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ParticipantToday’s shooting: 2 firefighters dead + 1 more ir”responsible” gun user killed.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/us/new-york-firefighters-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
The NRA’s next smart ass advise: Arm All Firefighters in America.
If you got a burning house, don’t blame the firefighter if they are going to be a little slower to save your house. They simply don’t know if you are a “responsible” gun user or an ir”responsible” one.
ParticipantToday’s shooting: 3 people killed and an ir”responsible” gun user dead.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/21/justice/pennsylvania-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1Also, NRA came out with smart ass advise for 300 millions Americans: “we should put armed security in every school”
With this kind of reasoning, we may have to put armed security at the church, private home and on every street too:
CNN: “By 10 a.m., the “active shooter situation” in Frankstown Township, about 7 miles southeast of Altoona and 100 miles east of Pittsburgh was under control, the Blair County Emergency Management Agency reported on its Facebook page.
But the gruesome story wasn’t over. After this episode played out, authorities discovered three slain people at three different locations.
One woman was killed at Juniata Valley Gospel Church, one man was found dead in a residence, and another man was killed after getting into a car accident with the truck’s driver, added Bivens. All three had been shot”.
Get responsible America!!!! It’s you irresponsible son of bitches that get the guns all wrong.
ParticipantI agree with some of the pro-guns here who mentioned the fact that semi-automatic guns have been responsible for far much lower number of deaths than hand guns. The stricter regulations of these more powerful semi automatic guns would not, therefore, change much in the number of deaths.
Hence, I believe that we must improve regulations that affect all guns. The majority of Americans killed every year by guns are from hand guns. The debate should not focus on the powerful guns only but on all guns if we are serious about the outcome for a safer society.
Video games, parenting skills, crazy people …etc could be the starting cause for these senseless mass killings. But it is the guns that provided the easiest and most effective tool to carry out the killings.
Don’t be so proud about you being a “responsible owner” of guns. You may never know and no one can really control fully of their emotions 100% of the time. If you are a robot, we can think otherwise, but human nature does snap at time and will snap with the easiest readily tools available.
Does anyone think that the mass murderer at Newtown thought that he was the bad guy and that he was irresponsible with his gun?
I support raising the tax for gun purchase/transfer to a very high level very similar to the extra tax on tobacco sale. For years, cigarette companies have lied to their teeth about the safety of smoking and have killed the smoker directly and the non-smoker indirectly.
I support also the application of a system for training, licensing for guns use and the requirement for liability insurance purchase.
ParticipantThe cost of honoring gun ownership rights in our society is simply too much.
Crime, deaths, injuries, costs of police departments in an arm race, mass massacre, security costs, the rights of most Americans to feel safe and be safe, etc.
I think that we should among other things:
1. Put a very heavy tax on the purchases/transfer of gun (new and old) and amo. This is only fair so that the money pays back to the burden of the public and others who have to bear the consequences of guns on many aspect of our lives. Yes, there are many aspects of our lives affected by the presence of guns in our society.
2. Have gun owners get the required training and license and buy liability insurance just like operating a car (they always compare gun owning with car driving). They won’t like those, but we wouldn’t like any extra accidental death/mass massacre in our children school on the news either.
ParticipantThis town has a culture of gun, also some common sense public safety measure proposed was shot down by gun control opponents in the past.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/17/us/newtown-gun-control/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
The NRA is keeping a low profile:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/17/tech/social-media/nra-social-media-silence/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
ParticipantWhen the FDA withdraw medications because of its adverse effect to a very small number of people/cases…American don’t go to congress and lobby to get back that medication for their rights to treat their justified indication. When the guns while serving the “liberty” purpose, the “self defense” purpose, the hobby and entertainment purpose, but also have the side effects of accidental deaths, mass massacre, murders by gun….nobody dares talking about a “recall” or a “withdrawal” like the FDA can…even when many more people died by gun in this country than all the side effects of medications could ever kill people.
There are differences between the two, yes. But the analogy shows how we look at and solve things differently independently of how many people die. Our cost/benefit analysis is out of whack.
ParticipantHey Blogstar,
That is extremely deep what you are saying. I would follow you. There is a truth in it. I need to learn the wisdom of slacking off and the stupidity of the worker bees.
November 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM in reply to: OT: Papa Doug’s monopoly on “news” in SD is now complete #754301Participanthttp://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/nov/05/ballot-recommendations/
These were the ballot recommendations from the UT.
I like reading the UT for information. But their ballot recommendations were a big turn off big time for me.
ParticipantUm what is a binomial equation?
ParticipantI guarantee you will miss the freeway here. One of my friend did after a while living there.
ParticipantI used Pete the inspector, you can see here on Yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/socal-home-inspections-san-diego
The inspection he did for me yielded a lot of information on the house and also on maintenance. I actually emailed him twice months later for advice on fixing some thing in the house and in both cases he gave me good advices.
ParticipantIt’s not about what nationality your dentist is but it is very much about board regulations, standard of practice, education and training, all of which, I am afraid in Mexico it would be way behind.
ParticipantI see sign that economy definitely getting better:
A couple of people I know who went through foreclosure in 2008 but now have recently gotten the mortgage to purchased their new homes. That was really impressive to me how they did it.
On the other hand, many people I know still looking for jobs, recently lost jobs, working part time. Hence it’s a definite NO: economy is getting nasty still.
November 3, 2011 at 9:44 PM in reply to: OT: This is going to be a sad story that is going to be more sad. #732199Participant -
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