tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post8652172906088652768..comments2024-03-18T22:12:11.008-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Why Gun Control Fails on a Technical ArgumentComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-6809305315688536492012-09-10T21:11:12.661-04:002012-09-10T21:11:12.661-04:00Well, by that logic Austria would be overrun with ...Well, by that logic Austria would be overrun with gun crime despite laws that outlaw everything except long guns except for military and police. Err, what's that you say? There were less than a dozen murders with guns in Austria last year and they were all done with long guns? Why the nerve of those Austrian criminals, not complying with your notions of how reality works!<br /><br />Note that this isn't because of a lack of firearms manufacturing(Glock) capacity(Glock) in Austria(Glock). It's simply that it's so hard to get a handgun (and just as importantly, the ammunition), and the penalties for having one are so draconian, that criminals prefer to stick to criminal activities that don't require guns. If you want to be pickpocketed, go to Austria. Mugged at knifepoint, well, they'll do that too. Mugged at gunpoint... not so much.<br /><br />BTW, most of the chemicals to make primer or nitrocellulose-based gunpowders are on various restricted lists -- you need to have a license and show a need before you'll be allowed to buy them, and various TLA's will stop by to make sure that you can account for your use of the substances. You can still make traditional saltpeter/sulphur/charcoal based black powder if you can find the sulphur somewhere, but somehow I doubt that criminals will be rushing out to mug people with flintlock derringers :).<br /><br />Of course, all this is moot in the United States, because we already have hundreds of millions of guns in circulation and long porous borders that render the notion of border control ludicrous, not to mention that whole 2nd Amendment thing that is still part of the Constitution (if gun controllers want to repeal it, they should repeal it, instead of pretending it doesn't exist). Just wanted to poke fun at your notion that there are technological reasons why gun control couldn't work, when there are nations where it quite clearly does work despite all that.BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-87559785252828661582012-09-09T09:10:53.062-04:002012-09-09T09:10:53.062-04:00IJ: I think the flaw you found is specious. If you...IJ: I think the flaw you found is specious. If you actually check the citizen gone bad is the minority and often its felons with guns<br />or teens with guns the later can be felons with their teen records sealed.<br /><br />If you really feel that works then consider your car, it will not have a anti drunk device you will have to use. After all we don't know when you will become a drunk driver and kill someone.<br /><br />The presumption of citizen gone bad is a very bad one as it's a negative defense. That being, we know your bad, you haven't done it yet.<br /><br /><br />Eck!Eck!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13890237094647111653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-61877700702310559172012-09-08T00:31:46.143-04:002012-09-08T00:31:46.143-04:00Ummm... the flaw in your logic is that criminals a...Ummm... the flaw in your logic is that criminals are law abiding citizens until they aren't. Just saying, they don't stamp "criminal" on you in 3rd grade. Improbable Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00388199130147075176noreply@blogger.com