April 17, 2007
Day Around the Bay
-Following yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech, DiFI renews call for stricter gun control.
-Aaron Peskin moves ahead with his plan to fix Muni.
-And he, along with his fellow Board of Supervisors, are all set to approve new Healty Saturdays plan.
-The Board will also look at patient care at Laguna Honda.
-And a possible PGA event at Harding Park.
-Arnie is busted for building an execution chamber without telling anyone.
-Paper in Oregon wins a Pulitzer for it's coverage of the Kim family.
-Tagged aquarium shark on his way to Cabo for spring break.
Picture submitted by Lauren Verby
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Right, that's exactly what we need, stricter gun control laws. That would have totally prevented this.
Because the guy would've stopped and said, "Oh holy shit, I'm breaking the law by having this gun!" Then he would have put the gun down and sang Kumbaya and bought everyone in the dorm a Coke.
More grandstanding by that idiot Feinstein. Maybe she should just go back to trying to curttail our First Amendment rights.
And by the way, it's "Oregon wins Pulitzer for ITS coverage." Possessive "its" has no apostrophe.
Sorry, but misplaced apostrophes drive me absolutely nuts.
Thank you Jon for posting my picture
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bluecanary, that is total bullshit & we all know it.
It's pretty simple. Make guns easier to buy than beer, and the unstable among us will buy & shoot, exactly as they are doing right now. Make guns hard to get and easy to track, and their use in crime & murder will go down. Immediately? No. Eventually? Yes. Loss of freedom? Yes, a welcome loss. You want total freedom? Go off to some island and have fun hiding in your hut with your pistol while others like you stalk around with rifles.
And what law would you propose be instituted? This guy was a permanent legal resident, buying a perfectly legal handgun, presumably with all the little controls already in place (7 day waiting period, background check to see if he had felonies or restraining orders, etc.). Please give us your genius thoughts on the subject.
And I don't own any guns. But make them illegal, and only criminals will have one. Presumably, this guy wasn't too concerned about breaking a gun law and if you really want a gun, no law is going to stop you.
As for my freedoms, well, it's called the Second Amendment, you know, in that document called the bill of rights that you seem so willing to take a big fat dump on. (And probably cry about anytime Bush encroaches upon it)
Gotta side with bluecanary on this one. A gun ban would (1) be impossible to enforce; (2) create an enormous, powerful black market for untraceable weapons - the kind that made Al Capone a millionaire.
Washington DC banned guns in 1976, and that's obviously turned out well: it has the highest murder rate per capita in the world. Cities which have banned guns have shown NO decrease in gun violence; on the contrary, those cities have shown increases.
Most guns, believe it or not, are not used to commit violence. I don't support the NRA, I despise gun lobbyists, and there are a lot of things in our Constitution I don't like - the electoral college, for instance - but if you want the crime rate to go down, give people fewer reasons to commit them. Banning guns outright is an empty and counterproductive measure: it doesn't address criminal behavior at all, and won't do a damn thing to curb societal violence.
that picture is beautiful!
Oh, come on. The prohibition on alcohol made Al Capone, not a prohibition on guns. Besides, take a look at countries with strict gun control laws, like Japan. Sure, the mayor of Nagasaki was just gunned down (over a pothole no less... thank goodness the yakuza don't operate in San Francisco..... heh). But take a look at the stats presented in just about any article written on this shooting. Most of the gun murders in Japan (36 of a total 53 gun attacks in Japan in 2006) are committed by yakuza. This is to say that gun sprees by mentally unstable folk are exceedingly rare.