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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2024 16:24:35 GMT
I can’t figure out how the same folks who insist the sainted Constitution be interpreted exactly as the sainted “Founders” were thinking when they wrote it, can blithely say that the sainted Second Amendment covers every weapon of destruction created in the 237 years since it was written.
I’m pretty sure the founders weren’t thinking about high-powered semi-automatic rifles with scoped sights and huge magazines. Much less the ray guns or plasma weapons that might be invented in the future. America sure has opened up a Pandora’s box on this issue. And how do you try to rein it in when the opponents are armed to the teeth and not shy about using their weaponry on judges or politicians who cross them. Or spouses or neighbors, for that matter. It ain’t about “hunting and self-defense” anymore, folks!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2024 15:06:19 GMT
I have always been met with scorn when I say that the United States needs to write a new constitution like just about every country. I am always told that the US consititution is perfect and that the Supreme Court is always there to make things clear if necessary. Like the Bible.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2024 23:38:09 GMT
Like the Bible, the constitution of the US winds up getting good & misinterpreted, even though the constitution is a great deal more straightforward and logical.
I've always understood the logic of maintaining the original version with amendments in order to honor the fact that the constitution was a radical document when it was produced, even though it also contained dreadful signs of its time.
It now seems that a new, streamlined constitution would be in order. But it might be worse than what we've got now. For instance, the horror of guns everywhere, which is based on a stupid, twisted, wrong interpretation, would probably be enshrined in the new document. And who would write it? By the time the current opposing factors managed to agree on committee members, there probably would no longer be a country to write a constitution for.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 5, 2024 7:24:21 GMT
So, this latest one was the 45th school shooting of the year in the United States. The yearly average is 87 with 4 months left to go.
Of course the U.S. isn't the only place with school shootings. From January 2009 to May 2018, there were school shootings in 18 countries (don't know why they stopped counting...).
United States - 288 Mexico - 8 South Africa - 6 Nigeria - 4 Pakistan - 4 Afghanistan - 3 Brazil - 2 France - 2 Canada - 2
One each for Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, Türkiye
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2024 8:13:28 GMT
They didn't stop counting. You just didn't find current statistics. It hardly matters, as the utter insanity of having open season on kids is so grotesque that the numbers start not making sense. An estimated 3 million children in the US are exposed to shootings per year. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens. sourceThe moment the 14-year-old gunman was in custody it was announced that he would be tried as an adult. Oh, good idea -- that will fix everything. ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/ux9c6om7h/rolleyes.gif) And of course people like the chairman of the Senate Study Committee on Safe Firearm Storage are yapping about "gun safety". What does that even effing mean any more -- keeping guns safe from being taken away from a gun-happy population with the nauseating, wrongheaded bullshit about "our 2nd amendment rights"? Let's talk some more about punishing people for not keeping their guns locked up and ignore the fact that having all those damned guns at all is loony and wrong. Well, at least the governor of Georgia has extended thoughts & prayers, proving that our leaders can shamelessly mouth cynically meaningless pap as children lie dead at their feet.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2024 1:18:04 GMT
“There are too many people who are able to access guns that shouldn’t be able to,” President Biden said in his first remarks about the Georgia school shooting. “Let’s require safe storage of firearms. I know I have mine locked up,” he said [source is NYTime live updates on Ga. school shooting] What the living moronic stupidity!!!!!!! Way to go to be a role model to the country you're leading, Joe. ![](https://s20.postimg.cc/pvxcrkpd9/angry.png) Why the frickety-frack do you have a gun to begin with? Gotta kill some meat so the family can eat?
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Post by bjd on Sept 6, 2024 5:29:25 GMT
I saw that the father of the latest school-shooter had been arrested. The mind boggles at someone buying a 13 year old kid an assault rifle for Christmas. One of the charges against him is cruelty to children.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2024 5:59:55 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 6, 2024 15:44:59 GMT
Nobody picked up on the fact that the lad's first name is Colt?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2024 15:52:25 GMT
Without knowing anything more than what's been reported, it sounds as though the kid was trying to get his father's approval. Maybe daddy-dear even dared him or egged him on to use the assault weapon the way gawd intended it to be used. I read somewhere that his maternal grandmother said that he'd been actively seeking mental help. Whether that's a sound byte for the media or yet another heartbreaking element of the story, we don't know.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 6, 2024 17:16:38 GMT
I think that the fact that the Father is being charged with 2nd degree murder is significant.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 6, 2024 17:18:31 GMT
I hope prayers were offered.
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