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I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone say “no, we deal with mental illness just fine and that’s a bad solution.”
However, I have seen plenty of people who seem to think it’s the only solution. Which is strange.
I asked how banning scary-looking guns would help and you provided no meaningful response. If anybody should be asking themselves why they even bother, it’s me, not you.
Then don’t bother.
Ask Londoners if they feel safe with people getting stabbed every night
Broadly speaking the answer would be yes. London is one of the most populous cities in the world. One murder is statistically tiny and no danger to the majority but one is still far too many.
Except it’s 36 fatal stabbings so far this year in London.
But at least they didn’t use a spoon.
I’d much rather be a bystander in a knife fight than a gun fight. It’s pretty hard to kill hundreds of people from your balcony with a knife, and if someone does break into your house and you’re in the kitchen, you’re both equally well armed.
Exactly. This whole 🔪 thing is a ridiculous point.
Jay’s argument makes it sound like gun control advocates are silly people who want everything to be happy and safe and who don’t understand that people can be bad/evil.
Way to paint the other side as silly.
When the depth of the argument is often “fewer guns = good”, it is silly. I don’t think we’ll have fewer school shootings at all if we reimplement the assault weapons ban. We’d have to ban guns outright, and there’s a zero-percent chance of that happening.
I’m all for improved background checks and other methods of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. I’m also for law enforcement doing its job, like following up on reports about troubled people and referring them to psychiatric care.
I’m amazed at how few questions I see about the WHY behind all this. TM2YC seems to think that humans simply kill each other because that’s what we do, so if we ban the tools we use to kill, the killings will stop; I suppose banning delivery trucks is next. But why are we seeing so many mass killings, and why didn’t we see them when guns were even more readily available? Has anyone considered we’ve started behaving in ways that imply a deeper and more troubling issue? How do we prevent people from ending up in such a painful and hopeless place that they think murdering a bunch of people is the way to deal with those feelings?
fewer guns is of course good.
I said this earlier and Jay clearly doesn’t believe it because he asked how it solved anything. Good luck.
Well even if you don’t know his position, it’s all been said before and none of it matters.
I was asking ChainsawAsh, thanks. If he doesn’t want to rehash, no big deal.
Didn’t realize only the person addressed is allowed to respond. Thanks for clarifying that.
Would rather not, sorry. I’ll just spend another eight hours here.
Well even if you don’t know his position, it’s all been said before and none of it matters.
okay
No.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
TV’s Frink said:
Go ahead and explain why the giant Joi hologram had to be naked and not dressed in any of the clothes she wore while with K/Joe. Go ahead, I’ll wait.Probably because showing nudity is more exploitative and immature than clothes.
WYSHS
Exploitation is often more exciting than clothes.
Is this supposed to be a defense?
Not really. I just don’t consider what you consider to be exploitation to be a problem at all.
Obviously.
I’m very in favor of sexual liberation and body positivity. I think if people were less spooked by nudity then it would help a lot.
Gosh, if women would just get over being exploited everything would be cool and we could all enjoy looking at more boobs in movies without the whiny prudes complaining about it.
I was going to reply but then I thought no, debating this issue is just too silly and I don’t know why I tried.
Agreed. It always basically boils down to either “we need to protect ourselves from all the other people with guns” or “we’re special Americans who God blessed with the right to destroy each other.”
Most times I’m proud to be an American, but not when it comes to guns.
Banning scary looking rifles can’t hurt.
If I can buy a hunting rifle that’s functionally the same as the scary rifle, it’s a useless gesture.
Do we need a useless gesture that panders to angry voters and doesn’t solve the problem?
Less guns = good
I think Jay’s argument is that those arguing for anything approaching a ban on guns don’t account for the fact that so many of the killings will still happen. And I think that’s right.
We can’t stop all the killings, so let’s not try to stop any of the killings.
Sounds great.
Nope.
TV’s Frink said:
Go ahead and explain why the giant Joi hologram had to be naked and not dressed in any of the clothes she wore while with K/Joe. Go ahead, I’ll wait.Probably because showing nudity is more exploitative and immature than clothes.
WYSHS
Exploitation is often more exciting than clothes.
Is this supposed to be a defense?
Not really. I just don’t consider what you consider to be exploitation to be a problem at all.
Obviously.
Banning scary looking rifles can’t hurt.
TV’s Frink said:
Go ahead and explain why the giant Joi hologram had to be naked and not dressed in any of the clothes she wore while with K/Joe. Go ahead, I’ll wait.Probably because showing nudity is more exploitative and immature than clothes.
WYSHS
Exploitation is often more exciting than clothes.
Is this supposed to be a defense?
Depends.
But don’t try to act like this is my fault.
Duracell’s sig image takes up the entire screen on my phone. It would be nice if that could be fixed so I can sleep tonight.
If Full House has proven anything, it’s that there’s nothing funny
This thread would have gotten a skyscraper bunny in the old days.
I hate that the guy who does most of the audiobooks sounds more like Patrick Warburton than Harrison Ford when he does Han.
I hate that Patrick Warburton didn’t play Han.
Hahahaha.
don’t feel like sipping aggressively
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i’m in an engineer
