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Spin Zone / Re: Home deliveries should be banned!
« on: March 12, 2018, 12:58:25 PM »
When boxes are outlawed, only outlaws will have boxes.
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My firm commitment to the concept that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." is waning and the 2nd A needs to be modified. In a macro sense, people just can't be trusted with guns.I think it’s simple minded that “modifying” the 2A will do anything but embolden the criminals, make lives more at risk, and yes, embolden an already intrusive and dangerous FedGov. You and most others laugh at the prospect of an armed citizenry defending itself against a tyrannical government, but what makes you think we are immune from getting such a tyrant when dozens of other countries in the last 100 years have had to deal with such a threat? Look at what Obama and his minions I have done to weaponize the DOJ, FBI, IRS and other agencies for strictly political purposes. Lives have been ruined because of it. What makes you say lives can’t be lost if the tyranny scale gets turned up slightly.
Ok, hear me out, then lambast me.
I owned a small business for about 20 years. It started out with my wife and I and one employee and we eventually grew to about 20 employees. AT first, we had very few rules and we liked it that way. But as soon as we added our second employee, we found we had to infringe lightly on the rights of each employee just a little. We couldn't let one employee abuse our tolerance or pretty soon (for instance) they were both taking two hour lunches and coming in late. So we had to set rules.
As we hired more employees we found we needed more rules. We had to limit internet surfing and facebooking and checking email while on the job. Only a few were doing this, but it was hurting the morale of the good employees. Taking home promotional ball point pens was just fine with us, until we realized how many thousands of pens were walking off so we had to make rules against taking company property. As we added employees, the rules kept stacking up. That was part of the reason I was so happy to sell the place and retire.
The 2nd amendment was great for the first couple of hundred years, but now, too many people abuse the privilege and we need to find some way to stop that.
Before you start leaping out of your chair, let me say I am in no way advocating banning all guns, but I think we need to redefine exactly what the 2nd amendment means and why it exists. Hunting? Yeah, sure; get a gun that is appropriate. I don't need to keep a 50 caliber machine gun aimed at my front door.
And I don't think we can easily defend the notion of violently holding off our government or that staging a revolution is defensible. That is what the ballot box and the Supreme Court are for (as imperfect as they have been lately).
It pains me to be leaning in this new direction, but things are spinning out of control, even if more people are killed by their own swimming pool than by guns (I just made that up and don't know if it is true or not).
I don't know exactly what the answer is, but there has to be a dialogue, and we have to set rules that will probably inconvenience some people.
Ok. Fire away (not literally of course).
Thanks for the logical and calming words. And thanks for not ripping in to me.
But I'm still not convinced one way or the other. Believe it or not, I am willing to listen to both sides, but we do have a problem. Perhaps Archie Bunker was right when he said the way to stop airliner hijackings (very popular in the '60s) was to "arm all the passengers. I don't know if that is a good idea on an airliner, but maybe arming the teachers (or at least allowing trained volunteer teachers to be armed) would get the killers out of the schools (and into the churches, or other gun free zones).
Mass shootings are a problem. What is a solution that works? "Just enforce all the current rules" is not working and won't work.
andandand then Trump is impeached andandand leaves on a helicopter andandand then Queen Hillary I is coronated.