On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:21:11 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 2/17/18 10:04 PM, wrote:
Thoughts and prayers do nothing for the dead and they'll do nothing to
protect kids in schools. Unlike you, though, I think we can take steps
to begin to mitigate the number of gun-related mass murder in our
schools, theaters, churches, malls, office buildings. I guess I'll never
be a do-nothing-about-anything libertarian.
You still have not said what it would be that does this magic thing.
Sandy Hook happened in a state with fairly strict gun control and the
kid who murdered his whole family happened in a state that has about
the strictest laws in the country (NJ).
The states with the loosest laws tend to have the least number of gun
crimes and that is really true if they are really white.
That is not racist, it is just statistics.
The outlier are these school and work place shootings but they are
also a very small fraction of the overall murders. They just get the
most attention because most of the victims are white.
That may be racist. Nobody seems to care about dead black kids,
including and perhaps especially you. If you did you would not be
jerking yourself off over how effective Maryland's gun laws are.
347 last year in Baltimore alone.
I don't recall ever claiming that Maryland's gun laws were effective. Is
this another of your fantasies about what you think I think? Maryland's
gun laws are a minor inconvenience to legitimate purchasers.
So you admit they are only an inconvenience to legitimate purchasers
and are not effective in preventing gun murders. Now we are getting
somewhere.
I would rather be ruled by "do-nothing-about-anything libertarians"
than by "do anything even if it is ineffective and inconvenient for
legitimate purchasers" democrats.
I also disagree that being banned arbitrarily from buying some guns is
a minor inconvenience. Especially when the logic behind banned and not
banned guns make no sense. It also makes no sense that I can't buy
some accessories in Maryland but it is perfectly legal to drive across
the bridge, buy all I want and legally bring them home. That is more
than a minor inconvenience too.