Texas is just becoming no fun.

[mowens]

Hallmark is in Kansas City, I'm on the other side of the state. but Mayberry would be a better comparison. LOL

Well, I was close, but I don't think it snows enough in Mayberry. 

I'm a sucker for those Hallmark Christmas movies.

[mowens]

Though I would be remiss in not pointing out that the death penalty isn't any kind of deterrent but in certain cases, I could see that being the outcome...if you want to behave like an animal, well, we'll treat you like a rabid animal and put you down.

I agree. I just don't know what else to do.

[CNCAppsJames]

As long as you can pass a background check, you can purchase a firearm. Being able to pass a background check doesn't make you a responsible adult.

I'm just wondering where in the US Constitution "responsible adult" is mentioned as a precursor to firearms ownership.

That being said, THAT is VASTLY different that "handing them out". Firearms are expensive. Background check are a real thing and THEY DO stop 99.999% of people that aren't legally allowed to possess a firearm. 

In a nation of 350,000,000... shining a light on 7,000 tragedies while ignoring the 350,000 deaths physicians cause every year seems a little disingenuous. We're saying death by physician... good to go. Death by evil gun... not so much. 

[Del.]

If someone is going to answer this honestly, no.

When they're handing firearms out to every swinging dick that hasn't 'yet' committed a crime, even if their intentions are nefarious (to beej's comment), this is what we're going to get.

I don't know if my thinking is out in left field on this?

20 years ago I would rarely hear about a local shooting on the news.  It would happen maybe once every couple of months.  Now, there are several (some times as many as 10) a night.  

I'm glad I'm old and don't go out after dark anymore.    Nothing good happens after dark. 

20 years ago there were still plenty of guns out there   People just didn't shoot others when they had mental issues and all kinds of other problems.  They would kill themselves 
Now they want to take others with them. It isn't the guns. It's the people If we took a 100 million guns off the street I don't think statistically any numbers would change. And all the guns will never be totally gone.

Smit is right.
" Nothing we can do about it "

[neurosis]

did you take driver ed in school? Did it keep you from breaking the law with an automobile?

No, but it helped me not get in to a car accident while I was learning to drive. 

[Del.]

No, but it helped me not get in to a car accident while I was learning to drive.

I'm an excellent driver!!

[JParis]

Smit is right.
" Nothing we can do about it "

Unfortunately,  I don't think that's what he meant

[beej]

Smit is right.

careful, now! you're gonna break the internet!

[Del.]

Unfortunately,  I don't think that's what he meant

Ya Think!!

[Incogneeto]

Those things still exist? Learn something new everyday   

And maybe without knowing it, You hit the nail on the head.

The Media, Objectifies ,Glorifies and Sensationalizes.

Nowadays if Karen Farts at a Walmart in Seattle it is "Top O' The News"

The National News seldom carried Inconsequential News.

It was Local news that was broadcast on our Local Channels....Or Paper.

That Genie ain't going back in the bottle.

Outrage Sells!! Click , Click, Click.

[Incogneeto]

Let me know when 7000 people are killed in 6 months by a Penis     Incog?    

My Reputation proceeds me.

I can make em' scream for God, But I don't Kill em'.


7,000 in 6 months??

Seems Low to me.

[neurosis]

I'm just wondering where in the US Constitution "responsible adult" is mentioned as a precursor to firearms ownership.

Obviously nothing.  lol.  But do you think that a gun in the hands of an irresponsible person is potentially detrimental to others safety? I know it's cliche to say, but it seems as though people feel like 2a is more important than peoples safety. edit: to clarify that, when the conversation ends at "shall not be infringed" there is nothing left to talk about. And to be fair, I don't think that one side is anymore interested in solving the problem than the other.  If my girlfriend had been shot at the Safeway that night, people's gun rights would be the last thing I cared about.

I'm not at all saying that everyone should lose their guns. I'm just having a conversation.

In a nation of 350,000,000... shining a light on 7,000 tragedies while ignoring the 350,000 deaths physicians cause every year seems a little disingenuous. We're saying death by physician... good to go. Death by evil gun... not so much.

Those are two totally unrelated issues. Using two totally unrelated problems to rationalize the number of gun deaths a year as being insignificant seems disingenuous. Both are important but one doesn't make the other irrelevant or even any less important.

I do get the point that you're trying to make.

[neurosis]

7,000 in 6 months??

Seems Low to me.

Well, that is just deaths. That's not a fraction of people who were shot and survived.    Everybody should try it.   

[JParis]

It isn't the responsibility of the lawful to determine how the unlawful are dealt with...

The lawful should never be impeded because of the conduct of the unlawful.

It is also not lawful to impede the lawful because of the unlawful..

Deal with the riff raff...

[neurosis]

I should probably get out of this conversation while I'm behind.