Originally Posted by logan5

Apparently wearing a seatbelt is also living in fear .... Or wearing a helmet for that matter. Heck if risk mitigation is living in fear .... Then why are all the progressives so hellbent for getting free condoms and birth control pills? YOLO!

Of course it is! Your are preparing to mitigate something that you are fearful of happening! (Although it's confused by the need to obey the laws, whatever your perception is).

Otherwise what are you doing it for? Preparing for something that won't happen or that will cause you to die from ultimate ecstasy?

It's all about levels of (often perceived, rather than real) risk. And if you guys believe the level of risk of your wives being raped, you being killed etc is that high, then I'm sad for you.

P.S. My wife also refuses to wear a cycle helmet. Her response is that she's old enough (and ugly enough... OK, my words.. ) to decide for herself.

Originally Posted by micro_builder

His reasoning seems to be the same as a person buying a fire extinguisher because they realize there is some chance that a fire could happen. Better safe than sorry is not the same as living in fear. IMO.

It's just attempting to mitigate the fear of something actually happening.

(Especially as there is no such thing as 'safe' - it's a myth!) And there is "some chance" that a lorry could drive into my house (the road is a few feet in front of my house), or of an electrical fire, a gas explosion, a plane crashing into it (I'm under the flight path of the local International airport), the ceiling collapsing on us or ....

I give 99% of them no thought.

P.S. I also don't have a fire extinguisher and not had one for around 40 years - as mentioned in a discussion before. And never carried one in the car, either.

Originally Posted by DenverJayhawk

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/health...html?hpt=hp_c2

A documented and known crazy purchases guns legally. Shoots mom in chest, cuts her up, barricades house and requires SWAT to end the situation.

Maybe large print will help . . .

The failure to ENFORCE the law does not mean the law is a failure.

How in the mind of some a failure of a system translates to "Welp, we need more laws" is beyond ludicrous.

The OP story is a symptom of the failure to use the existing system.

The 35% reduction in federal gun prosecutions is a failure to enforce the laws.

We need to fix the system by enforcing the existing laws.

The so called "gun show loophole" is another failure to enforce existing laws. This could be simply enforced by sending state troopers to a gun show to ask each vendor selling firearms for an FFL. The "occasional" seller should not be allowed to sell multiple firearms at a gun show without one. If the word "occasional" is too vague under the law, then that needs to be fixed, not by a new law, but by clarifying the existing one.

I absolutely agree with you, Park_Flyer that we rarely need new laws. More often it's enforcing the laws that already exist.

Unfortunately, it's new laws which are used to justify politicians being employed, it seems (and they use them as 'sound bites'. )

Originally Posted by Park_Flyer

The so called "gun show loophole" is another failure to enforce existing laws. This could be simply enforced by sending state troopers to a gun show to ask each vendor selling firearms for an FFL. The "occasional" seller should not be allowed to sell multiple firearms at a gun show without one. If the word "occasional" is too vague under the law, then that needs to be fixed, not by a new law, but by clarifying the existing one.

Exactly ... Enforcing current law makes more sense than writing new laws which will be subject to the same lack of enforcement.

Originally Posted by Park_Flyer

The so called "gun show loophole" is another failure to enforce existing laws. This could be simply enforced by sending state troopers to a gun show to ask each vendor selling firearms for an FFL. The "occasional" seller should not be allowed to sell multiple firearms at a gun show without one. If the word "occasional" is too vague under the law, then that needs to be fixed, not by a new law, but by clarifying the existing one.

An occasional seller can sell multiple firearms at a gun show.

Originally Posted by Norman Adlam

I absolutely agree with you, Park_Flyer that we rarely need new laws. More often it's enforcing the laws that already exist.

Unfortunately, it's new laws which are used to justify politicians being employed, it seems (and they use them as 'sound bites'. )

Welcome to the tea party Norman!

Originally Posted by DT56

Welcome to the tea party Norman!

I like a nice cuppa tea!

Originally Posted by wrightme

An occasional seller can sell multiple firearms at a gun show.

I can run up and down and the street in my birthday suit

Originally Posted by Park_Flyer

I can run up and down and the street in my birthday suit

Yet YOU could be arrested for that.

An individual at a gun show selling more than one gun, cannot be arrested for merely selling more than one gun.


Maybe if I restate it just a bit:

"An occasional seller can legally sell multiple firearms at a gun show. "

Originally Posted by Norman Adlam

It's just attempting to mitigate the fear of something actually happening.

(Especially as there is no such thing as 'safe' - it's a myth!) And there is "some chance" that a lorry could drive into my house (the road is a few feet in front of my house), or of an electrical fire, a gas explosion, a plane crashing into it (I'm under the flight path of the local International airport), the ceiling collapsing on us or ....

I give 99% of them no thought.

P.S. I also don't have a fire extinguisher and not had one for around 40 years - as mentioned in a discussion before. And never carried one in the car, either.

Funny you should say that Norman. In one of my advanced classes in Aviation/Aerospace Safety systems, the simple question was posed.... what is the definition of safe?

Not really so easy to answer once you begin to mull it over.

Originally Posted by LVsoaring

Funny you should say that Norman. In one of my advanced classes in Aviation/Aerospace Safety systems, the simple question was posed.... what is the definition of safe?

Not really so easy to answer once you begin to mull it over.

I certainly wouldn't want someone else to define for me what is safe. That's for me to decide in the end. In the UK, someone has decided for everyone that they are "safe enough" ... well, safe enough has bought them the highest violent crime rate in Europe and a rate of rape higher than the US ...

Originally Posted by logan5

I certainly wouldn't want someone else to define for me what is safe. That's for me to decide in the end. In the UK, someone has decided for everyone that they are "safe enough" ... well, safe enough has bought them the highest violent crime rate in Europe and a rate of rape higher than the US ...

You do love to trot out complete BS, logan5..

As for the figures, I dunno... but Wiki says that the USA was consistently higher (per 100,000 pop) than the UK until 2010, although the figures have always been close-ish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

How's your 'freedoms' with all your much vaunted 'gun-love' working out for you - and your women folk?

Originally Posted by Norman Adlam

How's your 'freedoms' with all your much vaunted 'gun-love' working out for you - and your women folk?

Lessee....... Fair use of copyrighted material.

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