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10638. robertjayb - 1/30/2013 6:21:03 AM The armed and crazy citizen...
A driver of a school bus in Dale County was shot several times, and a 6-year-old student passenger has been taken as a hostage by the suspected shooter near Midland City.
Police report that the incident happened at approximately 3:36 p.m. Tuesday when the suspect demanded the driver to let a student off the bus. When the driver refused, the suspect boarded the bus, shot the driver before taking the child and fleeing the scene.
Law enforcement officials are currently negotiating with the suspect who took the child to an area behind Destiny Church.
(Birmingham, Alabama news)
Maybe we should register nut cases. 10639. robertjayb - 1/30/2013 6:58:14 AM Shazam!
Gomer Pyle, USMC” star Jim Nabors married his longtime male partner at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel earlier this month, according to Hawaii News Now.
Nabors, a Hawaii resident, had never publicly come out. But his relationship with Stan Cadwallader wasn’t a secret before they decided to take advantage of Washington’s new same-sex marriage law.
(Seattle Times) 10640. alistairconnor - 1/30/2013 6:14:36 PM Robt :Maybe we should register nut cases.
Or maybe it would be better if ordinary people in stressful everyday situations (such as, for example, divorce with an acrimonious custody dispute) didn't have such a high probability of being armed. 10641. judithathome - 1/30/2013 7:24:46 PM Amen. 10642. Wombat - 1/31/2013 12:55:36 AM Surprise, surprise, surprise! Actually, I had always found him a bit un-Marine-like on Gomer Pyle. Early gaydar... 10643. iiibbb - 1/31/2013 4:29:31 AM he also came out a while ago 10644. iiibbb - 2/2/2013 8:18:25 PM It looks like Feinstein's new AWB is DOA.
Here would be my modest proposal on magazine capacity.
Limit magazine sizes to the design of the firearm. For pistols, this would be whatever fits in the grip (nothing extending below). For rifles this would be a maximum of 20.
Limit the number of rounds that would be permitted to be loaded in magazines, of any capacity, while in your possession away from your residence or at a firing range. I would set this limit at 30.
Hardly anyone using a gun for a legitimate reason would be in violation. There would be no queer hardware workarounds.
10645. Wombat - 2/3/2013 12:45:45 AM Seems reasonable. 10646. judithathome - 2/3/2013 8:01:29 PM Limit the number of rounds that would be permitted to be loaded in magazines, of any capacity, while in your possession away from your residence or at a firing range. I would set this limit at 30.
And that kid from Newtown? He'd abide by that rule, right? Oops, I'm away from home...can't use the 30 round clip!
One thing that amazes me is how much fear and loathing is expressed by everyday people...and how scared everyone is of seemingly everyone else...hmmm, wonder why this could be in a country where almost everyone is armed and we have the strongest military in the world...plus 8 years of being told by a Republican government that the entire would is out to get us and there are evildoers everywhere...just waiting to attack us. I wonder why we're so scared of our own neighbors and the rest of the world? 10647. iiibbb - 2/4/2013 2:13:16 AM So then I guess you're similarly unimpressed with Feinstein's proposal? Because that would do even less than my proposal right; or do you fall in the "we have to do something camp"?
I actually don't think you fall in that camp. You've been pretty consistent that you want to limit guns beyond current gun control proposals; you are actually better informed than the vast preponderance of gun control advocates... but it is ironic that you also see how ludicrous what a half-measures delivers.
I'm not scared of anything. I've lived in places where I've been more alert because it was hard to ignore the kind of things that happened all the time around there.
Gun control is an impossible issue ... like abordtion. 10648. arkymalarky - 2/4/2013 2:23:03 AM But abortions have been regulated all the while the right to one was protected. People won't be happy on either side, but that's the way it is. I think they'll at least expand background checks and close loopholes and maybe limit magazine size. 10649. iiibbb - 2/4/2013 3:52:12 AM I doubt any abortion prohibitionist is very satisfied with its level of regulation, hence, the issue is impossible 10650. arkymalarky - 2/4/2013 3:54:03 AM Right. But regulation happens despite the intransigence of either side. I think it will here as we'll. 10651. iiibbb - 2/4/2013 4:14:54 AM The irony is the changes in gun laws is that I will sell 3 to buy 3 in order to minimize the bureaucratic annoyances for me. That's 3 more out there thanks to Cuomo 10652. judithathome - 2/4/2013 1:37:18 PM Listen, I am so unafraid of what is lurking out there that should a horde of thugs come through my front door...which they could do at any time since I never lock it...I would not only NOT shoot them, I would offer them bags in which to take my loot away. 10653. thoughtful - 2/4/2013 6:13:58 PM J@h, that would be nice if the thugs only wanted your possessions but often they want more than that...just ask Mr. Petit how much he lost to thugs. 10654. judithathome - 2/4/2013 9:20:00 PM Coming home from the hospital today, a truck in front of us lost a huge container out his truckbed and it blew right onto our car, bounced in front of us, and Keoni nearly lost control of the car trying to avoid it...we could have been killed passively.
It's dangerous everywhere...am I going to stop riding in my car? No. 10655. Wombat - 2/5/2013 4:52:31 AM Richard III's skeleton identified. He appeared to have scoliosis, not kyphosis. "Crooked back Dick," yes, but not hunchbacked. Sorry, Shakespeare. 10656. thoughtful - 2/5/2013 3:13:41 PM No you won't stop riding in your car, but you probably don't drive with bald tires....you do things to mitigate risk.
I feel safer having access to an equalizer. For me, it mitigates risk.
Saw Bob Costas on the Daily Show talking about the gun culture in this society and how it needs to change...I agree. We need a MADD for gun violence...we need to stop glorifying weaponry and violence and start glorifying education and compassion.
Neighbor of mine has a daughter who is going to school in OH and as part of her training, she's required to go into an inner city elementary school. She was told, under no circumstances was she to leave the classroom without an armed guard to escort her. Yes, an elementary school. 10657. thoughtful - 2/5/2013 3:22:18 PM But there's little chance of reasoned discussion when you have nut cases like these guys running around...talk about a need for education!
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