Leslie

Excellent. Will you be letting the NRA know? Because they talk non-stop shit.

SultanOfSwing

They can roll their invitation up into a point and jam it up their arse. If they can get the GOP's cock out of there first.

Nutek

Isn't that the weekend of the gun fair?

SultanOfSwing

Every day is the gun fair in my house (refer again to the gif of Dwight).

Nutek

Lion in Winter

Has anyone done the "cars kill people too" thing on this thread in the last 30 pages or so? If not, we're overdue.

scrubbedexpat099

Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/59383...ls-and-reality

"Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades," says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.

robtuck

I don't think Postal Bombs causes much of a problem overall, I doubt that would have been much solace to the residents of Austin in recent weeks, I also doubt it meant the FBI and local police would have put it below other items in the list of current priorities.

There are many "causes" worthy of interest.

Giantaxe

"It's not dangerous because of how schools are," Cerdinio says, "but because a shooting can happen anywhere. It's more about gun availability."

I agree.

robtuck

The argument has probably already been had in page 22 or something, but taking the 2A to the extreme, why shouldn't any citizen of the USA be allowed to own a Nuclear Weapon? The wording only mentions Arms, not which type, the right is simply to bear them,any I presume at the time of writing. Well, if the wording is meant to mean as much now as it did then, and weapons have advanced, why not any weapon, or Arms?

After all, a well regulated Militia is determined to mean resourced, trained etc. The Right is provided to ensure the citizens can protect themselves from the Government, who these days have nuclear weapons.

I believe one of the reasons we don't allow Nuclear weapons to be stored in Suburbia are because they are deemed to be pretty dangerous in the wrong hands, notwithstanding the fact that most owners would probably be law abiding and not use them unless provoked. It is clear that Nuclear bombs don't walk down the street and set themselves off.

Clearly this is daft, but the point is we seem unable to have a debate about the wording of something, implying modern meaning or even changing it. Nobody will be killed by someone with a gun if no guns existed, clearly the availability of guns creates a potential risk. Just like adding seat belts to cars, having a debate about limitations seems reasonable to me, and if the belief is that simply cannot happen with the current 2A, why not talk about amending the thing?

And yes, someone should be focused on reducing deaths caused by car accidents as well.

Leslie

Guns don't kill people, schools kill people.

Lion in Winter

Guns don't kill people, unarmed people kill people.

dakota44

Amazing how many kids, in the millions, are marching today for change. Very impressed with them.

scrubbedexpat099

Blut und ehre!

dakota44

And what, may I ask, is the point of posting 'blood and honor' here. You show your true colors posting a Hitler Youth slogan