The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[trish]

The probability that a family member (most likely a child) will be shot by your firearm, is far greater than the probability that you'll ever use it to deflect a threat on you or your family's life.

[trish]

http://nyti.ms/1zg7MY1

[buttslinger]

I think the reason you never really hear an explanation for the gun violence is that not knowing is better than knowing. I'm sure the cops who have to go out and clean up these messes will tell you there is a very large population of drunks, hotheads, and just plain fuck-ups out there, ....I mean, that explains it, they understand it, but the cops just want to try and forget about it. I lived in a few roachy apartments when I was young, but I knew eventually I'd be making enough money to get outta there. I had a reason to stick it out. Just turn on an episode of "COPS" .....these tragedies don't normally happen in a really nice house with kids who are going to College, they happen in shitthole trailers or motels or poor sections of town. Places where HOPE is not on the horizon.

Most people look at the "HAVE NOTS" and build a stronger fence around their house.

I can't talk about this problem seriously without offering up a solution, and I really don't think there will be one until a minimum wage lines up with a life with some dignity where you can afford to maintain a solid family, through the hard times. That will take much more change than some gun bill with no teeth.

Until then, hey, it could be better, it could be worse.

[martin48]

You used to have some good leaders in the States. What happened?

[trish]

You used to have some good leaders in the States. What happened?

Difficult to believe Ike was a republican. He built the interstate highway system, warned against the industrial military complex and advocated a progressive tax structure. The GOP used to be a political party, now it's a front for a few wealthy, wannabe plutocrats who effectively exploit the prejudices and irrational fears of the ignorant. Oh, yes...humans who watch Fox News and Duck Dynasty tend to be stupendously ignorant.

[danthepoetman]

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[I_made_linda_lovelace_gag]

oh I bet you read alot of gordon wood. and you regurgitate it from the text book. and you think your wicked awesome doing that and how how about dem apples and all that gordon wood business

[danthepoetman]

Who's Gordon Wood? I know about "morning wood", I'm even well acknowledged with "evening weed", "Flash Gordon", "Flesh Gordon", but Gordon Wood... ? Nope.

[I_made_linda_lovelace_gag]

does no one knows who gordon wood is?

[danthepoetman]

Well, not I...