For instance, gun free zones:
Clearly a brilliant, totally genius idea, that works every time.
Except, of course, for when it doesn't.
As things stand, it is only a matter of "when" until we get to host our own entry into the ISISholes' pantheon of atrocities.
Of course, there's no need for things to stand as they are.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Emphasis added, obviously. Our reality based overlords are fond of torturing the second amendment, subjecting it to astonishing contortions ignoring both context and grammar. It's amazing how they can detect emanations, thereby finding the Constitution mandates murders of convenience and gay marriage, yet refuse to acknowledge that which is staring them in the face.
But one clear threat we face from the Religion of Death is also one that we can counter by noting that introductory clause. Pres Obama could, through a completely legal executive order, direct that the entire US will be "shall issue" for the concealed carry of handguns to those who complete a DOD approved program of weapons training.
And then eliminate the fantastical notion that gun free zones are anything other than places to herd victims.
Of course, as a progressive, Pres Obama would never entertain the notion. He'd far rather Americans be defenseless in their own country.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 209 of 209I sure would have liked to have me some of that fast driving on the Autobahn. Unfortunately, my fast driving usually ended up with an expensive ticket, once only hours after picking up a new car and once stopped by a state cop holding a rifle or some kind of long gun.
Ah youth!
Yes, they are about as common as in the US.
However, (I'm guessing here), I don't think traffic fines fund local government, so there isn't nearly the incentive to rip off motorists. (Collectivists, take note.)
In the US, traffic enforcement is essentially about revenue, not safety. If it was otherwise, the police would be handing out tickets by the bushel load for passing on the right, and impeding the flow of traffic in the left lane. Both are traffic law in the US.
But that isn't nearly as lucrative as using radar for dollar farming, so the hell with what would make the roads safer.
'Shame you can't actually come up with any evidence.'
At some point, enough anecdotes become data; and they are, in any quantity, evidence.
Query: Would you be pleased if the Oathkeepers showed up armed to kill on your street? I bet you would want them gone, on the reasonable grounds that the best possible outcome would be 'nothing happens, but if anything did happen, it would be bad.'
I guess depending on conditions in my neighborhood, I'd probably welcome the Oathkeepers, if there really is such a entity.
{Harry:] At some point, enough anecdotes become data; and they are, in any quantity, evidence.
You were a journalist? Seriously?
True, enough anecdotes become data. But that's where you fail. You are relentlesly citing anecdotes because you don't have any data; you don't have that pile of anecdotes that adds up to making your point.
Instead, you cherry pick individual instances. In a country of 300 million people, you could, if all you needed was anecdote farming, prove anything you wished, no matter how foolish.
Query: Would you be pleased if the Oathkeepers showed up armed to kill on your street?
Query: How is it you can ask such an empty question. Missing, glaringly so, is the why behind the what.
If it is a what of any substance at all, I'd rather have them then a bunch of confiscationists.
(Besides, when I lived where the 2A meant exactly what it says, everyone owned at least one gun. The Oathkeepers would be better employed in parts of the country where confiscationists, who prefer citizens to be helpless victims, hold sway.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/nyregion/two-shot-in-mount-vernon-amid-new-york-city-police-investigation.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Good thing they weren't in Texas, or all the armed citizen bystanders would have gunned down the cops, eh?
... IMO the NYT isn't a reliable source of information.
Harry, once again you burden us with another baseless conclusion from a worthless anecdote.
Do me a favor, follow up on this:
[Harry:] Query: Would you be pleased if the Oathkeepers showed up armed to kill on your street?
[Hey Skipper:] Query: How is it you can ask such an empty question. Missing, glaringly so, is the why behind the what.
Without context, your question is stupid. So how about some of that context stuff?
You know, instead of silence.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/man-carjacked-witness-opens-fire-at-gas-station-in-ne-houston/35510922
Heh
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