Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Shootings are definitely on the rise, and it's been awhile since I've actually bothered to look at the data so it very may well be flipped around now. I can't speak for the rest of the country (or at last not until "the device" is completed) but a lot of the gangs in B.C. are getting their weapons from the U.S. through pot trading. We've definitely had some big time shooting stories, like last year's killing of Jonathan Bacon or the previous 2009 gang war that saw a big increase in gang violence.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by blastingas10

I am not for gun control.

Originally Posted by blastingas10

Make guns illegal and that keeps the honest American from protecting his family when some criminal breaks into their house with a gun, or any other situation of the same nature. I really don't see what's so difficult to understand about it.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I find it hard to believe that Canada wouldn't have access to a load of guns, I would imagine that the border with the US is pretty porous and it's also a large area for border controls to cover.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

If I was living in the USA now, how easy would it be for me to buy a gun? Do I just walk into a hardware store and provide them with some documentation and then I get registered etc and then they sell me the gun? Also is it the same in every state?

Originally Posted by Burning Down

Almost all illegal guns used here are smuggled in from the US. Only a small number of them are actually registered and legally owned.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

The laws are very different from state to state, as is the attitude toward guns.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

That's interesting, for example what are considered gun pro-states and which states are more opposed to them?

Originally Posted by Janszoon

When I think pro-gun, I usually think of places like Texas, Louisiana, Arizona or Montana. When I think anti-gun, I think of places like New York, New Jersey, Illinois or California. With few exceptions, the split is a conservative vs. liberal state split or an urban vs. rural state split.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Hip Hop Bunny's from Montana and he likes guns.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Now when you say liberal and conservative states, which one of these are anti-gun?