But I imagine there were very few incidents of toddlers accidentally
concidering what their life expectancy was back then, they had to learn quick.
I’d be more concerned about the storage of mass quantities of unstable black powder. Especially in a society that used candles and lanterns for light.
The problem I see with this approach is that there are way too many things people don’t want other people to do. Gun holsters, sodas, fatty foods, cars, name it and somebody has a problem with it. Then we’ll drown in the little annoyances. And who knows how many more people will snap under such conditions.
I hate annoyances. We already have way too many to deal with.
Well, I don’t think we should regulate everything. I think that gun holsters that point guns at people’s faces might have a certain “wow really?!?” factor that makes them a candidate.
Anyway, I understand that state legislators spend their days regulating everything to high heaven anyway, far too often using criminal penalties.
No brainer! In that optimal dream-world, I’ll eliminate all dogs, whiskey and fossil-powered cars. Keep the guns.
I could be persuaded to drop my opposition to whiskey, but only because two of my best friends like it a lot and they are very persuasive. I personally prefer beer.
Incidentally, one of several reasons I usually am armed at home is because of the aggressive dogs that frequently come on to my property. If I carried a gun, two of those dogs would already be in shallow graves in the woods by now… and come to think of it, I’d have probably shot and eaten some particularly mean Canada geese, too.
Sounds like Philadelphia. But Wilmington (Murder Town, USA, less than ten miles north of me) is different, because the biggest and most lawless gang there is the police force.
If only her bra-gun has truly been loaded with kittens.
You don’t want to see what a kitten accelerated to 200 m/sec can do with a head from point blank.
Thunderwear!
Come to think of it, I guess it does sort of match another friend’s description of downtown Detroit. It’s just that in Detroit the lawless part of the city was like a true Hobbesian state of nature without even gangs to control it.
I love Philly, but yeah. The PPD can act a fool too. I mainly stuck to the burbs though, my downtown adventures were few and far between.
Sadly, vaccines are out of fashion.
I second that emotion
But they don’t live in fear, they live with the smug cockiness of a 16 year old who thinks they know everything and won’t be told by others what they can and cannot do. The government is, of course, a singular entity set out to be inefficient and to eventually turn into Nazi Germany… but even that isn’t fear, these people can’t wait for that to happen. Remember the standoff at that farm?
The government is, of course, a singular entity set out to be inefficient and to eventually turn into Nazi Germany.
If the government ever learns how to be efficient, the fourth reich will be upon us. God bless government incompetence-- it foments a healthy disillusionment for self government.
Sure, systems thinking. But Systems thinking is generally taken to be a bit more, uh, systemic than just slapping a bandaid on the first thing you think of, so a slow golfclap for you. As I said, you seem hellbent on doing anything expect addressing the issue.
The SS Challenger, for example, didn’t need a ‘systems thinking’ “solution” that installed an escape pod for the crew. That would have been nice, perhaps, but what it really needed was a redesign to get rid of the thing that they knew was going to kill everyone.
You won’t get rid of the people’s desire to carry guns. So you cannot reasonably address that, however loud the various ideologues proclaim they can. The only thing you can get at this front is yet another loud trench-warfare like discussion.
Regardless how much you want, this won’t change.
Edit: Using your own allegory, it’d be like arguing for stopping the spaceflight entirely, because such amount of rocket fuel has a known history of killing people left and right.
So what? That is of approximately no interest.
That’s the spirit! Mean-spirited and willful misrepresentation solves everything!
Please explain yourself better, then. I feel I don’t understand your argument.
I’d agree if you weren’t missing so many apostrophes.
