What is wrong with these people!?

[nicoenarg]

Let's make fire and knives illegal:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440901,00.html (6 killed)
Let's make knives illegal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Jia_(Chinese_murderer) (6 killed)
Let's make cars and knives illegal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre (7 killed)
Let's make knives illegal:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341569,00.html (4 killed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Kanagawa (2 killed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Central_Station#Opening_ceremony (41 injured)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_killer) (4 killed)
Let's make baseball bats illegal:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210953,00.html (6 killed)
Let's make fire and unemployed South Koreans illegal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu_subway_fire (198 killed, 147 injured)
Let's make kitchen knives illegal (alongwith ex-janitors):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre (8 killed)

This list is not exhaustive of course. There are many examples of people using whatever was at their disposal at the time to carry out their wish to kill others. You can ban guns but where are you going to stop? Ban knives? Only the government decides who can cut a damn onion in their homes? This is a fallacious argument. People love to rail against guns but when are you going to learn that guns don't automatically fire. They don't have a brain of their own.

People do a lot more damaage at times without any guns. This Holmes guy was literally loaded with weapons left, right and center. His apartment booby trapped. Set to blow up anyone who would dare open his door and he killed 12 people and injured around 50. I am not saying "its nothing" but put that in perspective. You have a South Korean man who burns a subway and kills about 200 people.

Do you ban fire and heat? How about just banning people with hands? That way they can't handle anything dangerous. But then our overlords the government might decide "oh people kicking is dangerous, let's cut off their feet as well".

OR we can put the blame where it belongs. Idiots with a will do kill others will carry out their mission (or whatever they think it is) whether they have guns or not. Its naive and frankly stupid to think if you ban guns the killings will stop.

Guns also save lives (http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/11/nation/na-shoot11) but I guess that doesn't get people to cry out "enact laws that make buying guns necessary for everyone".

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Oh, hi! Excuse me. I was looking for the group that has discussions about living and working in Buenos Aires ... I think they are called BAExpats? Yes? Down the hall to the left? Great, thanks so much! Sorry for intruding ...

 

[BASailor]

Wish there was an European expat site......would fit me better i think!
Amazing the amount of wannabe messias guys in this forum!
America, the greatest and most war horny nation the last 70 years! But in this forum there are only the good ones......try to mention black, or poor, or junk killer movie or whatever, straight away u have a crowd attacking u! Makes me sick these pseudo liberal hippies, high on dope, gas, prosac or whatever! Before you try to discriminate other people here, try to solve one of the biggest problems in this world: the imperialism and greed of the nation called AMERICA!

Thanks! We should meet and get a beer. Thank you very much. I agree 100%.

 

[Shwidelson]

Wish there was an European expat site......would fit me better i think!
Amazing the amount of wannabe messias guys in this forum!
America, the greatest and most war horny nation the last 70 years! But in this forum there are only the good ones......try to mention black, or poor, or junk killer movie or whatever, straight away u have a crowd attacking u! Makes me sick these pseudo liberal hippies, high on dope, gas, prosac or whatever! Before you try to discriminate other people here, try to solve one of the biggest problems in this world: the imperialism and greed of the nation called AMERICA!

Terkild, it's not simply bringing up "black" or poor that causes a reaction from others. It's what you have to say specifically about such matters that rubs people the wrong way. I've read many of your posts over the last several months. You often come off as an antagonistic, simple-minded, ignorant racist. Saying that people who don't agree with you are drugged up liberal hippies (you've done it before) is lame and comical and proves my point. So much for European sophistication. Feel free to start your own website any time.

 

[BASailor]

Saying that people who don't agree with you are drugged up liberal hippies (you've done it before) is lame and comical and proves my point. So much for European sophistication. Feel free to start your own website any time.

Very disgusting Shwidelson. As a local I could tell you "feel free to go back home".

 

[steveinbsas]

Very disgusting Shwidelson. As a local I could tell you "feel free to go back home".

Please define the word "local" if you want any of us to understand your point.

 

[BASailor]

From here.

 

[Shwidelson]

Very disgusting Shwidelson. As a local I could tell you "feel free to go back home".

What exactly did you find disgusting about that? I think you are being hypocritical just a bit.

 

[steveinbsas]

Now that we know you're from here please tell us why you are posting here?

Perhaps you are just one of the latest "locals" who have invaded this EXPAT site to tell foreigners who are trying to find solutions to problems living here to go home.

Why don't you either try to help...or just leave us alone (to suffer)?

If you resent the presence of foreigners in Argentina just say so.

We can have a discussion abut that.

I would like to know why you you wouldn't rather spend time with your Argentine friends...if you have any.

We don't need your approval...or your pity.

And I have serious doubts that anyone who says "I'm a local" here really is.

The Argentines I know would never use that expression.

 

[Dmiller]

My thoughts go out to all the victims families and love ones. If you idiots want to argue about nothing go do it somewhere else. Cause no one really wants to hear it. Get a life and stop being trolls. No need for names we all can see the posts.