Protect the flock! From JP and Hachette!
What are you doing right now?
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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on
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Just a thought:
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Permalink Reply by Omega on
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We're having some... interesting... weather over here right now.
Tornadoes in Auckland and Rotorua yesterday.
Mum called from work and said they've got thunder, lightning and torrential rain.
Out here we've just caught the edge of a thunderstorm and it rained a bit - they seem to be missing us, but there's more storm cells on the way.
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This contingency was already accounted for four years ago...
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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on
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uchicago EA decisions come out on tuesday afternoon
i can feel the anxiety stomachache coming on
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Obligatory post about the awfulness of the latest school shooting, and the insanity of not having strict gun laws.
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Sad thing is that nothing's going to change. It's going to take 3-4 hundred plus in either Texas or Alabama before the 2nd Amendment stands a chance of being repealed.
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Someone summed it up real nice. People who don't want the second amendment changed love their guns more than their kids.
The 'founding fathers' of the USA allowed for every trained man (in an organised militia) to have a musket than was not much more powerful than a slingshot and about as accurate.
They were unable to even imagine the weaponry freely available now.
The tech has changed. The laws need to.
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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on
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Somewhere else I saw a comment that when the second amendment was written, shooting a bullet out of a gun was not much more powerful than throwing one, and a "bullet-proof vest" was a thick coat. On a non-gun topic, travel speed was still limited to "how fast and far a team of horses can take you in a day" and it took weeks at best to get a message across the Atlantic.
We need to update our laws.
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As Ezra Klein said:
"If roads were collapsing all across the United States, killing dozens of drivers, we would surely see that as a moment to talk about what we could do to keep roads from collapsing. If terrorists were detonating bombs in port after port, you can be sure Congress would be working to upgrade the nation’s security measures. If a plague was ripping through communities, public-health officials would be working feverishly to contain it.
Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. “Too soon,” howl supporters of loose gun laws. But as others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't “too soon.” It’s much too late.
What follows here isn’t a policy agenda. It’s simply a set of facts — many of which complicate a search for easy answers — that should inform the discussion that we desperately need to have."But I've also seen a bit of attention recently on the internet toward sensationalist media and how it's kind of anti-helpful in dealing with criminals and mass shootings, because it glorifies the killer over the victims and gives so much attention to something which should be local.
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