are knives in my kitchen made to do? Do you realize that you have taken the side of unsafe gun ownership? The NRA would frown on you -- if the organization's purpose were on the side of gun owners. Unfortunately, the NRA sides with criminals every time.
By: redbird on 3/12/10
People suffer a tragedy and some "pissle prick" makes a comment that they should be prosecuted if a crime is committed with the stolen objects. You dunder head they were used in the crime when they were stolen.
People suffer a tragedy and some "pissle prick" makes a comment that they should be prosecuted if a crime is committed with the stolen objects. You dunder head they were used in the crime when they were stolen.
By: canalou on 3/12/10
Hell, they broke in because they didn't want to go into a bar unarmed...
Hell, they broke in because they didn't want to go into a bar unarmed...
By: abide on 3/13/10
Fitzcomm and canalou if you two dont like the United States and guns then maybe you should move to another country that suits you better, also when you move post on here and I'm sure plenty of people would sprinkle some going away money ya'lls way.
Fitzcomm and canalou if you two dont like the United States and guns then maybe you should move to another country that suits you better, also when you move post on here and I'm sure plenty of people would sprinkle some going away money ya'lls way.
By: redbird on 3/13/10
abide I am in with money for Fitzcom to move abroad.
abide I am in with money for Fitzcom to move abroad.
By: Farmall on 3/15/10
Why not move to New York City, or DC. I hear guns are outlawed there, should be no crime right.
Why not move to New York City, or DC. I hear guns are outlawed there, should be no crime right.
By: jg13 on 3/15/10
When you tell people to move to a different country because you disagree with their opinion (1st amendment) to gun ownership (2nd amendment), you automatically lose the argument by reason of overly hypocritical ignorance. How about instead, you defend your position like grown-ups and/or at least respect a difference of opinion. You're acting like childish congressional republicans.
When you tell people to move to a different country because you disagree with their opinion (1st amendment) to gun ownership (2nd amendment), you automatically lose the argument by reason of overly hypocritical ignorance. How about instead, you defend your position like grown-ups and/or at least respect a difference of opinion. You're acting like childish congressional republicans.
By: robinson717 on 3/15/10
Fitzcomm: "if the organization's purpose were on the side of gun owners. Unfortunately, the NRA sides with criminals every time."
Indeed, I'm most interested in reading how the NRA sides with criminals. Can you cite your references here, please?
Fitzcomm: "if the organization's purpose were on the side of gun owners. Unfortunately, the NRA sides with criminals every time."
Indeed, I'm most interested in reading how the NRA sides with criminals. Can you cite your references here, please?
By: RationalView on 7/25/10
Fitzcom says the gun owners should be prosecuted if their stolen firearms, which (presumably) weren’t under lock & key within the home, are later put to criminal use. He argues the owners should be liable because of “what a gun is made [designed] to do,” whereas another stolen object, such as, say, a kitchen knife, wouldn’t saddle them with liability since it’s designed for benign purposes.
Hunting and recreational shooting aside, guns are sold for self-defense, to potentially inflict harm on attackers—which is an extraordinarily benign purpose. Just as a match can light the fire that saves you or kills you, so too can a bullet be fired defensively or malevolently.
The legal and moral focus should be on the fact that someone initiated force against another person, not on whether or not a stolen object used in the act of force was broadly serving its out-of-context design-function. (E.g., knives are made for cutting, guns are made for shooting.)
Moreover, you get a gun to secure you, not you it. You’re morally responsibility for what you (or your minor children) do with your own property and your own hands, not for what another person might do if he illegally gets his hands on your property.
Fitzcom says the gun owners should be prosecuted if their stolen firearms, which (presumably) weren’t under lock & key within the home, are later put to criminal use. He argues the owners should be liable because of “what a gun is made [designed] to do,” whereas another stolen object, such as, say, a kitchen knife, wouldn’t saddle them with liability since it’s designed for benign purposes.
Hunting and recreational shooting aside, guns are sold for self-defense, to potentially inflict harm on attackers—which is an extraordinarily benign purpose. Just as a match can light the fire that saves you or kills you, so too can a bullet be fired defensively or malevolently.
The legal and moral focus should be on the fact that someone initiated force against another person, not on whether or not a stolen object used in the act of force was broadly serving its out-of-context design-function. (E.g., knives are made for cutting, guns are made for shooting.)
Moreover, you get a gun to secure you, not you it. You’re morally responsibility for what you (or your minor children) do with your own property and your own hands, not for what another person might do if he illegally gets his hands on your property.
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