http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/22/responsible-gun-owner-twenty-dead-children-a-drop-in-the-ocean Comments On: Responsible Gun Owner: Twenty Dead Children a "Drop In the Ocean" by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
On the other hand, the pharmaceutical equivalent (to take one example from the letter) would be unregulated medicines killing people as drugmakers could put poisons out as miracle cure-alls with impunity. We solved that particular social ill. A badly regulated gun market is also very solvable.
Posted by dingo chapness]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:18:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fenrox]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:34:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by More, I Say!]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:38:49 -0800 The Stranger
It is possible to be outraged by, discuss, and look for solutions, to more than one social problem at a time. That may be asking a bit much of Morgan, though.
Posted by ephena]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:58:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by agony]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:46:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by this guy I know in Spokane]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:22:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:29:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:18:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mage]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:20:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Haley]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:49:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by not just a number!]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:34:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SifuMark]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:08:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:04:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mwdean]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:23:37 -0800 The Stranger
Saying that no individual should own, say, an anti-aircraft missile isn't a slippery slope to no guns at all. Likewise, saying no individual should own a weapon capable of downing 100 people without reloading is different from saying a 10 round magazine is excessive for personal protection.

There's a line somewhere. It's not all or nothing. Agreed?
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:47:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by thatsnotright]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:53:55 -0800 The Stranger 40 fuckin years after the summer of love!! They should've been flipping over cop cars and buttfucking in Starbucks. My point is that this system has slow boiled your critical thinking skills and isn't worth protecting. Let the anarchists have their A.K. 47's and maybe we can re-structure into smaller, denser self-sustainable communities that don't create adam lanzas. Down with the globalists.
Posted by carsten coolage]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:01:19 -0800 The Stranger
Frankly, I don't buy your "I don't buy it". It's just more fun to act like an asshole on the internet, make ridiculous statements, and then sit back and laugh at everyone else, for certain definitions of "fun".
Posted by agony]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:56:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by pots'n'kettles]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:54:16 -0800 The Stranger How am I being hypocritical?

@104,
Yes, it is intentional. I should have just posted what I did @31 and then left it alone.

People don't want to ban guns, really? They just want tougher restrictions? Really?
I don't buy it. They talk restrictions now because they know they have to speak softly. If they actually had the power though, they'd choose to full out ban them. People who hate smoking would love to ban it entirely, but they have to go bit by bit. When people hate something, they want everyone to hate it.

Whatever. I don't own guns nor do I ever see myself owning them, so any restrictions or bans would have zero impact on me. But I know how much nanny-state liberals LOVE to fucking ban and control things, so I simply don't buy the talk about "we don't want to ban them, just regulate them." I just don't buy it, sorry.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:36:31 -0800 The Stranger
Nobody is obliged to be persuaded by an argument like that - I'm sure not. Its morally depraved but one can't deny its logic and integrity.
Posted by Alden]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:04:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:38:52 -0800 The Stranger I also have to be ready for a FDA, TTB, WSLCB or any other entity inspection with a day's notice. I could go on and on. But hopefully you get my point. Since prohibition alcohol is not 'lightly' regulated.
Lastly, I don't want to ban guns outright, very few people do. So stop spreading fibs.
Posted by CbytheSea]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:11:19 -0800 The Stranger
1: it's not "my system." It's "the system," and I'm not sure why you seem to believe that I think it's great, or why you think I should be held to task for its shortcomings.

2. I mentioned caring for the mentally ill as an aside in one post, and somebody flipped out over it. I wasn't the one pushing the issue.
Posted by doceb]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:59:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by LukeJoe]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:58:32 -0800 The Stranger