Claeyt wrote:Dallane wrote:France. Another country terrorized by muslims.
...and those guns had to be smuggled in from Ukraine via Belgium.
So, you admit that you're wrong and forbidding guns will do very little to stop criminals from getting guns.
Claeyt wrote:As I post these numbers for you, Darwoth, Tmeow and Infinity I hope you guys can finally understand just how extremely out of touch the 4 of you and your beliefs are with the average America.
55% of Americans believed Gay people should be able to marry compared to 35% who don't back in 2014. That number has only risen.
75% of Americans believe that you should not be able to discriminate in employment or housing based on sexual orientation. Currently America is the only modern industrial country that allows gay people to be fired from their job just for being gay.
Aren't there a couple modern industrial countries that allow gay people to be executed? I think the US is actually coming along pretty well when it comes to treating people fairly.
But that's not the point I was making, much as you want it to be. I have nothing against gay people and think they should be treated no differently from anyone else. What annoys me a bit is the insistence that being gay is something that needs to be publicized and paraded about and be proud of. It's just a personality trait and it's kinda a private one. It boggles my mind that you or anyone else identify your friends by the category 'gay' or 'not gay', as if it's important that everyone know that. I don't want to know. I don't want to know if your friends have foot fetishes or enjoy **** either.
Claeyt wrote:France's gun murder rate is 1/4 that of America's. France's mass murder rate as defined by the FBI as 3 or more deaths by the same person on the same day is 1/10 that of America's.
It would be more telling to just compare straight murder rates. Also, France is nothing like the USA in so many ways that it's difficult to make a comparison and then claim that it's guns that are making the difference.
Claeyt wrote:57% of Americans disagree with 'Bathroom Bills' that limit where and how Trans-gendered people can go.
I really really doubt your statistic here, but there's a recent thread for this. Go there.
Claeyt wrote:False: Trump has dropped 7 points in the last 2 weeks in recent polling.
He's been nominated though, hasn't he. A 7 point variation right now doesn't mean a lot.
Claeyt wrote:This doesn't happen in countries with rational gun laws.
So, you claimed something doesn't happen. I claimed it does. You brought out a bunch of statistics that show... I am right.
Claeyt wrote:Then you are extremely outside the norm as an American:
89-92% of Americans want universal background checks
85% of Americans think we should close the gun show/craigslist gun sales loop holes.
82% of Gun Owners support more restrictions on owning a gun including tougher background checks.
All you're talking about is background checks, which I never said I was against. They're very easy to do and could be easily set up to be done for any sale.
Claeyt wrote:Maybe you can't relate to, empathize with or think about the gay community like that but I can. I don't have that many friends who are gay. A quick glance at my Facebook page would probably come up maybe 5-10% as gay.
You're so self-righteous. Just because I wouldn't ban Darwoth for using the word '****', you assume I hate any and all gay people.
But don't you think it's a little creepy you wanted to meet Darwoth in a gay bar and have him beat up a woman? I mean, really, who would show up for that?
Claeyt wrote:False: Armed societies as I pointed out above have the highest murder rates and the most crime per capita.
That's really not been proven in any study that I've ever seen. I have looked.
Claeyt wrote:As for homemade guns, 3-D printed guns and anything else there is an easy solution. Make it illegal to make, print these types of guns. Gun bans and serious gun restrictions and laws have worked in every major European country, Australia, Canada, Japan. This is just proven. It's no longer an argument.
It won't work. And it hasn't been proven. For example, you can find studies that show the crime rate of Australia has gone down since the gun ban, yes, but if you look at the previous years, it was already going down at the same rate before the guns were banned. Something else caused it.