The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[broncofan]

Okay, now you got me thinking your some sort of hard boiled, noir PI like Easy Rawlins.

That would be so cool. I would give anything to be a PI (with clients).

I just want to emphasize, I think (I hope) when I make snooty comments about guns I am targeting the fetishization of guns...the magical thinking, the sub-culture. Not hunting or even target shooting, but feeling as though the gun is an appendage, that you cannot go anywhere without it and it takes precedence over most things in your life. Nobody is going to admit that it takes precedence over most things in their life, but they do indirectly by how they discuss guns as a public health issue.

Yeah Trish, it probably isn't a collective action problem because the boon to individual safety of having a gun is illusory in all but exceptional cases. As you indicate, it's the feelings of power, control and invulnerability that seduces.

[Odelay]

I think gun ownership is a paradigmatic collective action problem. You have ten people in a room and nobody is armed, everyone is safe. You introduce one gun and nine people feel unsafe. The next person to arm themselves feels much more secure, until everyone has a gun. Now you have ten people and ten guns. Is that room more or less safe than the room with ten people and zero guns?

I love game theory. But in this scenario, as applied to Americans, 7 out of 10 without guns would have no fear (that's the amount of non-gun ownership), while the other 3 would each average 3 guns apiece (per capita gun rate is 90%). Methinks the 3 who are stockpiling guns in the room, have a wee bit more fear than the other 7.

[fred41]

Okay, now you got me thinking your some sort of hard boiled, noir PI like Easy Rawlins.

Sorry...nothing even remotely so romantic as that....

[trish]

Less than a handful of Ebola cases discovered on U.S. soil and we already have an Ebola Czar. Why not just have the Surgeon General take charge? Oh, that’s right...we don’t a Surgeon General because Obama’s nominee (Dr. Vivek Murthy) can’t get Congressional approval. Why? Because Dr. Murthy suggested there might be greater controls on the ownership of a device that kills more than 30000 American citizens a year. So now we have an Ebola Czar and no Surgeon General because the right wing is afraid of anything that goes bump in the night. Afraid...AFRAID! They need guns, czars and travel restrictions. oooooOOOOooooOOOOOoooooo be afraid...Halloween is around the corner.

[martin48]

Go on, surprise your neighbors - dress up in this costume

Less than a handful of Ebola cases discovered on U.S. soil and we already have an Ebola Czar. Why not just have the Surgeon General take charge? Oh, that’s right...we don’t a Surgeon General because Obama’s nominee (Dr. Vivek Murthy) can’t get Congressional approval. Why? Because Dr. Murthy suggested there might be greater controls on the ownership of a device that kills more than 30000 American citizens a year. So now we have an Ebola Czar and no Surgeon General because the right wing is afraid of anything that goes bump in the night. Afraid...AFRAID! They need guns, czars and travel restrictions. oooooOOOOooooOOOOOoooooo be afraid...Halloween is around the corner.

[Ben]

Canada Attacked - The Gun Law Role & The ‘Terrorism' Question:

[Ben]

Chrissy Teigen Not Apologizing for Tweeting About Ottawa Shooting: ''It's Been Awhile Since I Pissed a Ton of People Off'':

http://ca.eonline.com/news/591256/ch...-of-people-off

Rosie O'Donnell on Chrissy Teigen: "Brilliant" To Tie Canada Terror Attack To Gun Violence in America:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...n_america.html

[martin48]

Noticed this thread started in May 2012, so when does this fast approaching ban start?

[trish]

Fast but far away...

[buttslinger]

I'm telling you, if the Democratic Party could become the Party of Guns, we could get the fucking businessmen profiteers out of the picture and finally get some sane regulations. Freedom has a price. Morons + Freedom = Headlines

I expect to see Hillary packing heat. Don't fuck with us, World.