How true. Not to derail the thread, it makes no sense to me to outlaw a tool that's been misused. What if the guy had used a claw hammer? 
How true. Not to derail the thread, it makes no sense to me to outlaw a tool that's been misused. What if the guy had used a claw hammer?
Dr. Hess wrote: There's like 7 billion people here, supposedly. Of those 7 billion, there's going to be some shiny happy people. You can't avoid that. You can discourage people from becoming shiny happy people. When they show signs of being shiny happy people, you can try to re-educate them, or incarcerate them, but that's about it. Punishing the other 6.9999 billion of us because of a few shiny happy people is not a solution, only an excuse for totalitarian power monsters, who are also shiny happy people.
I've always thought about it this way:
If 100 babies are born on a given day, and 99 of them turn out "normal", then that's a pretty good deal. Anybody would sign up for those odds. But the actual odds aren't that good, and there are a lot more than 100 babies born every day.
Yeah, those look like pretty good odds. Guess it's like having billions of cells in the body then getting cancer. Relatively speaking only a few are cancerous but man do they wreak havoc on the rest of it.
Dr. Hess wrote: More hatchet control. That's what is needed. If we only allowed people to have hatchets that passed strict hatchet background checks and closed the Hardware Store Loophole, incidents like NYC wouldn't happen. There's like 7 billion people here, supposedly. Of those 7 billion, there's going to be some shiny happy people. You can't avoid that. You can discourage people from becoming shiny happy people. When they show signs of being shiny happy people, you can try to re-educate them, or incarcerate them, but that's about it. Punishing the other 6.9999 billion of us because of a few shiny happy people is not a solution, only an excuse for totalitarian power monsters, who are also shiny happy people.
This sums it up pretty well.
Earlier today, some news sources were saying the ax dude in NY wasn't terrorist related. Seems the NYPD says otherwise.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/25/new-york-city-hatchet-attack/17899003/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories
The death of a thousand cuts... I think that's what the ultimate aim of this is. Not that I think it will rise to that level, end Western civilization etc but unfortunately I don't think this will be the last of these attacks.
One pundit said something this morning which made sense: there are people here in America who think Hitler was the cat's meow. He wrote one book and died 70 years ago, yet still exerts an influence over some people. It's not Hitler doing it, it's in the minds of these so called followers. So how do we expect to do anything with ISIS or other militant groups using social media to advance/spread their cause? Answer: it's not possible. It's due to stupid human tricks ultimately and that can't be fixed.
i believe they would be if they happened within earshot of a congressional session (the equivalent government complex).
and i believe if they take out any authority figure, is usually makes regional news at least.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Sorry for the loss. But it's interesting.. In the US a murder of 1 by another man, even a low level shooting rampage is pretty low level news.
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