This is our old friend Hugh_Everett trolling under a sock puppet, not certain why Hugh needs to do that…
But he’s just doing what Hugh always did best, trolling and trying to re-direct the conversation
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Bitching and moaning makes absolutely no difference nor does children being slaughtered or maniacs roaming the streets with assault rifles. So what could possibly help is the million dollar question?
Charlton Heston and his cold dead hands stupidity fired up the gunnies and the reality of what we are dealing with was set in stone. We will literally have to pry the weapons from the cold dead hands of the gun wackos and hope like hell that the intelligent gun owners decide that change for the better is an absolute necessity.
The irony is, that the gunnies are bringing the government down on them because they can’t be happy with what they already and have always had. Do you think maybe that they want conflict, I do.
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Hope they find the fucker who was living the 2A dream.
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Bullets LAND?!??!?!?
Well, they tell the ordinance, right?
So, if they recovered the bullet, they should be able to use ballistics to…oh hell, they won’t even bother.
Why so few words Hugh? Kitty cat got your tongue FoolHugh_EverettMore?
Why are you using a sock-puppet to troll here these-a-days anyway?
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And what is your point, Hughie baby? Is that your chicken-shit, cowardly way of getting in an oblique sucker punch at President Obama? Why didn’t you reference Dallas or Houston–a little too close to home?
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Hugh’s making racist comments here…how clever he thinks he is to make dog-whistle references about African Americans, that he obviously hates, as all racists do.
What motivates your sickening racial hatred, Hugh?
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Oh, let’s be sure to add the one in an affluent suburb of Houston, where a good guy, a preacher even!!, found a WHITE burglar in his garage and the bad guy burglar took the good guy preacher’s gun and killed him with it. This happened just this past Friday.
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With all due respect, I call BS on that. That’s part of our problem, is we keep calling acts of downright negligence an accident. It’s negligence. Some gun owner who swore he had it unloaded, but didn’t actually check to be sure. Adults who leave loaded guns where children can get them. A guy at a gun show who shoots a patron even though no loaded guns are supposed to be there. Another guy in the parking lot of a gun show who shoots his father in law while handing off a gun because oh noz, the guy just couldn’t possibly make it to his house without his peni … er gun being loaded again!
Stop calling them accidents and start labeling them what they are: acts of negligence that caused the death or injury of another person (or themselves).
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I’m surprised they didn’t report it as “Mr. Yam was struck in the temple…”
Seriously, something similar almost happened to my upstairs neighbor about 50 years ago. The bullet came through his bedroom window, barely missing him. Yes, it was another Fourth of July incident. (Sigh!)
I had the impression the new commenting system would be troll proof, which was the reason for changing over to it and I also understood that sock puppets wouldn’t be able to operate so easily either. I think I’ll establish an identity for my golden retriever because. . . .
Plooka, I absolutely get your point. But my point was about human nature. People often tend to be forgetful, negligent, stupid, or take reckless chances (some people more than others), and accidents happen, in any human activity. I define an accident as something someone didn’t set out to do, but because he or she was an idiot in some way, or had a momentary lapse in judgment, they killed or injured someone.
So, the fact that human beings are accident-prone, and guns aren’t necessary to daily life, simple human nature makes accidental gun injuries and death inevitable, even for otherwise responsible gun owners. The more guns, the more chances for disaster.
But gun nuts, even the highly trained, responsible ones, seem to think they’re magically immune from normal human frailties.
Overconfidence makes them even more dangerous.
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Oh what they hey…why not?
There are no troll proof comment systems that I know of, just those like DISCOURSE that make it easier to monitor them and in the case of sock puppets, shut them down.
Here’s where fingerprinting guns by test firing them and saving the slug in some evidence locker would come in handy.
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I got to RVN in the latter part of 1967 and was assigned to a gunship unit on the northern coast. On New Years Eve, as per custom (as told by the old-timers) everyone hoarded tracers for the midnight festivities and cut loose at the sky at the stroke of midnight. I was told that landing aircraft turned off their navigation lights to avoid becoming targets…I wouldn’t doubt that.
As I finished unloading my meager ration of 12 gauge tracers, the Company Commander (dressed in an embroidered silk robe and holding a highball) placed myself and others under arrest (we all successfully escaped). As a result of the hijinks the weapons of all personnel not on active flight status were ordered to be locked away in the unit armory, which was the cause of much anticipation and confusion on the night of a very spectacular event now known as Tet.
The point is: if guns can be confiscated in a war zone, why must simple registration and licensing be impossible in a civilized society during peacetime? This isn’t the wild west anymore, and if it were, the authorities would be knocking heads and locking up guns at the city limits. This isn’t going to end well.
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Since there is no requirement of proficiency associated with gun ownership, it really doesn’t matter at all, just as you say. Unlike a car, which actually HAS a purpose other than running over a person, a gun has no purpose except for forcing a potentially harmful projectile out of the business end; but to require some level of expertise prior to walking around with a gun is perceived as an affront.
If Sandy Hook didn’t do it nothing will. It is only going to get worse.
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No, they do this all the time in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re just striving to be more like them I guess.
And for the shooter … BRING ON THE KARMA!