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No its not remotely similar. Bob said and I quote ""But here," wrote Jason Whitlock," is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today." That sounds like 100% to me http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/03/nbcs_bob_costas_goes_on_gun_control_rant_about_nfl_players_murder-suicide.html

Ok so here's my question to YOU carpe diem. Have you ever shot a firearm in your entire life?

Your stance of no youth having guns EVER is pointless. The last time I checked young people absorb more knowledge than older folks do. If they are taught right from the beginning by an experienced individual they can do everything adults do. You know my neighbor's daughter is 16...she got a 16 guage shotgun for her 14th birthday....of course if it was up to you she'd NEVER have that gun. Now she is on TEAM USA and made the cut to compete in the next olympics in skeet shooting. If it was up to your this girl could have never realized how good she could be. But lets make sure NOBODY gets a gun so YOU can feel safe. Yeah that'll work.

So its ok for Bob Costas to come out and say with 100% certainty that if Jovan Belcher, a 200LB+ Linebacker WOULDNT have killed his girlfriend and himself if he didnt have a gun. There NO WAY he could have snapped her neck and drove his car at high speed into a piller at arrowhead. Carpe Diem and Bob Costas can come out and make with rediculous claims about gun control. But the fact about the matter is that this guy did it with an axe. And I bet if he couldnt have found that axe he would have used a hammer, or whatever he could have found.

------------------------------------------------------ Who mentioned firearms? This thread is clearly about those horrible axes. Now answer me this question...if this guy couldnt find an axe would he have found ANOTHER way to kill his dad?

Clearly axes are driving people to commit murders. Just the presence of posessing one gives you an elevated risk of going out and killing someone.

A 19-year-old man was in the Bexar County Jail after he allegedly struck his father in the head repeatedly with an ax. The victim died after his son, Marshall Lee Giles, who goes by the name Lil Sicc, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Bond was set at $20,000. Officers were called to the home, in the 1900 block of East Crockett Street, about 11 p.m. Wednesday, according to a police report. They found the victim — also named Marshall Lee Giles, who goes by the nickname Ernest Johnson — on the couch, moaning and bleeding from several large cuts on his head. His left eye was hanging from the socket. An officer spoke to the victim's wife, who told police she had gone to a store with her grandson to buy cigarettes. She returned and was smoking outside the house, unaware her husband had been injured, she said, until she went inside and saw him bleeding, according to the report. The grandson first told officers a man he didn't know had attacked the victim and then fled out a back door, the report said. Then he said that Giles, or Lil Sicc, “tugged him on his shoulder” and said he loved him before he ran away. The officer asked the grandson if Giles had stabbed the victim, and he said he wasn't sure, the report said. But the grandson later admitted the younger Giles had hit the elder Giles in the head with the ax, the report said. Investigators at the scene spotted the suspect coming out of a crawl space on the side of the house and arrested him, the report said. They found the weapon, a “hatchet with long handle,” in the crawl space. As police took the suspect away, he asked if the victim was still alive. He later gave “a full confession,” the report said. But as he was booked into the jail, the report said, the younger Giles began to “smile and laugh” after an officer explained to a detention officer why he was being arrested http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Son-accused-of-killing-father-with-ax-4060528.php#ixzz2E376KXa2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/tyree-smith-axe-murder-cannibal-connecticut_n_1232067.html

so if your vag bleeds so profusely for the removal of all citizens guns why are you here posting all the time instead of actually doing something about it?

What kind of 'rich' person drinks miller light?

At last we can agree...a 4 million dollar vacation thinking about tit is a good idea!

If the only designation there is for a 'sniper rifle' is a .50 cal. And subsequently banning all .50 cals from this day forward will end all 'sniper rifle' kills really wouldnt do squat. Of course you would forget about the .338 Lapua, the .308 .300 Winchester just to name a few. Personally a well trained sniper could do as much damage with a .338 Lapua.

The DOJ stated before the ban that less the 3% of crimes were committed with guns that were later banned. Care to list how many crimes have been committed with these 50 cal 'sniper' rifles? I'm in favor of taking a 3% drop in gun crime when I can get it. That's almost 1,000 lives. .50 caliber rifles are great for terrorists and can bring down an airliner. We ought to ban 'em outright, but if you're not gonna do that, we ought to at least know where the heck they are, so that when one is used in a crime, we know who to suspect. Brady Campaign: "The campaign is also campaigning for the banning of specific high-powered rifles such as .50 caliber rifles. "According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF)," it states, "the .50 caliber sniper rifle has a dangerous history of criminal misuse. This can only worsen as the weapon becomes cheaper and more readily available. BATF has linked .50 caliber BMG sniper rifles to drug dealers, international drug cartels, militia and terrorist groups and a religious cult. Additionally, a 1999 report by the General Accounting Office, 'Criminal Activity Associated with .50 Caliber Semiautomatic Rifles,' stated that of 27 traces involving the Barrett M82A1 (one of the most popular .50 caliber rifles on the market) 18 (66%) were associated with criminal activity." ------------------------------------------------------ What I would like to know is this...do you think just anyone can go out...pick up a Barrett M107 and then subsequently shoot an airplane out of the sky. For one: do you know it takes training to accurately fire a weapon like that, and ammo is already rediculous for this large a round. As in more than five dollars a pop. Bring out your best argument about how just anyone can go pick one of these up. Not to mention the last time I checked they were $12,000.00+.

I have never bought a firearm out of fear. It's a fun hobby just like you enjoy skydiving and some folks enjoy fishing or motorcycles or whatever. They are just cool little mechanical gadgets that bring joy to the user. You don't fuss about people practicing archery, but a firearms enthusiast is somehow different? Fear? I don't by guns because I fear the government- I buy guns because the government should fear its people. It fears me, but I have a feeling it likes kids like you who willingly drop their pants every time Uncle Sam wants some lovin'. Yes, I said kids- you gonna let somebody tell you what to do and how to think, just like mommy did? Grow the fuck up and be a man. A self-defense concealed carry gun is purchased due to the motive of fear of criminal attack. That's done not as a hobby, not for appreciation of mechanical gizmos, not to make the government fear you. It's because you fear being attacked by a criminal. You really should cease the insults. If this is representative of how gun owners view others, then you're not presenting a very nice picture. You don't have to carry a gun to be a man. ------------------------------------------------------- Well thank you nostrodamus. Now we can cancel the superbowl because fuckface already knows whos gonna win. Oh and by the way carpe diem can also read minds, talk to dead people, and he has nancy pelosi living in the region that USED TO BE his manhood.

Optics must be considered as well...those things can be expensive. Need something for low light, what are those things with a Red Dot, that might be a good add on for the AR. -------------------------------------------------------- Both of my assault rifles have Eotech holographic weapons sights...the ACR has a 3x Magnifier that works in conjunction with the HWS and can be flipped to the side for CQB.

I own both a Bushmaster ACR and a SCAR-H. Trust me getting hit by a .308 will put anything down, including zombies.

The team that had the actual 'dirty bird' dance was the Falcons.

I am struck by homerism. My team is on the list and I voted for them. However with the current issues in the secondary I dont give them high hopes since this is a passing league and seeing high powered passing offenses is part of the game. However my team is just a few draft picks away from being a real contender. I like Mike Tomlin...he was a coach for my team...the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was here for the superbowl run. But the steelers are beat up...and getting older by the minute. But its like they say...ANY GIVEN SUNDAY. And please...by all means beat the Falcons...they're in my division. Good luck GO BUCS!!!

---------------------------------------------------------- Do a little math and see if you can come back with comparable numbers on the manpower it would take to confiscate all the weapons US civilians own.

--------------------------------------- wow. your homerism is showing. Perhaps you didnt see Ben Rothlisberger running away to the hospital where the steelers BARELY beat the 1-7 kansas city chiefs. Dont make me laugh any more than you already have.

I'd like to see a PETA protest in Alaska. You know the place where you HAVE to hunt and fish merely to survive. I am an animal lover and I respect all species on this planet. But if the SHTF and I have to hunt to provide food for my family I will do it in a heartbeat. Perhaps PETA is too easily forgotten the ways our forefathers. How many vegetarians do you think lived 100 years ago? My guess? Not that many.

I'm wondering if Eric Holder will resign this year. I know he didnt have an affair, but I'm pontificating if the fast and the furious scandal was enough for him to step down.

If either of you have ever been to Houston there is a small chapel next to the Menil Art Museum called the Rothko Chapel. Ive visited many times in the past to view the 'art'. I know the guy committed suicide afterwards, but I dont know how anyone could consider large murals of nothing but black paint to be considered art. But then stranger things have happened. http://www.rothkochapel.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko[url]

------------------------------------------------------ So what part of the evacuation of katrina evauees was steller? The part that Houston opened its doors for the evacuees? OR the part where crime took a sudden spike? Perhaps you remember the time when they were giving out FEMA credit cards...then they caught one of the recipients of the cards at the galleria spending the entire amount on a necklace. Please elaborate on how you thought any part of the process OTHER than houston opening its doors to being a good neighbor was stellar and how that came out to being something positive for houston.

For a party that is supposed to be big on personal responsibility and claims that those who haven't succeeded, just haven't worked hard enough. For a party like that, they are sure quick to blame others for their own failures. ------------------------------------------------- Get a fucking clue. Obama is STILL blaming GWB for the economy. Your rose colored glasses need a new prescription.