The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

Over coffee, Eisenhower took Warren by the arm and asked him to consider the perspective of white parents in the Deep South. “These are not bad people,” the president said. “All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big black bucks.”

The infrequency of home invasion / hot prowl break ins which result in homicide, where homicide was part of the intent, is such that whenever it does happen it's national news. Like what happened in Idaho a few months ago with those college students, for example. That's not to diminish the nightmarish nature of such a scenario, but it's so damn rare. I think more valuable than stocking up on weaponry is just secure your home really well and don't make it an easy target.

However I guess having lived for a number of years in a couple different neighborhoods of Los Angeles which were heavy on the burglaries and having known people whose homes were broken into while they were there, I also understand the fear that can come from having such a thing happen.

tbf to Eisenhower we still don't know if that quote's apocryphal, for Warren hated his guts.

Yeah actual home invasions are very rare, and the vast majority of the ones that happen are people who know each other. (Domestic violence, people stealing pills or cash from grandma, etc.) Which are still bad obviously, but the risk from random people deciding to come to your specific home and break in with intent to do harm is so small that taking any precautions beyond locking your doors is a hyperbolic overreaction.

And burglars usually try to hit when nobody's home, though obviously sometimes it happens while people are. I've known people who it's happened to, but when they yelled the person(s) ran away.

🚨 The grandson of the man who shot Ralph Yarl blames the NRA:

"Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in 'a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.' 'And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home.'"https://t.co/fCA2VCvnAn

— Peter Ambler (@PeterMAmbler) April 20, 2023

^^^

good

Fucking gun in some kid's backpack went off in a classroom in one of my sons' schools today. It didn't hit anybody but the classroom teacher was "grazed" by shrapnel or something. The school went into lockdown, security got the kid and arrested him (just assuming it's a "him"), and they dismissed everyone and sent them home early. My kid was unfazed — he was in a different part of the building, didn't hear the gunshot or anything — but christ alfuckingmighty.

what the FUCK

first of all, I'm glad your kid is alright, and I'm glad everybody else is mostly alright. but how is this bullshit acceptable? why are people supposed to be expected to live w/ this shit

It is so not acceptable, I'm so mad about it. Especially because earlier this week I had to sit through a goddamn county commission meeting where a group of local high school students was begging them to go on record supporting some version of a red-flag law or really anything at all to limit the flow of guns and they harrumphed a lot about "freedom" and "My family came to this great country 7 generations ago" and voted down the resolution 7-3. Goddammit.

jesus christ, I’m so sorry. that’s a nightmare

I'm so sorry, tips.

really glad to hear no one was hurt.

just horrible, glad your kid is ok tipsy

And what made that kid think he needed to bring a pistol to school? Just showing off?

It was apparently a 14-year-old, a 9th-grader, god knows what or why. There are reports out there that he had actually posted photos of him with the gun at school on social media — I haven't seen those posts, so I don't know if it's true, but most likely he was just being a dumb little shit and showing off.

there's no cure for adolescent brains, but there are gun safes and trigger locks

And prosecuting the shit out of whoever is supposed to be the legal owner and caretaker of that thing.

Ugh

knowing how casual many gun owners are about their handguns, the kid probably just lifted it out of the glove box of his dad's car because his dad never looks in there anyway

Wow

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