After the eighth school shooting in seven weeks – some gun control proposals

Yup. They begin by insulting you, and when you call them on it, they cry foul, and then every knight-in-shining-armor wannabe comes and defends their right to insult you.

 

Nothing

 

And thats STILL not the point of the ladder analogy.

You guys really are mentally ill.

 

Ah, ten terrorists with knives. You must be talking about the uighurs. Yes, ten people with knives could do damage in a coordinated attack on a train, but one person with a rapid fire gun or rifle can do more damage more quickly with less risk to himself. That's why you don'r read about mass knife killings much, except in terrorist attacks by suicide killers.

 

Cool. Good thing they already are regulated.

We can end the thread now.

Good job

 

I already did. Read it again and meditate on it for 72 hours this time.

 

Or you're a really poor communicator. I don't get it. The fact that you can't explain it suggests that you're just trying to cover for a faulty analogy. An analogy that nobody but you understands is obviously a piss poor one.

 

A lot of OSHA regulations are bullshit.

I knew a guy who got fined by OSHA because the coffee maker in his welding shop was not stainless steel.

Plastic coffee makers are killing people left and right. Thousands and thousands per year.

 

Or you could be wrong.

 

That was a group of people, not just one attacker.

 

The incident happened in 2014. A Chinese SWAT team arrived within ten minutes after the attack, shot five of the attackers and "neutralized" the rest. The attackers were jihadists from the Turkish Muslim Uighur minority. The men were executed and the woman sentenced to life imprisonment. Subsequently, an uprising by Uighurs killed 100 people. The train station incident was part of a series of Uighur terrorist attacks, including an automobile attack on tourists in Beijing in 2013 and an uprising in Xinjiang 2014. This is jihadist separatist civil unrest against the government, not at all similar to the lone mass-murdering gunmen in the united States. The government announced it would offer 300 million yuan ($48.6 million), in cash for “hunting terrorists. Subsequently, 120,000 Uighurs were arrested and sent to "re-education" camps. China has had no recurrence of knife attacks but 3 people were killed in a rare gun attack in 2017.

 

Personally I’d rather not have any more kids gunned down in school because of a cutesy poem

 

Yup. That’s exactly what I think. I think poems, because they’re weak and need a toy to feel strong, shoot guns

 

I’m not surprised. Grab your gun whenever you hear it. I know you aren’t strong enough to feel safe without it

 

Live by the gun, die by the gun, but sometimes, it seems, just "die by the gun." Kids at school ain't livin' by the gun per se, but neither were the victims of the Holocaust or the gulags. Who can you trust? With police brutality on the rise, it's no wonder we can't trust the gub'munt either. What a mess. The issue, perhaps, isn't the guns themselves, but the lack of trust prevalent in American culture. I think we need to start being more old fashioned. My suggestion on a local level is to start trying to treat others with more respect. Put yourself aside sometimes and just be old fashioned and optimistic.