The Big Gun Control Thread

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

You can't even say she was shot? FFS.

Police often use “past exonerative” tense when they shoot someone.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...

Good Guy with gun causes accident.. decides to shoot the other person because.. reasons.

I'm honestly surprised more auto accidents don't end with someone getting shot. Emotions are running high after an accident and everybody thinks it was the other person's fault.

A co-worker of mine, the most mild mannered guy you will ever meet, almost got shot in a parking lot after a guy ran over his foot. He was walking into the store and another guy started backing out and ran over the back of his heel pinning his shoe. My co-worker slapped the back windshield of the guy's SUV and started shouting "Hey!" to let him know he was pinned there. The guy in the SUV told the police who arrived at the scene that if he'd had his gun he would've got out and shot the guy for slapping his windshield. Yeah... kill another human being... for slapping his windshield. He wasn't even kidding.

Kehama wrote:

I'm honestly surprised more auto accidents don't end with someone getting shot. Emotions are running high after an accident and everybody thinks it was the other person's fault.

A co-worker of mine, the most mild mannered guy you will ever meet, almost got shot in a parking lot after a guy ran over his foot. He was walking into the store and another guy started backing out and ran over the back of his heel pinning his shoe. My co-worker slapped the back windshield of the guy's SUV and started shouting "Hey!" to let him know he was pinned there. The guy in the SUV told the police who arrived at the scene that if he'd had his gun he would've got out and shot the guy for slapping his windshield. Yeah... kill another human being... for slapping his windshield. He wasn't even kidding.

They are all good guys.... until they aren't.

TheGameguru wrote:

Good Guy with gun causes accident.. decides to shoot the other person because.. reasons.

He was already a Bad Guy with a Gun before the accident. Back in May he was caught with a concealed handgun and drugs and should have had all his firearms taken away.

I'm sure the woman's family is proud that her life is just a small part of the price our country pays for the Second Amendment. It's much better that she die because our country doesn't have a national firearms registry than have some gun owners feel a little bit uncomfortable because the government knows how many firearms they own.

muttonchop wrote:

If gun emojis are outlawed, only outlaws will have gun emojis

Sigged.

I recently caught up with Science Vs., a great podcast hosted by Wendy Zukerman. They did a two-parter about guns that is well worth listening to. (Not least because she has one of the best podcast personalities ever.)

The reality of how "tracing a gun" works.

There is no national database of guns. We have no centralized record of who owns all the firearms we so vigorously debate, no hard data regarding how many people own them, how many of them are bought or sold, or how many even exist.

[...]

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.

[...]

That's been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America's gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It's kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read.

Fantastic article and prime example how the pro-gun crowd is OK with letting innumerable criminal go free because they've bought into the fantasy that they'll need their guns to fight off the government.

Wild idea:

Outlaw guns, legalize weaponized drones. If you're going to fight the government you will have to use drones to have some semblance of equivalent firepower.

LarryC wrote:

Wild idea:

Outlaw guns, legalize weaponized drones. If you're going to fight the government you will have to use drones to have some semblance of equivalent firepower.

Y u h8 poor ppl?

LarryC wrote:

Wild idea:

Outlaw guns, legalize weaponized drones. If you're going to fight the government you will have to use drones to have some semblance of equivalent firepower.

Again, the idea that the Constitution or any other American law guarantees or sanctions any kind of "right" to oppose the government with force is a psychotic invention of anarchists and "libertarians". It has no mooring in reality and serves only to glorify the delusions of secessionists.

Oh, it's popular among Army officers, too, let me tell you...

FYI:

Conference on Sunday 25th September in NYC at Bloomberg "Eyeing the Data Behind Gun Violence".

http://www.bloomberg.com/company/d4gx/

Guns are used to kill more than 30,000 Americans every year. But unlike other public health threats such as influenza, the federal government has not taken the lead on researching the causes and consequences of gun violence.

As a result, cities and law enforcement have been increasingly at the forefront of collecting and responding to data related to gun violence to better inform public policy.

That’s why efforts to capture and analyze gun data will be a focus at on September 25, 2016. Registration is now open for this annual event, which is in its third year. This year’s theme is “better governance,” because while the private sector has embraced Big Data, many public interest problems are only now beginning to benefit from data analytics.

croaker wrote:
Guns are used to kill more than 30,000 Americans every year. But unlike other public health threats such as influenza, the federal government has not taken the lead on researching the causes and consequences of gun violence.

Actually, "not taken the lead" is misleading.

Congress has outright banned the CDC from researching causes of gun violence.

Texas high school shootings: Shooter dead, 2 injured, sheriff says

One person was shot and wounded at western Texas' Alpine High School on Thursday morning before the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson said.

A police officer also was accidentally shot by a marshal as officers responded to the first shooting, Dodson said. The conditions of the two injured people were not immediately released.

The rare self-tannhauser

Tanglebones wrote:

The rare self-tannhauser

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