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

[simple schoolboy]

Gun manufacturers are putting special state specific advisories on their websites. For instance, Ruger (who I was contacting for a service inquiry) has banners for both New York and Connecticut on their homepage. Why ban the gun when you can just make it trivially easy to be convicted of a felony for not complying with the byzantine regulations involved? That is the point after all, is it not? The object is to punish the wrong sort of people that buy guns. Making anyone safer is beside the point entirely.

[Iholdthepain]

Saw this on a big bubba truck while driving:


I slowed down... WAY down!

[simple schoolboy]

Saw this on a big bubba truck while driving:


I slowed down... WAY down!

At least it wasn't the grave of Bill Brady.

[Iholdthepain]

the last place I want to be is driving next to a gun nut with a chip on his shoulder. Not going hiking this weekend, either. I was advised to wear bright orange, as it's the start of elk hunting season or something... Fuck that!

[simple schoolboy]

the last place I want to be is driving next to a gun nut with a chip on his shoulder. Not going hiking this weekend, either. I was advised to wear bright orange, as it's the start of elk hunting season or something... Fuck that!

Based on energy potential the oversized truck he's riding in is of far greater risk to you than his deer/elk rifle. Also, why would you prance around like an elk during hunting season? Sounds like your problem, not everyone else's.

[LetMeSleep]

WTF, North America.

[BurtReynolds]

WTF, North America.

what did we do this time?

[LetMeSleep]

I'm working on morning TV here in Australia and non-stop this morning has been the school shooting, the LA shooting/manhunt, Ottawa and the axe attack in NYC.

[Kaius]

Ban the axe!

[LetMeSleep]

Eddie fucking Vedder and his influence.

[simple schoolboy]

Eddie fucking Vedder and his influence.

Don't mock his influence. I corrected my musician friend when he was 16 or so that the lyrics were not 'glorified version of a pelican'.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Remember when three shot at a major university's library would have been a big new story?

[McParadigm]

Right around the same time that two children shot dead in New Jersey would have been considered news.

[Alex]

that's life in da murda bidness. RIP broken iris.

[simple schoolboy]

In honor of the new polling suggesting that the only demographics against relatively free gun ownership in the US are Hispanics and self described liberal progressives, I suggest this weird NRA fairly high production value youtube serial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWGTj6 ... 34N99ZbhzQ Apparently the NRA has this shooting sports series featuring an internet celebrity, which is odd largely because they are going for mainstream sports journalism type coverage. I'm not sure that shooting things with friends requires a roundtable discussion after the fact, but who am I to judge.

[Alex]

don't sell yourself short, schoolboy. you are surely somebody to judge.

[bada]

Right around the same time that two children shot dead in New Jersey would have been considered news.

If you get killed by a non Muslim it doesn't count.

[ridleybradout]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/sydney-sieg ... 27uxj.html

[Birds in Hell]

An Australian who occasionally appears on Fox programs, Nick Adams, wrote a piece for the Fox website saying: "Monday's events have also prompted Australians to revisit their gun laws.

"The United Kingdom has had two beheadings of members of the public in the last two years, with neither police nor civilians able to prevent it. It also has prohibitive gun laws," he wrote.

"Australians are looking to America, and not the UK for guidance."

Er, not so much.

What a dickhead.

[Norah]

The United Kingdom has had two beheadings of members of the public in the last two years, with neither police nor civilians able to prevent it. It also has a Queen.