Fortunately, Texas is all about gun safety! /s
A measure long sought by conservative activists allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license is on the cusp of becoming law after the Texas Senate approved a compromise on the bill Monday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Which is to say, in Texas, only the guns themselves are safe, and the profits of their manufacturers.
Who are voted in by the stupid mothers who shoot puppies, and their ilk. But it’s not a matter of hating Texas or Texans, it’s a matter of personal safety. I already am planning to leave this country because (among many other reasons) it’s increasingly likely you’ll be shot by some rando while doing absolutely anything from buying groceries to watching a movie to just walking down the street. I’m certainly not going to deliberately place myself in a state where that’s even more likely than it already is in day to day life.
so is Texas the new Florida? are they trying to outdo each other? i mean… i can’t even watch those videos, the sound alone would be awful.
Paper can’t stop a bullet. Only rock beat gun. Texas version of the game: rock, paper, gun.
nope. not even.
guns are stolen. guns fire accidentally. guns are used by toddlers thinking they are toys. guns are used by people in a temporary mental health crisis to permanently end their life.
yes, some agency – usually a person’s finger – has to pull the trigger. but, who that person is doesn’t matter. they are an anonymous statistics with respect to whether that that gun is going to cause injury or death.
removing the gun from the equation means no gun will be fired. removing the person from the equation means the gun can just be fired by someone else.
i know we all want to feel like masters of our own destiny. but, tool use is a give and take process. we not only shape the tools, they shape us as well.
if you own and carry a gun, you believe it will be useful to you without harming you. it’s a fiction. guns are one-ring territory. the ring rules you.
If the dog had been armed, too, this wouldn’t have happened.
Indeed. It’s a clear case of Stand Your Hound.
A compromise? Compromise usually means softening something in a bill to gain opponents’ votes. If they needed to compromise to pass this thing in Texas’ whackdoodle Senate, what was the “pure” bill like?
Ok the woman is a dangerous idiot, but how bad a shot is she? Which is to say, how’s the puppy?
Even backcountry bear spray is more effective. Anecdotally, some people don’t understand how pepper spray and wind work, but that sounds infinitely better than other mistakes.
The ‘compromise’ is so that police may temporarily confiscate guns being used in a public disturbance while on location. In other words, if someone is threatening people with a gun, the police can take it away, temporarily.
Well, police temporarily take away the gun and permanently take away the person holding it.
Frequently co-morbid with stupid.
Oh yeah, I was merely supporting your point that even if the ideal scenario that the usual gun talking point deliverers outline had happened it would have ended in tragedy
The puppy is fine. A minor graze on the leg that looking at the video didn’t even need a bandage and he’s running around happily.
I had a step-brother who used to run marathons and triathlons. He was always out running. He always went with what he referred to as his “running stick”, which was basically a 2x4 that he carved out a nice handle on, with a nice padded grip. Out on a lot of the country roads he ran on, it was a necessity.
Down the road where I grew up we had a family who kept a wild pack of dogs around their house. They would, and did, bite (as a pack of several dogs) anyone who was either walking, running, or biking down the road. I used to ride my horse down the road, and at least one of them learned the hard way what a mistake it could be to bite a large animal like that.
So what I’m saying it really really depends on the dog in question whether it is a threat or not. An excited puppy, probably not a threat, but I really have no idea how aggressive the animal may have been. Even so, the woman clearly has no ability to use a gun appropriately.
(Name checks out.) I have the same problem, and when the owner grabs their non-puppy that has been running at me and barking, they feel the need to check: “Oh, you’re not a dog person?” because their dog’s behavior is my fault.
@cannibalpeas A woman after your own heart! Shoot the puppy first, ask questions later, that child might have been covered in slobber!
Also, we have to get a phrenology exam and ideological screening if we want to carry a concealed tactical nuke.
USians have always been kept in fear of “The Others”, those they feel are not part of their little tribe. It can be fear of “Godless Communists”, “Socialists”, “Immigrants & Refugees”, “Blacks, Chinese/Asians &/or Latinos” or any other historic and hysteric bogeymen you can think of and it’s been an ongoing campaign to drum up a feeling of helplessness and terror of being hurt or overrun.
I still vividly remember visiting my family in small town California about 35 years ago and attending a high school football game with my teenage nephew. There was a uniformed security guard with a holstered semiautomatic pistol patrolling the 3 sets of bleachers that comprised the seating for the entire audience. Where I live this is unheard of and not allowed; if firearms are carried, it has to be by police.
