Wal-Mart to bring back guns to hundreds of US stores

[doodab]

You can go to tesco and buy a kitchen knife, sometimes I wonder what the world is coming to.

But you'll need to go to asda for an M4 carbine.

[amcdonald]

Guns don't kill people.. people do.

ahem...

[scooterscot]

You can go to tesco and buy a kitchen knife, sometimes I wonder what the world is coming to.

When was the last time you used an ak47 to cut the chicken with?

[PRC1964]

Surely the point is that you can't buy cancer (that will kill someone else) over the counter at Walmart, but you can buy a gun.

[AtW]

Surely the point is that you can't buy cancer (that will kill someone else) over the counter at Walmart, but you can buy a gun.

The point is that there are plenty of other things that kill people in FAR greater numbers so banning something that is so essential for self defence as well as upholding freedom (armed population can't be as easily opressed) on the grounds that some people die as a consequence of that freedom - cars kill far more people, yet they are not banned as it is accepted that whilst safety standards need to improve further totally stopping all cars is wrong.

Good thing they've got proper written constitution in USA that gurantees essential human right of self defence.

[TykeMerc]

The point is that there are plenty of other things that kill people in FAR greater numbers so banning something that is so essential for self defence as well as upholding freedom (armed population can't be as easily opressed) on the grounds that some people die as a consequence of that freedom - cars kill far more people, yet they are not banned as it is accepted that whilst safety standards need to improve further totally stopping all cars is wrong.

Good thing they've got proper written constitution in USA that gurantees essential human right of self defence.

Bulltulip.

Out of the things you've mentioned, only one of them is designed, built and sold for the express purpose of killing. Sure a 1 tonne+ piece of machinery piloted by a fallible human at speed can kill, but it's expressly designed as a means of transport.
In the UK you don't need a gun for self defence, in fact odds are if you carried one it would be used against you.
The simple answer to your appreciation of free gun laws and the US constitution is you can feck off there, equip yourself and with any luck find someone to gun you down.
Incidentally it's entirely legal to own firearms and shotguns in the UK so long as you have the relevant licence, but that excludes carrying one concealed let alone loaded.

[Doggy Styles]

Who started comparing cars with Walmart selling guns to the general public? Cars killed more people than the Yorkshire Ripper, does that make him acceptable?

[doodab]

The point is that there are plenty of other things that kill people in FAR greater numbers so banning something that is so essential for self defence as well as upholding freedom (armed population can't be as easily opressed) on the grounds that some people die as a consequence of that freedom - cars kill far more people, yet they are not banned as it is accepted that whilst safety standards need to improve further totally stopping all cars is wrong.

Good thing they've got proper written constitution in USA that gurantees essential human right of self defence.

Driving is Murder. Every time you get in your car you are playing Russian roulette with other peoples lives. It's no different than firing at a crowd of people with your eyes closed.

[Doggy Styles]

Driving is Murder. Every time you get in your car you are playing Russian roulette with other peoples lives. It's no different than firing at a crowd of people with your eyes closed.

Yes. Put like that, cars should be banned and Yorkshire Rippers legalised. Yorkshire Rippers themselves aren't dangerous, it's the people that get murdered that push up the death rates.

[centurian]

When I was at school, one of my mates got a .44 magnum from somewhere, and a single round.

It's the round that is the .44 magnum, not the gun.

Dirty Harry didn't carry a .44 magnum. He carried a Smith & Wesson Model 29, loaded with .44 magnum rounds.

You can get semi-automatics and shotguns designed to fire .44 magnums as well.