San Bernardino

This is true. I just believe the insurance companies (and corporations) took advantage of the change to make more money or pay less toward our benefits. Not that they would do anything like that.

 

It's not a rational world, so you can't. Or at least not in this country with any solution that doesn't involve decades and generational shifts.

In a rational world, there'd be massive mandatory buybacks, severe restrictions on manufacture, and severe restrictions on the ability of civilians to own them. (and yes, I know there'd be a black market).

 

We understand that perfectly well. Reasons 1 and 3 are petulance (often referred to as the Backfire Effect, the bizarre human cognitive bias that causes us to dig in our heels the more obvious it is that we are wrong, which is exactly what gun advocates are doing), and reason 2 is the disease of the belief that feelings outweigh facts.

 

It actually is true. Mass shootings are only secondarily a gun control problem. Ordinary shootings are the bigger problem with our lack of gun control.

Mass shootings are primarily a copycat problem.

 

33,000 deaths a year, if you add up homicides, accidents, and suicides. Two Viet Nams every three years.

 

But people are mad at the vague concept of "government infringement," so those people's right to life was forfeited.

 

Yeah, nothing except the free market, which was keeping premiums down a lot better than what we have now.

 

Doubling down on stupidity.

 

Yeah, don't they understand, only Muslims can be terrorists? If the shooter is black, he's a thug and if he's white, he's mentally ill.

 

If the media wouldn't report on this, there would be fewer gun massacres in the future.

 

Correct. I'm paying attention to this one because it's actually close to home and I know some people very, very loosely connected to it. If it weren't close to home, I'd ignore it because it'd just be rubbernecking.