Ban Guns!

jpark343 · 2012-10-21T00:11:20+00:00

Original content. Never seen this before. Intelligent argument.

withrecklessabandon · 2012-10-20T20:31:39+00:00

Yeah man, fuck spoons. We should have better government regulation on those.

jacobtaylor1987 · 2012-10-21T01:30:51+00:00

As someone who lives outside of America, your continued defence of a gun culture baffles me. But your commitment to the absolute principals of freedom are admirable.

lurker_becomes_lurkd · 2012-10-21T00:15:29+00:00

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it more difficult for sober people to own cars.

mechasmartypants · 2012-10-20T23:37:09+00:00

That's it. I've had enough. I'm unsubscribing from /r/funny. This subreddit's name is false advertising and I want my money back.

weetduck · 2012-10-20T22:21:51+00:00

Without guns how would I protect myself during the coming zombie apocalypse?

MattTheMilkMan · 2012-10-20T23:06:55+00:00

I would bet that the percentage of guns used in crimes is very minuscule vs. the amount of guns that are out there in the public. The problem with people with the logic of remove all firearms is, instead of helping the demented people that would use any weapon to commit a crime they just take the weapons away from everyone else. They refuse to acknowledge that the major problem is that we need raise our children in society right.

I'm a gun owner and my primary reason for ownership is that they are just fun to shoot. To me it's like golf, I played golf to socialize with friends but I'm terrible at golf but I can socialize with friends at the range but I can get more holes in ones.

If you have a problem with guns, do us all a favor and take a gun safety course and shoot a few rounds, after that you can talk about banning guns all you want. Chances are you will realize that they are not as scary as you think and will enjoy shooting again.

orevilo · 2012-10-20T21:26:16+00:00

Com' on man!

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
A gun shop owner's response to protesters	4311^coms	1903^pts	5^mos	funny
A protester probably wasn't planning on one of the owners counter-protesting him.	4^coms	15^pts	5^mos	funny
Illogical arguments are illogical	256^coms	866^pts	4^mos	funny
Agree or not, still pretty funny [Spoons made me fat]	783^coms	1044^pts	3^mos	pics

source: karmadecay

W357Y · 2012-10-21T00:19:09+00:00

False equivalency as one does not use a spoon to make other people fat, as one uses a gun to shoot other people.

tophat02 · 2012-10-21T00:04:04+00:00

As a liberal who grew up in Texas and lived there until recently, I've never understood why banning gun ownership is a "liberal" belief.

Even the most liberal atheists where I lived liked to shoot and many of them owned weapons as a hobby.

I'm absolutely pro gun regulation and though I'm on the fence regarding banning assault weapons, I can see the argument.

I just don't get the idea that we should ban all gun ownership... I honestly thought it was a conservative caricature of liberals until fairly recently.

What am I missing here? I like to take the rational approach to forming opinions and, I've gotta be honest, the "no guns ever" arguments just aren't swaying me. That's not to say I couldn't be persuaded, but I've grown up around guns and gun owners and, to a T, they seemed well educated and extremely responsible about the subject.

mamahamster · 2012-10-20T21:56:23+00:00

Yeah they banned drugs, no body can buy drugs. Wake up people if they take guns away people will still have them, bad people. And the good gun owners won't be able to protect their families.

MrMooga · 2012-10-20T23:12:59+00:00

Guns don't kill people, they amplify stupidity

Quazz · 2012-10-20T21:18:17+00:00

False equivalency.

A spoon is designed for a myriad of food, both healthy and unhealthy, big quantities, small quantities. A gun, on the other hand, is designed for a singular purpose: to kill. Spoons are not designed to make people fat. Guns are designed to kill.

cheemo · 2012-10-21T00:24:58+00:00

I thought it read "spooks" made me fat

SuperBlarg · 2012-10-20T23:20:54+00:00

The spoon wielder makes THEMSELVES fat with a spoon. A gun wielder kills OTHER PEOPLE with a gun. If I could easily make someone fat by throwing a spoon at them then his argument would be valid.

alwayschoosepeace · 2012-10-20T23:58:22+00:00

Trying to tell Americans the easiest way for handgun crime rates to go down is to get rid of handguns is like telling a westboro baptist member about evolution

warringah08 · 2012-10-21T01:35:43+00:00

If you're going to make an analogy it has to equate to the same principal. People who get fat have no one to blame but themselves, as opposed to a person who gets shot. I'm not commenting on gun control but this sign is stupid and doesn't make sense in this situation.

DollarsThanSense · 2012-10-20T22:59:13+00:00

The thing is, you can't usually or easily force someone else to get fat against their will with your spoon. Regardless of the validity of any criticism against the sale of guns to the public, the comparison isn't really all that fair. I'm sure there are fair rebuttals that would be equally funny, I don't know why he didn't use one of them instead.

therealdohr · 2012-10-21T01:19:04+00:00

I think this may be in West Allis, WI - The Shooters Shop. Actually a nice range

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=west+allis+gun+range&aq=1&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

ALSO_ATHEISM · 2012-10-21T01:35:29+00:00

Once again, we here we find a thread where Europeans go crazy and complain about peoples rights in another country.

I'll sum this whole thread up right now: Europe > USA. There, saved you 20 minutes.

arcadeego · 2012-10-20T22:11:19+00:00

The purpose of the spoon isn't to make you fat. The purpose of the spoon is to help you eat. It is an abuse of the purpose of the spoon if the user gets fat.

The purpose of the gun is to hurt someone. That is the only purpose of the gun. It is the correct use of the gun if someone gets hurt.

This is how I see it, but I am a Brit so am very much inclined to think that any argument that says guns are good is crazy. I recognise that this is a cultural thing and that in the US there are many sane people who see gun control as some sort of impedement of their freedom. I'm not trying to start a debate with this comment. I am just pointing out how I see the fallacy in the spoon/gun argument.

Crossfox17 · 2012-10-21T00:09:19+00:00

So someone posted this again, and I'm guessing we are going to have the "guns aren't bad vs guns kill ppl" argument. Well let me just make this simple. When humans attack other humans they use weapons, be it their fists, a club, a knife, or a gun. Guns are easily the most efficient tool for harming other human beings because of their effectiveness coupled with their availability. Bombs are certainly capable of killing more people, but they aren't as available, and so they pose less of a threat. So, guns are an efficient and widely available tool for grievously harming other human beings. They have other uses, but those uses aren't necessary. They are hobbies, and a hobby is hardly a sufficient reason to keep around tools which are also used to harm other human beings in the most effective way possible.

Should such efficient weapons be available to the public when owning one is not at all necessary to lead a successful life? I don't think so.

hitlerwasright · 2012-10-21T00:01:43+00:00

If you give guns to 15% of people, crime will go up.

If you give guns to 95% of people, crime nearly disapears

khanfusion · 2012-10-20T23:37:02+00:00

Hey, a spoon can do 9999 damage. I saw it once in a video game.

Ihavetheinternets · 2012-10-20T23:56:38+00:00

Spoons are actually more dangerous than guns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y

MoreDonuts · 2012-10-21T00:43:01+00:00

This reminds me of Korra. Obviously the best way to stop crime is to get rid of bending, right?

JoeMojo · 2012-10-21T00:54:03+00:00

laughed out loud

RadiantDark · 2012-10-21T01:05:27+00:00

Cars make me drive fast!

Bortology · 2012-10-21T01:06:21+00:00

Looking at the comments, I think you should identify your self as American or non-American.

It would be interesting to see the difference.

Purgatory_Dog · 2012-10-21T01:23:06+00:00

SPORK SPORK SPORK!

schaft0620 · 2012-10-21T01:32:17+00:00

This made me chuckle 5 years ago

Sabz5150 · 2012-10-21T01:44:26+00:00

Guns make people kill. Spoons make people fat.

Video games make people violent.

FoolishLlama · 2012-10-21T01:48:57+00:00

I laughed. I can't up vote this one enough.

bhermit · 2012-10-21T02:15:51+00:00

It's so sad to see a person trying to hand our rights away.

Kinomi · 2012-10-21T02:22:13+00:00

Ban reposters

BreadFriendForever · 2012-10-21T02:28:07+00:00

Fuck this. I've seen this too many fucking times.

severalthings · 2012-10-21T02:40:17+00:00

The equivalent of a gun in the eating world would be a machine that infused a constant supply of milkshake into your mouth 20 hours a day -- basically overkill for any "nutritional" needs.

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