I'm a native Texan, I've lived here all my life and I've known 0 people killed by a firearm. I've known 34 who were killed in car accidents. Are we going to ban cars? All you folks saying a car isnt a tool meant to kill, doesnt that eliminate the intent of someone using it to kill? Is it a problem with the person driving like a maniac or with the car?

Now I'm not saying this to push for more or less gun control, I'm going through all of this to clarify that the dirty little secret here is that violence and criminality doesnt directly correlate to gun control legislation. Its also just as easy to build explosives using what's underneath your kitchen sink. Or you can just hop in a car and run down 40 kids when they're leaving school at the end of the day. Until we start acknowledging that there's an inherent issue with mental health here nothing is going to change.

Honduras (90.4 per 100,000) ...Venezuela (53.7 per 100,000) ...The United States Virgin Islands (52.6 per 100,000) ...Belize (44.7 per 100,00) ...El Salvador (41.2 per 100,000) ...Guatemala (39.9 per 100,000) ...Jamaica (39.3 per 100,000) ...Lesotho (38 per 100,000)

Considering the top 10 worst countries by murder rate in the world also have extremely strict gun control laws--strict to the point that it makes Australia and Japan look like Texas, the kicker is, even with the strict gun control laws in these countries, many of the deaths are still firearm related because criminals dont care about the law.

"In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handgun Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data." Neil DeGrasse Tyeson, 8/4/2019

With respect, why hasn't the NZ government banned smoking? 15,000 people a year die due to smoking or 2nd hand smoking related illness a year in NZ, that's roughly 13 people a day and much higher than any mass shooting in the US could even hope to compete with. If you're main concern was preventing death, then I'm wondering why we arent focusing on the actual deaths.

Can you describe the meaning behind it?

I'm done, I just cant. I'm turning off my phone and binge watching Friends for the rest of the night. I just can't deal with any more insanity tonight.

So my special needs cousins' elementary school was targeted by Hamas missiles--this gets maybe a day or two of attention--but according to that CNN article ROBOTS being RACIST gets WEEKS of attention? Has the fucking world gone insane?

No worries at all, I know that feeling. I would offer you some strong coffee if you were local to the DFW area.

Incorrect. An assault rifle is a magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use... and cant legally be obtained by most civilians and those that can usually have special licenses and are directly screened by the ATF and FBI.

Yeah...

You... you responded to a comment from @mialinay.

First time I saw this was years ago...

Oh I get it, and for the record it's not me I'm not downvoting anyone. I just tend to focus more on the comedy versus the possible politics since EVERYTHING is political now a days anyway. You and I are good man.

I was very obviously kidding. Come on man.

Oof

@mialinay

Probably several sessions for just the shading alone.

Not really to be honest, how often are you listening for other cars versus looking in your mirrors for them? Additionally, there are extra indicators/sensors that go off on sounds/honks that you can have installed in your car for a few hundred bucks.