Comments by "Styxhexenhammer666" (@Styxhexenhammer666) on "Obama: US gun control laws 'greatest frustration of my presidency' - BBC News" video.

The supreme court has essentially thrown out the concept; more states are loosening restrictions and crime in those states is dropping.
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Spartacus You mean the only one where we're citizens rather than slaves.
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AA69ist Body armor is not a weapon, and "assault rifle" is a term applicable to a late 1800s era hunting rifle that has a pistol grip and metallic finish. As for "armor piercing" ammunition the government appears unable to even define the term, I suppose it's any ammunition other than a musket ball, to them. And "sniper rifle" lol.
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Chandler Barr Yeah I know, those gun grabbers and their IQ of 50 and their inability to comprehend the second amendment (or any other) is pretty sickly.
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Most gun crimes occur with handguns.
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AA69ist That gun grabber mentality. "Guns are bad and I don't trust other people to have them, so let's give guns to other people to take guns away from them." Surely flawless logic you have there. There's a reason that the majority of leftists also oppose gun grabbing; because it's been shown not to work time and again.
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It's true, check the FBI stats.
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Violent crime in the USA is dropping like a rock despite ever loosening gun restrictions: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/violent-crime/violent-crime-topic-page/violentcrimemain_final Violent crime is twice as prevalent in the UK as the USA; most US crime is concentrated in a few blighted urban areas: http://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/violent-crime-us-abroad/ The violent crime rate of the US is not homogenized but varies wildly across states; amusingly, some of the lowest per capita rates are in states with the most lax gun laws (my home state of Vermont notably so.): https://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank21.html There is no statistical correlation between increased gun ownership and higher crime (admittedly some of this has to do with the lower prevalence of gun ownership in crime blighted, extreme far left cities.): http://www.novatownhall.com/blog/2007/09/more_guns_more_crime.php
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He'll deftly avoid mentioning heavily armed Switzerland with its rock bottom crime rates hahaha.
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You appear either too illiterate or too partisan to comprehend what I said, focusing on one part rather than all of the comment I made. Disarmament does not lower violent crime- it only lowers gun crime; this is the case in the UK, which now has a higher rate of violent crime than the US, despite very low gun crime. If a thousand people die of stabbings in the UK and 500 die of shootings here, in which nation was more violence committed? It's simple math. Nor does gun control save lives- if anything it only hinders law abiding citizens, since felons (invariably responsible for most gun crime) fairly obviously don't care about laws. Tyranny is indeed a problem; you should find a holocaust survivor and ask them what they think about the concept of gun rights; I'm willing to bet they realize how important it is. I had a good chuckle when you insinuated I was an arsenal packing gun lover; I suppose it's easier for you to presume that all or most gun owners are rabid supporters of "buy as much ammo as possible because them gub'mint types is comin" mentality- this is fairly clearly not the case; from the handgun packing woman who doesn't want to get raped in an alley, to the black panther patrolling for klansmen, guns have been intrinsic in destroying criminals and tyrants alike. If "they" ever came to disarm people, the irony is that they would be relying on guns to do so; I wonder if you're even aware of this. Thankfully it doesn't matter how many tanks or sets of combat armor you have when you're facing off against about 100,000,000 people with guns- unless of course the intent is to merely decimate your own economy by destroying a third of your population along with much of your infrastructure. The gung ho mentality of the cowardly gun grabbers is always accompanied by a kind of fawning glory for the same soldiers they so commonly berate if they use their weapons (often... guns) on someone in some other nation. To you this apparently makes sense- it's pretty funny since you yourself apparently dislike firearms, yet would love to see them turned against your own fellow citizens because your fellow citizens have... guns... The other irony is that a large proportion of those soldiers would probably disobey their orders anyways- and even if disarmament was successful it would just mean a generation of civil strife of untold proportions, and probably perpetual martial law. Without access to your favorite liberal blogs and your constant twitter updates you would almost surely be driven to lunacy. I strongly believe that most of those who support disarmament flunked basic world history and never bothered with philosophy.
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Alan Chamberlain How about we repeal the first while we're at it for all the good it'd do.
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Statistics actually do show a correlation between higher gun ownership and lower violent crime; but try again statist! Unlike you, the majority of Americans do not begrudge a woman the right to pack heat because she has an abusive ex, nor do we begrudge our fellow citizens the right to defend themselves against thieves, killers, or burglars simply because we're paranoid about firearms. If you dislike guns, don't buy a gun.
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***** He's just a gun grabber who doesn't want to state his real feelings about guns because he knows people will call out his crap. A lot of grabbers take the halfassed "we just want better regulation" route even though we already have sensible gun laws- actually they're too stringent as is in some states and cities.
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shadowfoam But the violent crime rate has been dropping like a rock during the same period that 1. gun sales soared and 2. gun restrictions have been steadily loosened nationwide due to two supreme court rulings applying the 2nd intrinsically to the states (not just the federal government) and outlawing outright bans on weapon classes at state level, respectively. Care to explain why violent crime is now at a 50 year low, since the guns supposedly causing all this crime are now far more prevalent?
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Your crumbling cities, your soaring crime, your increasingly hostile governments, and your constant threat of invasion via islamic militants? Our gun crime rate has dropped substantially, partly because people now kill criminals in the act and have gotten over their 70s/80s era moral paranoia about firearms. Hopefully you Europeans re-arm and solve your islam issue soon before you are destroyed.
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Nice straw man. Power corrupts; this has been known for thousands of years and every government eventually succumbs. Most of the governing forces in Europe aren't even two centuries old; nations rise and fall, borders shift, wars are predicated on falsity (including the war Dubya started in Iraq as you well know) and governments abuse the population. We need look no further than any tinhorn african junta state to see this in action and the belief that "it can't happen here" is a fantasy built on false optimism following the fall of the USSR. We will not be disarmed. Soon enough you too will be well armed, it is only a matter of whether such an arming requires bloodshed before it occurs. Europe is already ripping itself apart, but we have no such issue here. We are the new world, you are the old, outdated world with its old, outdated principles and ancient corruption. We are the master, you are not, and it must enrage you cuckolded Europeans that your empires collapsed with such spectacular speed.
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Swiss gun laws, regarding most armaments, are far less restrictive than US laws. Governments are inherently violent as power corrupts everything that wields it. That's why the population at large must have its own collective power in the form of being armed. Europe's crime rate is generally higher than that in the US per capita- you would know this if you studied the subject- as for "gun crime" it includes suicides (more than half the total) and generally neglects to mention that firearms are used to prevent far more crimes than they are involved in. You remain enslaved and disarmed if you wish; if it makes you feel safe to know that a government (with guns) rules everything you do at a whim, then so be it; you are not a citizen of any nation, just a machine- a robot of sorts. Amusingly opposition to disarmament is growing as Europe realizes it has made them less safe and given them a general lack of control over their governments. I eagerly await the day that your more intelligent fellow Europeans seize command and arm themselves, so that you can quiver in your paranoia and flee to a "less dangerous" part of the world, somewhere with widespread disarmament like North Korea. You would fit in there well, slave.
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Sorry imbecilik; the USA is well down the list when it comes to intentional violent crime. You have to filter by intentional crime though because we consider suicide a violent crime for statistical purposes- something no other civilized nation, that I know of, does.
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Yes, gun deaths are higher- overall violent crime though remains much lower than in many parts of the developed world. Crime is already dropping like a rock: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/violent-crime We merely need to keep loosening restrictions so the criminals get killed in the act. Problem solved.
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The violent crime rate here is lower than in the mostly disarmed UK- but I doubt your extremely politically correct media even reports all the crime there, specifically because islamists happen to be responsible for a substantial proportion of it. The United States is #93 in violent crime actually, which is hilarious because Canada is #91 and has far more stringent gun laws- the US crime rate is also dropping rapidly while crime is either stable or rising elsewhere. Far more defensive shootings occur than offensive ones; the majority of offensive shootings take place with handguns, and involve gang members. Since gang members seldom care about laws, it's sensible to presume they'd acquire firearms regardless of their prevalence. It is indisputable that power corrupts; and governments hold power; especially when the citizens are incapable of fighting back against their will.
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imbecilik Governments are inherently dangerous; this is cold hard fact. The majority of armed citizens will never use their weapons in a crime- your paranoia stems from watching too much junk tabloid "news" which has convinced you there's a massive systemic problem in the US with violent crime; which is the opposite of true- violent crime is at a 50 year low here, partly because gun laws have been loosened by court rulings and state action alike- citizens can now defend themselves effectively. I support the libertarian party and believe we need to loosen gun laws far further.
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imbecilik Any civilized society must retain an armed populous, specifically because the government is dangerous. This used to be common knowledge until the age of left-statism. Any contempt for private firearm ownership invariably comes from paranoia about one's fellow man- but if you fear them, the only way to retain safety is to own a gun.
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I feel just fine; your patronizing is meaningless to me, and your utter fear of those who choose to defend themselves is delusional to say the least.
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All you have to do is check your crime statistics and you'll realize that disarmament is a terrible idea that will lead to far more crime and death than being armed does. The fact that you perceive those with weapons as a potential threat apparently doesn't extend to the police (responsible for hundreds of shootings thus far this year) or soldiers (which get paid to shoot people) which is mildly funny. If you dislike weapons with that much vigor there are other first world nations where guns are absent or rare- perhaps you'd feel safer in London.
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