Unavoidable. Nothing could have been done, no way to prevent it. Oh well.

That has to be the easiest way to get away with murdering your wife, right? Oops, gun cleaning accident, just one of those crazy things.

I am sure the guy was a very responsible gun owner who took every precaution and would never be negligent.

That will really detract from his upcoming camping trip in bear country.

We all got to go sometime. It’s either going to be a couple of guys twice her size with knives and serial killer bloodlines, bears, or her husband cleaning his heater that gets her in the end.

she didn't post yesterday so maybe she took our advice, got rid of her gun, and then got eaten by a bear or a serial killer

I'll have you all know that you should be very happy, I think I've just had sort of a breakthrough. I've come to realize that in addition to being bipolar I'm also borderline and have dissociative disorder. So that's good to know! It explains my explosive rage, abandonment issues, lost time and why I feel like multiple people and always talk to and yell at myself.

A lot of times I'll read old posts I've made and don't remember making them and it feels like someone else wrote them. Now I'm like oooooh. I guess my friend likes to get on the computer and chat

It's 12 noon in the afternoon. I don't know wtf I've been doing for the past 6 hours. I remember bits and pieces. I remember hacking, and Cat Power, but it's all a blur

Any chance that you might think a person with dissociation and explosive rage issues probably shouldn't own a gun of any type?

Nah I'm good. Never been arrested once in my life. I have no criminal record.

I didn't ask about your criminal history

Just because no one said it explicitly: going to meet a potentially dangerous and mentally unstable person to play guitar for your band was a terrible terrible decision. It doesn’t matter if your friend insisted, you push back harder and you do not budge, you don’t say “Welp guess I have to go, I’ll just bring a gun to be safe.” The risk/reward ratio here is unbelievably bad, you can find someone who plays guitar anywhere. The fact that you had time to deliberate over this and made a terrible decision makes it far more likely that you’d also make bad decisions with a gun in the heat of the moment.

But boy, could be play guitar.

He could play a guitar just like ringin' a bell.

Well then **** off before I really start to personally dislike you

no u, ffs

It does not overlook other gun deaths. My whole argument is that the focus on mass shootings is itself overlooking other gun deaths.

Maybe it is a good strategy to get people on board with gun control in general, I don't know. I can understand how it could work as a catalyst. However, legislation to deal with mass shootings and legislation to deal with general gun violence will look different. I have a hard time seeing how things like ammo caps or banning specific weapons like the AR-15 are going to reduce overall gun violence at all. At the risk of sounding "callous," even if I accept that that type of legislation may reduce mass shootings, so what? If we cut mass shootings down by half we haven't even dented the number of deaths caused by gun violence. The focus should be on reducing overall gun violence.

Making it illegal to own gold is an abuse of government power.

This is getting too far into philosophy for me. I want to argue that government is simply wrong to suppress individual rights, but that is futile when it seems like most of the people on this forum don't value individual rights to the extent that I do. At the same time I can't in good faith argue that society would not be better off without guns from a utilitarian standpoint. I just can not morally accept denying individuals the right to own guns just because some individuals may abuse those rights to the detriment of others.

Society does have the power to grant and take away rights in effect regardless of how you define "rights." In general, I do not consider it acceptable when that power is exercised, and neither should you, but that's just my lowly opinion.

You aren't making an argument. You are trolling in bad faith, because you don't actually want to do anything about the non-mass-shooting gun violence.

T&P

https://www.courier-journal.com/stor...ns/2065752002/

lol this white guy had a gun in his waistband and even pointed a second gun at the cop while resisting arrest and still didn't get killed

That's how you know it was a white guy.

Well, to be fair, he was a responsible gun owner since he hadn't shot or killed anyone yet.

Conservatives terrified of brown people from Lebanon when they're more likely to get gunned down by a white dude from Lebanon, KY

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/pas...ed-sex-police/

Your country is weird.