This is the dumbest damned thing I’ve read about all month. What the absolute fuck???

They could expand their industry,

They’ve been doing that for over a year and I’m confident that they’ve hit their limit. Their current unemployment rate is estimated at 3.8%, salaries are skyrocketing as industries compete with each other for available workers, and inflation is out of control. Those are all strong indicators that their labor pool has turned into a puddle.

The only way they could expand any further is to start using migrant labor and who the hell, aside from North Koreans and maybe some Chinese, are going to migrate into Russia right now? Especially in sufficient numbers to make any kind of a difference.

So it’s demonstrable that the wider gun-owning community is pro gun education and safety, and you’d think adding laws that support these beliefs would be no-brainers – but they aren’t.

Gun Owners generally do support firearms education, both for kids and adults. The stuff for kids is increasingly being removed and blocked by the Democrats as shown in the links I provided.

The problem with requiring education / training for adults is that the anti-firearms folks broke trust on the issue. In places that have, or had, such requirements the barrier to entry was being continually raised while more firearm types and accessories are being restricted.

It’s reached the point that some states who have the requirements are now being sued for failure to issue permits in accordance with their own law.

If you’re a Pro-2A person you’d have to be outright stupid to hop back in the pot for another round of “Boil the Frog”.

…whereas mandatory training/education, testing, and licensing I think would improve things, and might be a reasonable middle-ground acceptable by both sides. Like they say in Lower Decks: “if both sides are equally unsatisfied with the negotiation… THAT’S A COMROMISE!”

There’s no trust between the groups which makes compromise nearly unobtainable. The Anti folks will not offer any compromises and the Pro folks wouldn’t trust them, and rightly so, even if they did.

Its an intractable problem.

Firearms education is only necessary when there are guns all over the place.

True but that condition is absolutely positively 100% not going away at any time in the next 50 years. The 2A could be repleaded and private firearm ownership made federally illegal tomorrow and there would still be firearms in closets, dresser drawers, and attics in 2074.

it doesn’t really make sense for them to want NRA propaganda in schools.

That’s completely fair but nothing is being created to replace it. If they don’t want the NRA involved that’s cool and I completely get it…but that doesn’t clear them to do nothing while blocking what already exists.

It’s frustrating as all get out.

but if you have to go hunting you should at least know how to shoot straight.

I’m almost certain that every single State requires passing a Hunter Safety program before you can get any kind of Hunting License. The laws have changed a lot since 1917.

I really don’t know why it isn’t mandatory.

In the United States firearms education should be mandatory. It’s not because the anti-gun crowd loses their fucking minds whenever it comes up.

The NRA has funded and run a program called “Eddie Eagle” for decades that teaches basic firearms safety and accident reduction to kids and it’s been slowly driven out of schools.

You can find a plethora of articles online but here’s an example: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/02/15/bill-require-gun-safety-nra-eddie-eagle-program-schools/6800808001/

Here’s another example from Kansas: https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-bill-would-require-school-gun-safety-program/39432200

The legislature passed it, the Dem Governor VETOED it!

Wrap your head around this for a minute. Here’s Republicans and the NRA (fuck those guys) trying to do a “common sense” thing and getting lambasted for it. I can understand having an issue with the NRA (fuck those guys) but there’s been absolutely no counter proposals or attempts at creating something similar without NRA involvement.

We NEED firearms education in this country but we’re losing what little we did have and attempts at adding more are continually thwarted by the very people screaming from the rooftops about “Common Sense Reform”.

It the same stupidity that Republicans have with Sex Ad. It’s education vs ignorance. We need education.

Cool, what took them so long?

WTH? The House can’t pass a budget or deal with any of the other pressing issues but they have time for THIS?

Law Enforcement, remember this article is about a Cop, isn’t “just anyone”. There’s two reasons for people being riled up about this, one of which is criminal and the other is user error / training.

Ignoring the criminal aspect of what he’s doing the Cop literally cannot fire that weapon without endangering himself and his fellow officers. He also can’t fire that weapon a second time without manually manipulating it because he’s using it in a manner that WILL cause it to mechanically malfunction.

It’s fucking stupid (and criminal) all the way around but it has nothing to do with the points you are making.

How the fuck is this legal?

Glock, an Austrian company, uses a variety of common sense safeties that are automatic in nature.

With a manual safety the user has to remember to engage / dis-engage it as appropriate. This means a weapon can be left in an unsecured state simply because the user forgot (or elected not too) engage the manual safety. Conversely if the user forgets to disengage the manual safety the weapon will not fire when they need it too, which makes an awful lot of sense when you know that Glock designed these weapons for Law Enforcement.

To work around the weaknesses of a Manual Safety Glock designed what it calls its “Safe Action System” which you can read about here.. In a nutshell a Glock will not fire unless the trigger is intentionally pulled in the correct way.

Other pistol manufacturers will have some, or all, of those feature and may have other things such as “Grip Safeties” where you have to be holding the pistol both correctly and tightly enough before it can discharge.

There’s quite a variety of automatic safeties in use in the pistol world. If you are interested you can read about them here.

On balance these kinds of automatic safeties are at least as effective as a manual safety and there are valid arguments with empirical evidence showing that they can be safer.

Any of the folks who place more value in their ability to end another person’s life on a split second than the safety of their own children want to chime in and explain this one to me?

Could you explain why you are using such inflammatory language? NO safety can or is meant to make a loaded firearm safe from a child. It’s arguably easier for a child to flip the selector lever on a manual safety than it is for one to grip a firearm a specific way or pull its trigger in a specific way (or both).

Loaded weapons, regardless of their type(s) of safety mechanism, should not be left where they can be handled by children.

Of all the “Feature Phones” I ever had, and I had a bunch, the Alias and it’s successor the Alias II were my easily my favorites.

“You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training.”

The point of the article is clearly the unacceptable behavior of the officer but damn does it make my teeth itch when Journalists fail basic fact checks like Pistol / Revolver. I always wonder what else they got wrong.

I miss my Samsung Alias and Alias 2. They were good times.

The NeoGeo and 3DO were essentially the custom gaming rigs of yesteryear and their price was in line with that. You would have been hard pressed to build a PC in 1990 / 1991 for $1,600 that was capable of what the NeoGeo was doing. In fact I’m not even sure it would have been possible as commodity PC hardware that could do that kind of pixel and audio pushing didn’t really exist yet.

Depends on their wealth.

The kid was driving an Audi S4. I suspect they have some spare $$$ available. (assuming they haven’t spent it all on repairs)

Hard to say. The kid was driving an Audi S4 so they likely have money.

This has absolutely nothing to do with “Stand Your Ground”. SYG only applies when you or someone else are in real and imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death, neither of which were true in this case. That’s why the guy was arrested and has been charged with a number of serious offenses. He’s going to end up in prison.

Since you aren’t from the United States I should also tell you that SYG isn’t a National thing, its only legal in the States in that have passed laws allowing it.

I keep wondering if a legal framework like the US where you weren’t legally punished by attacking a thief in your house wouldn’t be fairer but then there’s news like this.

That’s called “Castle Doctrine” and like SYG it isn’t National. It only exists in the States that have passed a law to allow it.

It CAN work but there’s at least a few States that have Castle Doctrine and a Duty to Retreat so you end up having to flee a home invader until or unless you have no other choice.

We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.

The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?

It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,

One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.