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TX109 on 12 March 2010
FreeTalkLive said:
TX109 said:
@freetalklive: the way you make it sound, i would never want to live in NH. the thought of almost everyone around owning a gun is a little unsettling to me. "safest and freest" or not. im cool with other people owning guns as long as they know what they are doing. but it think maybe we should enact a test or something that proves your smart enough to own a gun...just a thought.....

However, i would much rather live in the U.S. than any other country in the world regardless of the crime. what can i say, i like it here.

I have a friend that is now 16.  When he was 15, he father gave him a gun and my friend started open carrying it on his waist, everywhere he went.  No problem with me :)

Some people just don't want freedom and safety, which is fine.  Other thing which I consider a plus, but most people would think is a negative, most people in NH take their garbage to the town dump, or pay someone else to do it.  This might also scare you.  In NH, the state parks are paid for by user fees (only state like that in the US).  In NH, if you are hiking a mountain and get injuried, and it can be proved that you made mistakes, you get a bill for your rescue.  Or how about this, the Governor only serves two years (unlike 4 years in every other state).  Or the State Senators and State Reps only make $100 in salary a year (plus travel expenses).

However, on the videogame front, the world's largest arcade is located in NH, http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/inside-world%E2%80%99s-largest-arcade  Funspot rocks!


i dont really care what people do with their garbage in NH, nor how you pay for your parks in NH, nor how you handle health care in NH, nor how much time your politicians serve for or how much they get paid in NH, nor how your friend handled a gun in NH. im just saying that everybody owning a gun is a little unsettling to me. i think anybody who doesnt know how to handle a gun properly (i.e. the girl's "parents") shouldnt be allowed to own one. obviously you and your friends know how to handle guns. congrats on that. like i said, im cool with people owning guns....as long as they know what they are doing with them.

also, based on your logic, everyone who chooses not to own a gun or just doesnt have one is afraid of freedom and safety.....really?...... I feel totaly free and safe in my tiny town in Michigan. and guess what, very few people own guns! i dont need a gun to feel free or safe. obviously you do...thats your choice. but please stop trying to say that the onl wayy people can be safe and free is by owning a gun.



                                                                                                  
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BoleroOfFire on 12 March 2010
TX109 said:
FreeTalkLive said:
TX109 said:
@freetalklive: the way you make it sound, i would never want to live in NH. the thought of almost everyone around owning a gun is a little unsettling to me. "safest and freest" or not. im cool with other people owning guns as long as they know what they are doing. but it think maybe we should enact a test or something that proves your smart enough to own a gun...just a thought.....

However, i would much rather live in the U.S. than any other country in the world regardless of the crime. what can i say, i like it here.

I have a friend that is now 16.  When he was 15, he father gave him a gun and my friend started open carrying it on his waist, everywhere he went.  No problem with me :)

Some people just don't want freedom and safety, which is fine.  Other thing which I consider a plus, but most people would think is a negative, most people in NH take their garbage to the town dump, or pay someone else to do it.  This might also scare you.  In NH, the state parks are paid for by user fees (only state like that in the US).  In NH, if you are hiking a mountain and get injuried, and it can be proved that you made mistakes, you get a bill for your rescue.  Or how about this, the Governor only serves two years (unlike 4 years in every other state).  Or the State Senators and State Reps only make $100 in salary a year (plus travel expenses).

However, on the videogame front, the world's largest arcade is located in NH, http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/inside-world%E2%80%99s-largest-arcade  Funspot rocks!


i dont really care what people do with their garbage in NH, nor how you pay for your parks in NH, nor how you handle health care in NH, nor how much time your politicians serve for or how much they get paid in NH, nor how your friend handled a gun in NH. im just saying that everybody owning a gun is a little unsettling to me. i think anybody who doesnt know how to handle a gun properly (i.e. the girl's "parents") shouldnt be allowed to own one. obviously you and your friends know how to handle guns. congrats on that. like i said, im cool with people owning guns....as long as they know what they are doing with them.

also, based on your logic, everyone who chooses not to own a gun or just doesnt have one is afraid of freedom and safety.....really?...... I feel totaly free and safe in my tiny town in Michigan. and guess what, very few people own guns(including me)! i dont need a gun to feel free or safe. obviously you do...thats your choice. but please stop trying to say that the onl wayy people can be safe and free is by owning a gun.

Exactly.  Not everyone is capable of handling the responsibility of owning a gun.  Teenagers can be irrational, impulsive, etc.  I wouldn't have preferred it it everyone in my high school had a gun.  I greatly appreciate the freedoms that I have.  However, I don't think everyone should have a gun.  He makes his argument worse by claiming that we just don't like (or are afraid) of having freedom and safety.  It's hard to take him seriously after insulting other people's intelligence like that.  

@crumas: I merely said that I didn't like living in a place like that.  What's wrong with my statement?  Why don't you call out FreeTalk?  He literally said that my city has less freedom than Communist China.  REALLY???  Only North Korea is "less free" than NYC.  REALLY???  To each their own indeed. 



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Alby_da_Wolf on 12 March 2010
crumas2 said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Killing sprees make me think gun licences should be given only after accurate psychiatric examination, accidents like this make me think a QI test and also a test about responsibility, common sense and civics are necessary.

Not a bad idea.  We license people to drive 3000 pound automobiles, why not make sure they have the mental stability and training to safely handle a firearm?

Very good post.

Thanks. And this doesn't mean forbidding guns like some lobbies try to make believe, I agree that sane and sound people should be allowed, after the necessary training, to own weapons without the enormous difficulties created for examples here in Italy for weapons for self-defence (those for sport and hunting are allowed a lot easier and, judging from the share of family or neighbourhood killings committed with hunting rifles compared to other weapons, without the necessary psychiatric tests). I understand that if even in a relatively small country like mine, people living in the country and far from police stations are at high risk of becoming prey of armed robbers, and in the richest regions it happens far too often, in a vast country like USA the problem can be even more serious. I'm against extremism, total deregulation is dangerous, total prohibitionism is a limitation of freedom and the state couldn't grant the necessary protection to people in some circumstances (and crooks could find weapons anyway, while honest people would remain defenceless), so the reasonable solution is reasonable regulation.



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Jaos on 13 March 2010

America is a lot safer with everyone being allowed to posses weapons.



Gilgamesh on 13 March 2010
hduser said:
How is this even Nintendo related?

The fact that the parents are blaming it on the Wii even though it's clearly there idiotic fault.



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rocketpig on 14 March 2010
Gilgamesh said:

A Tennessee girl, aged 3, accidentally killed herself on Sunday night, according to local police in Wilson County. The incident allegedly occurred after she mistook a gun for a Wii controller.

Investigators claim that the girl's stepfather had left a semi-automatic weapon on the living room table, and that the child had mistaken it for a Nintendo Wii controller. The child is then said to have fatally shot herself in the abdomen. She was rushed to hospital, but pronounced dead the same night.

No charges have been filed in the case.

We advise parents concerned about their child's safety regarding Wii hardware to consult Nintendo's Wii safety page.

UPDATE: New details come pouring in, courtesy of local news channels. The gun is apparently a .380 caliber semi automatic handgun. The stepfather claims he was asleep at the time of the incident, according to authorities. The stepfather also claims the child's mother was in the room with the child at the time of the incident. The mother has told authorities the girl might have thought she was playing with a Nintendo Wii controller that resembled a gun. According to the stepfather, the gun was out because he had heard a prowler and gotten the gun out earlier that evening. He then left the gun on the table in the living room.

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manuel on 14 March 2010

I agree with a poster above, that this has nothing to do with the Wii.
Little kids touch and play with anything they find lying around.
And you just can't have a gun... a LOADED gun on the table. It's inexcusable.

Idiotic parents. Poor kid.



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rocketpig on 14 March 2010
manuel said:
I agree with a poster above, that this has nothing to do with the Wii.
Little kids touch and play with anything they find lying around.
And you just can't have a gun... a LOADED gun on the table. It's inexcusable.

Idiotic parents. Poor kid.

It's a sad day for Nintendo. Their blue ocean just got a little smaller.

...

Seriously, though, how is the Wii even in this discussion? Was the child colorblind?

At least the gun had 1:1 motion control, I guess.




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FreeTalkLive on 29 March 2010

A The Onion video about this event?  I cannot tell.
http://www.theonion.com/video/boys-tragic-death-could-have-happened-to-any-famil,17024/



 

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