Latest Comments by tntrn

Did anyone post that a baseball bat, a knife, or hammer can not be used in a violent manner?

"I called the police because it was OUTRAGEOUS to me that somebody can simply set-up a gun show in their front yard and call it a Yard Sale and
subject their neighbors to the obvious potential danger."

I don't know what the danger would be.


"Do you this guy was conducting background checks, or any other kind of check other than, 'you got cash?'"

Why would he when no background checks are required?

" The only purpose of an AR-15 is to inflict
maximum damage. That is why it is the choice weapon of mass shooters."

That's factually incorrect. We should be greatful that thus far mass shooters have chosen such a low powered weapon. You will notice that in the mass shootings only about 50% of those shot die. We're the shooters to choose, let's say, a normal rifle, like those used for deer hunting across the country, we should expect more dead and fewer wounded.
The .223 round fired by the Amalite 15 rifle was specifically designed to wound humans. It's also also widely used hunting cartridge, but for small game and varmits. It's not even legal to use for deer and other big game hunting in many states because it can't be counted on the humanely kill deer sized game.
We're mass shooters to instead choose something like a 30-06, the most popular big game cartridge in the USA, and available in all kinds of actions, including semi autos, instead of 10 killed and 10 wounded, we would expect 19 killed and 1 wounded.
The Armalite 15 rifle functions no differently that a variety of other rifled that have been widely available for a 100 years or more in the USA. It's main difference is that it's ugly and looks tactical.

Baseball bats or knives don't rack up a high body count quicky. So when these idiots go on rampages in London or wherever they decide to act up, they're able to be contained or neutralized with far fewer fatalities and a lower body count than what we get on almost a daily basis. For someone who argues about the rights of fetuses inside a uterus, I'm surprised that you would not be in favor of something that would keep fewer people from dying once they're extrauterine.

Or were you previously unaware that it's harder to kill someone with a baseball bat or a knife than with a firearm?

Just in case someone didn't already know this, baseball bats and hammers are not designed for combat or for causing intentional harm to a person or animal. Only some specific knives are designed to be a weapon of aggression.

The same cannot be said for the AR and AK rifles. They were designed for human combat scenarios. It is reasonable to regulate the ownership of the tools of warfare, IMHO.





Trying to equate owning a baseball bat with owning a firearm is intellectually dishonest.

I think you mean some would argue it's not an assault rifle, since that is also a term that applies to a specific group of military weapons. There are various definitions of assault weapons based on the varying laws and proposals that address them, but in general it refers to a semiautomatic firearm where the primary purpose isn't for defense, hunting, or sport but offensive use. In other words it's primary design benefit is to kill a bunch of people before you can be stopped.

I don't think one needs to be an expert on the inner workings of guns in order to have an opinion here.

It is really pretty simple.

If you want to live in a society awash in guns (with few restrictions placed on ownership), then please learn to accept the violence that will occur. Don't act shocked, shocked, shocked when guns are used to commit crimes and kill and maim innocent people.

It's a simple matter of knowing which side you are on, and then accepting the consequences of the side you have chosen.

Thought I clearly indicated that I have no opinion because of ignorance and cultural bias. I opined about violence. Should someone so easily irritated have so many guns?

How do you know this stuff?

I don't remember if Adam Lanza used an AR-15 to mow down the first graders at Newtown. I thought he did. Please
correct me if you know for sure what assault weapon he used. Didn't the San Bernardino shooters use AR-15s?

There are other things that the federal government could do such outlawing certain types of bullets. But they have refused to do that too. Cowards. And what about banning assault rifles? Does anybody need an assault rifle to go hunting? No. It is a weapon of war. Oh, it has been used to kill the maximum number of people in several mass shooting including Sandy Hook/Newtown.

I think everyone agrees on this point. In the article it notes that the charges against him were dropped. I don't know why they were dropped but they were. People's rights are not taken on a whim. It takes something solid like a conviction or diagnosis.

Apparently, gun regulation DOES work in Australia, because after the Port Arthur massacre, it was 20+ years between occurrences that in the USA happen every day. I'll take those odds.

If you're really interested in what I have to say about gun regulation, you can search my posts. I've stated my piece many times over and am tired of the intellectual dishonesty or laziness or whatever you want to think it is that keeps you from listening every stinking time I say it.

You haven't been paying attention then, and no. I'm not kidding. It should go without saying that I hope the Congressman's condition improves and he makes a full recovery. It should go without saying that I don't believe in violence and wish no one had ever been shot at a Congressional baseball practice.

Shootings were happening for a long time and were heartbreaking but Newtown was where I reached the end of my rope. Twenty first-graders died. Six year olds were pretending to be dead while listening to their classmates' blood gurgling in their throats as they were murdered. I had a second-grader at the time. I have a six-year-old now.

The shaken feeling, the brokenness, the fear these Congresspeople are feeling, the people who continued to vote against sensible policies.....that's my feeling every g-d time a shooting happens. What makes me angriest is that these folks - meaning Congressional Republicans in general - have been unwilling to listen to constituents when it was OUR kids dying. When it was ME that was afraid to send my second-grader to school the Monday after Newtown happened. While it's been me worried for the last six years that every time the school system pops up on my caller ID that it's finally happened here, Congress has done nothing.

So have chickens come home to roost? Yeah. They have. I'm only surprised that it's taken this long.

It's possible to feel both revulsion at the act and revulsion for the policies and inaction that have made it an almost everyday occurrence in this country. The only industrialized country where this sh!t happens more days than it doesn't.

So I'll return the favor....are you kidding me?

I fear that the not-for profit, private organization will be underfunded. In fact, I do not understand how this new entity will be funded: by airlines, by port authorities or local municipalities, tax on airfare? And I have read of concern that smaller airports that don't have the revenue stream that larger ones do.

And my exposure to private, for and not for profit businesses tells me that when the budget is tight, the first thing cut is wages, including wages for training.

If the private sector is mostly better run than the government, then why are prisoners dying of thirst, women giving birth in shackles, and people being fed spoiled, insect infected food in privately owned prisons?

I answered your questions, tntrn, now how about you answer mine?