Unitarian church shootings

[smokey the elder]

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[soapbox]I believe handguns are banned in the UK. In terms of the US, I think we should maybe try to better enforce the laws that are actually on the books. People who drink and drive (trust me, this is going somewhere!) often face stiff penalties, jail time, and license suspension or even revocation. Yet, how many times do you hear of someone "with a suspended license" in a hit and run who kills someone? Is the answer to ban all cars?

People who misuse firearms face jail time and possibly even the death penalty. People also use firearms for legitimate purposes (putting food on the table, for sport, etc.) But, as Ron White so succinctly puts it, "You can't fix stupid." My correlary: "You can't legislate out stupidity." Or hate, or other dirtbaggish human behavior. Our law enforcement system is imperfect at best, so the laws on the books, whether for revoking driving privileges ore shooting privileges, if not enforced, often aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

In a long-winded way I guess I stand on the side of NOT universally banning firearms. My personal preference would be that anyone who wishes to own one would have to be licensed much as one is licensed to drive a car, and this includes passing both a written test and a practical test.[/soapbox]

[RICHARD]

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[soapbox]I believe handguns are banned in the UK. In terms of the US, I think we should maybe try to better enforce the laws that are actually on the books. People who drink and drive (trust me, this is going somewhere!) often face stiff penalties, jail time, and license suspension or even revocation. Yet, how many times do you hear of someone "with a suspended license" in a hit and run who kills someone? Is the answer to ban all cars?

[/soapbox]

OUT here in Hollyweird, an actor Shia Laboef, La Beef?(Who names these idiots?) wrecked while driving under the influence. He rolled his truck twice but will not be charged because someone else caused the accident!

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Japan is another 'gunless' country.

But that didn't keep the wacko that killed and injured 21 people with a car and a knife from doing what he did... What about the Greyhound killer? This gun lops off a fellow passenger's head while tripping thru Canada. The stabbing epidemic in England was another stunner.

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You are way correct about the laws being as worthless as the paper they are printed on. In L.A. we are in the process of figuring our a papparazzi law to protect the stars from the thundering hordes of photographers-probably to protect them from the law suit when they kill someone trying to get away.

We also have a law keeping any fast food businesses from being built in a low income area of the city because people cannot make good food choices. We have another law banning fats in food.


We also have an 'anti assault gun' law on the books. Why? I don't know. That didn't help out the cops in the North Hollywood shootout. Matter of fact-that was the only time that the cops were ever challenged since that law passed-and that was because of their ammo, the guns and the magazines-and before that it was 1974 with Patty Hearst and her band of brothers.

The one psycho will always take a few guns and go on a rampage. Or knifes or cars or what about the two instances of the heavy machinery that was used in Israel. You can kill anyone with anything.

We just haven't learned to kill each other with kindness

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OUtlaw shovels.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/artic...her_mans_nose/

[Grace]

I swear, it matters not where you live.

1. CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - At least 145 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern India on Sunday, police said.

2. FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Bruce E. Ivins, the late microbiologist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, told his psychotherapist after learning he was about to be indicted that "he was going to go out in a blaze of glory, that he was going to take everybody out with him," she said.


In one case, the crowd gets out of control; in the other Mr. Ivins mind gets out of control. In one, it is the feet that kill; in the other it was anthrax.

No guns, no knives.

[smokey the elder]

Could whoever wrote me a message to my email please send me a PM and I'll give them a better email address? When I open it I get gibberish characters and can't reply to it.

Thanks!