Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Re: Gun Control 1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Even the nuttiest of the gun nuts I meet at work are serious and responsible about gun safety. That is basically why I changed my mind from "guns are 19th century fetishes, who would anybody actually need them?" to "who am I to judge -- as long as they're following the rules and the rules are kept up to date, meh, it makes them happy and happiness is rare enough as it is."
Even as I become ever more liberal as I roll up life experience, I become less concerned about responsible people using hand guns as worry beads or rifles to go shooting. I would hope they would be pressing to keep weapons out of the hands of psychos since they, after all, are most likely to come into contact with those psychos. Localities ought to be able to regulate to the community standard, though. The 2nd Amendmenteers who come in and overturn city ordinances banning guns are not only coming from a silly perspective (conspiracy theories and fantasies about resisting tyranny argle bargle) but they are also guilty of exactly what they decry the most on most other issues: forcing a top down one size fits all policy onto everybody regardless of what they themselves want.
From your keyboard to God's (?) , Black Lives Matters (?), ears.
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/02/39686...-support-carrying-legal-guns-for-self-defense
I'm all for it. The folks willing to follow the law and choose to legally and responsibly arm themselves for self-defense are folks I'd like to meet.
Even the nuttiest of the gun nuts I meet at work are serious and responsible about gun safety. That is basically why I changed my mind from "guns are 19th century fetishes, who would anybody actually need them?" to "who am I to judge -- as long as they're following the rules and the rules are kept up to date, meh, it makes them happy and happiness is rare enough as it is."
Even as I become ever more liberal as I roll up life experience, I become less concerned about responsible people using hand guns as worry beads or rifles to go shooting. I would hope they would be pressing to keep weapons out of the hands of psychos since they, after all, are most likely to come into contact with those psychos. Localities ought to be able to regulate to the community standard, though. The 2nd Amendmenteers who come in and overturn city ordinances banning guns are not only coming from a silly perspective (conspiracy theories and fantasies about resisting tyranny argle bargle) but they are also guilty of exactly what they decry the most on most other issues: forcing a top down one size fits all policy onto everybody regardless of what they themselves want.