Hey Gun Toting Retards... Quit Screwing it up for the Rest of Us!

These are .45 caliber rounds. GAP and ACP respectively. They are chock full of gunpowder, and as you can tell by the picture have a pretty big and damned nasty bullet which may enter your body and exit leaving a hole in your back big enough to see a panoramic view of the city through it... Ok, so I exaggerate, it will however do some serious damage. Serious enough that any human being would be wise to steer clear of one of these bullets being fired from a gun.

*THIS* is a .45 ACP blank. It has all the BANG of a .45 ACP round, without the deadly projectile that will seriously injure or kill anything crossing it's path. To recap, it's the same size and shape, and has the same amount of gunpowder and primer as the rounds above, except it lacks a projectile to do the killing... Now why would anyone want one of these rounds? I mean, after all, bullets are meant to kill and should never be fired unless it is for self defense right? Well not so fast kemosabe... sometimes in TV or Movies you need the muzzle flash and the loud bang bang without actually making anyone a widow in the process, likewise, starting a race would be MUCH deadlier if people didn't use starter pistols filled with blanks. Interestingly, they also have certain construction applications! I've seen guns that rivet into concrete that use .22 caliber blanks to provide the "UMPH" needed to drive the rivet.

In my opinion, there is one more application to which these little beauties are well-suited which is *NOT* killing people... Does that sound like common sense to you? Well, I wish brain dead gun toting retards in a densely populated city would consider this before 6 year old Italian tourists had to end up in THE FUCKING HOSPITAL, shot in the stomach, just for eating dinner...

I've pulled out this banner before, and I'm going to do it again... Yes, I am a liberal, yes, I am a member of the NRA, yes, I own several guns... No, this is not your "typical" liberal trying to reason that guns should be banned. But I am smart enough to know that when people aim guns in the air and shoot them off, and little innocent six year old kids trying to celebrate New Year's get shot in the stomach, nearly missing their heart, in the process, legislation happens, because people lose their minds over tragedy, and really, who can blame them?

Bullets travel hundreds (if not thousands) of feet per second, they are invisible to the naked eye (unless you are Neo from the matrix) so why would you need to fire actual live rounds from your firearm instead of blanks? In fact, why would you need to fire ANY rounds from your gun?! That's what the goddamned fireworks are for! Guns are meant to kill people, that's it. You should not fire a gun with a live round in it unless you aim to kill something/one. You should never aim a gun as a joke, because the message of a loaded weapon is unmistakable "Die."

There is something worse about this tragic shooting... Yes, something worse than an innocent six year old boy being shot in the stomach... Miami's reputation (if it wasn't before) is now completely shot, no pun intended... The European media has absolutely been ON FIRE with this story since 01/01... And as a city with no industry but tourism, and few jobs other than tourism, we would be absolute morons to drive away the people with money who want to come here and unwind. Remember when the German tourists got shot in Miami back in the 90's? This is much worse, this is a little boy and his parents. Nothing pulls the heartstrings like suffering children. The media loves this, and as most of Europe isn't at war on 2 fronts or have distractions like the Balloon Boy and Octomom, guess where all the attention is going? Nice going numbnuts... drive away the only industry we have left in this godforsaken ghost town.

Personally, I think the whole practice of shooting guns in the air on new years is retarded, flat out retarded... I can *maybe* sympathize if you are out in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbors for miles, and you have no fireworks and want a little bang bang to celebrate the new years (sympathize, but don't agree with it)... But in Miami, in the design district, which is pretty densely populated at night? Give me a break asshole, put your piece away and try to find some other way to psychologically make up for your pencil dick.