532 - Bullet Bullshit Between Bordeaux Bookends

[11:37 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I'm waiting for my Yum Box from France 

[11:53 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It'll come with cigarettes

[11:56 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The classic French snack

[3:18 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

need to fix our mental health checks for guns

Would probably actually help

I was watching a show that explained the falsehood of the numbers news sites are using for how many school shootings there are in a year

[3:19 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah, one of them was someone shot a bus window with a BB gun at night

But the US still has a lot more gun violence than any other "civilized" country

[3:23 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The truth is a gun cannot shoot itself, at least not yet, so we have to fix the human issue.

And that numbers thing I watched was they are counting individuals taking themselves out at schools

um that's not a mass shooting

Quit fluffying the number

Like how they were saying 18 school shootings this year

[3:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

they call them "school shootings" so they're not wrong

But they're not mass school shootings

I think one or two was someone brought a gun to a school and it accidentally went off

[3:26 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yeah

X has always been a safe school

Always had metal detectors and guards

[3:26 PM]

Chiming in as someone who attended there before you were born, no it hasn't.

[3:27 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Most schools are safe

The chances of your kid or anyone's kid specifically getting shot at school are like nil

So minuscule it's pointless to worry about

Probably far more likely to get run over crossing the street outside the school or something

[3:28 PM] 

Guns cannot shoot themselves...

Nor can they load themselves...

[3:29 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

not yet

hehe

[3:29 PM] 

Nor do they grow wild and are harvestable from trees...

And they don't lay bullets...

Nor do they self-glorify...

Or advertise...

Or create and perpetuate an unhealthy fanatic culture...

Or seek out insane or halfwit or irresponsible owners...

Or drive themselves to hostile situations...

[3:30 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

We need to fix our culture to fix this issue and update who can get a gun

That way when it happens, its more likely somebody finding a gun not purchasing one

[3:30 PM] 

I have no issue with guns

I don't think they should be so easily available...like to anyone...the way they are now, and some adjunct consequences are in order -- like if you didn't keep them locked up and your idiot grandson stole them to shoot up his school, you're going on trial as an accessory.  

[3:30 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Guns should be like vehicles

or planes

If you want a musket, have at it.

If you want a handgun, or regular old sport rifle, that requires a background check, wait period, and a safety course (which gives you a license for that weapon)

If you want an AR-15, same deal, different license

Any US citizen should be able to access any other type of handgun or rifle so long as they prove they are of sound mind and can safely handle one

[3:31 PM] 

Take your training, pass your test, get your license, buy your gun, register it, get the license on it, buy insurance, and renew them all and get your inspections. 

Just the first 3 will cut out so many a-holes we'll be a lot better off.

The rest...eliminates another large set of people that can't handle the responsibility

[3:32 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It'd weed out people that just don't want to go through that trouble. Having one without all that makes them criminals hiding deadly weapons.

[3:33 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The UK has training and licensing for guns

The argument that its still going to happen is true, but it would be way harder to get the weapon

You don't need to ban them. Just regulate better

[3:35 PM] 

UK has training, licensing, storage facilities and usage locations for guns

They aren't in a house

(typically, from what I last read)

Can you imagine, for instance, a culture where you have people that just wants 200 cars to just have parked doing nothing?

You'd be working your whole life to pay to keep the damned things.

[3:37 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

A nation of Jay Lenos

[3:38 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I have not heard of a gun collector doing a mass shooting

[3:38 PM] 

Collectors are different from enthusiasts, and enthusiasts are different from hoarder “nuts”...don't buy into the “collector” fraud.

[3:38 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Collectors collect antique and hard to find stuff generally

Stuff that is rare or distinctive, and not efficient for a mass shooting

[3:40 PM] 

Friend of mine just told a story Tuesday about one of HIS friends going to the house of a gun nut.  The visitor wasn't the brightest himself, but the extended friend was a moron.

Whole floor of the house was packed with guns.

Whole room was full of ammo

"He had to have had 100000 rounds in (probably illegal) clips...crates of loaded bullets.  WHY?  And he was a moron too.  I'd never let him have ONE gun."

He was no collector.  Hoarder.

If the criminal element ever finds out about it, they'll probably kill him without him even being able to defend himself and then empty the place.

[3:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's a good investment, tbh

Especially if the laws get tighter – that guy's gonna be sitting on a gold mine.

Every time there's a school shooting, gun sales and stocks in arms manufacturers go up.

Same thing happened when Obama won each term

[3:42 PM] 

Not really.  Another mutual friend got the joy of dealing with a collection that size when the owner went demented and she got roped into power of attorney.  She had to go to gun shows for a couple years to unload as much as she could.

"90% were crap.  He had so many he couldn't maintain any of them and they were just junk.  I hated every minute of it."

(though she kept a couple ;) )

[3:45 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

eh... I guess the downside is most people don't give a shit about guns so your target audience is barely even like 1/8th of the country

[3:45 PM] 

I'd love to Collect guns. 

I can't maintain museum conditions or I'd have a weapons and armor museum from stone handaxes to the plasma railgun I saw on YouTube last week.

But they'd be rare and interesting

[12:38 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

So i got my Yum Box

It was France like I thought

Got some black truffle chips

A dark chocolate bar

Crepes snack with a basil pesto in the middle

The new hint talks about it “getting cold where castles are big and forests are old”

[12:43 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Sweden? Norway?

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Probably

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Maybe Germany or Austria i guess

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I was thinking Germany originally

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

German forests are technically not old

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Russia has old forests

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Not known for castles though, but they do have them

[12:44 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

right

[12:45 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

really Scandinavia isn't known for castles either

they're more like palaces/schlosses

[12:46 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Romania was another thought

[12:46 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

yes

Technically Poland has the largest castle in the world, i think

Malbork

and they have that old forest still that's in the news lately cuz they want to log it

Poland is my final answer

[12:52 PM] 

"What is: All snacks you can get in Pittsburgh, nat"

[12:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

mmmmm

these truffle chips are the bomb

tastes like a creamy mushroom soup

oh man

I want these chips all the time

[12:55 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

gotta start wearing a beret

[12:56 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

haha

my sophisticated chip eating hat

[1:07 PM] 

(small print on bag)

"Attention: La consommation peut entraîner le port de chemises rayées, de bérets noirs, de fines moustaches cirées et de longs miches de pain."

[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

A truffling we go

a truffling we go

[2:02 PM] 

Tasty

[2:02 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I wonder if they are maybe sending me stuff from Ireland next month

[2:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

no forests

[2:10 PM] 

Switzerland?

Cold...forest...castles... treats

[2:11 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

oh

That sounds good

Romania or Switzerland

[2:12 PM] 

(opens box) "Swiss cheese, Swiss Miss and Swiss Cake Rolls?"

[2:12 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

hehe

[2:13 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

and I pick Poland

[2:13 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Kinda like I thought I would get from the France one

open box - croissants and a note saying AHAHAHHAHHAHHA

hard to write the joking French noise

[2:16 PM] 

I've seen it best as "hon hon hon!"

[2:16 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

uho uho uho

uho ho ho

that is the best i could come up with

[2:21 PM] 

Note to self – The French go "uho uho uho uho ho ho"

The language makes more sense to me now.