A few interesting 2A cases in recent days

[zantax]

@W_and_C

@WuWei

@W_and_C

Yup, it would have been much better actually. You disagree ?

Why would it have been much better? Are you less dead from a knife than a gun?

And in the Florida case, the motorcyclist could have still shot her.

Knives are a lot of harder to injure with than guns. In fact, if knives are as deadly as guns, a firearm probably would never have been invented.

Learn chemistry.

[zantax]

@TheRedComet

No. Not really.

Handguns require practice to use effectively. You hand someone a handgun and tell them to shoot a target at 25 feet and 99 times out of 100, they won’t even come close to hitting it.

They’d be better served running someone over with their car. In the Florida incident, considering the other person was on a motorcycle, she could have easily done that.

Which was why Clause o whatever was running up on Kyle, points for him for understanding if you are trying to kill a victim with a pistol you should close the distance.

[W_and_C]

@zantax

@W_and_C

@WuWei

@W_and_C

Yup, it would have been much better actually. You disagree ?

Why would it have been much better? Are you less dead from a knife than a gun?

And in the Florida case, the motorcyclist could have still shot her.

Knives are a lot of harder to injure with than guns. In fact, if knives are as deadly as guns, a firearm probably would never have been invented.

Learn chemistry.

Done.

[zantax]

Ok look up chemical bombs. Much more effective than a gun if the goal is mass death. Or look up the misery toll from a recent SUV in a parade.

[Zander]

@WuWei

Feet shoulder width apart, most of your weight on the balls of your feet, knees slightly flexed, bend forward at the waist…

Then start stabbing your target from 25 feet away. Works every time.

[W_and_C]

@zantax

Ok look up chemical bombs. Much more effective than a gun if the goal is mass death. Or look up the misery toll from a recent SUV in a parade.

I agree. Did you think that I was trying to say that a gun is the deadliest weapon that exists ? That’s obviously not true.

[zantax]

@W_and_C

@zantax

Ok look up chemical bombs. Much more effective than a gun if the goal is mass death. Or look up the misery toll from a recent SUV in a parade.

I agree. Did you think that I was trying to say that a gun is the deadliest weapon that exists ? That’s obviously not true.

I am saying, too late to put the potential to cause harm in a bottle. Nothing gets uninvented. All you can hope for is parity.

[zantax]

Unless you want to go for full out AI monitoring of everything, total surveillance state. Want anyone to have that power? Yeah, me either.

[Zander]

@zantax

I am saying, too late to put the potential to cause harm in a bottle. Nothing gets uninvented. All you can hope for is parity.

^ This argument should be used more. As a pragmatist, I find it pretty persuasive.

I guess the question is how to achieve parity without giving terrible people in the world parity.

[zantax]

It’s going to a total surveillance Ai monitored space. No choice really with god like powers we are getting. Can’t let some nut case crisper up a new super mutant virus. My thought is, how would ai solve that problem of the power of an individual with enough power to destroy civilization is, a simulated world where you trial consciousnesses and weed out the dangerous ones before you instantiate them, or earth.

[W_and_C]

@Zander

@zantax

I am saying, too late to put the potential to cause harm in a bottle. Nothing gets uninvented. All you can hope for is parity.

^ This argument should be used more. As a pragmatist, I find it pretty persuasive.

I guess the question is how to achieve parity without giving terrible people in the world parity.

Hmm, yeah. Nuclear deterrence works until people who don’t care if they die get the nukes.

[zantax]

And I think I flunked

[zantax]

@W_and_C

@Zander

@zantax

I am saying, too late to put the potential to cause harm in a bottle. Nothing gets uninvented. All you can hope for is parity.

^ This argument should be used more. As a pragmatist, I find it pretty persuasive.

I guess the question is how to achieve parity without giving terrible people in the world parity.

Hmm, yeah. Nuclear deterrence works until people who don’t care if they die get the nukes.

Nukes aren’t the threat, looks like the bio space arena and social manipulation is the real threat lately.

[W_and_C]

@zantax

@W_and_C

@Zander

@zantax

I am saying, too late to put the potential to cause harm in a bottle. Nothing gets uninvented. All you can hope for is parity.

^ This argument should be used more. As a pragmatist, I find it pretty persuasive.

I guess the question is how to achieve parity without giving terrible people in the world parity.

Hmm, yeah. Nuclear deterrence works until people who don’t care if they die get the nukes.

Nukes aren’t the threat, looks like the bio space arena and social manipulation is the real threat lately.

Maybe not the threat, but a threat.

[zantax]

Which is a higher threat, nukes or twitter, I say twitter. I would not tolerate social media if I ran a nation. Too big a threat.

[W_and_C]

@zantax

Which is a higher threat, nukes or twitter, I say twitter. I would not tolerate social media if I ran a nation. Too big a threat.

So what would you do about it ?

[zantax]

@W_and_C

@zantax

Which is a higher threat, nukes or twitter, I say twitter. I would not tolerate social media if I ran a nation. Too big a threat.

So what would you do about it ?

Fracture it, make it a blockchain with no algorithm except for hunting out child porn and snuff films. The trending algo’s are dangerous as ■■■■■

[zantax]

Some crap could social trend tomorrow and result in revolution, no sane state would tolerate that threat.

[Zander]

Dang it, I don’t. I knew I was going to screw that up somehow.

[Zander]

I think you’re forgetting tomorrow is Black Friday.

Americans don’t civil war on Black Friday. Might have to wait til Saturday.