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joether -> RE: Maybe we should ban edged weapons (8/31/2015 2:32:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: KenDckey
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html
29 killed 130 injured
China should also burn itself down over this incident.
Go figure, ten individuals, working as a squad (i.e. team work) to overcome an objective (high body count). That they had knives was bad. Imagine if they had firearms?
Which is your underlying argument your trying to make here. Let's study it from a tactical perspective.
Ten guys, with a primary (assault rifle or shotgun) and secondary firearms (i.e. semi-auto pistols). Say four to six magazines for the primary and two to three for the secondary. Not to mention access to explosive devices; either home made pipe bombs or military grade grenades. Maybe one or two of them have access to 'heavier' weaponry. Like 'Squad Assault Weapon', or a 'Light Anti-Tank Weapon'.
And they storm into the location not as one pack, but in two man teams. That's five teams, attacking from five seperate locations. The plan being to cause as much destruction and body count as possible in the shortest amount of time. Using the cover of chaos and rushing civilians to make their getaway.
How many more people would be killed and injured?
Doesn't matter if its China or the United States of America. It's bad either way! Sad thing is, all that gear is MUCH easier to obtain in the United States than China. That......MANY.....groups have been taken down by law enforcement and the nation's secret agencies, before the killing started, is a DAMN GOOD THING! Because it happens.....ONCE...and the number of people calling for the removing of the 2nd amendment will explode like a nuclear denotation! These people will be so completely livid, they will not 'chat' about any sort of gun control measures you and other firearm fanatics were once against. They'll want to remove all the firearms. Many more will join up with them, then side with gun folks.
We as a nation did not learn the mistakes from the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center Towers, nor the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. No, we were forced to learn with the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center Towers, and the attack on the Pentagon. That we are experiencing mass shootings once every few weeks should alarm....anyone...not living in a fantasy existence pushed by the NRA and groups/organizations like them.
Does something....REALLY....major have to happen for you to understand reality? Do many people have to die for you to 'get a clue'?
I really do not want such an event to ever take place. I love my nation and the people that live within it (even if some of them are conservative or libertarian). To see such an event anywhere, would be despairing. To find out it was the work of domestic terrorists even more so. Most people in this nation were shocked when 4/19/95 took place. To find it was performed by US Citizens was stunning. This nation does not need another one of those moments.
Anyone agree with me in that we really do not have to experience this level of death and destruction to have good, sensible firearm laws? Sensible implying all of us, citizens, take a hard look at existing laws and concepts related to firearms, and make some hard choices. Choices on which we, as a society, will have to live with. For better or worst.
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