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NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
Ellis D. Tripp noted a village voice article about attempts in NYC to pass a law requiring permits for air monitoring devices including apparently geiger counters. I'm sure everyone will feel much safer not knowing anything.
So you're saying it makes sense to drive truckloads of guns into the hands of people of the most densely populated cities of America?
You know, where hunting consists of going to the store, not actually going out and hunting?
To me, it makes sense that we try to get all the guns out of that environment, by making it impossible to buy them. There is no reason people in NYC need guns, except for making up for shortcomings, and my safety shouldn't be in jeopardy because they've got penis envy.
But whatever, after the pro-gun rhetoric in your comment, I tuned out the rest under my "crackpot right-wing" filter.
Leave it to me to get the anti-gun-control whackjobs out on Slashdot again. Its about as easy as getting a swarm of bees with a hive and a baseball bat.
Listen, maybe you live in the wild west where you need to pack heat everwhere you go and make sure no "thugs" beat you up and steal your lunch money. I don't. In my nearly 30 years on this planet (in many cities around the world, outside of America) I've never been in a situation where I've had to shoot my way out. In fact, the safest I've ever felt was in downtown Tokyo, a place known to have some of the strictest gun control regulations on the face of this Earth. Coincidence, maybe.
So, like I said, if you're afraid of getting into a duel down at the saloon, then by all means, pack that gun and make sure the bulge is showing so everyone knows. If you're like me, and just drive back and forth to work, take the occasional trip to somewhere exotic / remote, and buy your food pre-killed, there's really no need to own/have a gun.
I wouldn't live in a place like NYC unless I could keep the damned thing loaded and under my pillow or srapped to my ass when I was walking the crime ridden streets of our major cities...
Wow. You're such a coward. So terrified of the big bad scary world out there you can't go anywhere without a gun? Either grow a spine or just stay inside your house wearing a shawl and quivering everytime you hear something outside.
Hmm, that would explain why the recent school shootings the shooters were all using guns they'd purchased illegally.
Oh, wait, thats right. If you're crazy enough to shoot up a school, you probably don't care about getting away with it. I find it hard to believe Engineering students would be able to track down guns on the black-market.
But arguing with a pro-gun nut is like arguing with a brick wall, despite all the cracks in the argument they refuse to collapse.
Well admittedly that was a well thought out and reasoned reply. Something I don't usually get from the gun freaks out there. So I will commend you for that.
That being said there is no way to convince me that arming every American to the teeth is going to decrease murders. There is no society in the history of man that has increased the arming of the populace and had a result like that. Most societies that have increased arming end up in civil war, and I think we can both agree that the amount of deaths due to civil war would be higher than any mugger could even dream about.
The fact of the matter is that there are examples which "prove" both sides of the argument, and it comes down to a moral call. Do you think people morally need to be given the right to kill eachother? And I think the answer to that is a resounding NO. A government is there to protect people, not encourage them to kill eachother.