Ruby … don’t take your gun to work
Uncategorized - - Posted on April, 10 at 6:03 pm by Ken L
How cool is this?
Florida lawmakers pass “take your guns to work” law
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.
I guess it might be a bit of a challenge to the OH&S committee though.
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
What a good idea! No doubt it’ll make everyone safer.
This form of ‘civil liberty’ is just stupid.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
It’s wonderfully apt for that fine nation to further their endless nuttery by demolishing silly old workplace relationship laws and simply air conditioning the boss or workmate with your fully-automatic street sweeper if you don’t happen to like them.
While bound to make the work environment more efficient if not noisy, I should however remind every American that the esteemed Founding Fathers who authored the U.S. Constitution did not scratch their quills with ink to enable every Arnold the Terminator of the future to run amok throughout the 51 states with armour that would embarrass most armies, the provisions concerning the right to bear arms were written to allow defenceless towns and villages to offer some resistance against the marauding English navy ships and its red-coated soldiers of the time.
Charlton Heston argued vehemently against these historical truths when pointed out, but was nevertheless wrong - as the whole USA is today. The constitution does not encourage, promote or condone the infinite bloodbath that has become today’s reality, it is blatantly apparent that it was directed at the historical events taking place at the time of writing and not as a permanent fixture in American life for centuries to come.
Today’s Americans are twisting, distorting and spinning those laws to suit their obsessive gun mania, but any honest legal challenge to the whole charade would find them misinformed, misguided and missed the target completely.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
What kills more American citizens… cars or guns?
Can they legally carry a cheeseburger in their trunk? Not that WOULD be a deadly combination!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Here in Australia, we are debating whether the average cop on the beat should carry a ‘taser’. Yet in the US, the average punter in about 19 States can legally buy one for personal protection.
Talk about ideological stupidity. An ‘arms race’ for each and every person.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Not sure about guns…personally i hate the bloody things…but look at these figures related to cars etc:
Total Road Deaths in the USA
2001: 42,196
2002: 43,005
2003: 42,884
2004: 42,836
2005: 43,510
2006: 42,642
(Source: FARS (per their figures as at 2006)
I’d guess 2007 is similar. And 2008 well on the way to same.
So…there have been approx. 260, 000 deaths on American roads since 9/11.
Two hundred and sixty thousand…at least.
Imagine how much of that 510 billion American dollars could’ve been spent on road safety, improved infrastructure, public transport & medical care for the injured by road accidents if Bush/Cheney & co. hadn’t screwed things up in Iraq?
Not to mention, using those valuable tax payer bucks for engineering a safer, more energy efficient mode of transport.
That death toll on the roads makes the 9/11 tragedy look fairly miniscule.
To date, it’s the equivalent of sixty-five 9/11s in America.
Imagine…65 more incidents w/ death tolls the same as on 9/11 across America since Sept 2001. It’s mind boggling.
And yet I don’t hear/see many in the media screaming blue bloody murder about this ongoing tragedy…
nor do I see a ROAD BODY COUNT racing across the bottom of our TVs & monitors…
it’s not often, quite rare in fact, we see/hear politicians raging about the road toll during Presidential & Senate campaigns…
or calling for a FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF ROAD SECURITY…
and the above figures don’t take into account the deaths in Iraq & the surrounding region that have occurred during this OIL-related war…and the casualties of the many resource wars and conflicts across the PLANET…or the road tolls elsewhere.
The automobile & fuel-related corporations & their enablers have alot of explaining to do.
As do a public that often has its EYES WIDE SHUT on one of the most important issues facing them & their children. It seems to me that creating a safer, cleaner energy-driven transport system is at least as important as terrorism.
If not more.
Yet the cars keep rolling out…& the highways get built. And the wars go on.
Insanity. Like taking guns to work.
Next stop…DEADWOOD MEGALOPOLIS…circa 2020.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
New Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Supercharged, six-point-two litres, over 460kW… and two seats.
In 2008, it’s your democratic right and patriotic duty to be utterly irresponsible. The land of big guns and big cars. BOOYAH!
April 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
We can write our own opinions about this in Australia,and I would accept Justin Times argument as probably the truth of it all.But if that is the case,and all that time has passed between those truths of the Founding Fathers and today in Florida,then it all seems a bit late,and the U.S.A. is in serious trouble as how Americans see themselves.I didnt think I would side with American employers,and I doubt they have much in common with me,but shit,its like the Florida Legislature,is deciding to tell the workers never trust anything about your employer,even if the evidence of your personal experience runs in the other direction.Shit,that is really frightening.Good luck to the Employers!?
April 11th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Since there is probably no way to quantify which nation has the most insecure and fearful populace, I’m willing to take a guess…
April 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Only in America……
April 11th, 2008 at 11:52 am
They remind you of Homer Simpson trying to dig his was out of a hole.
Quite recently people in the US have responded to school shootings by pushing for students to be able to carry firearms at school. Mad as cut snakes.
I was thinking about this in light of the apparently remorseless wannabe gangsters who rampaged through the Sydney school recently… without guns. Luckily for both the victims and the perpetrators, if one considers that at least some of them might grow up one day.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
PS: I don’t know what Ruby and her love have got to do with it; you’re thinking of Billy Joe
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnnycash/donttakeyourgunstotown.html
April 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Not sure about whether guns or cars kill more Americans, but about 3,500 American children die from gunshot wounds each year. Given the lack of apparent concern compared to 9/11 I assume they are less valued than office and emergency service workers.
Worldwide around 1.5 to 2 million people die in auto accidents annually. However, to put that into perspective, air pollution causes an estimated 3 million (range 1.4 - 6 mill.) premature deaths each year, mostly from woodsmoke.