6681

You also only need 5 shots for Steel Challenge. 6 if you miss once. So we could still have fun.

6682

They could ban every fucking gun in the world and you could still have fun, just like it’s forbidden to use some cars in the road but you can use them in a race track.

6683

My two favorite hobbies along with video games, which of course is the most dangerous one.

6684

Why wouldn’t someone feel threatened? Is this a war zone? Are there particularly vicious animals nearby? Dinosaurs maybe? Is this person identified as police / military / security of some kind?

No? Then why the fuck do you need the gun? Does he know something I don’t? Does he fear the world is out to get him and needs something a bit stronger than a safety blanket?

Why wouldn’t I feel threatened? Someone’s walking around with a military grade weapon (or looks like it for someone not in the know) for no good apparent reason in a place where he doesn’t need it.

Sure. That’s normal.

Why not go inside the store in a car, nice metal car, that’s safer, why would the rest of the customers feel threatened about my car?

6685

Odds are they’ll get no more than one shot at the problem in any 10-year period, if that. That’s why the weak sauce proposals are bad. They represent symbolic victories, but passing a bill for better background checks probably won’t have much impact on the problem of mass shootings, and won’t even impact overall gun violence that much. And they won’t get another chance. Instead, Republicans will point at the ineffectiveness of the legislation as evidence that legislation is a waste of time.

6686

Banning 1911’s wont go over well.

6687

No regulation will go over well, but there isn’t any point to passing meaningless regulation that won’t make any difference and wasting the one shot we have in a generation.

6688

I respect your right to skeet shoot up to the point that the tools for skeet shooting are also able to perform mass shootings. Sport shooting can adjust to reductions in firing rate, clip capacity, etc. To the extent that it can’t, I just don’t have much sympathy. Tennis is a lot of fun, and terrific exercise too.

6689

Fuck 'em in the ear. Fuck 'em in the other ear.

6690

A young white shooter goes into a mosque in Oslo armed with a pistol and two shotguns. The result? One person injured, everyone else tackles the guy and holds him for the police.

Probably some good luck, but also something to be learned here.

6691
6692

see what you done to the poor kitties

6693

I gotta admit, it kind of amazes me that videogame scapegoating is still getting traction. It makes me wonder if I turn on the radio I’m gonna start hearing “Baby One More Time” or something.

If some kind of banning of violent videogames were to occur, I guess I can take comfort in my fondness for retro/indy RPGs where ‘violence’ constitutes a splat of red pixels. More than anger or worry my feeling is just… “really? This old trick is gonna work again?”

6694

Solid citizen, and a well regulated militia-man.

6695

Master race material right there.

We can only hope this jackass never has kids.

6696

He’s probably got fan-girls already.

6697

Another child taken down by affluenza. I hope the cdc finds a vaccine soon.

6698

Sure, the vaccine is confiscatory taxation.

6699

Her proposal begins with executive actions to expand background checks, close loopholes in current gun laws, and target gun traffickers and licensed gun dealers who break the law. She proposes sweeping legislation, including universal background checks and an assault weapons ban but also a system requiring a license to buy and own guns as well as urban gun violence intervention programs.

She also vows to revisit the issue of guns every year, “adding new ideas and tweaking existing ones based on new data — to continually reduce the number of gun deaths in America.”

Warren points out that many of these ideas have popular support. (Indeed, even a majority of Republicans back universal background checks and an assault weapons ban, according to surveys from the Pew Research Center.) She argues that it’s the political system, fueled largely by lobbying and advocacy from the NRA, that’s made such proposals impossible to pass Congress — so she claims that eliminating the filibuster in the Senate, as well as her anti-corruption legislation, would make it possible to pass stricter gun laws in her first 100 days as president.

6700

I think that would depend on the Dems taking the Senate wouldn’t it?