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RACIST CRACKER ASS CRACKER!!!

I remember he was a pothead. I don't remember anything else about other substances.

Maybe because I was a pothead ...?

Did you take the Tide Pod challenge??

Nah, it's the alcohol disinfecting him.

Shoot me Vic and BGZ gonna be hitting the purple drank tonight!

The narrative was a ridiculous attempt to smear the dead kid.
The narrative was "He was carrying two of the 3 ingredients that those inner city black people combine to make "drank"!" (note... the 2 of the 3 ingredients were skittles and iced tea... really missing the important ingredient, cough syrup... and even then my understanding is "skittles" in the recipe is code for cough medicine in pills form. Esseentially, it's like claiming a person is carrying half the ingredients of a rum and coke, so they MUST be an alcohol abuser)

Ok, here is my shot at what we should do with gun laws:

Reinstate the ban on selling assault style weapons. Semi auto rifles with large capacity magazines that support rapid fire. Lot to argue here about the details, but the goal is not to limit true hunting rifles (bolt action, 3 round shot guns, etc,) but stop in influx of the militarized ones that have no home in our society - out side of being “cool toys”.

Ban bump stocks that can make a rifle near automatic.

Stop large capacity magazines. Many states limit the capacity to less than 10 rounds. Why does anyone need 17 or 40 rounds?



Now the first stumbling block is that our NRA friends will decry this as “the first step in taking all of our weapons, including steak knives and emasculating the US of A!”.

So, we would have that to deal with. Not that we already don’t.....



The bottom line here is that these mass shooting are facilitated by so many of us wanting “cool” militarized weapons that civilians truly have no business having. And the thought that having these toys is a right - or justifies the risk of carnage is irresponsible.

Meh.

Let everyone have all the guns.

Every now and then someone will shoot up a soft spot... (school, theater, mall, post office, wherever)... do we really care that much about the occasional relatively random death?

I care more about systematic intentional deaths. Those are more simple to observe/assess... I can't bring myself to be too bothered by the occasional random mass murderer. I honestly don't think most people are bothered by it either. they just like to pretend they do... say "prayers to XX" and then pat themselves on the back for thinking they're good human beings. I've seen no real indication they care though.

I must have misunderstood your intended statement then....

.... really?




..... are you sure about that?



.... I mean... I hear they take up a ton of time.

And there have been economic studies that imply you don't really like them that much.... at least less than you like yourself... :)

Brewha, that still doesn't solve the underlying problem. Untreated mental illness. These are not actions of sane people. I am more interested in (not sure if this is the right phrase) criminally mentally ill people not being able to buy weapons. And all mentally ill people receiving treatment.

Really - trust me.....
Sure I’m wrong plenty, but even a blind dog finds a bone once and a while.



Perhaps just take it on faith for the sake of argument. No need to change your would view or have a trial period with ankle biters.....

The problem on top and in our faces is allowing the mentally ill acess to these overkill (literally) weapons.

It is far more complex and difficult to get them all to stop eating crayons and rolling their poop into little balls.
Besides, we all know that government healthcare will destroy the nation. at least that’s what Fox says....

Well, I think the death penalty for selling bump stocks is just a bit harsh.....
Let’s jsut call it a felony.

Obama's own words:
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is: Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," he said.

"And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away."
"There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me," he said.

"There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happened to me – at least before I was a senator.

"There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often."

And I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear."

Yep!! Frickin white people never had it hard a day in their lifes....

Well, I think that until the nation acknowledges that we should spend on mental health, we should at least takes steps to keep needlessly dangerous weapons out of their hands.

I wasn't either, lucky us!! I mean I can't believe they still allow that to happen here in America. We should be ashamed

Alright. You think that's a valid point. I don't.
Black people are still treated like 2nd class citizens. I, personally, am ashamed of what my race is capable of.
Or do you not see that...cause these conversations can get tedious really fast, right?

I agree that the laws to keep drugs off the streets do nothing. I also agree that making gun laws harder does nothing... criminals will commit crimes....plain and simple, treat the people not the tool, laws force the majority to suffer for the minority and does nothing to deter criminals like I said the death penalty doesn't so what makes you think a magazine capacity law will?

I’m not sure the death penalty deters anyone determined to kill the self or commit suicide by cop. Florida has the death penalty and intends to use in on this white non Muslim terrorist.

What about letting the cdc and nih study gun violence and undue Trumps efforts to make it easier for folks with mental issues to get guns. Just a small start, and I’m not sure where to go from there.

First, I was speaking of taking high capacity magazines off of the market. like heroine - not on the open, leagal, buy some for your kids market.

But - if you believe that law have no value....well....

Just to be clear, no one thinks laws ”stop crime”.
No one.

They deter crime and make it possible to prosecute.
And we are better off with them when without.
(That is my Capt. Obvious impression, what do you think?)

If you take guns out of the hands of people with mental health issues (put them in databases, etc.), then some people will stop seeking treatment for fear of losing their guns and privacy. Then we will have a whole lot of people with mental health problems with guns and no medication or help to speak of. A potentially worse problem for America.

Phil perhaps. Assuming they are thinking logically. But I don’t think that was much of an issue in the latest rollback.

I'm not familiar with the latest rollback. Just speaking in generalities. I think getting more people access to mental health treatment would be a better prevention then enacting legislation that could potentially have an opposite effect.