Instead of "perfect" solutions (which are impossible),
I prefer useful solutions, ie, minimize wrongful acts
to the extent reasonable / practical.
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Still love your guns, America? Fourteen elementary kids and teacher killed in Texas
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I prefer useful solutions, ie, minimize wrongful acts
to the extent reasonable / practical.
Guns are banned during Trump's upcoming speech at the NRA conference
Do you want to talk about what they do to protect people who matter?
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
If free healthcare was possible and not run by the government that would be great. I don't see how that's possible, however.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
There is no free healthcare run by governments, so governments are not relevant to free health care. How you want to make healthcare free, I don't know? Do you?
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Most every other nation in the world has figured it out just fine. Why can't the US?
(Also, "free" healthcare isn't actually run by the government in the sense that you mean. It basically just means it's regulated by the government.)
What a desolation!
So different where I live. If I see somebody with a gun in Canada's largest city twice a month, that's a lot! And then, it is only ever attached to a police officer's belt.
Now, the only concession Republican's like Ted Cruz can make is "hardening our schools." Basically, turning them into fortresses protected by gun-toting gendarmes outside. Sheesh. The school across the street from me, in the center of Toronto at lunchtime has a stream of kids happily wandering off to Tim Hortons if they feel like it, or playing in the park next door because it's got more green space than the school yard.
And imagine even trying to have a sensible conversation on gun control of any kind with Marjorie Taylor Green. It is to laugh!
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Not according to the court system.
Today, the American justice system worked as designed, and a young man who has been lambasted, defamed, and threatened by the media and anti-gun Left was declared innocent of all the charges against him. When we saw the video evidence of Kyle defending himself and others in Kenosha, WI, NFGR made the decision to support him right away, and we’re thrilled to see that he is now a free man,” said Dudley Brown, Executive Director for the National Foundation for Gun Rights.
https://nationalgunrights.org/resources/press-releases/kyle-rittenhouse-cleared-on-all-charges/
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Which is the problem. They can't run a lawnmower without spending a million bucks of taxpayer money.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Yeah I bet they just transport money on open wagons in your utopia.What a desolation!
So different where I live. If I see somebody with a gun in Canada's largest city twice a month, that's a lot! And then, it is only ever attached to a police officer's belt.
Now, the only concession Republican's like Ted Cruz can make is "hardening our schools." Basically, turning them into fortresses protected by gun-toting gendarmes outside. Sheesh. The school across the street from me, in the center of Toronto at lunchtime has a stream of kids happily wandering off to Tim Hortons if they feel like it, or playing in the park next door because it's got more green space than the school yard.
And imagine even trying to have a sensible conversation on gun control of any kind with Marjorie Taylor Green. It is to laugh!
Nope turns out your banks have gunmen guarding them also , but I'm sure your money is much more important than children.
We Never Know
No Slack
Protection isnt perfect. However...
A group of armed people protect one person, the president.
Schools and grocery stores(if they have them) have one, maybe two armed people protecting large groups of people.
Who's better protected?
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Religious organizations could all get together and provide the funds perhaps... and keep the government out of it.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
So why isn't that happening?
We Never Know
No Slack
What a desolation!
So different where I live. If I see somebody with a gun in Canada's largest city twice a month, that's a lot! And then, it is only ever attached to a police officer's belt.
Now, the only concession Republican's like Ted Cruz can make is "hardening our schools." Basically, turning them into fortresses protected by gun-toting gendarmes outside. Sheesh. The school across the street from me, in the center of Toronto at lunchtime has a stream of kids happily wandering off to Tim Hortons if they feel like it, or playing in the park next door because it's got more green space than the school yard.
And imagine even trying to have a sensible conversation on gun control of any kind with Marjorie Taylor Green. It is to laugh!
The real question is what has happened that we need armed people at schools or the grocery stores?
When I was young guns were easier accessible, they we carried in back seats of cars, on guns racks in trucks(2-3 at a time), taken to school by students as shop projects and we didn't need armed people at schools and such.
Not to mention we also didn't have police sweeps of schools with drugs dogs
We Never Know
No Slack
What a desolation!
So different where I live. If I see somebody with a gun in Canada's largest city twice a month, that's a lot! And then, it is only ever attached to a police officer's belt.
Now, the only concession Republican's like Ted Cruz can make is "hardening our schools." Basically, turning them into fortresses protected by gun-toting gendarmes outside. Sheesh. The school across the street from me, in the center of Toronto at lunchtime has a stream of kids happily wandering off to Tim Hortons if they feel like it, or playing in the park next door because it's got more green space than the school yard.
And imagine even trying to have a sensible conversation on gun control of any kind with Marjorie Taylor Green. It is to laugh!
"The school across the street from me, in the center of Toronto at lunchtime has a stream of kids happily wandering off to Tim Hortons if they feel like it, or playing in the park next door because it's got more green space than the school yard."
Used to be that way when I was young. At school lunchtime we could walk uptown to the local eaters and get lunch.
We Never Know
No Slack
There were armed cops outside the school in Texas the other day. They all got shot and the shooter was able to enter the school anyway.
So armed guards at schools isn't working either. Should we just lock students up in prison-like settings, or maybe, possibly, try to deal with the reasons of how and why people are carrying out these shootings, and how they're getting their guns? This is getting absurd. Is this really how you want to live?
Freedom!!! Right?
"Should we just lock students up in prison-like settings"
Having to be on closed campus for 8 hours a day, being told what to do and when you can do it.... Doesn't differ a whole lot from jail.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Again, the rest of the world seems to have figured it out just fine (the part of my post you cut out). But the US can't for some bizarre and unknown reason? Come on.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
That's one of the most laughable things I've seen in a long time.
Thanks for helping to make the point about who cares about human life and who doesn't.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
We don't have mass shootings on a regular basis. How did you miss the point so badly?
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
It differs a lot from jail.
But there seem to be a ton of people advocating turning schools into jails, rather than actually dealing with the gun problem.
We Never Know
No Slack
The US cares about money.
We have the most millionaires with 21,951,202 (39.1% of the worlds millionaires) and the highest number of billionaires in the world, with 724 American citizens in the three comma club.