But the transition from an economy entirely built around the labor market could be a big problem. If done well, it gives us a utopia where no-one need want for anything they desire. If done poorly, it ends in a world where a fraction of a percent of the world population control almost all the resources and the rest live in abject poverty.
... and using human history as a baseline, it's pretty much a given that it will be done poorly.
Good luck getting the collectivists to admit that.
Did you cry to Henry Ford about how all the buggy whip manufacturers would go out of business?
Considering how adamant Ford was about hiring shit-tons of people and paying them excellent wages as a method of ensuring his company enduring profits, I don't think he's the example you would want to use in this debate.
I guess. But do we teach kids about a whole bunch of other safety concepts?
Uh, did you not attend an American public school? Safety posters everywhere, safety lectures at least once or twice a year, Smokey the Bear and Friends paying occasional visits to talk to kids about safety...
No, the problem with this is that you will cause people who generally need counseling/therapy to avoid it because going to therapy would mean giving up ones gun rights.
Already happens due to fear of losing jobs/housing/gov't benefits/what-have-you.
Obviously you've never heard of the "My First Rifle" which is a company that makes real guns for kids. A 5 year old accidentally shot his 2yr old sister in Kentucky just recently, go look it up. It's a real.22 rifle, was loaded with bullets and everything. They even make 'em in pink for girls.
So? Does that absolve the parents from responsibility of the actions of their charges (i.e., children)? Of course not, only a moron (or troll with an agenda) would ever even attempt to come to such a conclusion.
My brother bought his son a 410/22 combo for his 6th birthday, but he doesn't just leave the fuckin' thing lying around where the kid can access it at any time. The difference between my anecdote and yours? The adult in mine isn't an irresponsible fucking idiot.
Not all revolvers have flip-out cylinders; Ruger Blackhawks and many Uberti models, for example. The only way to de-cock a Ruger Blackhawk is to pull the trigger - kind of hard to do safely while trying to insert a key in the trigger lock and turn it, while somehow blocking the pin from the hammer. Then, consider trying to do so at 2 AM, in the dark, as you hear an intruder bearing down towards your bedroom door.
How about we actually fucking teach kids about guns, how they work, and what they're used for? That would do a hell of a lot more to curtail gun-related deaths, and without the (un)intended side effect of rendering personal protection weapons useless by legislative fiat.
Not to totally poo-poo the idea, but I'm pretty sure kids accidentally shooting other kids with guns know how guns work and usually what they're used for. That's the entire problem. You're dealing with children who are mentally immature. They understand what guns are used for, they simply don't have the mental processes yet to distinguish what is appropriate and what isn't.
Bullshit - the majority of "gun education" that kids get these days is either playing or watching adults play FPS games like Call of Duty. So, never being taught how guns really work, they are unable to disconnect from the fantasy of "well, if I shoot someone, they'll just respawn later and it'll be no harm / no foul."
I took the state Hunter's Safety course at the age of 6, and even then I was already fully aware of the purpose and function of firearms, thanks to my dad who insisted on teaching us firearm safety as early as we could learn it. I think, were you to take a poll of fellow Slashdotters with a similar upbringing (rural childhood, family that hunts every season), you'd likely receive the same response.
This doesn't even begin to get into the subject of kids who understand perfectly well what they are doing but are using mom or dad's gun to shoot people intentionally.
In statistics, those are called outliers, and there is no way to legislate or mandate them out of existence. Education, however...
There's no way this boneheaded bill will get past the Republican controlled House.
It's not about getting past . . . it's about posturing, posing and voguing by the Rep.
... Which serves as a prime example of what's wrong with this country's government.
As to the question of what's wrong with this country in general, the answer probably has something to do with people being naive and/or stupid enough to not see this circus of a legislature for what it really is.
How about forcing states to add their mental health records to the instant background check database?
The irony, of course, is that making such a suggestion will cause the pro-gun-registry/ban crowd to cry foul, as they consider such an action to be a violation of the privacy rights of violent mental patients.
How about we actually fucking teach kids about guns, how they work, and what they're used for? That would do a hell of a lot more to curtail gun-related deaths, and without the (un)intended side effect of rendering personal protection weapons useless by legislative fiat.
Paper cartridges with ceramic or stone payloads dipped twice in a clean hard wax doped with a little lavender oil ought to do the trick. You might have to press them in a mold after the second dip in order to get enough regularity for automatic feed, though, and you'd have to have something close to a clean room set up....
I don't know, man, paper cartridges? Aren't you kind of asking to have your hand blown off?
I mean, I've seen some pretty sturdy double-corrugated stuff, but nothing that I would trust to contain a hand-held explosion...
Voice based customer support sucks and some times you have to get to a real person to get stuff done.
Indeed; apparently those who think this is some great new innovation have never had to call in to Verizon Business' IVR... or maybe they're the assholes that run it.
Those are for attaching composite decking, the screws are metal. They are simply coated with a polymer to avoid rusting and staining the composite decking.
So they are (curse your misleading headers, Lowe's!)... but these are not:
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And how teaching people who do not have access to firearms about firearm safety is supposed to help?
The same way teaching people who don't live in Tornado Alley how to survive a disaster is supposed to help.
For the record, just because a person doesn't have access to firearms right at this moment, does not mean they will never be in such a situation.
But the transition from an economy entirely built around the labor market could be a big problem. If done well, it gives us a utopia where no-one need want for anything they desire. If done poorly, it ends in a world where a fraction of a percent of the world population control almost all the resources and the rest live in abject poverty.
... and using human history as a baseline, it's pretty much a given that it will be done poorly.
Good luck getting the collectivists to admit that.
Did you cry to Henry Ford about how all the buggy whip manufacturers would go out of business?
Considering how adamant Ford was about hiring shit-tons of people and paying them excellent wages as a method of ensuring his company enduring profits, I don't think he's the example you would want to use in this debate.
I guess. But do we teach kids about a whole bunch of other safety concepts?
Uh, did you not attend an American public school? Safety posters everywhere, safety lectures at least once or twice a year, Smokey the Bear and Friends paying occasional visits to talk to kids about safety...
Sure! Every gun owner should teach their kids that. Problem solved.
Most gun owners do.
That's why there are only ~750 accidental shootings every year, even with 10,000,000+ gun owners.
I want to see that ~750 drop to ~0, and for that to happen, everyone needs firearm safety training.
No, the problem with this is that you will cause people who generally need counseling/therapy to avoid it because going to therapy would mean giving up ones gun rights.
Already happens due to fear of losing jobs/housing/gov't benefits/what-have-you.
I'd rather have food pills that the future promised 60 years ago.
So, skip the printer and ingest the cartridges directly.
+5 Internets for quoting the 2nd best too-short-lived TV show, right after Firefly.
Now why do I have a sudden hankerin' for pork-flavored apples?
Food Oil Cartridge is too low to allow non-oil based printing. You must replace ALL cartridges to continue printing.
The printer has detected a refilled cartridge in it's carrier; system lock-out until brand new cartridge is inserted.
Isn't putting a safety feature on a handgun totally missing the point of handguns?
Considering that my 1911 has no less than 3 safeties, and still functions properly, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, emphatically, no.
Isn't putting a feature on a handgun that is likely to render it unusable at the worst possible moment totally missing the point of handguns?
Much better.
DRM on movies and music = good, DRM on guns = bad?
Jim Wallace is a spokesman for the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League, not the MAFIAA.
Obviously you've never heard of the "My First Rifle" which is a company that makes real guns for kids. A 5 year old accidentally shot his 2yr old sister in Kentucky just recently, go look it up. It's a real .22 rifle, was loaded with bullets and everything. They even make 'em in pink for girls.
So? Does that absolve the parents from responsibility of the actions of their charges (i.e., children)? Of course not, only a moron (or troll with an agenda) would ever even attempt to come to such a conclusion.
My brother bought his son a 410/22 combo for his 6th birthday, but he doesn't just leave the fuckin' thing lying around where the kid can access it at any time. The difference between my anecdote and yours? The adult in mine isn't an irresponsible fucking idiot.
For the sake of my blood pressure, I'm going to assume this is sarcasm...
Not all revolvers have flip-out cylinders; Ruger Blackhawks and many Uberti models, for example. The only way to de-cock a Ruger Blackhawk is to pull the trigger - kind of hard to do safely while trying to insert a key in the trigger lock and turn it, while somehow blocking the pin from the hammer. Then, consider trying to do so at 2 AM, in the dark, as you hear an intruder bearing down towards your bedroom door.
That's not even mentioning semi-automatics...
I would want it implemented like my laptop's fingerprint reader.
Useless, broken, and easily circumvented?
How about we actually fucking teach kids about guns, how they work, and what they're used for? That would do a hell of a lot more to curtail gun-related deaths, and without the (un)intended side effect of rendering personal protection weapons useless by legislative fiat.
Not to totally poo-poo the idea, but I'm pretty sure kids accidentally shooting other kids with guns know how guns work and usually what they're used for. That's the entire problem. You're dealing with children who are mentally immature. They understand what guns are used for, they simply don't have the mental processes yet to distinguish what is appropriate and what isn't.
Bullshit - the majority of "gun education" that kids get these days is either playing or watching adults play FPS games like Call of Duty. So, never being taught how guns really work, they are unable to disconnect from the fantasy of "well, if I shoot someone, they'll just respawn later and it'll be no harm / no foul."
I took the state Hunter's Safety course at the age of 6, and even then I was already fully aware of the purpose and function of firearms, thanks to my dad who insisted on teaching us firearm safety as early as we could learn it. I think, were you to take a poll of fellow Slashdotters with a similar upbringing (rural childhood, family that hunts every season), you'd likely receive the same response.
This doesn't even begin to get into the subject of kids who understand perfectly well what they are doing but are using mom or dad's gun to shoot people intentionally.
In statistics, those are called outliers, and there is no way to legislate or mandate them out of existence. Education, however...
There's no way this boneheaded bill will get past the Republican controlled House.
It's not about getting past . . . it's about posturing, posing and voguing by the Rep.
... Which serves as a prime example of what's wrong with this country's government.
As to the question of what's wrong with this country in general, the answer probably has something to do with people being naive and/or stupid enough to not see this circus of a legislature for what it really is.
How about forcing states to add their mental health records to the instant background check database?
The irony, of course, is that making such a suggestion will cause the pro-gun-registry/ban crowd to cry foul, as they consider such an action to be a violation of the privacy rights of violent mental patients.
FTFY; some of us wised up to that some time ago, and thus only vote for third parties (if at all).
Is that working out as well for you as my one-man air-travel boycott is for me?
Well, we're both refusing to support a system of tyranny perpetuated by idiots incapable of logical reasoning... so yea, workin' out pretty well.
FWIW, the air-travel boycott is not limited to yourself; I, too, refuse to deal with the Stasi in order to exercise my right to travel.
Our elected officials are dumber than the people who vote for them could possibly imagine.
FTFY; some of us wised up to that some time ago, and thus only vote for third parties (if at all).
How about we actually fucking teach kids about guns, how they work, and what they're used for? That would do a hell of a lot more to curtail gun-related deaths, and without the (un)intended side effect of rendering personal protection weapons useless by legislative fiat.
Paper cartridges with ceramic or stone payloads dipped twice in a clean hard wax doped with a little lavender oil ought to do the trick. You might have to press them in a mold after the second dip in order to get enough regularity for automatic feed, though, and you'd have to have something close to a clean room set up....
I don't know, man, paper cartridges? Aren't you kind of asking to have your hand blown off?
I mean, I've seen some pretty sturdy double-corrugated stuff, but nothing that I would trust to contain a hand-held explosion...
Voice based customer support sucks and some times you have to get to a real person to get stuff done.
Indeed; apparently those who think this is some great new innovation have never had to call in to Verizon Business' IVR... or maybe they're the assholes that run it.
In short - It's fucking torture.
Those are for attaching composite decking, the screws are metal. They are simply coated with a polymer to avoid rusting and staining the composite decking.
So they are (curse your misleading headers, Lowe's!)... but these are not:
http://www.fastenercomponents.com/plastic_materials.html
http://raptornails.com/
http://www.netmotion.com/htm_files/ot_screws.htm
I even found a supplier of high tensile strength ceramic fasteners, which seem ideal for such an application.