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  • @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

  • I sat in the park this afternoon.

    The Sun was shining.

    There were no bombs in the sky.

    There were no sounds of gun fire.

    There were smiles on peoples faces including mine.

    There isn't much point pointing the finger at
    other countries when clearly the problem is within your shores.

    I'm a lifelong teacher.

    There will be no day I ever walk into a classroom with a gun in my hand.

    The only thing your children will be learning is fear.

    I pity you if you believe that arming teachers is the answer.

    This thread was supposed to be about remembering
    and publicly grieving for 21 people who died not
    about your right to bear arms which perpetuates violence.

    The caveman grew up a long time ago.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @purpan2 said:
    As a teacher, can I just say that I personally consider the idea of routinely arming teachers to be completely unacceptable, even as a politically motivated gesture. It’s particularly insensitive this week.

    Arming teachers sounds like arming every teller at the bank. A bit heavy handed.

    Why shouldn’t tellers be armed and trained? I’ll bet bank robberies would completely disappear if this was the case.

    I suppose there is an argument for every human having a gun issued to them at a certain age.

    That’s not an argument anyone is making anywhere. Not even Switzerland does that.

    It’s the end point of your arming teachers/Bank tellers etc logic though.

    No it isn’t.

    Yes it is, your logic is to arm teachers and or bank tellers and anyone else in peril, the point is if you make one target too difficult the “bad guys” simply pick a softer one.
    Then by your logic your solution is to arm them for their protection and the cycle starts again.

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    woah, hardcore!

    How is that “hardcore”?

    'Hardcore' in that you already posted data that supports that the vast majority are already safe, due to the relative infrequency of these events.

    When parents hand over their kids to a school, they should expect them to be protected as if they were still in their own care.

    I agree. I think society, laws, safeguards etc are in place and are likely effective, again given those numbers you posted. But alas there will never be perfect as long as people want to even cut bread.

    Most ARE safe and will never see violence like those unfortunate families in Uvalde. But why should the training and arming of some, if not all teachers not be used in the rare instance something happens? Why do people have insurance policies? To cover very rare events.

    All it takes is for a couple teachers to lose their marbles, have a bad day then it's lets arm all the students too. There is no perfect. But yah 7 weapons per person, plenty for the kids too... right?

  • @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    >

    However if today those same people who broke into the buildings did the same thing even if they were armed without the potential back up of their political leader half in and half out of the whitehouse it would be over in 5 minutes.

    I think they just caught the police with their pants down, and more importantly, the police treated them with kid gloves relative to how they would treat a different group if they tried to storm the capitol. No one fired a shot until it was very obvious the politicians were in danger.

    Politicians were not in danger. They had already been moved off site. The armed guard there shot an unarmed woman trying to crawl through a hole for no reason.

    Source?

    After investigating this a bit more, it appears not everyone left immediately. However, rioters AND those who just walked in unopposed (essentially trespassing) never came face-to-face with any of the representatives.

    Because she was stopped, though.

    So that unarmed small woman was a direct threat to that armed guard?

    She was told to stop where she was by an officer of the law with a handgun drawn and aimed, and she had a mob of people behind her ready to follow. Idk, when an officer of the law gives me a command, I don't disobey, especially when they have a drawn gun.

    You forgot that a large number of the people who were trespassing there (according to the law) were actually invited in with no opposition.

  • @Gravitas said:
    I sat in the park this afternoon.

    The Sun was shining.

    There were no bombs in the sky.

    There were no sounds of gun fire.

    There were smiles on peoples faces including mine.

    There isn't much point pointing the finger at
    other countries when clearly the problem is within your shores.

    I'm a lifelong teacher.

    There will be no day I ever walk into a classroom with a gun in my hand.

    The only thing your children will be learning is fear.

    I pity you if you believe that arming teachers is the answer.

    This thread was supposed to be about remembering
    and publicly grieving for 21 people who died not
    about your right to bear arms which perpetuates violence.

    The caveman grew up a long time ago.

    If you had been a teacher in that classroom, I guarantee you would have given anything to be armed at the time to protect your life and the lives of every one of those kids.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    >

    However if today those same people who broke into the buildings did the same thing even if they were armed without the potential back up of their political leader half in and half out of the whitehouse it would be over in 5 minutes.

    I think they just caught the police with their pants down, and more importantly, the police treated them with kid gloves relative to how they would treat a different group if they tried to storm the capitol. No one fired a shot until it was very obvious the politicians were in danger.

    Politicians were not in danger. They had already been moved off site. The armed guard there shot an unarmed woman trying to crawl through a hole for no reason.

    Source?

    After investigating this a bit more, it appears not everyone left immediately. However, rioters AND those who just walked in unopposed (essentially trespassing) never came face-to-face with any of the representatives.

    Because she was stopped, though.

    So that unarmed small woman was a direct threat to that armed guard?

    She was told to stop where she was by an officer of the law with a handgun drawn and aimed, and she had a mob of people behind her ready to follow. Idk, when an officer of the law gives me a command, I don't disobey, especially when they have a drawn gun.

    You forgot that a large number of the people who were trespassing there (according to the law) were actually invited in with no opposition.

    Invited by who? I would think that if the riot cops are trying to block the way, and the doors are barricaded, with armed guards pointing their guns at me, that maybe the alleged invitation has been rescinded and its time to leave?

    Like, was anyone invited to break the window and crawl through it? Did the drawn guns look like an invitation to come in?

  • edited May 2022

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    >

    However if today those same people who broke into the buildings did the same thing even if they were armed without the potential back up of their political leader half in and half out of the whitehouse it would be over in 5 minutes.

    I think they just caught the police with their pants down, and more importantly, the police treated them with kid gloves relative to how they would treat a different group if they tried to storm the capitol. No one fired a shot until it was very obvious the politicians were in danger.

    Politicians were not in danger. They had already been moved off site. The armed guard there shot an unarmed woman trying to crawl through a hole for no reason.

    Source?

    After investigating this a bit more, it appears not everyone left immediately. However, rioters AND those who just walked in unopposed (essentially trespassing) never came face-to-face with any of the representatives.

    Because she was stopped, though.

    So that unarmed small woman was a direct threat to that armed guard?

    She was told to stop where she was by an officer of the law with a handgun drawn and aimed, and she had a mob of people behind her ready to follow. Idk, when an officer of the law gives me a command, I don't disobey, especially when they have a drawn gun.

    You forgot that a large number of the people who were trespassing there (according to the law) were actually invited in with no opposition.

    it was pretty nuts seeing those guards move those gates. Wonder what happen to those guys? (cough ;))

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

  • @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    >

    However if today those same people who broke into the buildings did the same thing even if they were armed without the potential back up of their political leader half in and half out of the whitehouse it would be over in 5 minutes.

    I think they just caught the police with their pants down, and more importantly, the police treated them with kid gloves relative to how they would treat a different group if they tried to storm the capitol. No one fired a shot until it was very obvious the politicians were in danger.

    Politicians were not in danger. They had already been moved off site. The armed guard there shot an unarmed woman trying to crawl through a hole for no reason.

    Source?

    After investigating this a bit more, it appears not everyone left immediately. However, rioters AND those who just walked in unopposed (essentially trespassing) never came face-to-face with any of the representatives.

    Because she was stopped, though.

    So that unarmed small woman was a direct threat to that armed guard?

    She was told to stop where she was by an officer of the law with a handgun drawn and aimed, and she had a mob of people behind her ready to follow. Idk, when an officer of the law gives me a command, I don't disobey, especially when they have a drawn gun.

    You forgot that a large number of the people who were trespassing there (according to the law) were actually invited in with no opposition.

    it was pretty nuts seeing those guards move those gates. Wonder what happen to those guys? (cough ;))

    All quit or were fired or committed suicide, according to reports.

  • @NeuM said:

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    Since it was quoted into my timeline: my absolute conviction is that one must be an American to even consider this position as anything other than absolute bonkers. Being American is probably not a sufficient condition in itself, but if you're from any other developed nation it's a non-starter. 🤷

    You, my fellow forum members from the US, live in a remarkable country.

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    >

    However if today those same people who broke into the buildings did the same thing even if they were armed without the potential back up of their political leader half in and half out of the whitehouse it would be over in 5 minutes.

    I think they just caught the police with their pants down, and more importantly, the police treated them with kid gloves relative to how they would treat a different group if they tried to storm the capitol. No one fired a shot until it was very obvious the politicians were in danger.

    Politicians were not in danger. They had already been moved off site. The armed guard there shot an unarmed woman trying to crawl through a hole for no reason.

    Source?

    After investigating this a bit more, it appears not everyone left immediately. However, rioters AND those who just walked in unopposed (essentially trespassing) never came face-to-face with any of the representatives.

    Because she was stopped, though.

    So that unarmed small woman was a direct threat to that armed guard?

    She was told to stop where she was by an officer of the law with a handgun drawn and aimed, and she had a mob of people behind her ready to follow. Idk, when an officer of the law gives me a command, I don't disobey, especially when they have a drawn gun.

    You forgot that a large number of the people who were trespassing there (according to the law) were actually invited in with no opposition.

    Invited by who? I would think that if the riot cops are trying to block the way, and the doors are barricaded, with armed guards pointing their guns at me, that maybe the alleged invitation has been rescinded and its time to leave?

    Like, was anyone invited to break the window and crawl through it? Did the drawn guns look like an invitation to come in?

    Have you watched video of what happened? A large number of people were never violent during the trespassing. The violence was limited to the aggressive bunch who first broke windows, assaulted guards and knocked down barriers. Those who were further back just walked in, likely unaware of what was going on in front.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

  • @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @purpan2 said:
    As a teacher, can I just say that I personally consider the idea of routinely arming teachers to be completely unacceptable, even as a politically motivated gesture. It’s particularly insensitive this week.

    Arming teachers sounds like arming every teller at the bank. A bit heavy handed.

    Why shouldn’t tellers be armed and trained? I’ll bet bank robberies would completely disappear if this was the case.

    I suppose there is an argument for every human having a gun issued to them at a certain age.

    That’s not an argument anyone is making anywhere. Not even Switzerland does that.

    It’s the end point of your arming teachers/Bank tellers etc logic though.

    No it isn’t.

    Yes it is, your logic is to arm teachers and or bank tellers and anyone else in peril, the point is if you make one target too difficult the “bad guys” simply pick a softer one.
    Then by your logic your solution is to arm them for their protection and the cycle starts again.

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    woah, hardcore!

    How is that “hardcore”?

    'Hardcore' in that you already posted data that supports that the vast majority are already safe, due to the relative infrequency of these events.

    When parents hand over their kids to a school, they should expect them to be protected as if they were still in their own care.

    I agree. I think society, laws, safeguards etc are in place and are likely effective, again given those numbers you posted. But alas there will never be perfect as long as people want to even cut bread.

    Most ARE safe and will never see violence like those unfortunate families in Uvalde. But why should the training and arming of some, if not all teachers not be used in the rare instance something happens? Why do people have insurance policies? To cover very rare events.

    All it takes is for a couple teachers to lose their marbles, have a bad day then it's lets arm all the students too. There is no perfect. But yah 7 weapons per person, plenty for the kids too... right?

    Ever heard of students attacking teachers? That happens.

  • @ervin said:

    @NeuM said:

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    Since it was quoted into my timeline: my absolute conviction is that one must be an American to even consider this position as anything other than absolute bonkers. Being American is probably not a sufficient condition in itself, but if you're from any other developed nation it's a non-starter. 🤷

    You, my fellow forum members from the US, live in a remarkable country.

    Oh it is bonkers. Bonkers makes bonkers covered in bonker sauce. I can't help but see the country as a slow motion Titanic sinking into the ocean. People scrambling up the tilting deck thinking 'I'm latched onto this railing for the next twenty years or so... I'm fine, I'm fine...'

  • @NeuM said:

    >

    Have you watched video of what happened? A large number of people were never violent during the trespassing. The violence was limited to the aggressive bunch who first broke windows, assaulted guards and knocked down barriers. Those who were further back just walked in, likely unaware of what was going on in front.

    I wonder how one misses riot police trying to hold crowds back and all that chaos while just sauntering in. Sorry, but I don't buy that for a second.

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @CRAKROX said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @purpan2 said:
    As a teacher, can I just say that I personally consider the idea of routinely arming teachers to be completely unacceptable, even as a politically motivated gesture. It’s particularly insensitive this week.

    Arming teachers sounds like arming every teller at the bank. A bit heavy handed.

    Why shouldn’t tellers be armed and trained? I’ll bet bank robberies would completely disappear if this was the case.

    I suppose there is an argument for every human having a gun issued to them at a certain age.

    That’s not an argument anyone is making anywhere. Not even Switzerland does that.

    It’s the end point of your arming teachers/Bank tellers etc logic though.

    No it isn’t.

    Yes it is, your logic is to arm teachers and or bank tellers and anyone else in peril, the point is if you make one target too difficult the “bad guys” simply pick a softer one.
    Then by your logic your solution is to arm them for their protection and the cycle starts again.

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    woah, hardcore!

    How is that “hardcore”?

    'Hardcore' in that you already posted data that supports that the vast majority are already safe, due to the relative infrequency of these events.

    When parents hand over their kids to a school, they should expect them to be protected as if they were still in their own care.

    I agree. I think society, laws, safeguards etc are in place and are likely effective, again given those numbers you posted. But alas there will never be perfect as long as people want to even cut bread.

    Most ARE safe and will never see violence like those unfortunate families in Uvalde. But why should the training and arming of some, if not all teachers not be used in the rare instance something happens? Why do people have insurance policies? To cover very rare events.

    All it takes is for a couple teachers to lose their marbles, have a bad day then it's lets arm all the students too. There is no perfect. But yah 7 weapons per person, plenty for the kids too... right?

    Ever heard of students attacking teachers? That happens.

    I've seen it.

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    >

    Have you watched video of what happened? A large number of people were never violent during the trespassing. The violence was limited to the aggressive bunch who first broke windows, assaulted guards and knocked down barriers. Those who were further back just walked in, likely unaware of what was going on in front.

    I wonder how one misses riot police trying to hold crowds back and all that chaos while just sauntering in. Sorry, but I don't buy that for a second.

    Strange, but it looked like some were politely walking through like it was a museum tour while others were running around throwing trash on things. These were not your average thinkers.

  • @ervin said:

    @NeuM said:

    Self-defense is an individual right. No one can be forced to do something they don’t want to do, but teachers who are not armed OR AT THE MINIMUM trained in the use of arms, they should not be employed by any public school.

    Since it was quoted into my timeline: my absolute conviction is that one must be an American to even consider this position as anything other than absolute bonkers. Being American is probably not a sufficient condition in itself, but if you're from any other developed nation it's a non-starter. 🤷

    You, my fellow forum members from the US, live in a remarkable country.

    Familiarize yourself with our Bill of Rights. Our constitutionally guaranteed individual rights exist as a restraint against tyrannical government. Our Constitution is a legal agreement between our States. When the Federal government can no longer be trusted to carry out its constitutionally limited functions, it can be dissolved by the States. The power in the US lies with the individual, not the government.

  • edited May 2022

    @AudioGus said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    >

    Have you watched video of what happened? A large number of people were never violent during the trespassing. The violence was limited to the aggressive bunch who first broke windows, assaulted guards and knocked down barriers. Those who were further back just walked in, likely unaware of what was going on in front.

    I wonder how one misses riot police trying to hold crowds back and all that chaos while just sauntering in. Sorry, but I don't buy that for a second.

    Strange, but it looked like some were politely walking through like it was a museum tour while others were running around throwing trash on things. These were not your average thinkers.

    Just because it happened doesn’t mean I approve of any of them doing it. All of the people there rioting were breaking the law and should face prosecution… for rioting and for trespassing. And anyone who attacked a guard should face additional assault (or attempted murder) charges. I don’t know of any who should be charged for insurrection. At no point was an actual insurrection possible.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

    I'm aware of that. But trucks serve other useful purposes like transportation that guns just don't. Guns are just for injuring. I sense a false equivalency.

  • @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

    I'm aware of that. But trucks serve other useful purposes like transportation that guns just don't. Guns are just for injuring. I sense a false equivalency.

    Guns are multipurpose, just like trucks.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

    I'm aware of that. But trucks serve other useful purposes like transportation that guns just don't. Guns are just for injuring. I sense a false equivalency.

    Guns are multipurpose, just like trucks.

    There's no much of a purpose to a gun other than shooting at things and destroying them.

    Oh, and I guess opening cans maybe?

  • edited May 2022

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

    This is nonsense, since 2006 there have been 4.

    3 by Islamic Terrorists and 1 by a Right wing Terrorist.

    It’s far from the number you’re inferring by the use of the term “many”.

    Oh and a quick comparison with the US shows they had 5 in the same time period…

  • @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    I agree, I'm just saying that reducing the number of legal guns in a society doesn't necessarily stop criminals from having guns.
    However, I do believe that it would stop tragedies like school shootings...

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    Don't follow the ghoul into the mud. Nineteen children dead and he's trying to confuse the issue by relitigating a failed insurrection and the tragic (but not surprising) death of a woman at the front of a violent mob who is trying to climb through a broken window and directly disobeying an order from a law officer with a gun pointed at her.

    Uvalde is a turning point, and he and all the other gun fetishists know it. Ninety percent of the American public supports universal background checks. Only around 20 percent of Americans even own a gun. I have no problem with people who like to hunt or those who need protection. But we all know there is no reason to own a weapon of war.

  • edited May 2022

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    For the record, things are already pretty safe in the US, despite over-reported occasional acts of terrible violence.

    We will have to disagree there. I'd like my kid to be as safe from gun violence at school as the UK is at least.

    But they aren’t safe from “knife violence” or from a lunatic driving a truck into a crowd of people, right?

    Are knives generally less lethal or more lethal than guns like the AR 15?

    Trucks are not made to kill like guns are, but even in NY the total deaths was 8. much less than Uvalde. And I imagine it's a lot harder to ram a truck into a school and drive it around the hallways.

    There are many instances in the UK of (mostly religious radicals) driving trucks into crowds.

    I'm aware of that. But trucks serve other useful purposes like transportation that guns just don't. Guns are just for injuring. I sense a false equivalency.

    Guns are multipurpose, just like trucks.

    There's no much of a purpose to a gun other than shooting at things and destroying them.

    Oh, and I guess opening cans maybe?

    I know you’re trying to be funny by making absurd arguments, but they also exist to PREVENT violence. A crazed gunman who wants to die attacks a bunch of armed people. A weak coward who wants to commit violence unopposed goes for unarmed targets.

  • @NeuM said:

    @AudioGus said:

    @AlexY said:

    @NeuM said:

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    Have you watched video of what happened? A large number of people were never violent during the trespassing. The violence was limited to the aggressive bunch who first broke windows, assaulted guards and knocked down barriers. Those who were further back just walked in, likely unaware of what was going on in front.

    I wonder how one misses riot police trying to hold crowds back and all that chaos while just sauntering in. Sorry, but I don't buy that for a second.

    Strange, but it looked like some were politely walking through like it was a museum tour while others were running around throwing trash on things. These were not your average thinkers.

    Just because it happened doesn’t mean I approve of any of them doing it. All of the people there rioting were breaking the law and should face prosecution… for rioting and for trespassing. And anyone who attacked a guard should face additional assault charges. I don’t know of any who should be charged for insurrection. At no point was an actual insurrection possible.

    If there were nutjobs murdering politicians though, which I assume could have happened, that could have potentially touched off a series of events with others taking advantage of the general chaos / media smokescreen that would have ensued for much longer after the fact. So maybe attempted insurrection. I mean you can attempt to murder someone and be really bad at it and fail.

  • @lasselu said:

    @AlexY said:

    @lasselu said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @lasselu said:
    I happen to think that the gun laws in the US are far to liberal but...
    Here in Sweden we have very strict gun laws. That has in no way stopped criminals from having guns and shooting people with them. Just saying...

    The per capita deaths from guns in Sweden is a tiny fraction of the U.S.

    True, but far too many still die from gun violence...not sure if this is a numbers game...

    I am all for making things safer, so I am ok with reducing gun violence and other types of violence towards that goal.

    I agree, I'm just saying that reducing the number of legal guns in a society doesn't necessarily stop criminals from having guns.
    However, I do believe that it would stop tragedies like school shootings...

    I think that the most impactful solution could be going after the gun manufacturers, but you know, politicians have to eat too.

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