The New York Daily News cover on Va. shootings

Wait. Why is Florida_Man making sense? Should you be teasing alligators or something?

 

Missed my daily dose of bath salts.

 

Or not even have to ban beer and bourbon. Just have a zero tolerance law for drunken driving.

Drink as much as you want. First time you blow .08 or higher, 10-year prison sentence. Automatic.

Second time. 20 years. Third time, life in prison.

Everyone over 21 can still drink as much as they want. But they better not drive.

 

What is the gun equivalent to that that is going to both deter gun violence and satisfy the Second Amendment?

I don't expect you to have the answer. But that's the double-barreled (no pun intended) challenge that we face.

 

Both.
Guns is the harder debate because so many people are so firmly entrenched in their views, you won't be able to reach a middle ground. But with guns, you have the stats of how many shootings there are each year involving guns (or at least get pretty close) and you could come up with at least some estimate of how many people own guns. That's what makes handling the mentally ill difficult: for one thing, you have no idea how many mentally ill people are out there. Not to mention having to figure out how exactly you would define it.

 

One gun per person. There's a suggestion.

Two guns per person. There's a suggestion.

Three guns per person. There's a suggestion.

One handgun and one assault rifle per person. There's a suggestion.

Sixty bullets a year per person. There's a suggestion.

 

There are mentally ill people in every country.

There is one country that has a massive amount of gun deaths.

 

What about the fact I can choose to not drink and drive but I can't choose to not get caught up in a mass shooting, unless I never leave the house, of course.

 

Can you choose to not get hit and killed by a drunk driver?

 

touche

 

Yeah, but you can't choose not to be the victim of a drunk driver, unless you never leave the house, of course.

EDIT: Frantic beat me to it.

 

Unless the drunk driver crashes into your home.