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The absolute PoS that is Florida governor Rick Scott

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Sunday, April 1, 2018 4:28 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


If your response is in regard to my comment/suggestion about making declarative statements as to violence; then allow me to attempt to make my point clearer.

Suppose a man walks into a crowded bank, puts on a stocking mask, pulls out a toy gun and shouts out: "This is a robbery!" One of three things will happen:

1- the people in the bank will panic and go crazy with fear,
2- someone in waiting in line pulls out a gun, and before the assailant can declare that he's just kidding, he blows his head off.
3- the cops come, and they blow his head off

Or.........all of the above.

That same man goes online in Facebook and declares that he will rob the local bank at 3:00 p.m. today with a semi-automatic gun, and he'll shoot anyone who tries to stop him. But he posts, he's just kidding some 2 hours later that day.

Whether he threatens online or in the bank, it's public. It's like yelling fire in a crowded theater, and there's no fire. You would be right to think - "That's not normal!" Who does that? A person packing heat would have every right to blow him away.

To me, the parents of those dead kids in Parkland have every right to sue everyone who failed to keep guns out of the hands of that nutjob. Who would go around killing huge numbers of people? That is not normal. If someone would threaten to kill you and send you a note that says that. Wouldn't you go to the cops and say that your life was threatened? Don't you expect to feel safe in your community? Is the right to use a weapon greater than your right to live peacefully?

That idiot in the bank yelled "fire" in a crowded theater. Anyone would be right to shoot the bastard dead. If I'm in the bank minding my business, I'm expecting that I will be safe. But if someone comes into the bank and yells "fire" and I run in panic and trample over a baby, and that baby dies. Who's responsible?

Still, the question is does anyone have the right to take life? Is it right for a mentally disturbed person to have a gun, especially after he claims he will shoot like a professional? Whether he yells it at the top of his voice in a bank or writes it on Facebook. He is making a public statement, in public. We should have systems in place that will look to prevent that from happening. For those that choose NOT to use Facebook....well, they choose not to use Facebook. That's not the issue. The issue is when they go to buy a gun, gain access to a gun, that's the issue.

Proper background checks, purchasing and ownership restrictions must become a part of our gun control laws. It's a matter of public safety.

SGG


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I see what you're saying, but I'm afraid that with technology becoming a larger part of our collective lives every year that this could become a back door to a larger invasion of privacy.

What about people who choose not to use Facebook? "Why aren't they on Facebook? What have they got to hide that they're not on Facebook? Why don't they have Alexa or Siri in their homes? Why don't they own a smartphone?"



I could see this slowly becoming something akin to your credit score. The more social media you use and have never said anything questionable on or around, the higher that index is for your name/number. The more "flagged" words or phrases you type in or say around listening devices over the course of your life the lower the index goes. Those under a certain number are blocked from owning a firearm. (And I'm sure this could be carried over to many other seemingly innocuous things once the system is installed).

Those who avoid all of these things are "unknowns". They basically have "unknown credit" and will not be able to purchase a firearm until they voluntarily submit to a rigorous psychological and background check, or they give in and surround themselves with big brother for a few years and "build their credit".



Strange and scary times we're living in man.

Do Right, Be Right. :)


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Sunday, April 1, 2018 5:14 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by THGRRI:

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Yet another post having nothing to do with the topic.


You can't get your meds until Monday?

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Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:40 AM

THGRRI


Thanks for the bump


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Sunday, April 1, 2018 9:31 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I see what you're saying, but I'm afraid that with technology becoming a larger part of our collective lives every year that this could become a back door to a larger invasion of privacy.

What about people who choose not to use Facebook? "Why aren't they on Facebook? What have they got to hide that they're not on Facebook? Why don't they have Alexa or Siri in their homes? Why don't they own a smartphone?"



I could see this slowly becoming something akin to your credit score. The more social media you use and have never said anything questionable on or around, the higher that index is for your name/number. The more "flagged" words or phrases you type in or say around listening devices over the course of your life the lower the index goes. Those under a certain number are blocked from owning a firearm. (And I'm sure this could be carried over to many other seemingly innocuous things once the system is installed).

Those who avoid all of these things are "unknowns". They basically have "unknown credit" and will not be able to purchase a firearm until they voluntarily submit to a rigorous psychological and background check, or they give in and surround themselves with big brother for a few years and "build their credit".



Strange and scary times we're living in man.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Were you born in Chicago? Cuba? Russia? Your insistence on foisting Big Brother upon us is what's scary.



Read it again.

I'm talking about the fact that Big Brother is being foisted on us. I'm not foisting anything on anybody. I don't use any of that shit.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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