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that too of course

Better add firefighters to that list of people to arm....

I can see the NRA calling for automatic machine guns to be strapped to fire hoses in future

Or they are playing a really long game, and they now stand to clear up in the nascent "Armed School Monitor" market.

One way of allowing unfettered/unregulated access to firearms would be to extend the use of UAV's to the continental USA, establishing the sort of Panoptic oversight that Jeremy Bentham talked about.

i.e. you are free to have any sort of weapon, but as soon as you start shooting school children you will be the subject of a hellfire missile strike.

There would of course be some collateral damage, but critically it would not restrict second amendment rights.

This would, I could argue, be a natural extension of the NRA's "well arm everyone then" suggestion.

The liberal press are acting as if school guards are something new but a third of all American schools already have armed guards. They are the schools in the inner city and the guards & metal detectors are there to stop rival gangs shooting it out at school. My ex wife went to such a school in Chicago. The guards were ex-cops mostly and she was at school in the nineties. Two years ago her cousin was shot dead in the street in Chicago and most of her family members have been robbed at gun point at one time or another. This is routine, day on day, gun crime and its conducted with handguns, but not even the most liberal of Americans will raise the issue of handguns.

i.e. you are free to have any sort of weapon, but as soon as you start shooting school children you will be the subject of a hellfire missile strike.

Everybody should have Hellfire missiles. How else could anyone be able to defend themselves?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20837829

This illustrates the difference between the UK and the USA for me. Here's some dickhead out to cause damage to strangers. He has swords, knives, crossbow. He's attacked someone at random who has no links to him. He's managed to injure one person pretty badly, before a police officer (unarmed) managed to chase him down and stop him.

In the USA, I cant help but think, with the availability of guns, that this guy would have been able to carry out another typical mass shooting, And that the perpetrator would have been shot dead, either by himself or by police, instead of being arrested and hauled before a court.

I have Irish friends living in Bloomington, Chicago, and Detroit. I enjoyed staying with them, but there is no way I'd ever live there, bring kids up there. I worry for my friends sometimes.

Just another day on holloway road...

Seriously though, that's fucked up. I'm impressed by that coppers balls.

I am utterly mystified by the constant struggle to interpret what the second amendment 'means'. Who gives a flying fuck what was meant when it was drafted? If it doesn't serve the needs of present society then change it, ditch it. I don't understand this mindless reverence that Americans have for their constitution.

It's because it's so old.

Exactly. Why would you willingly make yourself beholden to what some chaps thought was the ideal way to order a society two and a half centuries ago? Live in the now, man .

One way of allowing unfettered/unregulated access to firearms would be to extend the use of UAV's to the continental USA, establishing the sort of Panoptic oversight that Jeremy Bentham talked about.

i.e. you are free to have any sort of weapon, but as soon as you start shooting school children you will be the subject of a hellfire missile strike.

There would of course be some collateral damage, but critically it would not restrict second amendment rights.

And now my humming of the Indiana Jones theme has been replaced by Ride of the Valkyries.

Our thoroughly modern way of doing things is much leads archaic.

Exactly. Why would you willingly make yourself beholden to what some chaps thought was the ideal way to order a society two and a half centuries ago? Live in the now, man .

I suppose it reminds them of the bible..

Gerry "Stingray" Anderson has died at the age of 83... Another childhood hero gone.

R.I.P. Gerry, I'll never forget you.

Great point regarding racial profiling and gun attacks;

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/23/cnns_don_lemon_on_gun_control_should_we_start_profiling_white_men.html

Is this for real? "like Al Qaeda or the Taliban".

Fuck me.

Hilarious

Also racist etc

Exactly. Why would you willingly make yourself beholden to what some chaps thought was the ideal way to order a society two and a half centuries ago? Live in the now, man .

Or have common law.

Good read in the LA Weekly. It's about Roadblock from Midnight Ridazz and a hit and run incident with a frustrating conclusion.

http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-finds-note-from-chinese-labor-camp-prisoner-kmart-decorations?CID=obinsite

Woman finds note from slave labour camp in Halloween decorations

Halloween decorations... Thank fuck! At least that doesn't apply to my new "Designed in California" MacBook Pro and my "Italian" Cinelli frames. Oh wait, oh fuck...

Animals don't generally end up with a money shot though. Not without a lot of training, believe me.

I dunno mate, there's this site I know where....