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People kill people.
People with guns kill people.
People with knives kill people.
People with cars kill people.
People with hospitals (iatrogenic deaths) kill people.
People who like to control people kill people.
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People kill people.
The following commentary was published by Starhawk on Wed Dec 19, 2012:
I Feel So Much Safer Now!
By STARHAWK | Published: December 18, 2012
I feel so much safer now, don’t you? Now that so many states are allowing teachers to bring guns to school! High time! Why just yesterday I took little Emmie to kindergarten for her very first day. She looked so adorable with her pink-enameled Baby Browning packed into her Hello Kitty holster. I felt so proud!
I slung my Remington over my shoulder—it’s only a semi-automatic but I didn’t want to be overdressed. Pulled up in the Hummer and noted with a sigh of relief that the entranceway was fully covered by the George Zimmerman Honorary Militia Unit Number 101. Emmie was a little shy but relaxed completely as we walked up the allee of AK 47s keeping us protected from any harm. Those militia guys are so sensitive—using their silencers to avoid upsetting the children when, for example, just behind us they dropped little Shondel from next door in his tracks when he asked, “Why you got that big gun?” Alas, his mother didn’t take it well and began wailing hysterically, even though the nice militia man explained to her that he’d just saved her from the budding terrorist she was nurturing in her bosom. But you know those people have a hard time listening to reason, so he shot her too, in self-defense, of course. How glad I am that we can stand our ground!
The Principal, Mrs. Malice, met us with a warm hug, clasping little Emmie to her bosom with a Wilson combat fixed-blade in one hand and an Uzi in the other. Then we made our way down the hallway, careful to step around a few stray corpses, nothing to worry about really, just a bit of malfunction in the settings for the drones that patrol during class. You won’t be so quick to sneak out to the bathroom without your hall pass with these babies cruising!
We entered the classroom. Miss Grudge, Emmie’s new teacher, gave her a big smile and a playful burst-in-the-air from her classic Thompson sub-machine gun. So high-spirited, yet I could tell by her Glock in the shoulder holster and the classic Colt 45 on the desk that she has a no-nonsense, serious side. The little kiddies were having a fun game of target practice with their pint-sized Smith & Wessons, so good for their hand-eye coordination! And Miss Grudge is such a creative teacher. She really knows how to spot the teaching moment—like after little Billy shot a couple of toes off by accident, why, all the little children learned to count to eight, right there and then!
I left little Emmie for her first day at school, my mind at ease knowing she was well-protected from any crazed terrorists or evildoers who might threaten her life or her freedom!
Truly, the only downside that I can see to our new weapons policy is the little incident in the State Legislature when Senator Avarice introduced the new pension reform bill. The gallery was packed with teachers and after he’d been removed in the body bag his cohorts took one look at that bristling battery of gunbarrels and rapidly voted all educators a hundred percent raise plus full medical and dental benefits and a generous life insurance plan. Surprising how much less we hear these days about state employees and their bloated entitlements.
America’s teachers—best armed, best paid!
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The long and hard fight for gun control is worth the struggle. There are many who are against gun control despite the 20 murdered children in Connecticut.
People against gun control should travel to Connecticut and spend Christmas Day with the families of those murdered children and explain to them, face to face, why they prefer that guns continue to be abundantly available to any nut-case so that this tragedy can be repeated indefinitely. Americans who argue against gun control prefer to see more murdered children than to provide a solution. Shame on them. They are being astonishingly ignorant, arrogant, insensitive, and ideologically deluded beyond belief.
Hey Ed,are you going around to the families that lost someone to fatal automobile accidents and explain to them, face to face, why you prefer that cars continue to be abundantly available to any nut-case so that this tragedy can be repeated*indefinitely.
Americans who argue against car control prefer to see more murdered children than to provide a solution. Shame on them. They are being astonishingly ignorant, arrogant, insensitive, and ideologically deluded beyond belief.
here there is gun control. the weapons used in connecticut are not easily available. i agree the 2nd amendment was intended to facilitate citizen militias against internal and external threats, and what if its use now is different? are you willing to be less of a partisan hack and ask questions in a complicated world? or would you rather just broadly diss those who don't agree with your point of view, however ildefined that is? what further gun control do you want in california? or do you want california standards to apply nationaly? perhaps you want austrailian standards nationally? the nra is more specific than you.
Mendoza;160963]The long and hard fight for gun control is worth the struggle. There are many who are against gun control despite the 20 murdered children in Connecticut.
People against gun control should travel to Connecticut and spend Christmas Day with the families of those murdered children and explain to them, face to face, why they prefer that guns continue to be abundantly available to any nut-case so that this tragedy can be repeated indefinitely. Americans who argue against gun control prefer to see more murdered children than to provide a solution. Shame on them. They are being astonishingly ignorant, arrogant, insensitive, and ideologically deluded beyond belief.[/QUOTE]
Note how a car and driver are two highly regulated parts of an even larger interdependent network of conditions that allow a car to serve its intended purposes. A car wasn't designed to kill someone. Guns are; that capacity is the primary reason for which a gun is designed and manufactured. A car was designed to assist someone in getting to where they need to go. Have some fun along the way, etc.
Many xmases ago, Mr. Irwin Mainway -- Dan Akroyd -- thoroughly demonstrated that you can kill, or be killed, by way of just about anything nameable. Anything can be turned into a dangerous object. Your comparison is a wash.
We have a society that still obeys traffic lights, for the most part. And so, however badly timed, the lights can fulfill their designated purpose of facilitating a safe flow of traffic. We should be thankful for any intelligent consensus among the public because nothing is a given.
I once tried to wipe my ass in the desert with my pistol and it worked alright. Better than a rock.
A concession - Here we have a man, in 2008, who may or may not have a gun, but his imagination told him the thing to do to satisfy his anger was to drive his sedan around at a high rate of speed in a sustained state of rage inside of the Wichita City Hall building during business hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsiQ1bm6IvI
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I think acknowledging that we live under constant wartime conditions and act accordingly is the path to a pleasant lifestyle for all... maybe we can move enough undocumented workers into camps near our schools (about as close as we can get to the Israeli's situation as we can without really dramatic action) to improve the odds we'll put the children under attack, thus rewarding the teachers with an opportunity to apply the compulsory military training they'll get during those long lazy summers they all have.
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