(April 2, 2013 at 9:34 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: More weapons to give people the power to blow each other away in a few seconds from >10 feet away DOESN'T make everyone safer?

Color me surprised.

One day we'll invent force fields, or start wearing body armor to go shopping.

And then we'll see people with guns find a way to circumvent shields, and armor-piercing ammunition used far more often.

Safety is elusive, illusive, and totally gnarly!

I think it's more likely that we'll need EV suits - personally. If we didn't have a problem with a ton of dunces in this country people who wanted to commit mass murder would be going bio/chem, not spraying lead.

(April 3, 2013 at 10:32 am)Rhythm Wrote: I think it's more likely that we'll need EV suits - personally. If we didn't have a problem with a ton of dunces in this country people who wanted to commit mass murder would be going bio/chem, not spraying lead.

Really think it's because doing it with a gun is so romanticized... and it's also easy, and just about any retard can do it. Proper mass slayage takes just a little bit more creativity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

Just about any retard can put poison in the air handler of an elementary school as well. You don;lt even have to have to aim (or be able to hold onto a kicking assault rifle) to achieve the same results. I really do see the gun crime in our nation as a symptom of a complete lack of imagination and competence on the part of the perpetrators (along with a whole list of other things as well).

Acquiring large volumes of agents (fertilizer, etc) to make bombs and known biological weapons trigger monitoring NSA software.

If you think about, provided a set on inputs (scraping internet commerce traffic, map reducing credit/debit transactions), and making the assumption that a majority of domestic terrorism leaks significant swathes of information (angry people usually aren't totally silent and throw indicators well ahead of time), and that only a small number of pepple fitting a finite set of psychological profiles capable of said acts, one can come up with a reasonable model for detecting regions and topics to focus on for intercepting domestic terrorism.

It won't be foolproof, but it is not unreasonable to assume a form of such is in production.

Bio-agents require specific expertise and materials. Corrosive simple chemical agents require expertise in effective dispersal and saturation.

An increasingly limited set is generated for successively more complex but conventional terrorist plots.

Yeah...besides Americans seem to prefer flying off the handle and blasting anyone in sight. Guns make that oh-so-easy. No planing. No preparation. Just load up and let her rip.

Ah...thank you "responsible gun owners" for another example of how you can't be "responsible" enough.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/tennessee-gun-death

Quote:(CNN) -- A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off during a weekend cookout, killing the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was showing his guns to a relative, state police said Monday.

But of course....next up we have this....

http://www.newser.com/story/165965/6-yea...ghbor.html

Quote:For the second time in the space of a few days, a 4-year-old has been involved in a deadly shooting. Police say 6-year-old Brandon Holt of New Jersey died a day after being shot in the head by the other child as their parents stood in a yard nearby,

And they always say "where were the parents?" Well, they were right there.

Meanwhile - the body count grows to 3,357 as Congress dithers...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...oting.html

At least the senate will actually vote forcing these wholly-owned whores of the NRA to declare themselves.

(April 11, 2013 at 2:45 am)Minimalist Wrote: Ah...thank you "responsible gun owners" for another example of how you can't be "responsible" enough.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/tennessee-gun-death

Quote:(CNN) -- A pistol in the hands of a 4-year-old boy went off during a weekend cookout, killing the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was showing his guns to a relative, state police said Monday.

But of course....next up we have this....

http://www.newser.com/story/165965/6-yea...ghbor.html

Quote:For the second time in the space of a few days, a 4-year-old has been involved in a deadly shooting. Police say 6-year-old Brandon Holt of New Jersey died a day after being shot in the head by the other child as their parents stood in a yard nearby,

And they always say "where were the parents?" Well, they were right there.

Meanwhile - the body count grows to 3,357 as Congress dithers...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...oting.html

At least the senate will actually vote forcing these wholly-owned whores of the NRA to declare themselves.

Ah...thank you "responsible knife owners" for another example of how you can't be "responsible" enough.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/critically-inju...Wa0TIbLdzA

Quote:A 20-year-old college student who is accused of going on a stabbing spree at a Texas campus that left 14 people injured, allegedly told police he'd "had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school."

hmmmm....maybe somebody should have brought a gun to this knife fight...

BAN ALL KITCHEN KNIVES AND BOARDS WITH NAILS IN THEM!!!!!!

I don't understand why some people try to wave off the destructive power of guns versus other potential weapons. Give either of those four-year-olds a large knife, or a hammer, or a large rock and the likelihood that they would have killed a grown woman or a fellow child is significantly reduced. Especially if it's accidental.

I'm not against gun ownership, though I never have (and almost certainly never will) own a gun. But I think it's fair to acknowledge the danger that guns in the home present, especially in a home managed by such irresponsible people.

Quote:BAN ALL KITCHEN KNIVES AND BOARDS WITH NAILS IN THEM

Apparently the difference between DEAD and NOT DEAD is lost on an asshole like you.