On the topic of carrying concealed weapons on campus...

[pyat]

There's a movement in the U.S. to permit students to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, in order to defend themselves against school shooters. One problem with this idea was raised by the police chief at the University of Cincinnati:

"I shoot everybody with a gun, who doesn't have a uniform on."

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[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

More locally, the CBC is agog - agog, I say - that there are no restrictions on purchasing 'bullet ingredients'. Black powder! Primers! Casings! Metal shot! Why, any 4-year-old could be Rambo in a matter of minutes!!

I can't wait for them to discover the 'zip gun'. And we all know where that leads...

They'll get my lathe when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. When machining is outlawed, only outlaws will be machinists! Better judged by 12 than carried by 6!

((.. come to think of it, at leaat one of my 'home machinist' texts has plans for a very, very small but workable cannon... hmm.))

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

(((Note to self: check and see if there /are/ laws regarding the transport of cannons. What about a 'sawed-off cannon'?))

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

(((((Sorry, not feeling very well and rambling a bit today. Ugh.)))))

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ramble on, sir, to find the Queen of all your Dreams!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I recall a webpage that had details on how to build an SMG with a couple of pipes, some springs, and a compressed air cannister. You could be equipping armies, man!

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

I think there's a WW2 "grease gun" machinegun that is easily turned out on a lathe. Also, I think a lot of the prohibition mobsters or perhaps modern ones make their own. The parts aren't that complex, they just have to fit together, so it'd be pretty easy to hand-tool them to make them work.

As for gun-control/gun-rights, there's blogs and lj communities with much more motivated people willing to correct facts and mis-conceptions. I really can't be bothered talking about it anymore. I used to be against, now am for, and continue to re-assess my opinion but trying to discuss it with anyone who wasn't doing the research officially became a waste of my time late 2003.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Isn't this why we have sociologists?

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

It's the INTARNET!

Everyone gets a +2 synergy bonus from computer skills to overcome the lack-of-knowledge penalty, so of course they're "just as good" as "any old" sociologist. Add in a Flame-war edge, and the "discussion" writes itself.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Isn't this why we have sociologists?

Right, because being a degreed professional is an automatic innoculation against bias and a priori assumptions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man)

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Isn't this why we have sociologists?

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Up until Remington, I think it was, just about every gun WAS hand-tooled. Along with the bullets.