Remember These Names

[Professor Chaos]

Irreligious wrote

Thanks for the reminder, Chaos. Having come across Bogus' paper, it now makes what you were saying nearly a month ago a lot clearer.

I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.

No, thanks for the link. A very interesting read.

[R and All]

Many more children die each year as a result of car crashes than as a result of gun violence. Let's use our reason, not impulsive emotion, to decide whether we want to overturn the second amendment. Crazy and/or psychotic folk are always going to be dangerous and are never going to follow the law. Why deny the law-abiding the ability to defend themselves?

[9opiles]

I'll consider the support of making guns illegal when the government, and the rest of the world, gives up its nuclear weapons, at least

[Smellyoldgit]

Shirly the world will be a much more pleasant, uber-safe place once everybody has their personal tactical nuke and a nice shiney button to keep their finger on?



.... of course, there's bound to be the isolated nutjob who fucks up the stats with a sensational mass murder before nuking himself - but hey, it's one way to control the population.

[Kinich Ahau]

Agreed, the only way to stop some crazy with a nuke is if a good citizen with a nuke can press the button before him. And teachers should all carry nukes.

[Davin]

Also, of course I agree that crazy people shouldn't carry nukes... but nothing should be done to make sure a person isn't crazy before selling them nukes.

[9opiles]

No, it's because the constitution says we have the right to bear arms. Before we start changing the Constitution to take away that right, if we don't have the right to bear arms because of people committing murder with guns, then they don't have the right to bear arms and have nuclear weapons that murder the Earth. Shoot a gun at someone, it kills them. Shoot a gun at a tree, and the tree still lives. Shoot a gun at any plant, really, and it still lives. Guns destroy only certain parts of life. Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, affect everything. If I can't have a gun, they can't have nuclear weapons.