The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[martin48]

Now You Can Buy A Bulletproof Blanket Specifically Made For Kids To Use During School Shootings

http://www.businessinsider.com/bodyg...ds-2014-6?IR=T

[trish]

That should work. But what if bad kids buy them too?

[martin48]

Perhaps this is the answer, everyone in USA wears 24/7 bulletproof clothes. Drives bulletproof cars. Lives in bulletproof houses.

[trish]

Wearing constraining clothes, huddling with your family in a cramped bunker and always driving with the bullet-proof windows up: that's the sweet taste liberty. I just put one 'bullet-proof yellow slicker' on my Christmas list. It's gonna be a hard rain.

[martin48]

Constraining clothes - now you are talking my language

[martin48]

Happy Holiday Season

[trish]

That's Nevada assembly woman Michelle Flore and her family. She nuts for guns. We supports concealed carry on college campuses, grades schools and day care centers. She supported Cliven Bundy and is herself under investigation by the IRS. She DOES support same sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana. On the other hand she's for lifting FDA bans on treatments sought by terminally ill patients. When asked why she didn't signed the bill to keep Syrian refugees out of Nevada she said, "The Syran Refugees. I'm like, What–are you kidding me? I’m about to fly to Paris and shoot ‘em in the head myself! I am not OK with Syrian refugees. I’m not OK with terrorists. I’m OK with putting them down, blacking them out, just put a piece of brass in their nocular cavity and end their miserable life."
(Not sure what a 'nocular' cavity is).

[muh_muh]

imagine the republican reaction if the family was black or arab

[Ben in LA]

imagine the republican reaction if the family was black or arab

Privilege

[broncofan]

That's Nevada assembly woman Michelle Flore and her family. She nuts for guns. We supports concealed carry on college campuses, grades schools and day care centers.

Who would want to live like this? To support these policies is to basically advocate a permanent state of martial law, and to try to alleviate a problem by strengthening its causes. The American right to own guns is a nod to the rights of the individual over public safety. The problem is that some on the right do not believe that there is a conflict between individual rights and collective welfare. In other words, they think the second amendment empowers the individual and also improves public safety. In my view, this goes against all empirical evidence and also common sense.

Sometimes the rights of the individual have to give way to compelling public safety concerns. What is the right to own a gun? Does it provide a real or a mostly psychic benefit? I think its protection as a civil right (at least as it is broadly interpreted) is outdated...but even if it were not, why should it trump the safety of everyone? We have all sorts of limits on people's fundamental rights. People have a right to choose alternative treatments and to have autonomy when it comes to choosing medical treatment; however sometimes the fda steps in and decides that a treatment is so unlikely to have benefit that it does not warrant approval. How did we get to the point where the right to own a gun became more powerful than a person's medical autonomy?

I am not saying there is no genuine reason to defend someone's right to own a gun, just that it does not warrant the priority it is given.