Terrible story unfolding...
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It was breaking news just as I was going out earlier. Reports of possibly one man killed. Just got back to find out an entire class of children shot dead. Unbelievable.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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Nope, won't work. They outlawed drugs, and you can get them easily. They outlawed driving under the influence, yet people can buy both cars and booze. You can make all the laws you want, but the bad guys are going to keep breaking them. In this particular instance, a school is considered a "gun-free zone" (federal law). BY LAW, you cannot bring a gun into a school. He also could not legally carry a gun in Connecticut because he wasn't 21. When people are intent on mayhem, "the law" is not the thing they worry about the most. "The law" is merely an instrument the government uses to put people in jail. The problem with a mass shooting is that the perp is likely to take his own life AFTER he commits the crime. You can't arrest them at point, can you? So, the solution isn't gun control. The solution isn't arming the teachers. The solution isn't trying to prevent guns from entering school premises. The best solution is remote decentralized teaching/learning. The kids are safer, but they don't learn other essential skills. Beyond that, this only addresses the schools. What about the malls, or community swimming pools, or the county fair? The knee-jerk reaction to put more control on guns is simply not plausible.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
The solution isn't arming the teachers.
Maybye not, but statistics show that states with CCW's have lower crime rates. One armed person could have stopped this guy before he got to that classroom.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I was just on a gun forum, and one of the guys there knows someone that has kids in that school who doesn't know yet if their kids are okay. The sad part is that there is no foolproof method for keeping kids safe in schools, short of having every student and teacher remote-in from home, essentially turning the school into a massive data center. At that point, kids won't be able to learn social interaction skills *at all*, which is part of what makes schools so valuable.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997You could try a society that isn't awash with guns. Works everywhere else in the world ( not ALL the time, but often enough to make these sort of events extremely rare, I bet the US has more acts of random violence in schools than the rest of the world combined )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I am in the UK - if I was going to go postal I wouldn't have a clue where to get hold of a gun. If I was in the USA I daresay I could get hold of a gun very easily. Gun control is the only solution
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Nope, won't work. They outlawed drugs, and you can get them easily. They outlawed driving under the influence, yet people can buy both cars and booze. You can make all the laws you want, but the bad guys are going to keep breaking them. In this particular instance, a school is considered a "gun-free zone" (federal law). BY LAW, you cannot bring a gun into a school. He also could not legally carry a gun in Connecticut because he wasn't 21. When people are intent on mayhem, "the law" is not the thing they worry about the most. "The law" is merely an instrument the government uses to put people in jail. The problem with a mass shooting is that the perp is likely to take his own life AFTER he commits the crime. You can't arrest them at point, can you? So, the solution isn't gun control. The solution isn't arming the teachers. The solution isn't trying to prevent guns from entering school premises. The best solution is remote decentralized teaching/learning. The kids are safer, but they don't learn other essential skills. Beyond that, this only addresses the schools. What about the malls, or community swimming pools, or the county fair? The knee-jerk reaction to put more control on guns is simply not plausible.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997While I agree on your analysis, I believe your solution is a bit narrow and symptomatic for the US of today. I believe the fundamental problem is cultural. My wife sent me a link[^] that while otherwise unrelated describes the cultural change very well. Do I have a solution? Not really. Your legal system is fucked up and your journalists should probably be done away with. But a feasible solution I don't have.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Facts aren't important to the anti-gun crowd.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Neither to the pro-gun crowd... except for their "freedom" to have one. I think that, right now, it's pretty easy to have someone to attack you with a gun or a knife (well, not THAT easy, but we are in context right here)... why don't regulate at least the most dangerous of them? But, hey, I'm from México... so I only care about this because I'm a father and the story is freakin painful... so, have the laws that you want/deserve.
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That's true for the UK. But Mexico also has very restrictive gun laws and getting a gun there is said to be not difficult at all. It's easy to sit in a country where most people abide by the law and talk about banning guns for those who have to live among a high number of criminals.
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RugbyLeague wrote:
Gun control is the only solution
Yeah sure: Winnenden school shooting[^]. [edit] And how could I forget Mr Breivik[^]
You seem to be under the impression that guns should be available because other people go beserk with guns
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I'm advocating remote decentralized teaching/learning.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Yeah, best keep the kids away from school so people can have their guns
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I am in the UK - if I was going to go postal I wouldn't have a clue where to get hold of a gun. If I was in the USA I daresay I could get hold of a gun very easily. Gun control is the only solution
RugbyLeague wrote:
I am in the UK - if I was going to go postal I wouldn't have a clue where to get hold of a gun
Here you go. Took me about 30 seconds. http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/find-us/[^] But thankfully the UK has outlawed google for criminals.
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jth42 wrote:
But Mexico also has very restrictive gun laws and getting a gun there is said to be not difficult at all.
Sorry, but that's not true... Besides, the ammo is pretty dificult to get too...
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RugbyLeague wrote:
I am in the UK - if I was going to go postal I wouldn't have a clue where to get hold of a gun
Here you go. Took me about 30 seconds. http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/find-us/[^] But thankfully the UK has outlawed google for criminals.
Did you miss this bit: "Due to current UK Laws we are unable to sell any firearm directly through our website, as we need to see an original firearms certificate."
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You could try a society that isn't awash with guns. Works everywhere else in the world ( not ALL the time, but often enough to make these sort of events extremely rare, I bet the US has more acts of random violence in schools than the rest of the world combined )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
Works everywhere else in the world
I would certainly like to see proof of that.
Christian Graus wrote:
I bet the US has more acts of random violence in schools than the rest of the world combined
And I would suppose that is a cultural thing and not an availability thing. I would suspect that if you could make all the guns disappear in the US that there would be a rapid rise in deaths from other methods such as knives.
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Yayozama wrote:
Sorry, but that's not true...
Besides, the ammo is pretty dificult to get tooSo what are they killing all of those people with?
Well, you seem to be confusing the organized crime (drug delears, narcos, mafia, cartels, etc...) with "normal" people... All that criminals bring their guns and ammo from USA, all the "small" criminals need to buy their guns and ammo in the streets, wich is very difficult to do. You don't hear about someone going postal in my country (I'm not saying that someone can't get a gun and kill someone else, but it's not as frecuent as in your country). All that massive killings (wich are very ashamed of, btw) are part of vendettas between 2 or more cartels (or people related to them).
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Christian Graus wrote:
Works everywhere else in the world
I would certainly like to see proof of that.
Christian Graus wrote:
I bet the US has more acts of random violence in schools than the rest of the world combined
And I would suppose that is a cultural thing and not an availability thing. I would suspect that if you could make all the guns disappear in the US that there would be a rapid rise in deaths from other methods such as knives.
jschell wrote:
And I would suppose that is a cultural thing and not an availability thing.
It is clearly both. Your cultural issues would not result in shootings, if there were not guns that were easy to get. Duh.
jschell wrote:
I would suspect that if you could make all the guns disappear in the US that there would be a rapid rise in deaths from other methods such as knives.
You'd have to be bloody quick to kill 26 kids in a school with a knife, without someone stopping you.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Neither to the pro-gun crowd... except for their "freedom" to have one. I think that, right now, it's pretty easy to have someone to attack you with a gun or a knife (well, not THAT easy, but we are in context right here)... why don't regulate at least the most dangerous of them? But, hey, I'm from México... so I only care about this because I'm a father and the story is freakin painful... so, have the laws that you want/deserve.
Yayozama wrote:
why don't regulate at least the most dangerous of them?
They already are. They're called NFA Title 2 weapons. Look it up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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Yeah, best keep the kids away from school so people can have their guns
A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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jth42 wrote:
But Mexico also has very restrictive gun laws and getting a gun there is said to be not difficult at all.
Sorry, but that's not true... Besides, the ammo is pretty dificult to get too...
*Law abiding* citizens obey the law, and become victims of the bad guys that don't (the drug cartels).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997