The tornadoes hate us for our freedom.
And our little dogs, too!
Analogy fail. There aren’t dedicated groups out there that are well funded and supported by a significant minority dedicated to the destruction of buildings and the right to build buildings who are happy to jump on the hysteria around any tragedy in order to put whatever restriction they can on buildings and building users.
There aren’t people proposing irrational responses that won’t actually attempt to solve the problematic issue in good faith. Everyone here knows the AWB is irrational nonsense, and yet they will still advocate it, because any restriction they can score against gun owners, no matter how ineffective or irrational, is worthwhile. So it would be more like if this tornado destroyed more oddly colored houses than you’d expect on average, to be pushing to ban oddly colored houses in response. Sort of. It would actually be more like “banning tornados with a specific mostly irrelevant property” but this analogy doesn’t hold.
Building codes isn’t a visceral, contentious issue that the public regularly gets worked up over. Most likely building codes will be debated by engineers, not hysterical people who think We Must Do Something, so they’re much more likely to be based on sound policy and logic.
It’s exactly because our response to debates on building codes is likely to be a responded to by a rational discussion by experts using facts with projected societal costs that makes this entirely different from the gun issue.
Well, it’s in the constitution that if we can’t live in mobile homes, then we have a right to bear homes.
Could not agree more. We don’t have people thinking they are the thin line between fascism because they oppose roof tie downs, or that strengthening building codes means our right to build houses will be taken away.
No, it’s the tornadoes that have the right to bear homes. Why do you think they keep picking them up?
In any case you are missing the analogy. Times like this is when one finds America at its best. We will aid those affected, look at our response to see what could be done better, and then see if there are ways of preventing future disasters.
What you won’t see are people whining that it is inappropriate to use the deaths of innocents to inspire us to do better in the future. And you sure won’t see people lined up to buy the model of mobile home someone died in because of some ghoulish fetish.
The solution seems obvious. Every elementary and secondary school should have a dedicated Tornado Spotter whose job it is to sit at the entrance and warn those inside when a hostile tornado is approaching. It’s possible this position can be voluntary, but to get real skilled tornado watchers, the schools should offer this as a salaried position.
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Crafting irrational laws meant only to inconvenience the people who aren’t actually causing problems is not “America at its best”. You might have some credibility as wise, well intentioned people if you didn’t flock behind any piece of gun control legislation no matter how stupid or irrational.
No one bought AR-15s because of a ghoulish fetish, you fucktard. They bought them because idiots like you were going to feel better if you managed to ban them, and they were racing to get theirs before that. Regular people have owned the military rifle of the day for centuries, since the beginning of the US. Tens of millions at least, probably hundreds of millions. The idea that you could turn that into a “ghoulish fetish” shows that you have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about and no rational response to the issue at all.
And I was just going to go with Analogy fail fail.
A baseball bat can kill just as easily as a tornado. Also, swimming pools.
A renewed AWB was hardly the only remedy that was being looked at following the Newtown shooting. I also think it is stupid and prefer regsitration, back ground checks, and training. But like after all mass shootings the gun-fetishists start mewling “too soon” whenever we look at how to prevent future tragedies.
It’s tornados that are the problem. Only a very small number of people die from really big tornados.
Shit happens.
This one’s juuuuuuuust right.
Yeah, I have a hard time accepting this as some sort of mocking position. Shit does happen. I don’t know why we’ve become unable to accept that. Hundreds of thousands of people die in the world every day. There must be hundreds a day from one sort of natural disaster or another. Why do we choose 5 or 10 or 50 here and there and say those are more important than all the rest?
The actual answer is the media chooses which stories are sensational to you, and you are completely unable to filter it.
Tornados are pretty much the definition of shit happens. If you choose to live in a high risk areas and take insufficient precautions, shit happens. Why is this a thing that requires a big national solution?
Won’t someone think of the children?
I blame the media. They make movies like “Twister” glamorizing tornadoes and it gives impressionable young storm systems the wrong idea.
Excellent point. Firearms are an act of god. Completely out of our hands to do anything about.
Guns don’t kill people, and people don’t kill people. God kills people. Shit happens.
While we’re at it, let’s defund our medical research. Nothing can be done. Cancer kills people. Shit happens.
It would be stupid to make laws like these. The tornadoes would never obey them.