Gun laws do they work

[ConnorGiles]

ConnorGiles the further you go back the more innocent it was. I remember when I was a kid, we did not lock our doors. Crime was taken seriously. Everybody took care of everybody. The kids could play on the streets without the slightest worry of kidnapping and if the man down the road saw me doing something wrong, he told my father who straightened me out forthwith. It was just a simpler time.

There two big things that I see today vs 30 or more years ago are:
1. Everything back then was slow, methodical and deliberate. Everything today should have happened yesterday.
2. Hpwever, the biggest change from 30 years ago is: Good ol' mother earth was a lot bigger back then than it is today with invention of the internet and the smart phone.

As far as better off, I would say most families are better off. I can rem when there was no TV, no HVAC, the phones were on a party line or had to go through a operator for connection, no running water, no bathrooms except and outhouse. My grandfather house had one light bulb in it and they boiled water on the stove.

There is no doubt the poorest of the poor is still better off with a bunch of gadgets including large TV, boom boxes. etc. Everybody has a cell phone., most everybody has a car. and up until the housing bubble fell many people who could not afford a house lived under a newly purchased 30 yr. mortgage.

Yes, things have changed but has it changed for the better? In the opinion of this ole' goat, YES

Thank you Blade, That answered my question.

But nowadays if your kid was playing down the street and doing something wrong you would never know because people just don't socialise like they used to. They just might send you a Facebook message if they have the time !

I guess making the world a smaller place did help in some ways due to communication and such. I often wonder what life would be like today if suddenly a worldwide EMP hit permanently, I'm pretty sure people would take pictures of their food and walk around the streets with a polaroid picture showing people .

I would argue it has gotten better, But Technology was a short lived success and is as much becoming a burden on modern society. I lived without a phone for 4 years in my early teens. My friends used to ask me if I was coming out to play football, I would say yeah what time and they would tell me they would text me. (I didn't have a phone) they would say I don't know how you don't have a phone, I couldn't live without it. This still happens today.

Socialising has turned from face to face. To Facebook, Skype and many social networking sites.

I saw a video which rightly proclaimed that these social networking sites should rename their category as "Anti-social networking sites".

Another pet hate of mine is when if me and all my friends go out to our local, our face to face chatting has turned into sitting there on our phones. What's worse! one of my friends text me when he was sitting opposite me!

 

[ConnorGiles]

Connor I have decided to ignore you in future, you have come onto this forum and not only think you should control it by telling others what they can and cannot post, but also twist your arguments, in the context of your original post and this thread my statement was correct.
you were not talking about accidents


Brian

You have yet again shown Brian your self righteous attitude. You obviously have no thought or common sense to actually go and see what I said. I have never said not to say anything. I have indeed questioned the morals of what has been said and asked "was there any need".

As said in the other thread. You obviously have a superior opinion on every subject Brian and you make it well known. You must have turned into a mind reader Brian because YET AGAIN you have assumed before asking questions.
Check my reply to Frothingslosh (which is above your comment), I was indeed talking about accidents as well as life's other dangers.

I can fondly say that your comments will not be missed by me Brian, since all you tend to do is appear on my threads and throw in your self righteous opinions.

I never asked you to post on my threads, feel free to but if you do in future can you do me a favor?can you Leave your self righteous attitude away from my comments and actually ask and read before you make assumptions?

That would be super!

Edit: Can I just add - Brian ever since I have joined this forum, On the odd occasion you have been civil to talk to but on the most part, I have seemed to be walking on egg shells around you because you have a tendency to throw your toys out of the pram. So if you do choose to comment on my posts, I shall match the manner of which you speak to me. If you do choose to ignore me well, I won't cry myself to sleep Bud.

Glad we could get this cleared.

 

[Frothingslosh]

You two are starting to sound like Blade and me.

 

[ConnorGiles]

Ohhh Nooooo - As you have said to Blade in the past, he cannot ignore me.

At some point, His Grammar Nazi mind shall kick in and post a correction or two.

 

[ConnorGiles]

also to answer the very first comment on this thread.

If it hasn't been linked already here is one (wouldn't say it was 100% accurate as it leaves a lot to the imagination)

Although it may be useless to post, Just typed in "Hard evidence that gun control works" and this was the first one haha

 

[Dick7Access]

http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/hol...ar-tracking-bracelets/?utm_source=Outbrain_C2

Tell me again how me and Blade are over reacting!!!!!

 

[Brianwarnock]

You are over reacting.

Anything to oblige after you tried to give me a heart attack by agreeing with me a couple of days ago, only just recovered.

The way I read this announcement is that it is a gun tracking device not a person tracking device, and it is not necessarily a bracelet. It is a device that communicates with the gun and if it can it assumes the gun is with the legal owner and thus can be used, if it can't the gun won't fire.
Sounds reasonable, but I bet that there are many obstacles.
What range will the device have, it must at least cover a person's property I order for the gun to be useful for home protection, and that is just the most obvious one.

Brian

 

[Dick7Access]

You are over reacting.

Anything to oblige after you tried to give me a heart attack by agreeing with me a couple of days ago, only just recovered.

The way I read this announcement is that it is a gun tracking device not a person tracking device, and it is not necessarily a bracelet. It is a device that communicates with the gun and if it can it assumes the gun is with the legal owner and thus can be used, if it can't the gun won't fire.
Sounds reasonable, but I bet that there are many obstacles.
What range will the device have, it must at least cover a person's property I order for the gun to be useful for home protection, and that is just the most obvious one.

Brian

I have as much right to not have anybody know where I go hunting, as you do to not have anybody know where you go fishing. Besides, I assume that you have the same clique on your side of the pond, "Once the camel sticks is nose in the tent....'......................???

 

[Bladerunner]

You are over reacting.

Anything to oblige after you tried to give me a heart attack by agreeing with me a couple of days ago, only just recovered.

The way I read this announcement is that it is a gun tracking device not a person tracking device, and it is not necessarily a bracelet. It is a device that communicates with the gun and if it can it assumes the gun is with the legal owner and thus can be used, if it can't the gun won't fire.
Sounds reasonable, but I bet that there are many obstacles.
What range will the device have, it must at least cover a person's property I order for the gun to be useful for home protection, and that is just the most obvious one.

Brian

In other words when the weapon leaves the owners property it will not work.? They are too late.Chicago Il. already has a gun law that permits a person to have a gun within their home (under permit). However, it is my understanding that it cannot be seen outside of the Home even in the yard, on any porches just strictly inside the home.

This amounts to them taking them away. Once they get this passed, what is next, we have to turn in our old guns that do not have the new technology.. I think not.

 

[Dick7Access]

You are over reacting.

Anything to oblige after you tried to give me a heart attack by agreeing with me a couple of days ago, only just recovered.

Brian

Hey Brian,
What's your position on "Net Neutrality"?
I know wrong thread, but I was afraid you might miss this if I put it some where else

 

[Bladerunner]

I have as much right to not have anybody know where I go hunting, as you do to not have anybody know where you go fishing. Besides, I assume that you have the same clique on your side of the pond, "Once the camel sticks is nose in the tent....'......................???

Hi Dick. been a while. Of course you are right but I might add one thing. If that camel sticks his nose in the tent of the USA, he might get it knocked off.

Have a great day,,,Blade
woke up with a little bit of snow and 28 here this morning. Not enough to go sledding just enough to be messy.

 

[Dick7Access]

Hi Dick. been a while. Of course you are right but I might add one thing. If that camel sticks his nose in the tent of the USA, he might get it knocked off.

Have a great day,,,Blade
woke up with a little bit of snow and 28 here this morning. Not enough to go sledding just enough to be messy.

well you can pray for me here in FL. It actually got down to 49 last night.

 

[Bladerunner]

well you can pray for me here in FL. It actually got down to 49 last night.

Know what you are taking about here. At one time in my past, I moved closer to the Gulf coast. In fact, it was close enough to the gulf, they had very little in the way of heating. Well, it was one of those years when it got around 30 degrees for a couple of days. It did have a fireplace, (natural gas logs, you know the type) aesthetic in nature only but it did provide a little heat especially if you slept real real close to it.

 

[Bladerunner]

Dick:

I might add because we came from TN. we did have some heavy blankets and quilts to use. I felt sorry for those that did not.

When I was growing up, I slept in a room with my siblings, that had a coal fireplace and if it snowed that night you would have a little on the blankets in the morning. Real hard to get up in those conditions. To make this story short, sleeping so close to the fire and under a wade of blankets and quilts did bring back old memories. Just glad they were memories. I would hate to go back to that today.

 

[dan-cat]

Bullshit, at least 3 times a week I walk home from one or other of my daughters between 10 pm and midnight, sure it's not fora 10 to 15 mins, but it is outside my front door.

Brian

Brian calling bullshit is the funniest thing that's happened on these boards for a while

 

[Dick7Access]

Brian calling bullshit is the funniest thing that's happened on these boards for a while

I suppose in one sense it's funny, but when I read it, I thought what relevance does that have with what is happening in FL, TN, "TX, and as "O" says in the rest of the 48 states.
Just recently my neighbor's 49 year old x-con, thief, junkie, ***** monger son, stole my keys and let himself into my house, he thinking I was still at the hospital. He is lucky that I was still spaced out on the shot the doctor had just given me. I woke up to find him going into my cash draw. I had hardware right next to me, but couldn't wrap my brain around what was happening. I know the left says a life is more inportant than cash. They are right when it's my life and my cash.

 

[Frothingslosh]

Apparently I'm Brian and I are the only ones who actually watched D7A's video.

He never mentions anything about a 'gun tracking' bracelet. He did mention a bracelet in conjunction with a smartgun as a way of making sure that the gun could only be used by the person wearing the bracelet (assumed to be the owner).

All this crap about tracking you, finding your best hunting spots, and all that is 100% grade-A unadulterated paranoia.

 

[Dick7Access]

[FONT=&quot]Holder: We want to explore gun tracking bracelets[/FONT]


By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon."

Whoa!, What happens when I am trying to teach my great Grandmother to protect herself?

 

[Brianwarnock]

[FONT=&quot]Holder: We want to explore gun tracking bracelets[/FONT]


By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon."

Whoa!, What happens when I am trying to teach my great Grandmother to protect herself?

Not much point unless she is the owner of a legal weapon which you are teaching her to use.

Brian

 

[Brianwarnock]

I suppose in one sense it's funny, but when I read it, I thought what relevance does that have with what is happening in FL, TN, "TX, and as "O" says in the rest of the 48 states.
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I know that you think the only place that matters and is allowed to be discussed is the USA but this is a global forum .

Brian