Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "" video.

  1. Nice straw man there. If you don't understand the difference between a nuclear warhead and small arms, you are truly lost. Furthermore, if you don't understand the difference between nuclear warheads and small arms, your knowledge of weapons is nonexistent to the point where you have no purpose telling others what they should or should not be allowed to own. 
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  2. The deaths prevented by banning guns would be offset by the deaths CAUSED by banning guns, too. Guns are used for defensive purposes many times more than they're used in crimes. A man who plans to overpower a woman, rape her, and strangle her, will think twice when she has a .380 in her purse. Some thugs trying to rob a guy walking to his car from work after dark will stop when he pulls his concealed pistol. The scumbag who tries to break into my home some night will find himself staring down the barrel of a loaded AR15. Even without a shot being fired, the sight of a gun will cause most criminals to rethink their plans. Unfortunately for us Second Amendment supporters, the number of deaths prevented by law-abiding citizens with firearms is incalcuable. The number of defensive uses of guns is estimated anywhere between 200,000 and 3 million per year, which far outpaces the number of gun murders even at the lowest estimate. We live in an imperfect world, and until we can "social engineer" crime out of existence (which would be utterly Orwellian either way, and thus undesirable), guns in the hands of good guys will stop guns in the hands of bad guys enough to make a difference. In my native New York City, guns are de facto banned. You have to pay something like a $640 fee to get a permit to even buy a gun at all, which takes about six months, and if you get it at all, it then needs to be registered (and the types of guns allowed are heavily restricted). Carrying a gun in New York, in theory, is legal with a permit. In practice, those permits are not issued (this is one of the MANY reasons I no longer live in New York). There are still hundreds of murders per year in NYC, most of which are committed with guns. A Bronx gang-banger who wants to kill a rival is undeterred by the insane gun laws. 
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  3. gabrocki No, it doesn't, but claiming a gun isn't a weapon is still utterly false. Not only is it false, but if you claim a gun isn't a weapon, then you eliminate the Second Amendment as a factor in whether or not you can own them. It mentions the right to keep and bear ARMS (ie, weapons), not the right to keep and bear gunpowder actuated projectile launchers for sporting purposes.
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  4. Yeah, exactly. I live in a nice neighborhood in Philadelphia, and the police are about five minutes away. Those five minutes are about five minutes too long if someone breaks in though. In that case, one verbal warning followed by as many shots as I need to stop the threat. I'd much rather explain to the police what the guy in my hallway has 28 bullets in him than be at the medical examiner's office having that Y shaped incision cut into my chest.
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  5. gabrocki Yeah, it makes you sound arrogant and foolish. Hammers were almost certainly designed by pre-humans for cracking nuts and marrow bones. Monkeys use them for similar purposes still. Knives were invented for cutting meat. Our ancestors were almost certainly scavengers before they became hunters. So yeah, cutting bread and butter was actually pretty close to the mark there, you just got the specific food items wrong. I'm not saying that it took very long for people (or pre-people) to figure out that knives and hammers made it a lot easier to hurt each other, I'm just saying that it wasn't the original intent.
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  6. gabrocki Well, basically I said that knives and hammers evolved into weapons, and then you said guns did the opposite, thereby implying that guns were designed as weapons initially and then evolved into something that was not a weapon.
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  7. Kaspars Vavere Arguments tend to work better when written in coherent English.
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  8. Kaspars Vavere You just spelled two of those three words wrong and used the third incorrectly. And I'm not Eastern European. I'm American. If you're saying that YOU'RE Eastern European, that's no excuse, because I guarantee you weren't taught that nonsense when you learned English.
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  9. Kaspars Vavere You meant "piece", not "peace". Йобаний в жолу говноед.
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  10. ColonelSandersLite And what, pray tell, am I wrong about? I'm right about the gun stuff, and I'm right that Beavis's gobbledygook is unintelligible and makes him sound like an idiot.
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  11. gabrocki Hammers and knives weren't originally designed to be weapons.
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  12. the GLUGLUG When human ancestors found a dead antelope, they didn't just gnaw at the bones, they butchered it with stone knives and axes.
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