I also agree. If you own a gun, the person you're most likely to shoot with it is yourself (statistically speaking). After yourself, it's loved ones. A gun is a massive responsibility and you need to take that seriously in order to not fall victim to the patterns that create those statistics.
Liz
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If you're drunk and carrying a gun you're doing it very wrong.
I think there are quite a few scared people carrying guns around in the US, and that's very unfortunate. In fact, if you're carrying because you're afraid, you should reevaluate your situation. It's just another tool you can carry around, one that you're very, very unlikely to need.
I totally agree! If there was a tool I could carry around that made me invulnerable I'd carry that instead. A "proper" person who has decided to carry a gun should also be carrying pepper spray and a med kit. You can argue about the utility of a taser, but they're very uncommon for people to carry. They should also have significant practice with any tool they decide to carry. Oh, and they should practice de-escalating and disengaging from various "bad" situations. The priority should be to do everything you can to avoid using your gun. If you are forced to use it, that's a bad, rare, and regrettable situation, and you had really better be able to tell yourself you did everything right.
I know you're getting blasted with replies. It's not supposed to be a deterrent. You carry concealed so that you can defend your life with deadly force without having to walk around pretending to be a badass all the time. Carrying a gun doesn't stop crime, it stops people when they make an attempt on your life.
Some aspects of the elections can be dictated by the feds, some are left to the states. If it was purely up to the states the civil rights act would have no power.
Yeah, but straight-up ignoring the Constitution is also a big problem, so.... Feels like maybe if your try to overturn an election you shouldn't get to run for office.
I bet Zengen is right though. I bet if SCOTUS hears the case the majority opinion will pretend that a conviction is a necessary requirement to use the 14th amendment, even though it obviously isn't.
As a person who doesn't want to fiddle with my OS or the terminal, yeah, I love me some Mint.
Mixed neighborhood ≠ business campus.
Oh my god, really? Even if I was in the market for brain supplements, fuck that. I ain't catching no prion disease.
Texas does have a more developed system for handling asylum seekers, so yeah.