darksabre

No they won't. Ease of execution is a large driver of crime. Guns are the easiest way to hurt the most amount of people. You reduce the number of guns in the equation and you will inherently see a certain number of people simply walk away from whatever harm they intended to inflict. Those that remain will move to other easy but less deadly weapons like knives, cars and trucks, blunt objects, and so on. Those items can hurt and kill, but not at the same volume and ease. This has been the trend in countries where gun bans are much more strict. There will be a shift, but not everyone who was going to use a gun is going to make that shift, so you see a little more drop off. Those that remain, the most dedicated, will have to do things like make bombs, steal passenger planes, etc. These are more complex ways of killing people, require a lot of planning, and a lot of circumstances to be just right. These are the least likely ways people kill. Reducing the amount of guns in the equation inherently reduces the ease with which people commit violent crimes, the frequency with which people commit violent crimes, and the effects of those crimes.

Also worth noting that a strong majority of gun owners favor more action from congress on gun violence. It's a minority of gun owners and a large number of non-owners who don't favor more government intervention. The will of the people is not a motivating factor.

"certain pressures"? People can justify anything. I can justify things I do in war. I can justify taking a prisoner on a "rough ride". I bet a school shooter could justify his actions too. Just because you can justify something doesn't make it normal, acceptable, or any less sick.

I don't know if society has changed much, but I think a lot of the underlying problems have bubbled to the surface. The challenge is on us to recognize these problems and to address them. But a lot of people don't want to do that. It's too scary. Better to just let kids die.

American society is filled with toxic concepts that we would do well to end.

Older cars are great. Anything after 2000 (with a few exceptions) can kindly eff right off.

Turns out I had run my numbers wrong. My taxes did indeed go down as evinced by my lower rate on this week's stub.

I'm inclined to agree. All cars are awful.

Where's ubkev to tell you house shopping is fun?

What's normal? Is normal burning villages of women and children in Vietnam? Is normal dropping an atomic bomb on an entire city? Is normal a cop shooting an unarmed teenager? Lots of supposedly normal people do awful while lots of abnormal people spend their whole lives never hurting a fly.

Good post here Liger. People love tossing out "mental illness" when these atrocities occur having never given it more than a passing thought.

It's been like this ever since Columbine. The best solution the "wise adults" can come up with is sticking one semi-retired cop with a hand gun in every school. The only reason we haven't figured out how to prevent these atrocities is because the people with the power to do anything are either too stupid, too cowardly, or too paid-for. We can stop kids from getting murdered in their classrooms. It's just that no one really wants to try.

What I saw of the women's game last night looked very good. Fast and physical. They could have allowed checking in that matchup and I wouldn't have been terrified someone was going to get murdered. I was very entertained, which says something for the talent level of the marquis matchup that is USA vs Canada. I hope the game keeps growing so that it becomes more entertaining for the average person when teams other than the best of US and Canada are playing. I like watching college and the pro leagues because I enjoy the game in the pure form without checking, but I know that isn't for everyone. We need the pro leagues to survive if we ever want things to be more fun to watch. Give the women more opportunity to extend their playing careers and the entertainment value will go up over time.

Yup. A friend's husband was a nurse, got addicted to oxy and started doing heroin. Wrecked his whole life, marriage, etc. Prescription painkillers are an epidemic. The docs have prescribed Josie oxy on a couple occasions in the last few years and although she took one or two for the initial bouts of pain she essentially refused to keep taking it for fear of becoming dependent. I've never been prescribed any of these big drugs and I hope I never have a reason to be.

Listen, sometimes children just have to die in cold blood. It's what George Washington would have wanted.

Kinda sucks for the current fans though. They Canes brand is pretty well established.

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Good tips. I like trying to figure out the techniques.

Finally getting some slalom. Giant slalom that is.

I admit, it makes me wanna do curling again. Just haven't had much time this year when the opportunity has knocked.

This is what I've come to notice too. In the areas around Buffalo where I want to buy I can't rely on current listings to gauge prices and availability or else I'd get discouraged. Looking at the "Sold in the last year" results is what works best because houses here often sell before they ever hit Zillow, Redfin, etc.

bump?

My work computer died on the 2nd and it turned into this big fiasco, but I had known this might happen so I had all of my CAD files and important stuff backed up on our server and a flash drive. I was able to get the old computer running but it wasn't quite right so we bought me a new computer and everything is zen. But it finally set off alarm bells with the higher ups that maybe it was time we upgraded how we do things here at our company. One of my major points of emphasis is that my boss doesn't have his PC backed up anywhere and it is getting long in the tooth. If it dies we could lose a lot of inventor files and whatnot. Today that has happened. And now I get to try to fix it. None of this would be an issue if anyone here had bothered to heed my warnings for the last two years that we were living on borrowed time with the way we are doing IT and data management. :rolleyes:

Don't worry, you guys are insufferable too.

How'd Gionta look?