Today's Senseless Violence

Shaved dice don't guarantee you win the craps game but boy can they help...

Again, glwt

 

Not living in fear and for not carrying all sorts of guns around.
Just one little tool, that I might need in a pinch.

Only difference between the two of us is for you not wanting to carry any of these tools.
Hell, I know people that don't even own a hammer and for having to call on someone else, when they need one.
Again, the cops are only minutes away, when just seconds count.

But don't get me completely wrong and I've already outlined my gun control proposal for you above.

And do keep in mind that these proposals of yours....
"Nothing needs to be grandfathered.
Buy back the guns or order them to be turned in and destroyed under penalty of law.
No need for warrants or door to door searches. You get caught with an illegal gun, you go to jail, period", have not a snowball's chance in hell for ever getting passed, so your cure, is the same as no cure and for doing nothing.
Hell, and I thought I was being too radical for not leaving a stone unturned!

 

Not in fear either way. Just another tool to have on hand in case I need it and for protecting you as well.
Do you have any idea how many CC permits have been issued?
And now it's to the point that people are a little more cautious about creating confrontations with this in the back of their minds.
I mean you don't know who's carrying and who isn't and if they might be of the trigger happy sort.

Having said all this, you're welcome to leave yours at home, if you indeed have one, as I don't really care.
In the meantime, I'm just as legal as you are, so live and let live.

 

Pretty simple, you might have things to give you an edge, doesn't mean it guarantees you'll make the cut but for some folks it beats whistling Dixie.

To be specific, having a firearm is obviously NOT some sort of magical shield but it beats being bare-assed entirely...

 

You keep forgetting that you're welcome to do as you please, while letting others do the same.
And if you've taken any notice at all, I haven't been trying to sway you into carrying a concealed weapon.

Many and especially the ladies are carrying pepper spray and mace, which is a weapon of sorts, so should they not be, because this indicates that they are living in fear? And I guess if they take special training in physical combat to better protect themselves, then that means that they live in fear on a daily basis as well, eh?

 

My point with your last statement is that you contradict yourself in saying that if you carry any kind of protection, then you're living in fear!
And with that, I think I'm done here, while hoping that no one with a gun ever has to come to your rescue.... gun carrying citizen saves a cops life at DuckDuckGo

 

Experts warn of increased risk of US terror attacks by rightwing ‘lone wolf’ actors
90% of the cases of US terrorism are classified as domestic. Of the domestic terrorists, 95% are far-right.
I'm completely fed up with idiotic false equivalencies alleging that Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. That's total bullshit! It's Republicans that are instigating this.

 

Happy 4th of July.
15 killed, 94 wounded.
Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US

 

This is Howard Unruh, recognized as America's first mass murderer, under arrest, September 6, 1949.
The Story of the First Mass Shooting in U.S. History | History| Smithsonian Magazine



This country is 247 years old, thus it went 173 years without a mass murder. Obviously the difference is access to semi-automatic weapons, although Unruh didn't use one. We definitely need common-sense gun laws!

 

Yep, here in this mid-size city on Monday night at a block party with about 100 or so people, shooting started and went on for 10 or 15 minutes. Result was 4 dead and 7 wounded and in hospital.

This family-style party had been held for 10 years with no trouble. Until now.

 

Definitely don't like the recent trends of violence being experienced in my city. It's nothing like the hotspots out there.. but it's a noticeable uptick in violence all the same.

I used to hold out hope that sensible policy could.. maybe not eliminate it completely, but certainly mitigate the sheer destruction. It's really scary thinking about visiting the USA nowadays. Hopefully something, anything that could help is implemented soon.

 

It's not just the big cities. in 2017 someone with an assault rifle shot 48 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas; population: 600.
If it can happen in Sutherland Springs, Texas, it can happen here in my little village (population: 461). Nowhere is safe in America.