Gun control and real estate

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Why bother trying to pass gun control? It’s a total waste time.

Let’s relax gun ownership rules and let freedom flourish.

Private real estate owners will need to do what it takes to keep their businesses secure lest they lose money. And if shootings get worse, business owners will be leading the charge for reform. You can bet your ass that if the Venitian is attacked, Shelton Aldelson will be on the phone with Trump.

[spdrun]

Are private owners taking matters into their own hands really better? Do you really want hotel staff rooting and pawing through your bags (or x-raying them) whenever you check into a hotel? How about body scanners or magnetometer gates like in an airport? Every. Bloody. Time. You go out for a drink or a show, come back and have to stand in line and deal with that nonsense?

How would that even work in smaller hotels or motels with multiple entrances? What about landlords? If you rent a condo in a high-rise, should you be subject to a search whenever you walk into your own home with grocery bags?

That would end up basically being a privately-run police state. Or we could just make it more difficult for nutters to buy powerful weapons.

Plenty of states make getting a license a PiTA, and their laws pass the 2A test. No need to change the Constitution, just pass stricter licensing laws for the more powerful weapons.

[FlyerInHi]

Well, maybe private initiatives will bring about economies of scale and innovation.

Of maybe the burden and liability of security will degrade profit so much that the business community will want gun control.

Why bother expending political capital on this issue? Let capitalism take care of it for us once and for all.

[FlyerInHi]

Amazon should suport the NRA.
If people go out less, Amazon can sell more.

[spdrun]

I’d prefer not to have economies of scale and innovation in invading my privacy. Better to not make military weapons easily available, so there’s less need for security and invasion of privacy.

[FlyerInHi]

Guns mean freedom. I’m willing to give the NRA the benefit of the doubt. Let’s normalize gun carry like any accessory. No invasion of privacy because the right to carry would be protected by law.

Potential shooters would not dare because the good guys with guns will respond to save lives.

[spdrun]

Six-shooter in a hip holster vs some nutter with a machine gun. Really likely.

We’d also need to normalize bulletproof leisure suits, night vision goggles (you could incorporate them into a Google-Glass type appliance), and flak fedoras for the Good Guys with Guns(tm) to win…

But hey, the US fashion industry could make a killing off of this.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=spdrun]Six-shooter in a hip holster vs some nutter with a machine gun. Really likely.

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It’s like crowd sourcing of gun owners for protection.

Sean Hannity had an answer. He’s a trained gun owner. He said, talking to himself in the third person: Wouldn’t you want a trained Hannity so you have a chance?

Millions of Sean Hannitys would of course equate to a safer world. Free protection from economies of scale of gun owners. The private markets are so wonderful!

[outtamojo]

I would rather entrust my life to an army of drones hooked up to a shotspotter system than an army of Sean hannitys likely to shoot the first person who doesn’t look American enough.

Shotspotter is publicly tradeable btw,SSTI, buyer beware : )

[spdrun]

And some kid shoots off fireworks and gets blown up by drones?

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=outtamojo]I would rather entrust my life to an army of drones hooked up to a shotspotter system than an army of Sean hannitys likely to shoot the first person who doesn’t look American enough.

Shotspotter is publicly tradeable btw,SSTI, buyer beware : )[/quote]

Did you the swarm of 1000 synchronized drones the Chinese flew for mid autumn festival? Pretty cool. The drones will be easily fitted with munition.

The Chinese are now exporting military drones and undercutting the US in price/performance value.

[moneymaker]

From what I know there was no way to prevent the Mandalay Bay shooting, and that is true for most of the mass shootings I’ve heard of. Even if people were armed at the concert they would not have been able to stop the shooting, in fact people in rooms around him would have probably been killed accidently. A platoon of armed drones, maybe, like in Bladerunner 2049. We need to stop looking to the government to solve everything and just accept that life sometimes sucks. I’m honestly glad that he shot himself and saved tax payers the additional cost of court and incarceration, think of it as instant justice/punishment. I do think this will affect people going to Vegas, even before this all happened I had decided I don’t want to go to Vegas. No more cheap rooms/buffets/table limits too high for my blood.

[njtosd]

I love the first one of these, beer AND guns: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/guns-ads-1950s

Why, if guns were so widely available in the 1950s (and at other times) didn’t we have the problems we do now?

[outtamojo]

[quote=spdrun]And some kid shoots off fireworks and gets blown up by drones?[/quote]

They don’t have to shoot deadly munitions, just anything you can think of that would slow down a shooter.

[DataAgent]

I’m with FlyerInHi, gun controls don’t work. Let’s encourage gun ownership. We could make guns as easy to buy as an iphone.

Maybe make guns a fashion accessory with different colored guns to match your new clothing.

Maybe we should teach gun ownership in grade schools and high schools. Kids need to know how to defend themselves.

Let the market sort it all out.

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