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Another Mass Shooting in Texas
I have no idea what the solution is.
I mean, I do: intact Families and a culture that does not promote despair and rage.
But since that is not on the table, I have no idea. Taking away guns from citizens has never been shown to work in this nation. That seems to be all that is ever proposed.
Guns have always been in the hands of the people. Mass shootings are a sign of sickness in America as much as theft of AC parts. In the great depression, people did not rob infrastructure. We are sick and dying as a society.
Not enough people believe in anything but getting what is good for themselves or in hurting others because of their pain. It is the Republic of Rome in its last days.
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Yes, and disarming women would seem to be especially unwise.
Lack of direction in the government is responsible for our state of affairs. The government doesn’t have to do things it does but it does because the limited government crowd isn’t interested in running the government or limiting it either. They’re con artists.
What is it about “shall not be infringed” do Y’all not get?
It ain’t gun laws We have to enforce or need to create, it’s culture.
I live in a country where it is very hard to acquire a gun legally. If a constitutional amendment equivalent to the Second Amendment were to be proposed here, I would vote against it. I might even campaign for a No vote. Thankfully, one of the things I don’t have to worry about in any meaningful way, is a risk that my kids’ school or college, or workplaces (or my workplace) will be shot up by some freak. I like that.
I agree with almost every GOP core principle. But the refusal to recognise the connection between ready access to guns and “mass shootings” (in the proper sense of the phrase) leaves me at a loss.
I’ve lived in Japan for decades. Japanese gun laws work because they are in Japan. They also have an annual visit by the police to verify household lists, and they have the right to enter and look about as they please.
Thanks, but no thanks.
What specific new laws do you recommend?
I’d go with “enforce all the old laws, damnit!”
I’d settle for repealing a whole bunch of laws and enforcing some existing ones.
Comparisons across different countries is difficult because of different cultures and histories. The United States has had violence in its culture from its origins as frontier settlements in a sparsely populated land. History and associated traditions different from many other countries, especially many other “Western” countries.
One of the reasons I do not see a connection between ready access to guns and “mass shootings” is that we in the United States have had ready access to guns for a very long time (300+ years) before “mass shootings” became a thing.
Have you seen Congress talking to the ATF guy about the gun stabilizer gadget? They are about to outlaw them or make you register them. They have sold about 10 million of them.
It wouldn’t be difficult to argue that one of the main causes comes from a lot of the “diversity” that other countries – such as Japan – don’t have.
I mentioned it in another comment not that long ago, I should have kept a copy but didn’t…
I’m reminded again of a story where a government official from Norway, I think it was, was visiting the US and for some reason included a tour of some prison facility, maybe in New York? He was accompanied by a US counterpart and possibly some officials from the prison. The Norwegian thought it was terrible how the US prison recidivism rate was so high, compared to Norway. The US official replied “Our recidivism rate is very low too, for Norwegians.”
And isn’t it true that if you exclude large democrat-controlled/mostly-black cities etc, the US actually has a very low death rate from guns?
So maybe restrict these medications further ?
It’s 2% of the counties, and usually about 10 blocks within those counties. You subtract that out and counties dominated by Scotch-Irish heritage, and we are less violent than Europe.
A “living wage” is a very elastic standard.
Decades ago a the authors of a study — yet another one — concluded that it was not the severity of the punishments, but rather the certainty of the punishments that determined deterrence. How many of these mass shooters have escaped punishment?
Driving an electric vehicle makes you more virtuous, or so we are told. A gas or diesel fueled car or truck is as evil as an AR-15 or AK-47. An EV is like a Nerf gun.
Oklahoma City.
I never woke up in the morning wishing I owned a gun. I never went to bed at night worrying that some randomer might decide to empty his gun in a school or shopping mall. I wouldn’t want to change that.
Here’s a thought – make people who were part of the NICS system who fail partially liable or at least ban them from government jobs or contracts.
Maybe a change in mind-set first, with respect.
I forget all of the details, but it’s impossible to force them to do this. The guy that did that Texas church shooting, which was the largest mass shooting in a church, was not supposed to be able to buy a gun. The Air Force literally put thousands of names in after that.
Lock up lunatics?
99% of gun control conversations go this way.
That is a very interesting subject. Supposedly, in 1960, we had 500,000 people locked up for mental problems. The country was much smaller then. Now it’s like 100,000.
The places where mass shootings take place are rarely frontier settlements in sparsely populated areas. I respect the historical origins of gun-rights, and I recognise the attachment of people to what they see as fundamental rights protected by the Constitution. None of that changes the reality that mad and bad people find it all too easy to get their hands on lethal weapons.
So put the restrictions on the mad and bad people, and leave the rest of us alone.
It certainly makes you easier to control.
You mean the deplorables, the bitter clingers, the Catholics and constitutional nut-jobs?
And if their misadventures were more likely to be fatal, there would become fewer of these misadventures, by hook AND by crook.