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The Most Serious [x] Problem We Face Today

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Kepler said:
We shouldn't raise taxes because then more people will cheat on them.
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We shouldn't make marijuana illegal because then more people will smoke it.
 
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In Maine, state police stopped Timothy Courtois, 49, of Biddeford, Maine, for speeding on Sunday and found an AK-47 assault weapon, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition in his car. Police also discovered news clippings of the Colorado shooting.

The man told police he attended the Batman film in Saco, Maine, on Saturday with a loaded gun in his backpack and told authorities he was traveling to Derry, New Hampshire, to shoot a former employer.

Authorities found ammunition and other firearms, including a machine gun, at Courtois' home. He has been charged with speeding and possessing a concealed weapon.
 
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Well, here's something nobody could have predicted.

The Communist liberals at the Tampa Bay Times have done an analysis of the 119 people who used the Florida stand-your-ground law to try to beat a murder rap. 60 percent of them had at least one “major” arrest. Nearly a third had four or more major arrests!

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Tavarious China Smith was a drug dealer with multiple arrests who killed a man during an 2008 argument over drug territory in Manatee County. He claimed self-defense and went free. Less than three years later, he was back in front of prosecutors for a different homicide, this one the result of a shoot-out outside a nightclub. Smith once again went free by claiming “stand your ground.”
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Kepler said:
Although you could say the same thing about a lot of things that are regulated. "Some kids will get fake IDs" is not a reason to not ID check people buying beer.
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But not to vote. :)

I would think that the abdication of personal responsibility is our big problem. It's now always the other guy's fault.
 
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Kepler said:
Well, here's something nobody could have predicted.
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I've gotten a lot of crapola on the site for saying this is becoming a big problem. The combination of easy access to guns (shown to be easier than voting in many states), conceal/carry, and SIG changes American justice. And therefore, it will absolutely allow for more murders (which will now be called something else) and change willingness to commit these murders (either because they believe they can get off or it is no longer defined as murder).

Expect violence to continue to increase in terms of both legal murders as well as mass violent outbursts due to increases in gun culture and weapons proliferation.
 
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Kepler said:
Well, here's something nobody could have predicted.
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That doesn't surprise me, really. Most criminals prey most upon people similar to themselves and put themselves in situations to possibly use the SYG laws. Those are the stories that never seem to make the big news events. It's when they involve seemingly innocent or sympathetic people that the nation hears about it.
 
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joecct said:
I would think that the abdication of personal responsibility is our big problem. It's now always the other guy's fault.
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I think people have been saying the taking of personal responsibility is in decline every generation since the cavemen.

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today
Any shock they should try to stem
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.
If driving fast cars you like,
If low bars you like,
If old hymns you like,
If bare limbs you like,
If Mae West you like,
Or me undressed you like,
Why, nobody will oppose.
When ev'ry night the set that's smart is in-
Truding in nudist parties in
Studios.
Anything goes.
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-- Cole Porter. 1934.
 
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5mn_Major said:
I've gotten a lot of crapola on the site for saying this is becoming a big problem. The combination of easy access to guns (shown to be easier than voting in many states), conceal/carry, and SIG changes American justice. And therefore, it will absolutely allow for more murders (which will now be called something else) and change willingness to commit these murders (either because they believe they can get off or it is no longer defined as murder).

Expect violence to continue to increase in terms of both legal murders as well as mass violent outbursts due to increases in gun culture and weapons proliferation.
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Some interesting data.
 
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St. Clown said:
That doesn't surprise me, really. Most criminals prey most upon people similar to themselves and put themselves in situations to possibly use the SYG laws.
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Uh uh! They're not criminals! They're heroes who were empowered by the law to bravely stand their ground and fight back against the dangerous criminal element. How dare you call them criminals!
 
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Priceless said:
Uh uh! They're not criminals! They're heroes who were empowered by the law to bravely stand their ground and fight back against the dangerous criminal element. How dare you call them criminals!
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Psst...

They're only heroes when they're white.
 
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geezer said:
#3 is a bit shocking. If we don't get busy boosting gun ownership numbers somehow, the consequences could be deadly. Perhaps generous tax deductions for the purchase of weapons? Free ammo on Saturdays? Just throwing some ideas out there.
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Just create a penalty (i.e. tax) for everyone who does not purchase a gun.
 
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Better include a bullet tax, too.

Don't want these people just shoving the gun in the basement and never using it. Bring back your expended shells and get a refund toward the next years.
 
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bronconick said:
Better include a bullet tax, too.

Don't want these people just shoving the gun in the basement and never using it. Bring back your expended shells and get a refund toward the next years.
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Bullet Control.
 
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bronconick said:
Better include a bullet tax, too.

Don't want these people just shoving the gun in the basement and never using it. Bring back your expended shells and get a refund toward the next years.
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Actually, we've got enough people in the IRS now where they can send out agents to make sure that it has been fired over the course of the year.
 
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bronconick said:
Better include a bullet tax, too.

Don't want these people just shoving the gun in the basement and never using it. Bring back your expended shells and get a refund toward the next years.
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Or just load them yourself. (which I actually don't do. I don't think I'd want to load the sabots that I shoot with my .12 gauge slug gun)
 
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