I said it was founded on the principle of advocating gun competency - and it was, and safety continues to be a part of that. The NRA does offer firearm safety courses for both adults and children.
And NASCAR was built on scientific research into making cars better, faster, and more efficient. Now they put restrictor plates to regulate speed.
Nascar was built on bootleggers out running g-men
They still offer training courses. There's 5 happening in Nebraska, within 21 miles of Lincoln, in the next month alone. As I said, maybe if she'd actually attended one, she might have been smart enough not to blow her head off.
Oh I totally agree with you that it was stupidity, but the number of guns vs. the number of classes makes it unsustainable. But I would take it one step further and say that we should treat guns as cars. Yes, they are dangerous to those around us. So to legally have one you have to have your name in a database and pass a test. You need a license to put a fish's life in danger but not one to put me or my kids'? That's insane.
So delegate.
And then betting your rum running buddies which was the fastest and hashing it out on a dirt track.
I am so, so tired of people who think that constructing a device out of metal and wood/polymer will somehow inject thoughts of violence into the mind of a human being. The thoughts were already there. The device has no "brains" of its own, and frankly when we're talking about devices which can kill people*, I would want that device to have as little involvement in the decision-making process as possible.
Here's some nonsensical rhetoric for you steinman.
It doesn't inject thoughts so much as perpetuate what's already there in greater degree. Criminals are opportunistic, if they want to kill or seriously maim others and had choices between a gun or knife, they're going to choose the gun.
But that's just it, man, it does change your outlook on everything around you. Having a gun makes you view things differently and that's not a good thing. When all you have is a hammer...
The smart ones will. Well, this is also assuming there will be some distance to the victim, that noise or unwanted attention are not an issue, that they have access to the right type and sufficient quantity of ammunition, that they have ready access to the gun in question, that they have a way to get the weapon to the proper location without arousing too much suspicion*, that they have some idea of how to use it well enough to hit their target, etc.
I agree. However, this is another case of a sort of mental restraint threshold being lowered by access to tools, not that the tools themselves put those ideas into a person's head.
YOU SAID TRIGGER.
I would just like to go a little further on this.
The Judge and the State doesn't get to choose when the jury decides. That is solely their discretion. However, now they have to release it TONIGHT because if they don't, they have no control over the message.
True, no device has a mind of its own. We could probably stand to make guns safer, though. Relying on people not to be stupid isn't exactly working. There's a lot of interesting ideas out there to make firearms safer and to prevent accidental firings.
My apologies, Patrick. I should have asked to whom/what you were responding to.
Scorpion does a teleport punch, not a kick.
One of the handicaps of not having any real sense of time is that I can resume a conversation I started as much as a year ago (or more) as though I never interrupted it.
Yeah, that was Liu Kang that did the "magnet kick", wasn't it?
You tell the thugs to stop throwing bricks and using rifles, we'll stop using military-grade equipment to make sure we come home at night. Deal?
I'd have a lot more sympathy for that position if there wasn't such a rampant abuse of constitutional rights going on, with cops in full body armor, swat gear, grenade launchers and APCs serving no-knock warrants and the like all financed by the "war on terror." I'll usually stick up for a cop who has to shoot a suspect in the course of his duties, but the level of premeditated excessive force going on is something else entirely.
