Better chance of surviving a shooting, so I'll take that.
Plus, a normal (not hollow point or other specialized) bullet would leave only a relatively small hole. If it hits an essential organ, you die, but there's a pretty low chance of that.
A knife is bigger and moves, and would go both in AND out, causing damage in its wake. Better chance of hitting an artery or an organ.
Plus, being shot would be sudden and probably less painful.
Drowning would be over within around 2 minutes. Depending on your burial container, you could live for up to a couple of days without water. That's 1-3 days of knowing you are going to die.
I'll take the quicker of the two, even if it would be horrifying.
If I print up 2000 years of calendars and someone finds them in about 1500 years or so, does that mean the world ends on Dec. 31, 4009? Nope. Same thing here.
Armageddon was simply a stupid premise. An asteroid is going to hit the planet and kill everyone, so the best option is to send up... oil drillers? Um, yeah. And my doctor is the best to change the tires on my car.
@Aug: The kid climbed up the mountain and survived in Deep Impact. Not everyone would know they could do that, as would happen in real life. Also, at that point, there were TWO asteroids coming. The first would cause a huge tsunami (which is why the kid ended up on the mountain). The second and larger would cause the end of mankind (which was blown up by a scientific space group -- not oil drillers).
What are your thoughts on an international currency? Do you think that is Obama's objective? Seeing how it's pretty damn obvious he's intentionally destroying the dollar.
The Constitution specifically states that Congress shall print/coin money based on the gold or silver standard. Instead, they turned that over to a private institution (Federal Reserve Bank) which is backed by nothing.
So yeah, when the value of the dollar drops to nothing, and nothing backs it, the run of the almighty US dollar is going to come to a complete halt and turn the US into a seriously failed nation.
Forced service is slavery. Volunteer military people would be better in a conflict anyway. People who don't want to be there wouldn't fight as hard, and may even turn the guns on their own.
Civilians should have the power to use force to remove the government from power should it be necessary. That's what the 2nd Amendment was about.
If you remove assault rifles and the like from civilians' hands, you remove the power to defend the country from an oppressive and anti-citizen government.
I own an assault rifle. If a ban came down, there would be no way I would ever give it up without a fight. Government has restrictions regarding weapons - not the citizens.
The whole purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to give the people the power to forcefully change the government should it ever come to that. Assault weapons might not generally be needed by civilians, but they really are if you look at the grand picture.
The Constitution restricts the government, not the people. The 2nd Amendment was intended to be a last ditch effort to enforce the rights we have against a possible future oppressive government.
If we ban assault weapons from civilians and only the government has them, there would be no way to forcefully remove a seriously corrupt government.
The government should fear its people - not the other way around; that's the spirit of the 2A.
I think this whole issue of an assault rifle being somehow more dangerous or unnecessary is complete @!#@!#@%@ Most people don't even know that there really is no such thing as an "assault rifle," its just a term the media uses to describe military type weapons. Most people label any gun with a high cap magazine and scary looking body as an assault rifle when in reality it is just a semi-automatic hunting rifle with a few add-ons. And as for assault rifles being the weapon of choice for a criminal, I think not. The top 5 most commonly used weapons in crime starts with your average 12 gauge mossburg which only holds 3-8 rounds and the other guns are small caliber handguns with 6-15 round capacities.
Plus, a normal (not hollow point or other specialized) bullet would leave only a relatively small hole. If it hits an essential organ, you die, but there's a pretty low chance of that.
A knife is bigger and moves, and would go both in AND out, causing damage in its wake. Better chance of hitting an artery or an organ.
Plus, being shot would be sudden and probably less painful.
I'll take the quicker of the two, even if it would be horrifying.
If I print up 2000 years of calendars and someone finds them in about 1500 years or so, does that mean the world ends on Dec. 31, 4009? Nope. Same thing here.
@Aug: The kid climbed up the mountain and survived in Deep Impact. Not everyone would know they could do that, as would happen in real life. Also, at that point, there were TWO asteroids coming. The first would cause a huge tsunami (which is why the kid ended up on the mountain). The second and larger would cause the end of mankind (which was blown up by a scientific space group -- not oil drillers).
So yeah, when the value of the dollar drops to nothing, and nothing backs it, the run of the almighty US dollar is going to come to a complete halt and turn the US into a seriously failed nation.
If you remove assault rifles and the like from civilians' hands, you remove the power to defend the country from an oppressive and anti-citizen government.
I own an assault rifle. If a ban came down, there would be no way I would ever give it up without a fight. Government has restrictions regarding weapons - not the citizens.
The Constitution restricts the government, not the people. The 2nd Amendment was intended to be a last ditch effort to enforce the rights we have against a possible future oppressive government.
If we ban assault weapons from civilians and only the government has them, there would be no way to forcefully remove a seriously corrupt government.
The government should fear its people - not the other way around; that's the spirit of the 2A.