In the US legislation might be one of the few ways to actually get anything accomplished as far as guns go. Part of the problem might be people viewing it as their “god given right” when it should be a privilege. But you are right that proper awareness and education is more efficient, but you can roll that into new laws.
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Exactly. But I don’t think she came up with that paranoia on her own; it’s a carefully crafted world view promoted by right wing media, politicians, etc.
Ironically, it’s sort of accurate: a middle-aged white woman in the U.S. is much more likely to be murdered in a suburban or rural area than in the “inner city”.
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What is in the water in Texas?
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Arsenic, apparently. Although I’m told that the levels are perfectly acceptable to some people.
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I got wiped out because I objected to a post that seemed to me to violate the basics of logic, and apparently broke even more rules in defending my complaint. So why should you expect preferential treatment?
Lidl 84% has kept me going since 6a.m. Friday.
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Sorry man, I’m in complete agreement with you. I’m just bitterly sarcastic in the post you quoted. Sorry if the sarcasm didn’t come through. My bad.
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Completely OT but I am reminded of a comment made to me by someone who really is a rocket engineer about the Shuttle: “The Shuttle has all the aerodynamics of a brick outhouse. But that doesn’t matter, because with the right control surfaces and thrusters we could land a brick outhouse from orbit.”
I’m sorry but this thread is so sad I felt that a tiny bit of light relief might not come amiss.
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I take it that her historical pattern of behaviour didn’t provide any clues to the possibility of this kind of incident?
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of engineering, let it be
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of space shuttles, let it be
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“Person who carries gun everywhere for self protection is then shot” isn’t irony? It’s not like she drowned.
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I feel that way about drivers license testing.
Ever wonder how long ago somebody’s driving was last critically observed / tested? Or whether they somehow slipped through without passing the test?
I don’t believe a drivers license should be permanent. Retest every ten years minimum!
- Getting a gun should be at least as difficult as getting licensed to drive.
A gun license isn’t the worst possible idea either. Written portion followed by in person testing. Review qualifications at the purchase of each additional gun?
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This is where Freud may have got it wrong. Mental illness follows the obsessions of the day. During the Victorian era in England, when the Evangelicals and the High Church were in conflict but also very influential, mentally ill people often had religious obsessions whereas sexual obsessions seem to have been rather rare. Sexual repression seems to have been far less influential than religious pamphlets and hellfire and damnation preachers.
In the same way obsessions with aliens seem to have coincided with the space race.
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There is de facto oversight of people’s driving through insurance. Personally I would go for compulsory gun insurance on a gun by gun basis, exactly as for cars, with it being a felony to have a gun where it is not covered by insurance. The latest Supreme Court decision seems to be rolling back gun rights just a little, now Scalia’s gone to find out if it’s true about Hell and lawyers. Ten thousand people a year at a few million each, plus people injured at lower rates, would be a nice little multi-billion dollar insurance business,
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People can have their license suspended if they do awful things on the road.
However, I’ve not once heard of the owner having to pass a retest to restore that license.
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It happens quite often in the UK, usually after someone has driven the wrong way down a motorway.
But insurance can result in de facto inability to drive, or (in the UK) only being able to get insurance with a GPS tracker in the car.
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Hey, no problem. It’s sometimes hard to tell with newcomers on BB. You may already understand this.
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Varies state by state? Mandatory retests are common in other countries, depending on the length and severity of charges.
Ahh. First result I found for the USA was Nevada.
In addition to any other requirements, you may have to take a vision,
a written, and a driving skills test. The driving skills test will be
required if your license has been suspended or revoked for more than one
year.
Mandatory retest after one year suspension there.
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Rugged individualism.
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Notice how disingenuous this story is, it had to quote an Australian newspaper even though it happened in America. It makes no mention of this poor woman’s numerous mental health problems as a cause of her actions and labels her a gun advocate even though 90% of Texans are gun advocates. The story attempts to paint her as an extremist rather than, like most killers someone with a mental health issue.
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