The biggest problem with the American Constitution is the right to bear arms, IMO. I'm not American so take this with a grain of salt, but think of the dumbest person you've met, would you trust them with a gun? Probably not.
It shouldn't be a right to own a gun. I'm not saying the barrier should be all that high, but you should be required to prove that you're more intelligent than an oak tree to own one.
I'm not American, and this kind of absolute is completely unacceptable.
You're basically fun-shaming.
There's plenty of stuff that's universally disliked, like... Idk, murder.... But that's not the whole reason guns exist. Sport shooting, hunting, event target practice, can be lots of fun to people, and they all involve guns, and no person is harmed, if done correctly.
Stop being so hateful.
I don't even like guns. I've never held, nor fired one. And I wouldn't ever, even slightly, say that there is no "fun" to be had with firearms.
I get your point, but hunting, as a sport, is about as old of a sport as you can get, and for that sport there will always be people who prefer firearms.
At a basic level, firearms really can't be barred from most countries as a blanket rule for everyone that is never allowed to be broken.
Therefore, firearms exist and people have them. That might not be you, or your neighbor, nor anyone you know, but they exist and people have them.
If you are ever in the rare position of being in the presence of one, and/or the situation where you need to handle one for any reason, would this information not be better to know ahead of time, rather than unknown until that moment?
It's like first aid, IMO. I've known first aid for well over two decades, including CPR and everything. I've never needed anything more than how to correctly apply a bandaid. I'm still grateful to know what I know in case I'm ever in a situation that I may need it. That situation might never come, it may never happen. I'd rather know, and never have the need to know, than have the need to know, and not know.
Safety, first aid, anything that keeps people alive, should be universal knowledge. Doesn't matter if it's guns, cars, CPR, bandaids, or forklift safety... It's better to know it, and never need it, than need it, and not know it. Period.
I was reviewing some PowerShell script today and it was absolutely atrocious. It's only saving grace was that it was using actual PowerShell, not some hacky wmic call or anything.
I didn't write it and I'm really glad for that. Whole lines of rewritten code commented out and just left there. Entire lines of # marks. There's no reason this should be so densely commented. Your code should be self explanatory.
There were multiple queries to the same database that was then passed through a "where-object" selector by pipe, looking for a single value (pulling a database of thousands of entries for one line).
It was disgusting.
I'm not even a developer and I thought it was horrid.
Just like people dying in T-bone or head-on collisions. Not to mention rollovers and other crashes.
Each of them carries the chance of fatality.
It's unpredictable, which is why we can't eliminate fatalities entirely.
My most recent point is that even the fatalities from being rear-ended are significantly reduced from even 10-15 years ago. Making the small (but still too high) probability of a fatality from that type of crash, smaller (but still too high).
Therefore, the most likely outcome from such an incident would be the destruction of property, not loss of life.
Which is the original point I was being pedantic about. The original comment was that stopping and not driving wouldn't kill anyone, and the reply that kicked off this insane tangent, was that the people behind might.
And I'm staying, no, they won't die (it is statistically very unlikely).
Why? If people think this is an acceptable situation to go ahead and drive in, then people are going to get hurt or killed.
How calm should I be about driver's being so irresponsible that they endanger themselves and everyone around them because "lol, what was I supposed to do?!?" .... Exactly?
Can't see? Don't drive. It's not fucking rocket surgery.
Weird how language works. There's so many words for so many things but I certainly can't think of anything that could express "permanently paused" in a better, more concise way....
Thanks. I've never owned, fired, or even held a gun.
I have no intention to. I knew most of these, but I'm glad to see it officially written out like this.
If I'm ever in the position where I need to handle a gun, I can do so more safely then I would have before.
Good work. Keep that shit up.