Just what do you think my point is?? Because I have no idea where you are.

If all you have is anecdotal evidence and an know-it-all attitude you can fuck off in the grays for a while.

The gun range I use is also used by many local municipalities and all of the regulars have far more hours of training than all but a few of the police officers in those towns.

Exactly the opposite. I am saying that statistics show, heavily, they are most likely NOT in the process of pulling the trigger. This fact totally dismantles your argument of “what do you have to lose”.

Statistics.

Math shows, far and away, if you do not give the criminal a reason to pull the trigger, they won’t.

Apple should probably stop building their products in China so the thousands of workers who fought other people to get a job at Foxconn can go back to their old lives, you know, grovelling in shit infested poverty.

Almost like the driver was prepared for this to happen. Like, he expected it. So, he carried a gun AND was prepared to use it effectively. Almost like the driver wasn’t the typical Uber driver...

More curious as to why you think “happens every day” is the same as common? Like, someone always wins the lottery. Yet, for me to win the lottery would be extremely unreal.

Yeah you take that gamble. I’ll pass and shoot.

Fewer guns would be much more effective and preventing crime. BTW - Your point is mute because laws do not prevent crime. They just let you punish criminals.

“That’s generally their take on it when I point out a story like this. “

Not really. It is not “their take”. It is a category of math known as statistics. Not sure you want to be on the other side from math and trying to make you point out of confirmation bias.

You assume (incorrectly of course) that carry a gun makes you less likely to be shot.

You make a big leap from robber to murderer to be able to make the hyperbolic “job or life” point. Instead of money in my wallet our my life.

No. This is a situation were the guy in the back seat got lucky and did not lose his life for the $60 in the driver’s wallet.

Owning a gun is protected by the 2nd. How you get to use it is not.

Lucky and appropriately he should lose his job. AS someone who uses Uber, I do not want the driver deciding our wallets are more important than my safety. I have the same argument for people who carry guns in crowded places. Bullets do not discriminate.

Because as evolutionary animals we develop the concepts of good/bad and safe/danger much earlier in life than sexuality. That is pretty much all there is to it. There is not some big American conspiracy against sex.

Most of the benefactors of Trump’s administration are centered around 70 years old. It doesn’t have to work for very long at all. Funny hoe the old and already rich spend their last years getting richer rather than relaxing and spending time with their grandkids?

Yep. Exactly. And they keep telling us that communism is a failure and a strong central government is dangerous. From a capitalist’s viewpoint rather than a humanist’s, that is. American’s are still a long way from realizing that American capitalists serve shareholders, not stakeholders.

This accident will probably renew calls for a system that automatically slows trains as they pull into a station, something that all New Jersey Transit trains currently lack.