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shame, if you had been to Vladivostok I could officially nominate I've been everywhere by Johnny Cash as your theme Song.
Dunlando, Gulf Oil, and The anarcho-capitalist lands of kool-aid
I've been to Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and Kaliningrad (formerly Koenigsberg). I've also been to Donetsk (aka Stalino) and Mariupol (aka Zhdanov). And Kiev and Kharkov. And Odessa. And Nizhny Novgorod (aka Gorky). And Sochi. Heck, I drove a rental Mercedes in Palermo :-) I also flew in a chopper under the Golden Gate Bridge (and over the Iguaçu Falls - obviously, not in the same chopper).
Octal, Federation of American States, Anchillas, Dunlando, and 2 othersGulf Oil, and The anarcho-capitalist lands of kool-aid
All right you qualify for the "I've been everywhere" award if you've been to Topeka Kansas.
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I only drove its entire length on I-70.
Dunlando and Gulf Oil
The Uvalde Massacre really shines a light on police incompetence. Police protocol for an active shooter is to make as much noise as possible to draw the shooter away from the children and prevent more deaths, not stand outside the school for practically an hour and allow a mentally distraught armed criminal slaughter twenty people with nothing stopping them.
Whether this is a gun control issue or mental health issue is a different story, but one thing I know is that the Uvalde Police Department could have prevented this mass murder from going any further than it needed to go, but of course they didn't.
The failure was not intentional, but systemic of all small town settings that never believe this is going to happen on their doorstep.
The police did not adequately train, cause they do not have the funds even if they have the time, and a teacher thoughtlessly left a door ajar that on the other 364 days of this year led to no harm.
Who was to know that day would be different?
Complacency.
The great undoing of us all.
And the sick sad perpetrator of this unfortunate event?
A creation of the selfsame self-righteous social engineers deciding whether taking more of your guns or sending you to more shrinks will turn you into the next villain they will use to blame for their experiments gone wrong.
I think It was all just a ploy to get guns banned. Honestly, how the police acted was disgusting. But what's more disgusting is because of how they acted, How many children died, who could have been saved.
They could have. They also could have lost several officers in the process. I'm absolutely not defending them - merely pointing out that somebody armed with an assault rifle and possibly wearing body armor (both readily available for sale to anybody starting literally on 18th birthday, no questions asked) is very difficult to handle even for heavily armed professionals, never mind "armed citizens". And, of course, I can remind you of the man who shot over 500 (!!!) people in Las Vegas, and nobody could do anything. It is well past time to recognize and repeat over and over again that those talking about a "good guy with a gun" are evil people who do not argue in good faith.
The only way to stop the carnage is to confiscate most of the civilian guns in the US. It's that simple. Semiautomatic rifles with external detachable magazines (like AR-15) should be banned outright, no ands, ifs or buts. The only thing you can do with them that you can't do with other types of guns is a mass shooting. That's their only unique purpose. For other guns we need registration, licensing and training. Obviously, depending on the type. E.g. the shotgun that Dick Cheney shot somebody in the face with requires the least regulation (perhaps just a check for history of violent crime - I'm not sure that, say, convicted tax evaders should be denied the right to hunt quail), as it's not all that dangerous to humans. But semiautomatic handguns (causing most of gun deaths and injuries) should require serious background checks potentially including confidential interviews with current and former WAGs (4.5 million American women have been threatened with a gun by their current or former partner), review of social media posts etc. BTW when I say "confiscation", I mean mostly gun buybacks, both mandatory and induced with regulations that many people won't want to bother to comply with and would rather get some cash.
And if you want to say that my proposed licensing requirements are too intrusive, you know what I find too intrusive? https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/license-id/driver-licenses/new-drivers/Documents/driver-handbook.pdf "You should place both hands on the steering wheel and instruct any passengers to keep their hands in a position that is clearly visible to the officer at all times. Passengers in the back seat should place their hands on the back of the front seat. Keep your hands in plain view." [All boldface in the original, not mine] This reminds me of Stalin's GULAG. Whenever the prisoners were escorted to or from the worksite, they were read a warning: "A step to the right, a step to the left, a jump on the spot is considered an escape attempt. The guards open fire without a warning." So much for the idea that guns make us free. And I strongly resent being treated by the government like a Stalin's prisoner for as little as being unaware of a just burnt out taillight - solely in order for some troubled men to be able to continue their silly cosplay with dangerous toys (and let's face it: a majority of guns in the US - the only country in the world with more guns than people - are owned by men with mental issues and only a tenuous connection to reality).
the Problem isn't Solely Guns,
a Overlooked part of the Problem is How these Youths are Treated their Entire Life's and are Driven Insane.
they Generally Start out as having a Learning Disability and thus are an Out Cast in School.
Frist they are Put on Speed by the Educational system For not Paying attention in Class by. Then they are Demonized for Being Boys by the Media, they are then Subjected to Progressive Social Engineering the Ones that Don't Turn them into Effeminate Soy boys are further miss Treated by the Educational System
meanwhile they get Their Minds Rotted by Excessive use of Electronics and Not Playing out side. they have no Social Connections with Others,
they are Gaslighted, Drugged and Treated like 2nd Class Citizens their entire Lives, Slowly Otherwise Normal boys are Driven Into a Sense of Hopeless Nihilism, with Nothing to Live For. Most of the Ones who are not completely Twisted into becoming Evil simply Commit Suicide.
the ones who don't have Years of Mental Abuse that makes them Hate Society and they then start to Want the World To Burn they however Want the World to Know They Exist
and Due how Social Media works they get exactly what they want. these Types are Evil, Not because they are Born Evil, but because of how they where Treated as Children.
then their are Those who gone through all of that Abuse, but haven't Killed themselves or gone on a Violent Rampage, they graduate or Drop out of Highschool, Don't Go to College, and either get a Dead in Job or are Unemployed
and of course they Still have Nothing to Live for and are Completely Hopeless.
Of course, we need to pay a lot more attention to mental health. But there's absolutely nothing unique about having people with mental issues. All countries have them. But the US is the only First World country with frequent school shootings. And what is unique about the US is being the only country in the world with more guns than people. All others have at most half as many guns as people (and we are talking here about Yemen with a prolonged civil war). Similarly, we have both the highest (by far) rate of opioid prescriptions and the highest rate of opioid overdoses in the First World. And again, many people vehemently insist that correlation is not causation.
I don't actually know if we do.
Banning guns wouldn't change anything. Most criminals buy their guns through illegal means anyways. So more laws isn't going to change that. The only one who is going to listen to gun control laws are law abiding citizens. the criminal isn't going to care about gun control laws, as the definition of a criminal is someone who breaks the law. And say that yes, we do ban these guns (i Do congratulate you on calling ar-15s semiautomatic, and no fully automatic or "semi fully automatic" as people who have no clue what they are talking about often say). What about 3d printing? Jstark in germany (Germany has very strict gun control) was able to produce a design for a fully automatic 9mm submachine gun that was almost completely 3d printed, that he was able to distribute to the people. Even with the government trying its best to get those plans off the web, they can still be found. And we don't even need 3d printing. Look at the Luty submachine gun. This gun was invented to combat gun control in england. It can be built from materials one can buy at the hardware store. You cannot ban guns for criminals. You can only ban guns for law abiding citizens. If a criminal wants a gun, they are going to get one. no matter what. Heck, look at canada, where a guy was converting 1911 style bb guns into actual 1911 pistols and selling them to gangs.
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History does not take most people into account, therefore it does not take the goodness and decency of most people into account either.
There are 8,000,000,000 reports logged annually in the US of private gun owners using their weapons legally and properly to defend life and property.
Try to bear that in mind when getting caught up in the commentary that is always missing the point.
It is not a gun problem.
It is a people problem, and a society built on ideals of enlightenment and empowerment is not going to repair itself by taking things away from people.
Perhaps if we get back to the business of minding our own, the village of idiots it takes to create these problems and the drama on television used to pit us against each other will begin to take care of itself.
Anchillas, Divided Wastelands of America, Dennock, and The anarcho-capitalist lands of kool-aid
Yeah, kind of like those who behave as if their border and social policies have nothing to do with the US being the number one importer of narcotics and sex flesh.
That the interdiction in 2020 of enough fentanyl to kill us all seven times over was just incidental.
Thousands of undocumented "dreamers" disappear into the same dark holes our sisters/wives/daughters fall into one dark day on the way home.
When you do not treat all vice with equal prejudice, then you are at the mercy of whichever peddler you have shown mercy to.
We are bedeviled by our own inconsistencies as our least stable make the same allowances for themselves as our most corrupt do.
3. The worst gun violence statistics exist within the most gun regulated territories.
If you want to die by gun, then the urban centers of California, followed by the classics of Chicago, Detroit, NYC, and our nation's capital are the perfect places to live that are the hardest for you to legally own a gun, and also the most likely places to die by one not legally owned.
Progressives like to button things up all nice and neat like that.
Sorry, this is ignorant nonsense. Disarming "law-abiding citizens" would disarm criminals as well. The main source of guns for criminals is guns stolen from homes and vehicles. Since you mentioned England, it is actually very hard for a criminal or a terrorist to get a gun there. Of course, a criminal who really, really wants a gun will get it. It's a matter of cost. Here in the US an average teenage gang-banger can afford one because so many of them are stolen. Tighter supply would dramatically raise prices. Sure, a professional bank robber or a drug dealer will still buy one (or two, or three). But a 16 year-old moron? And don't forget that you can't print ammunition.
BTW I'm not actually in favor a gun ban (except for certain types and especially semiautomatic rifles with external detachable magazines). I'm in favor of making the process of buying a handgun, especially a semiautomatic one sufficiently expensive and onerous that it will discourage most of the casual buyers who are statistically illiterate and don't understand that buying a gun for "protection" is like smoking two packs a day for "health" or riding a motorcycle for "safety". Now, I don't mind people engaging in either of three activities - but only as long as they fully understand the risks. Yes, there's a tiny chance that a gun may save your life. But that's true for smoking too. In 1960 an experimental missile blew up on a launch pad killing hundreds including the commander of the Soviet strategic missile forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe But! "Missile designer Mikhail Yangel and the test range commanding officer survived only because they had left to smoke a cigarette behind a bunker a few hundred metres away..." I'm also in favor of mandatory safety training including safe storage.
Yes, for themselves. But not for sale - there's not much profit in it. Plenty of drugs are smuggled into England, but it's hard for criminals to acquire a gun there.
This is a blatant lie. Would you care to enlighten us where those reports are being logged?! Only 1600 or so are logged with the police. Furthermore, there are actually fewer than 8 million crimes being reported annually in the US. So how can there be 8 million defensive uses of firearms against crime?!
Yes, this is a gun problem. Solely a gun problem. It's not present anywhere else in the First World. If you are not ashamed to be an American when you hear that a retired cop murders an unarmed man (and wounds his wife) at a movie theater for quietly texting the couple's babysitter and suffers no punishment for that, then you are a sociopath incapable of feeling shame.
Once again, I'm not against people buying guns - or tobacco. But I'm against advertising either product (and let's be honest: NRA has unfortunately evolved from a members' organization into a PR agency for gun manufacturers) on false pretenses. Guns do not protect freedom (if anything, they reduce it as I explained in an earlier post), and a typical middle class American living in a typical suburban home is extremely unlikely to even need a gun for self-defense. But if you enjoy target shooting (I do - except for cleaning the guns afterwards) or hunting (I don't), then by all means buy the gun(s) suitable for your purpose.
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