Oso planning to go pro
People went NUTS for the Black Dahlia murder in LA in the late 40s. The media and public fervor for it was insatiable for awhile.In Cold Blood helped make Truman Capote a superstar.Okay. But with instant access these days you can see these stories 24/7. Its far from anything new. The public's interest in the macabre goes back to the days of public executions, aka thousands of years
On the idea of strict gun access, what about annual taxes on guns one owns or higher insurance rates for owners, similar to a smoker?
This is an interesting idea. Although as opposed to taxes, I'd go more the car route: Require liability insurance per gun owned.But alas, neither idea will probably ever be supported.
No problem. The preliminary count is 156 dead across the country.
Not sure this does anything other then penalize legal law abiding gun owners.
I mean, I'm a legal, law abiding vehicle owner, and never hit anyone with my vehicle to use liability insurance. Why am I being penalized?
So will we be seeing stupid gun insurance commercials (Geico, Progressive, Liberty Mutual)? I
If someone takes out the Geico gecko, Flo from Progressive, and Limu Emu and Doug, I'm on completely board.
And yet you'd led the Aflac duck live on?
The car analogy is apt in many ways.
There are so many issues with this illustration.1) Carmaker Legally Liable for its Product: Not if the driver crashes it and kills someone. Only liable if the car or its parts fail causing an accident. Would/should this be any different for a gun maker?2) I'll summarize the rest here: How many drivers ignore some or all of the legal requirements? How are they caught? How are they penalized? Do the police have the resources to enforce all of these requirements? How would violators of the proposed gun laws/requirements be caught? How would they be enforced? How would they be penalized? It seems obvious that anyone who is willing to break the law to the extent that they're going to kill people with a gun aren't going to give a sh!t whether the gun they can get their hands on is legal. Good luck enforcing most of the restrictions in advance of any shootings.
The laws against murdering people are working just great, aren't they?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Whatever new gun control measures are considered need to focus on those who are committing the crimes, and that is going to be really hard to do.
No, clearly all is not fine. I'm saying that all this talk about more restrictions likely won't do much to stop the mayhem with most of the gun-owning Americans who are killing people. They ignore the laws. They will ignore any new laws. Whatever new gun control measures are considered need to focus on those who are committing the crimes, and that is going to be really hard to do.
Id argue that "gun loving" Americans by and large arent the ones doing the killing. The ridiculed (not necessarily without reason) people posing with their 50 guns arent the ones doing the mass shootings. However, the need to completely unfetter their hobbies, interests, and/or fetishes are what provides the access to the people who do. And thats the issue.The irony for me is that the majority of gun legislation, aside from outlawing AR-15s or whatnot, would not prevent them from having their Lord of War arsenal, just make it SLIGHTLY more time consuming to compile.