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I need a browser plugin that replaces guns with teddy bears. Because outside of hunting, sport, policing or warfare I don't know that guns have much of a role i
by shirro 11y ago
I need a browser plugin that replaces guns with teddy bears. Because outside of hunting, sport, policing or warfare I don't know that guns have much of a role in society. On campus they would seem to replace a thumb in the mouth or a plush toy in the hand of someone with major insecurities.
- afarrell 11y agoSo what are your thoughts on http://web.mit.edu/mitprc/www/index.html http://web.mit.edu/mitprc/www/index.html ?
- knorby 11y agoDoesn't range shooting count as sport?
- shirro 11y agoTotally in favour of students learning how to shoot guns or bows or fence with swords. Why wait for college? With proper supervision these are all appropriate at high school. A campus should be inclusive and non-intimidating. If you want women, minorities, foreign students to feel comfortable and secure, then arming self-entitled white males to strut around campus with deadly weapons for no reason other than pandering to their own deep insecurities is not the way to do it.
- hga 11y agoWow, I had no idea this law forbid women and minorities from getting concealed carry permits and/or carrying on campus (for better or worse, an alien generally has to be a permanent resident to get a permit). You don't suppose some of those women want to be able to protect themselves from the real rape culture? I also wonder how these "women, minorities, foreign students" would even know that others are carrying concealed weapons. (Further, a lot of us wonder how these special snowflakes will cope when they graduate and are in the real world, after being coddled all their lives.)
- afarrell 11y agoWhat threat model are you picturing for rape that pulling out a pistol would be an effective response? Even "jump-from-the-bushes" rape (which is a pretty small proportion of rape) tends to involve close distances. Pulling a pistol on someone within arms reach is tricky even if you are sober and at about equal strength. (I am not a martial arts or combat systems instructor of any kind.)
- hga 11y agoWell, somehow it nonetheless works for a whole lot of women/people in general; the statistic I've read is that the average gun fight occurs at 7 feet of distance. And of course one of the points here is that a gun is an equalizer for people with a strength difference. Consider the Zimmerman-Martin case. Martin, taller and with the advantage of hitting first, was on top of Zimmerman, pounding his head into a concrete sidewalk, and Zimmerman nonetheless was able to draw his gun and shoot Martin.
- dropit_sphere 11y agoFor that matter, crypto too. What, do they have something to hide?
- lfuller 11y agoI don't believe you can honestly compare hiding one's own communications for the sake of privacy with carrying a wartime weapon in a non-hostile public place.
- dropit_sphere 11y ago>carrying a wartime weapon in a non-hostile public place. You're dragging some baggage in there. Of course a wartime anything is inappropriate in a "non-hostile" place. How about a peacetime weapon in a public place of indeterminate hostility? For that matter: doesn't the incompletely-enforced prohibition of personal arms make a place inherently hostile?