I miss the designs from the 50s and 80s that would slice a pedestrian off at the knees. But no, they had to mandate front impact protection for pedestrians and now we have flat faced cars everywhere.
Plenty of gun owners are for common sense gun legislation, background checks, mandatory safety instruction, etc. If you want to enact change we need them on our side. What you are doing just creates division and slows any progress we make toward sanity. Mediate your rhetoric.
Don’t care whatsoever, fuck guns, they cause far more problems than they solve.
Fuck murican gun culture especially, idc how responsible you are, nobody needs anything but a slow bolt action gun for hunting. Anything else is just gun porn for losers.
Downvote me all you want you brain dead muricans, doesn’t fucking matter how responsible you are, you’re still supporting one of the worst industries on the planet.
Fucking morons. Keep giving money to companies that dont give one fuck about the school shootings you all cry about.
So you “don’t care whatsoever” about fixing the problem you seem so passionate about and would rather winge about it. The rest of us are interested in solutions. You are soapboxing to primarily left leaning people here on Lemmy so I don’t know who you are hoping to proselytize.
Okay, first of all, not all gun supporters are terrible people. I’m a gun owner because I live in a shitty neighborhood that would still be shitty regardless of guns. I don’t wanna get knifed by a meth head and I don’t think I’d be able to go toe to toe with one in a knife fight.
Secondly, the biggest reason for gun violence in the US is more of a mental health issue. If people had access to the resources they need when they need them there would be substantially less violence in general. Stop trying to treat the symptom by adding more guns and treat the disease by giving people the help they need. The US isn’t the only country in the world that allows gun ownership. We just don’t have enough regulation and our health care system is a joke.
Lastly, the majority of gun violence in the US comes from people going out of state to a more lax area and buy guns there. This isn’t just an issue between the US and Canada. It’s between states in our own country.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you. Gun control in this country is abysmal. But blaming and shaming people for enjoying something or trying to protect their family is just disrespectful. Generalizing an entire country based upon one specific issue is just ignorant. I consider myself left but I still own a gun. I keep it locked away and I’m the only one that knows how to get it, but still. If I ever need to protect myself when my methed out neighbor starts busting down my door at 3 AM again I’m going to do it. And fuck you for assuming that I’m some kind of obsessed weirdo that glorifies guns.
A lot of US gun owners are in support of common sense gun laws. It’s enough that some gun owners have started a gun lobbying group to oppose the NRA which is a pretty terrible organization. I’ve owned guns in the past, I don’t anymore, don’t know if I ever will again, but I used to, and I still think people should be allowed to own guns, but the lack of restrictions is absurd, We pretty immediately need big changes to domestic abuse laws, and bail opportunities, as some huge percentage of murders in the US are domestic abusers out on bail. Red Flag laws where someone who has been suspected of planning violent shootings can’t gain access to firearms. much stricter laws on background checks and closing third party sale loopholes entirely, and I also think mandatory gun safes are a good idea, If you’re not home, it should be entirely inaccessible. none of these laws would effect the majority of gun owners, as bad as it is now with gun violence, still the vast majority of gun owners are never going to endanger anyone. But doing nothing is insane. I’ve met zero people who shout “people kill people not guns” who isn’t a jackass who’s scared someone will take his toys away.
Yeah I actually thought she wouldn’t ever officially do it unless it was being timed and pre planned to occur just after the debate in order to have maximum impact. Which - I would guess that it was. Not that it’s a bad thing.
Anyway I didn’t think she would because I’m certain she lost some fans tonight - deciding to step into this race in such a major way. And the cynic in me thought she was more interested in money and wouldn’t risk her image. I’m glad I was wrong.
So idk about everyone else, but did anyone else catch that they both had hot mics?
This wasn’t a debate for her, or a law school case scenario, or an undergrad philosophy argument. This was a trap she set.
He managed to call him weak, a poor sport, a sore loser, an idiot, in a publicly appropriate manner, and each time she did, he got more and more unhinged.
Don’t stop your opponent from making the wrong move.
Still unemployed here, applying for jobs that I’m well-qualified for, being rejected without an interview and watching those listing reappear on job sites on a weekly basis.
Dunno if anyone has brought this up but Trump basically never looked at Harris. Even had his face turned her direction and just looked at the moderators. The only time he looked at her was when he was forced to at the start where she went to shake his hand. Dude hates her so much.
I would expect that stuff like who you are facing, basic body language and stuff, is choreographed. I don’t think it’ll provide a lot of insight into inner thoughts.
I remember once reading a whole article on the issues with having a presidential candidate be photographed wearing a hat, which is a lot more esoteric than this sort of thing. Lot of time and money spent on optimizing it.
Kamala might have worked on choreography, but Trump? No. Not only is he not going to let anyone tell him how to behave, he couldn’t repress his inner toddler if he tried. It only took a couple of subtle “I’m not touching you” - type nudges from her and he had a tantrump.
it’s also another time he might be mistaking an episode of King of the Hill for real life, like the low-flow toilet flushing… after all he did say “he saw people on TV” talking about it
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