The All Time Greatest Random Mass Shooting Thread

you've already shown you wouldn't make the effort or go to the expense, why would I consider this a serious statement?

Not endless. Reasonable.

Expecting others to behave a certain way will disappoint you every time.

So what about big knives, swords, machetes? Power tools? Should I just sleep in an igloo made of safes to spare everyone else having to raise their kids right and see criminals permanently removed from society? And my grill! Someone could really hurt themselves with all that propane.

"Reasonable" has historically been, and will continue to be, a moving target. And like I said, when everything else inevitably fails to work, there is the one obvious nuclear option: the outright ban of private ownership. Because heaven fucking forbid we shed the cheap veneer of "compassion" and actually focus permanent measures on people who demonstrate an inability to refrain from hurting others.

The disappointing part is when they are not made to face consequences. Or are locked away and then released. Then they come rob my home and it's my fault. Did I commit their crimes? No. Did I release them? No. But I failed live in a fortress I can guard 24/7, and that's the real crime.

That would be adequate.

crazy, huh? an advancing world requires evolving standards.

who the fuck woulda thought it possible?

but seriously, swords and power tools? You've moved right on into a different sport, forget the goal posts staying in one place.

fun thought: the most likely reason anyone would get hurt by the propane tank would be if the regulator had been neglected or improperly attached.

not that Al appears willing to be responsible for that...

You're must despair from disappointment.

They are all dangerous objects someone could steal and use to hurt people, just like the jeep.

This evolution of standards appears to be lowering them for criminal shitbags, and raising them for the rest of us.

If I took your gun and shot someone with it, yes, you would be responsible for not having it secured.

I keep my guns in safes for the same reason my wife locks up her expensive jewelry: they're valuables.

And she's the only who fires them off, right?

You got a soft-top or hard-top on that TJ? Because the folks I've known with soft-tops that have had valuables in the Jeep all have had tales about someone cutting open the soft-top to get at them.

The other day I heard a coworker bitching about the fact that he had to lock his car doors at work. He only decided to do this after someone stole a gun from his vehicle at work. I would hope that we could both agree that if you've got a deadly weapon in your vehicle, you'd keep your doors locked when you had your car parked, regardless of where it might be.

Don't know about Nebraska, but the law in Illinois is that if you have a weapon in your vehicle it must be in a secured "box" and locked in the trunk.

Now, ask me why I know this. That's a funny story. but very long.

So UA lives in Nebraska. A very frugal hermit like life. No kids. IT professional.

WTF does he spend his money on (or is he secretly rich as Croesus)?

took a look last night.
it's appears to be a federal requirement, not a state one, to have a gun secured and out of sight when left in a vehicle.

also, Nebraska has about twice the gun deaths as New York, and triple those of Massachusetts per capita.

I am an entry level laborer in a machine shop.

yeah, but are you rich? I'm looking for a foster home.

What are your skills?

He can moan like a whore when it comes to anyone posting Twitter links.

Some possibilities for VO work in anime porn I suppose.

Hey, I can get behind that. Saves me the trouble. Trying to load that twitter thread is fucking obnoxious.

Well, at least you're consistent in demanding society change to accommodate a few pricks.

not sure I like that last post...

i make tuck hard.

g'bye, horsie... :'(

He spends all of his money on replacing his keyboards. The same anger he takes out on us is also taken out on his keyboards until the keys fly off as he's furiously typing away.

Regardless, I think that all of us can agree that if you lock your doors, you have a greater expectation of not being robbed than if you don't lock your doors, no matter what might have been stolen out of your vehicle or home.

Soft tops on jeeps in the winter is a miserable fucking experience that could only qualify as a downgrade from a sentence of "step on a lego in the dark every fucking morning for no less than one year."

Old greeny sports an adapted hard top from an '03.

You calling these guys "pussies"?

Na, he said miserable, on which he is an authority.

besides, that's May in Nebraska...