Red Dreams
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if not illegal at least have them licensed and keep them locked.
hope they get rid the gun show exemptins.
hope they get rid the gun show exemptins.
Very good article
if nothing meanigfull is done.....it would be like those kids dying all over again.
What a feckwitt. Surely it'd be easier for them to shoot a cow.I just got into a debate with an American at my uni who argued that a ban on guns would kill thousands of Americans who HAVE to hunt with guns to survive. Apparently I was incredibly insensitive for killing off thousands of the poor classes who needed to shoot a deer every now and then to survive.
Does anyone have any stats on Americans who need to hunt to survive? Reckon it's bullshit.
It was an American who come over to Manchester uni last year and has since gone back. But on Facebook he was posting shit about America's gun laws.What a feckwitt. Surely it'd be easier for them to shoot a cow.
I hope this wasn't a lecturer you were arguing with.
Insurance companies might not want to get into that business though. Think of the liability the insurance companies would pay out on a horrific event like this. Not just to the families of those who died, but every student and adult in that school would have some sort of claim. Then who wants to be the insurance company who insured some guy who ends up being a nut job, but just was not diagnosed properly.yes. license and insurance for all gun owners.
Well they insure all sorts of shit that's hugely expensive and bad publicity when it goes wrong. Point is it hardly ever does. That's how insurance works.Insurance companies might not want to get into that business though. Think of the liability the insurance companies would pay out on a horrific event like this. Not just to the families of those who died, but every student and adult in that school would have some sort of claim. Then who wants to be the insurance company who insured some guy who ends up being a nut job, but just was not diagnosed properly.
The mother of the gunman who killed 20 children and seven adults in America’s worst school massacre, was a gun-proud “survivalist” preparing for economic collapse, it has emerged.Lets not forget that the guys mother owned and obtained the guns legally. She probably had them for protection yet ended up getting shot in the face with her own weapon.
Quite. Handguns and automatic rifles really aren't needed for aything other than killing people. Make the penalties for possesion of one of these firearms prohibative, particualrly if used to undertake a crime, and after a decade things would be much improved.I don't see why we can't limit people to a bolt action rifle for hunting purposes and a shotgun for home defence.
Yes they will still be able to kill people, but it's much harder to do it stealthily and efficiently with long-barrel weapons.
I don't think that would work. Any Dr signing that a patient was mentally stable enough to use a gun would be considered liable if that patient subsequently proved not to be. Indemnity insurers would have a field day, and Drs would start refusing to sign just to cover their backs.a letter from your doctor saying you are mentally capable of using a gun? Not sure how this will work. I think for sure anyone who is on medications like anti-depressants and such must not be allowed to own guns. But this last person took his mother's guns...which tells me we need guns to be locked..like they do in Canada.
That's pretty much how it is in Ireland & the UK, except saying you want it for protection is pretty much a guarantee that you won't get a license.I don't see why we can't limit people to a bolt action rifle for hunting purposes and a shotgun for home defence.
Yes they will still be able to kill people, but it's much harder to do it stealthily and efficiently with long-barrel weapons.
If they could bring in one single restriction on guns, having anyone that utters , tweets or posts on youtube etc the phrase 'guns are needed to protect me from the government' being banned from having any osrt of firearm would go long way to solve the problems of the US.That's pretty much how it is in Ireland & the UK, except saying you want it for protection is pretty much a guarantee that you won't get a license.
Although I almost always disagree with McArdle, I do find her extremely clever - annoyingly so. But in this case I'm with Jonathan Chait:My guess is that we're going to get a law anyway, and my hope is that it will consist of small measures that might have some tiny actual effect, like restrictions on magazine capacity. I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once. Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips.
Unless I am missing a very subtle parody of libertarianism, McArdle’s plan to teach children to launch banzai charges against mass murderers is the single worst solution to any problem I have ever seen offered in a major publication.
I know I couldn't take 12 6-year olds at once. Oh wait, yes, yes I could.