Massive Shooting At Connecticut School: 27 dead

[Matt]

It's news because it happened in Aurora.

Yes.

 

[Saul]

It's news because it happened in Aurora.

Sad.

 

[Blaxican]

Thought you guys would be interested...

[video=youtube;AbXRuzqZwjA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXRuzqZwjA&feature=share&list=UUNye-wNBqNL5ZzHSJj3l8Bg[/video]

 

[Evelyn]

As a New Yorker, I find the lack of effectiveness in this, hopefully well-intentioned "law" to be laughable.

If anyone asks my reasons, I have them, I just don't want to spend time to write them out and look like I'm trying to start a discussion. That is simply my opinion.

 

[jpchewy01]

As a New Yorker, I find the lack of effectiveness in this, hopefully well-intentioned "law" to be laughable.

If anyone asks my reasons, I have them, I just don't want to spend time to write them out and look like I'm trying to start a discussion. That is simply my opinion.

This is the Current Affairs board. We're all about discussions here. Go ahead and state your reasons.

 

[Blaxican]

Indeed. Prospero's gonna tear you to pieces either way. :CSly

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Whether anyone tears anyone to pieces depends on the merits of a particular argument. I haven't really looked into New York's new gun law at all, so for all I know it could be a weak ass law that won't accomplish much.

 

[jpchewy01]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-unveils-gun-control-proposals/2013/01/16/58cd70ce-5fed-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html

Obama called on Congress to swiftly pass legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines for civilian use and to require universal background checks for all gun buyers. Obama’s proposals include mental health and school safety measures, as well as a tough new crackdown on gun trafficking.

This is also relevant.

 

[BLADE]

I'm ambivalent. There are some decent ammo regs, but it's mostly weak tea feature stuff. I again have a hard time knowing who to side with because on the one hand, the NRA are a bunch of violence glorifying neanderthals and yet on the other hand Andrew Cuomo is a smug corporatist douchebag. Not sure which of the two I loathe the most.

Edit: I also forgot to mention the modifications to Kendra's Law. There may be some unintended mental health consequences there, but generally the tighter regulations on mental health will be good if New York can get commensurate resources to provide compassionate, humane care.

Edit ne plus ultra: NRA is complaining about the speed/secretiveness of deliberations.

To which I say this: Albany is corrupt and secretive and does what it wants. Whiny-ass babies are whiny. Come back to me when you support more open and deliberative government and aren't content to support similarly "undemocratic" and "shadowy" deliberative processes (a la ALEC in several Plains and Midwestern States) or via court activism (see Heller.)

 

[Matt]

I'm ambivalent.

Hi, I'm Matt.

 

[BLADE]

Hi, I'm Matt.

I like the cut of your jib, Matt.

 

[Saul]

How come no one mentioned this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-syrian-university-kill-more-than-80/1836921/

 

[Brandon Rhea]

You just did.

 

[Evelyn]

I'm ambivalent. There are some decent ammo regs, but it's mostly weak tea feature stuff. I again have a hard time knowing who to side with because on the one hand, the NRA are a bunch of violence glorifying neanderthals and yet on the other hand Andrew Cuomo is a smug corporatist douchebag. Not sure which of the two I loathe the most.

Edit: I also forgot to mention the modifications to Kendra's Law. There may be some unintended mental health consequences there, but generally the tighter regulations on mental health will be good if New York can get commensurate resources to provide compassionate, humane care.

Edit ne plus ultra: NRA is complaining about the speed/secretiveness of deliberations.

To which I say this: Albany is corrupt and secretive and does what it wants. Whiny-ass babies are whiny. Come back to me when you support more open and deliberative government and aren't content to support similarly "undemocratic" and "shadowy" deliberative processes (a la ALEC in several Plains and Midwestern States) or via court activism (see Heller.)

We mostly agree.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

[video=youtube;W8crdWLgfDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8crdWLgfDk[/video]

Appalling and mind-numbingly stupid NRA ad.

 

[jpchewy01]

Yes, the President's kids are more important than your kids because if a terrorist group abducted your kids it wouldn't be a national security crisis.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Seriously. If the President’s kids were abducted, then we don’t have a President anymore. We have a father who’s shitting his pants because his daughters are being held in the back of a van in Yemen. He'd probably have to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

 

[BLADE]

It was a plot on The West Wing for chrissakes. You'd think Americans would at least learn to listen to our TV shows.

And yes, the NRA is made up of rancid shitpiles that masquerade as human beings. Why is this news?

 

[Brandon Rhea]

It was a plot on The West Wing for chrissakes. You'd think Americans would at least learn to listen to our TV shows.

A liberal TV show intent on corrupting the minds of our children and weakening the resolve of our allies.

 

[BLADE]

Also Air Force One. That didn't even have a well known Communist like Martin "Ramon El ILLEGAL" Sheen.