Hardcore on this board? What if I tried to outlaw your tofu?
I am one of those guys with a gunsafe bolted to the floor and no one knows the combination to the safe besides me. If I die you can find my combination in the safe deposit box. Whu didn't this woman with the nut job kid do the same?
Stop calling gun bans gun safety!
Hungry, would you have been one of the people outraged back in the 70s when Ralph Nader pushed to get seatbelt usage mandatory in the US to help save american lives?... The man kept seeing so many lives needlessly lost because of the public and the automobile industry's apathy... He wrote a book in the mid-60's that is illuminating:
Before Nader's 1965 book, Unsafe at Any Speed, car dashboards were usually made of metal. Seat belts were available only at exotic auto parts stores, where they were expensive and customers had to bolt them to the car's floorboards. Even at low speeds, a car wreck could propel passengers into the metal dashboard or snap the driver's neck on the metal steering wheel. At mid-speed wrecks (say, 20 miles an hour), passengers could be thrown into the windshield, which was made of "safety glass" that could chisel a passenger's face and body. Car doors were not attached to the car's body firmly enough to withstand collision forces, and would often pop open or off in an accident, which would instantly make the car's frame (and the passengers inside) much more likely to be crumpled by the crash.
Do you know how long it took before action was seriously taken to save lives, and nowadays there is no one around to protest the mandatory seatbelt law, and all the other safety features we now completely take for granted? here we go:
In 1984 New York State passed the first US law requiring seat belt use in passenger cars. Seat belt laws have since been adopted by all 50 states, except for New Hampshire.[43] and NHTSA estimates increased seat belt use as a result save 10,000 per year in the USA
It took 20 years!!!!!!!! 20 years to do what saves an estimated 10000 lives per year in the US alone!!!
Now here is a President wanting to do something to help save 11 000 lives per year, MANY of them children that are needlessly lost because YOU and all the other gun nuts...
Yes, GUN NUTS, because all you see is your own personal needs ahead of the greater good. We present you with a definite problem, that innocents are constantly killed every year, and you can't see two feet beyond your own needs...
What, you think back in the 60's and 70's there weren't a ton of automobile enthousiasts who were totally outraged with having to pay more for non-metallic dashboards, anti-lock brakes, seatbelts, and everything else that is standard in today's cars? All the while going out to drive with their wives in the passenger seat holding their infant babies in their arms, heading out to the country at 65 miles per hour in the snowy winter? (''Stop taking away my freedom!! I am a safe driver and have never had or caused an accident! Not my fault all these other people can't drive their god-given automobiles!!'')
Funny that, I'm sure you can't imagine yourself nowadays heading out in your car to the nearby store without clicking on your seatbelt, right?
How many people will needlessly die before you and CS finally open your eyes and admit there is a problem and that you are part of it, and NOT of the solution?
