America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?

[harmless]

Perhaps if one of those men had been carrying two guns they might both be alive today

Heh. Cute. In this case, it sounds like potentially no one was the victim as two involved in a road rage incident decided to confront each other. Sounds more like a Darwin Award than a call for action. I suppose it would be more civilized if we had allowed them to beat each other to death with tire irons (which mindedly, would've more likely involved only one casualty). I'm not sure if that's much better.

So guns.

[simple schoolboy]

Perhaps if one of those men had been carrying two guns they might both be alive today

Heh. Cute. In this case, it sounds like potentially no one was the victim as two involved in a road rage incident decided to confront each other. Sounds more like a Darwin Award than a call for action. I suppose it would be more civilized if we had allowed them to beat each other to death with tire irons (which mindedly, would've more likely involved only one casualty). I'm not sure if that's much better.

So guns.

Alternatively, might makes right. We should always defer to the larger, stronger individual. Perhaps, curl up into the fetal position? After all, they are more likely to win in a tire iron duel.

[harmless]

Perhaps if one of those men had been carrying two guns they might both be alive today

Heh. Cute. In this case, it sounds like potentially no one was the victim as two involved in a road rage incident decided to confront each other. Sounds more like a Darwin Award than a call for action. I suppose it would be more civilized if we had allowed them to beat each other to death with tire irons (which mindedly, would've more likely involved only one casualty). I'm not sure if that's much better.

So guns.

Alternatively, might makes right. We should always defer to the larger, stronger individual. Perhaps, curl up into the fetal position? After all, they are more likely to win in a tire iron duel.

So guns and binaries.

[simple schoolboy]

Perhaps if one of those men had been carrying two guns they might both be alive today

Heh. Cute. In this case, it sounds like potentially no one was the victim as two involved in a road rage incident decided to confront each other. Sounds more like a Darwin Award than a call for action. I suppose it would be more civilized if we had allowed them to beat each other to death with tire irons (which mindedly, would've more likely involved only one casualty). I'm not sure if that's much better.

So guns.

Alternatively, might makes right. We should always defer to the larger, stronger individual. Perhaps, curl up into the fetal position? After all, they are more likely to win in a tire iron duel.

So guns and binaries.

In this particular instance, what else do we have? At least one of the individuals was hell bent on confrontation. We can allow fists, sure. It must be more humane that way. It is possible that one of them would've tired before the other expired, but not for certain.

As a subject of a state that didn't become independent based on such a trivial point as taxation, I'm not sure that you can fully appreciate how strange Americans are. If we institute widespread restrictions on individual firearms ownership, we might as well have the Queen as head of state. In order to justify my separate status from my fellow English speakers, I have to at least try to live up to Samuel Whittemore

[stip]

Perhaps if one of those men had been carrying two guns they might both be alive today

Heh. Cute. In this case, it sounds like potentially no one was the victim as two involved in a road rage incident decided to confront each other. Sounds more like a Darwin Award than a call for action. I suppose it would be more civilized if we had allowed them to beat each other to death with tire irons (which mindedly, would've more likely involved only one casualty). I'm not sure if that's much better.

Twice as good I guess. Or, you know, they may just have stopped at some point.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Shooting at the Capitol, seems to be an isolated incident. Maybe hitting close to home for Congress this will get them to do something with our gun laws.
No, who am I kidding?

[simple schoolboy]

Shooting at the Capitol, seems to be an isolated incident. Maybe hitting close to home for Congress this will get them to do something with our gun laws.
No, who am I kidding?

Indeed. Despite all the police gunfire no bystanders were hit.

[simple schoolboy]

34 year old unarmed* female with a 2 year old in the car, eh? Perhaps the terrorists have studied up on our profiles and have decided to be super devious.

*Presumed until further updates

[Soma.]

Meh, you can't rubbish the DC police for using lethal force. She was in charge of a weapon herself. She lost her mind and she done goofed. I feel for the child and the family of the deceased.

[Harry Lime]

Yeah I dislike the emphasis on "unarmed woman". Her lethal weapon was a car.

[harmless]

Everyone knows women are shit drivers after all

[Harry Lime]

damn it, harmless

[simple schoolboy]

Use of force in Capitol Hill shooting debated

The New York Times has a similar article. Perhaps the authors are only concerned about police use of force when the bullets are flying in their neighborhoods, to repurpose Biff's earlier comment.

[William Bloke]

Cool story:

A teenage babysitter was arrested Tuesday and charged in the death of a 5-year-old Texas boy who accidentally shot himself with the babysitter's gun while she was napping, authorities said.

Melissa Ann Ringhardt, 19, of Vidor was being held in the Orange County Jail on a felony charge of abandoning or endangering a child, the county sheriff's office said in a statement. She could face a sentence of six months to two years if convicted.

Bond was set Wednesday at $250,000, NBC station KBMT of Beaumont reported.

The sheriff's office said Ringhardt, who lives with the boy's family, left her semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun on a coffee table when she went into a bedroom to take a nap Monday afternoon. When she woke up, she couldn't immediately find the boy, identified as John Read, according to the sheriff's office. She eventually discovered him dead in the living room, it said.

Because the home has no telephone, Ringhardt carried John and a 6-month-old child, whom she was also watching and who wasn't identified, about a block to his grandparents' home to call 911, the sheriff's office said. John was declared dead there when emergency crews arrived.

The 6-month-old child wasn't injured.

Ringhardt told investigators she had the gun because she was frightened of being home alone, the sheriff's office said.

"People have the right to bear arms, and with that comes great responsibility," Orange County sheriff's Chief Deputy Clint Hodgkinson told KFDM-TV of Beaumont. "If someone, somehow, puts a firearm in a place where a child is able to get that weapon, you've committed an offense."

"Sometimes, it takes something like this — as tragic as it is — for people to reflect on those things, and these are the opportunities you take ... to say, 'Look, what could we have done?'" Hodgkinson said.

[William Bloke]

left her semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun on a coffee table when she went into a bedroom to take a nap

left her semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun on a coffee table when she went into a bedroom to take a nap

left her semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun on a coffee table when she went into a bedroom to take a nap

left her semiautomatic .40-caliber handgun on a coffee table when she went into a bedroom to take a nap

[William Bloke]

Stay classy, U S of A.

[malice]

Stay classy, U S of A.

little late for that

[broken iris]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062246/ ... ounds.html

[Fuck You Jobu]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2062246/ ... ounds.html

[simple schoolboy]

They are selling some of those sintered metal guns for something like 10k a piece. Not nearly within the realm of DIY.