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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:42:10 -0600
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On 2/16/2025 8:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <sfh1rj17bhcuv2epvjnu9tr6fflui7oifm@4ax.com>,
> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:55:18 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:23:34 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:59:49 -0600, Lynn McGuire
>>>>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2/12/2025 3:59 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2/12/2025 11:00 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:52:00 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Between now and May at least it won't match bird flu, Chinese
>>>>>>>>>>> AI or constitutional upheaval at generating scary headlines.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You forgot about the American AI.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kind of like Trump has Congress. And soon will the Courts.[1]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And, being an old fan of horror films, I /enjoy/ scary headlines. And
>>>>>>>>> the various reactions to them, the more hysterical the better. For
>>>>>>>>> each atrocity brings us closer to the inevitable denoument, whatever
>>>>>>>>> that may be.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [1] As the judge in Watergate pointed out, the Federal Marshalls are
>>>>>>>>> what the Court uses to enforce it edicts, and they are Federal
>>>>>>>>> Employees. Which means the President can escape arrest by them by
>>>>>>>>> simply telling them they are fired.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lincoln would have put the rogue judges in jail.  At one point, Lincoln
>>>>>>>> had 2,300 ??? political people (newspaper editors, etc) in jail that
>>>>>>>> were actively fighting against the Civil War.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trump may have to put these rogue judges in jail.  He has my ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would certainly speed things up ... to the inevitable denoument.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whatever it may be.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Buckle up! Rough ride ahead!
>>>>>
>>>>> Be safe Paul! I do not like your ideology, but I sometimes respect you as
>>>>> a spiritual being!
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe buying a gun would be able to make you defend yourself better
>>>>> against crazy republicans? ;)
>>>>
>>>> More likely, it would allow me to shoot myself in the foot. Literally.
>>>>
>>>> Same reason I don't own a chainsaw.
>>>
>>> But surely in the US you must be able to find the very best education when
>>> it comes to how to handle a gun? It's an invaluable life skill! =)
>>
>> The Army taught me.
>>
>> But no amount of training can make up for basic klutziness.
>>
>>> On a sad note, I think about how many lives could have been saved in the
>>> recent swedish school shooting if only the students and/or teachers had
>>> guns of their own. Then probably only 1 or 2 students would have died. =(
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the specific situation, but two things occur:
>> 1) If everybody is shooting, how are the Police supposed to take out
>> only the bad guys? It's a lot easier when there is a clear difference
>> between shooters and victims.
>> 2) If that much lead is flying around, I would expect the death toll
>> to be /much/ higher.
> 
> Americans, who are armed to the teeth, routinely send their little
> darling off to heaven in batch lots, whereas I think the total
> number of school shooting fatalities in Canada, where we're not
> fucking deranged, is sixteen. Total. Not 'in the last five minutes',
> but even.
> 
> On the plus side, death is probably a mercy for Americans kids.

James, that is not funny.

Lynn