Owning a Gun INCREASES the Chance of Having an Accident. Suicides increase too... More Family Lives are LOST than Lives SAVED Defending Yourself from the So-Called "Bad Guys."

Bow and Arrow Hunting is a Great Alternative to Using an Assault Rifle to Kill Bambi. It has the potential to turn Hunting into a SPORT.

Of course, I am a Great Supporter of the Second Amendment as written... MUSKETS SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution... Rifles, Machine Guns, Bazookas, Rocket Launchers and Hand Grenades had not been invented yet AND ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT... 

And anyway, with the invention of Viagra, there is no real need for guns... Limp NRA "Members" can achieve a "Standing" Militia by just eating a Pill! Did you ever read one of those Magazines about Guns? In the back are Endless Advertisements for Erection Help... I guess they know their readers... 

Trump signed the
HELP CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS
Law. H.J. Res 40

If you are Getting a Social Security Disability Check FOR INSANITY... That Fact Is No Longer Reported on a Gun Buying Background Check... H.J. Res 40 - Trump Signed That Law in 2017...

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I posted on Facebook:

The Number One Cause of Death by Gunshot is Suicide. That's A Blessing as It Reduces the Number of "Gun Nuts" Alive.

KD Replied: Not a very nice thing to say Greg! You may want to rethink this post or remove it.

BAH Said: Not all gun owners are nuts. Moving to Idaho I discovered most here own them as there is hunting season here. I now own one for the purpose of going to a range to do target shooting. A common sport here and it is fun. We have very little gun crime here. And, I am not a nut.

I Replied: Go right ahead... Risk your life and your families lives... In 2017, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. Though they tend to get less attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. https://www.pewresearch.org/.../what-the-data-says-about.../

MD Said: According to your rationale, might as well stop driving a car too

Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads. An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.

I Replied: I don't own a car... I Only leave the house about once every three months and I Use Uber or Lyft... However... Cars provide a useful service... Guns Do Not. Absolutely useless... I truly Believe That the desire to Own Guns is a Genetic Trait. If Your Grandfather Owned Guns and your Father Owned Guns... it's Likely that You and Your Children will Own Guns... There is a "Gun Nut" Gene... and the Human Race would be better off when That Gene Goes Extinct... Did You Notice that Automobile Exhaust is a Major Cause of Climate Change? I have Often Ridden the City Bus to and From Work... It's Great... Especially in Eureka... I walked three City blocks to the Stop, Got On and the Bus Driver woke me up when we got to work... Then On the Ride Home I Chatted with a Pretty Girl that Worked at Costco... You Can't Meet Women if You Drive by Yourself in a Car...

JJ Said: Yeah. That doesn’t work on BART.

I Replied: Many Kind Services like the Bus Driver Watching out for me Fail IN THE CITY... That's The Beauty of Living in Small Town USA. I FLED San Jose in the Late 1990s and Moved to CHICO... and Rode My Bike Everywhere... then in 2001 Went to Humboldt State University in Arcata... It's almost Impossible to Believe that the "Real World" Exists when Living behind the Redwood Curtain... I see on TV That Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and their Lives Suck... but then I Change the Channel...  

JJ Said: Ya know. This has been debated. Argued. Yelled. Screamed. Legislated.

All ineffectively.

Two reasons.

1. Criminals do not follow any laws.

2. Congress does not want to piss off donors.

Stop and search laws were considered unlegal after implementing due to the overzealous actions of police.

Since this will always occur with military style police departments, it will prove to be ineffective continually unless other legislation is used to describe when and where to use stop and search techniques. You think since we have an all Democratic Congress right now that this would be possible but in fact most elected officials are so incompetent they can’t see through their own fucking glasses to get things done correctly. Actually writing legislature such that in very high crime cities are high crime parts of cities within certain boundaries, stop and search techniques are allowed, and only for the purpose of capturing weapons. Violators are not arrested their weapons are just taken away and they are put on a list that says who they are and what was taken from them. If they get caught a week later with another weapon then you can deal with them legally. But the law can’t just give police carte blanche to stop and search any car anytime anywhere if it’s not in one of the exceptionally high weapon crime areas.

Additional legislation would also be required to stop people with mental problems, histories, and could be even taking a step further that before you become a gun owner, you have to have a psychological profile done. Of course all these open up more and more lawsuits and so it would have to be vetted properly and conducted properly and taking into account the persons history, social media etc.

it also help if there was a database that showed what people were considered irresponsible, racist, volatile and these people are not allowed to have a gun. They would say it’s a violation of their constitutional rights but in fact, if Congress looked at the constitution correctly, they would understand that the purpose of the second amendment was to provide for a quick militia to be available if necessary. It wasn’t intended to let mentally ill criminals or violent people have a gun so they can use it inappropriately. Making that distinction of intent from the constitution is an important part of providing new laws that serve the times that we’re in. But the problem again is that our Congress is too ignorant to actually decipher these realities and propose and pass adequate legislature that takes into account the intent of the militia, which really no longer applies in 2021, and defers gun ownership to people who it is inappropriate for them to have.

and Yet, Guns Serve no Useful Purpose... Many People BELIEVE That Owning a Gun Will Protect Their Family BUT That Belief is FALSE. More People Die from Suicide, Accidents and One Family Member Killing Another Than There are Lives Saved Protecting Your Family From Bad Guys...  

Instead of Hannity, Try Sanity! Why Watch Talking Heads on TV Screaming DANGER DANGER About Problems You Can't Do Anything About? Is That Entertainment? Don't Be a Sucker, Unplug Tucker!

I Refuse to Watch FOX News. In General, What They Talk About Makes No Difference In My Life At All. And If There WAS Something Important, It's On NBC, CBS or ABC.

The FOX NEWS Marketing Plan is Hate Speech for High Viewer Ratings. CNN & MSNBC Target Different Demographics BUT... I'm Tired of Being a Target! I Read Google News Instead. 

Actually, I Prefer to Take a Walk in the Garden and Photograph Roses... Like This Pink and Coral Blend... AHH

Perfect Pink Rose at Home
I Intentionally Search for Beauty

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/i-refuse-to-watch-fox-cnn-or-msnbc-news.html

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Texas Being Their Own Country Would Be Great... They are a FAILED STATE and the USA Spends a Lot of Money Keeping them Afloat. FEMA, Welfare, Border Security...

Imagine if They Just Solved Their Own Problems instead of always running to Uncle Sam for a Handout?

House Passes Bill to Make Washington DC a State... We Can Keep the 50 Star Flag if we Simply Threw Texas OUT! 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/politics/allen-west-texas-kfile/index.html

New Map of the
50 United States
Texas Gone -
Washington DC Added

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/04/texas-being-their-own-country-would-be.html

• Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns. It's Not Complicated.

   

  

  Remember: GUNS DO NOT SAVE LIVES... They Make Your Family Less Safe.  Suicides, Accidents and Murder by Family Members VASTLY Outnumber The Lives Saved by Defending Your Family from "Bad Guys."

  If Your Plan of Owning a Gun to Defend Your Family WORKED IN REALITY I Would Be In Favor of it. But Sadly, It Doesn't. 

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/ 

  "Conclusions: Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense."

  People Who PROFIT From Gun Sales Have Been Publishing FALSE Information To Frighten People Into Buying More Guns. The NRA Sells Memberships... Their Trick is to Scream Danger Danger You Need a Gun... Gullible Members of the Public are FOOLED... 

US Army VX Nerve Gas Accident Killed 6,249 Sheep near Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Rancher Paid $376,685 for His Loss. [US History They Don't Teach in School]

The Dugway sheep incident of March 1968 made visible the military’s covert attempts to test and stockpile millions of dollars worth of chemical weapons...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-death-6000-sheep-spurred-american-debate-chemical-weapons-cold-war-180968717/

As more sheep sickened and died, spokespeople for the Dugway facility denied testing any weapons in the days before the die-off. But on March 21, U.S. Senator Frank Moss, a Democrat representing Utah, released a Pentagon document that proved otherwise: On March 13, the day before Sherriff Gilette came across the macabre scene, a high-speed jet had sprayed 320 gallons of nerve gas VX across the Dugway grounds in a weapons test. The odorless, tasteless chemical is so deadly that less than 10 milligrams is enough to kill a human by asphyxiation, via paralysis of the respiratory muscles.

Although the Army never released a full, detailed report, they paid $376,685 to rancher Alvin Hatch, whose sheep accounted for 90 percent of those afflicted. The military also lent bulldozers for the mass burial of the dead sheep, and initiated a review of the safety protocol at Dugway.

After World War I, in which every major power deployed chemical weapons—resulting in 1 million casualties and more than 90,000 deaths

Western nations signed the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The agreement prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons, and for a time it seemed as if it would be obeyed.

But the United States never signed the agreement. Between 1961 and 1969 alone, the U.S. military spent $2 billion on its chemical weapons stockpile, writes science historian Simone Müller in Historical Social Research. Over that same period, the military dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of old chemical weapons directly into the ocean, without bothering to keep records of precisely where or how many weapons were disposed of. The military also discovered multiple instances of chemicals leaking out of their containers, including 21,000 leaky bomb clusters discovered in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver.

Yet the American public was almost entirely unaware of any of the stockpiles, or the danger of testing, storing and transporting them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground

There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident (see below). In total, almost 500,000 lb (230,000 kg) of nerve agent were dispersed during open-air tests.[15] There were also tests at Dugway involving other weapons of mass destruction, including 328 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 dirty bomb tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open-air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of meltdown of aeronautic nuclear reactors.[15]

In March 1968, 6,249 sheep died in Skull Valley, an area nearly thirty miles from Dugway's testing sites. When examined, the sheep were found to have been poisoned by an organophosphate chemical. The sickening of the sheep, known as the Dugway sheep incident, coincided with several open-air tests of the nerve agent VX at Dugway. Local attention focused on the Army, which initially denied that VX had caused the deaths, instead blaming the local use of organophosphate pesticides on crops. Necropsies conducted on the dead sheep later definitively identified the presence of VX. The Army never admitted liability, but did pay the ranchers for their losses. On the official record, the claim was for 4,372 "disabled" sheep, of which about 2,150 were either killed outright by the VX exposure or were so critically injured that they needed to be euthanized on-site by veterinarians. Another 1,877 sheep were "temporarily" injured, or showed no signs of injury but ultimately were not marketable due to their potential exposure. All of the exposed sheep that survived the initial exposure were eventually euthanized by the ranchers, since even the potential for exposure had rendered the sheep permanently unsalable for either meat or wool.

The incident, coinciding with the birth of the environmental movement and anti-Vietnam War protests, created an uproar in Utah and the international community.^[17] The incident also starkly underscored the inherent unpredictability of air-dispersal of chemical warfare agents, as well as the extreme lethality of next-generation persistent nerve agents at even extremely low concentrations.

It Takes TWO People To Make a Lie Work. The CON MAN and the CHUMP... You Have Been Fed the Fiction That Owning a Gun Makes Your Home Safer... However, That's FALSE...

It's a Marketing Trick to SELL GUNS and SELL Membership in the NRA... They are Lying to You and You BELIEVED THEIR CrazyTalk® 

The Easiest way to Protect Your Family From Danger is to Get Rid Of any Guns in the Home. Fortunately, there are several legal ways to remove guns from your possession. Below is a look at some options for legal gun removal... https://putgunsinsafehands.org/the-single-best-way-to-get-rid-of-inherited-guns/

To Make Your Home Safer, Simply Remove any Guns. That Removes the Chances of an Accident... It's Not Complicated... "We at Cash My Guns celebrate the right of law-abiding Americans to own a gun. Similarly, we celebrate the right of law-abiding Americans to relinquish ownership of their guns."

https://www.cashmyguns.com/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-a-gun-legally/

A Simple HOW TO Article about Making Your Home Safer... At the National Center for Unwanted Firearms Inc., our mission is to accept and responsibly dispose of or repurpose unwanted firearms and promote firearm safety and awareness in communities. https://www.unwantedfirearms.org/

If you want to surrender an old gun, call your local police station’s non-emergency phone line and describe the situation. They will usually be happy to walk you through the process. Depending on the station they may even dispatch officers to your home to collect the firearm, ask you to schedule an appointment to bring it in, or simply ask you to walk in. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/four-ways-to-dispose-of-an-unwanted-gun-ask-foghorn/

ANOTHER CRAZY MAN WITH A GUN COMMITS SUICIDE BY COP.  HEADLINE: "Anthony Thompson Jr., 17, was shot and killed by a police officer at Austin-Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-charges-officer-who-fatally-shot-tennessee-high-school-student-n1265045

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My Favorite Acid Trips were Way Out in the Woods Backpacking with Friends... Climbing Mountains in Yosemite or Walking Around the Redwood Forests Near Santa Cruz... IMPORTANT! Do Not Take LSD Near a Policeman... It's Illegal... and They Might Arrest You... REALLY! Dancing at a Grateful Dead Concert IS a Fine Location Also as It Has Been My Experience that The Police are NOT Likely to Enforce the Law...  https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78qvw/solo-trip-acid-mushrooms-advice-harm-reduction

HEADLINE: "Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans emerges as Biden's next big challenge." - Frankly Speaking, I do not see a Problem with Republicans Refusing to Get Vaccinated for Coronavirus... Let them Get Sick and Die... Truly Making America Great! I'm Comfortable With the Disease Lasting a FEW MORE YEARS if It Means The Removal of Crazy People From the Planet... DARWIN! https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/politics/joe-biden-vaccine-hesitancy/index.html

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to ban hydraulic fracturing by 2024 as part of a longer-term aim to end all oil extraction in the state. The governor has ordered the state's top oil regulator to implement regulation to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024. He has also directed the state's air resources agency to look at ways to phase out oil extraction completely by 2045. "The climate crisis is real, and we continue to see the signs every day," Newsom said in a Friday press release. "As we move to swiftly decarbonize our transportation sector and create a healthier future for our children, I've made it clear I don't see a role for fracking in that future and, similarly, believe that California needs to move beyond oil." https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/990368418/california-governor-moves-to-ban-fracking-by-2024?ft=nprml&f=

HEADLINE: "91 Percent of Americans Support Legalized Marijuana as Democrats Push to Reform Laws." Legalization will Increase VOLUNTARY TAXES and Reduce Spending on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. EVERYBODY WINS! 

https://www.newsweek.com/91-percent-americans-support-legalized-marijuana-democrats-push-reform-laws-1585867

SCOTUS GOES CRAZY - RULES IN FAVOR OF CRIMINALS! "The Supreme Court ruled in favor of scam artists and dishonest corporations, leaving average Americans to pay for illegal behavior," FTC Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said in a statement after the ruling. "With this ruling, the Court has deprived the FTC of the strongest tool we had to help consumers when they need it most. We urge Congress to act swiftly to restore and strengthen the powers of the agency so we can make wronged consumers whole." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/supreme-court-ruling-helps-scam-artists-avoid-punishment-ftc-chair-says/

HEADLINE: "Santa Cruz man gets 10 years in federal prison for selling psychedelic drugs at college" - CLassic Example of CrazyLaws® - Why are LSD, MDMA and Magic Mushrooms Illegal? No One Knows... Were the Politicians that Wrote the Laws BRIBED BY BIG PHARMA? How ELSE Can You Explain the Insane Laws? A Frantic Attempt to Prevent Teenagers from Becoming Hippies and Refusing to Participate in the Vietnam War? That "War on Drugs"Failed 50 Years ago But the Laws are Still on the Books!

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/23/santa-cruz-man-gets-10-years-in-federal-prison-for-selling-psychedelic-drugs-at-college/

On the Ram Dass Facebook Group: How do you get out of, what feels like a negative loop?

I Intentionally think of a Positive Experience... For Example: Whenever I See A Turtle I Have a Bad Memory... So After I Remember that I FORCE Myself to Think about a Fantastic Memory... Like Dancing at a Grateful Dead Concert with my Wife when they Played Terrapin Station... Here is a Visual Mantra... Remember the Mirrored Ball of Winterland...

SE Posted of Facebook: At an apartment where I lived briefly before this one, I had several nicknames for my neighbors. The building had paper-thin walls, so you could hear everything. There was "the crazy lady," because she walked around the courtyard talking to herself and sometimes looking up and talking loudly to God. Above me was "the mad cougher," because he would randomly cough loudly, and since the walls were paper-thin, it sounded like he was coughing right in the room with me. There was also "the sweeping lady," because she would get out her broom and sweep the staircase wearing high heels. She slowly made her way down the stairs, sweeping each one along the way, then she did the same thing on the way back up. 

At my current apartment, I have had ongoing issues with noise from the apartment below me. (Paper-thin walls again - bleh.) There is a man who doesn't live there full time, but when he visits the apartment below me, it sounds like his voice is being amplified into my apartment through a club sound system. I refer to him as "Sir Booming Voice."

I Replied: I live in a Six Person Group Home for the Elderly... and One Lady always complains about the Food at every Meal... and She says She wants to get out of Here... "I Hate it, Hate It, Hate It Living Here." However, When her Daughter Visits she ALWAYS FORGETS about how much she Hates Living Here... Her Daughter Pays the Rent and COULD TAKE ACTION to Move Her to a Different Place... Or Move Her to Live at her Daughters House... SO... She is the Endless Complainer... I Guess that the Joy of Seeing her Daughter Erases all memory of How Much She Hates Living Here...

Get Together by the Youngbloods... a Great Hippie Song... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_inXx-J3nU

I Like watching Documentaries on TV. It's Important to Me To NOTICE REALITY and They Often Have Valid Information... Today it's "Investigating the Historical Jesus." - Quite an Interesting Story! http://www.robertfeduccia.com/new-products/investigating-the-historical-jesus

In the Ram Dass Facebook Group: What are some interesting spiritual experiences you’ve had?

I Said: I Accidentally slipped into the Tuolumne river upstream from a Giant Waterfall at Hetch Hetchy while High on LSD, Marijuana and Peyote... The Current Was Vastly Stronger than I was and I was swept to the bottom of the pool... then I Accepted Death... Relaxed and Somehow Bubbled Up to a Place I could Crawl out of the Water... Every Day since then Has Been a GIFT. That Day We Climbed up a Granite Chimney... Never Before or Since Have I Been Able to Do That Feat of Freeclimbing... I Had a LOT of Energy and Lack of Fear due to The LSD...

In Retrospect...  I'm Extremely Lucky to Have Taken Two LSD Trips in Yosemite... and I Survived, So... It's all Good!

One of Yosemite's oldest historic trails (built 1873 to 1877), the Yosemite Falls Trail leads to the top of North America’s tallest waterfall, which rises 2,425 feet (739 m) above the Valley floor. This trail starts near Camp 4, along the Valley Loop Trail, and immediately begins its climb, switchback after switchback, through oak woodland. You will begin to climb above some trees and into exposed plateaus that offer you a glimpse of what's to come: great views of Yosemite Valley and its many iconic landforms. Do not stray off of the maintained path, as you will find steep drops adjacent to the trail.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/yosemitefallstrail.htm

Hidden in Yosemite National Park’s peaceful northwest corner, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a treasure worth visiting in all seasons. Located at 3,900 feet, Hetch Hetchy boasts one of the longest hiking seasons in the park and is an ideal place for thundering spring waterfalls and wildflower displays. High temperatures prevail in summer months, but that is a small price to pay for the reward of vast wilderness filled with stunning peaks, hidden canyons, and remote lakes.

Hetch Hetchy is on the main stem of the Tuolumne River and is part of the Tuolumne watershed. The Tuolumne River originates in the peaks above Tuolumne Meadows and is the major drainage system for the northern part of Yosemite. The Tuolumne River continues through Tuolumne Meadows and the associated park developments at an elevation of 8,600 feet. It then cascades on its westward descent through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, and enters the eastern end of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Hetch Hetchy is dammed by the 430-foot-tall O’Shaughnessy Dam and has a storage capacity of 360,360 acre-feet. It is the primary water source for about 2.5 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hh.htm

Arming Teachers with Guns is a Dangerous Idea - Opposed by Most Parents and Students. But It's a BIG SALE OF GUNS for the NRA.

Gonzo Marketing! What a windfall for Gun Manufacturers and Trainers. Hundreds of thousands of teachers would need to be taught how to kill... WHEE! Kids Killed! Mega Profit!

tRUMP got $30 Million Dollars campaign contribution from the NRA and he is a BOUGHT PUPPET... When they ask him to JUMP, he says "How High?" on the way up.

Remember, having a gun in the home increases the chance of having a GUN ACCIDENT. As a matter of fact, gun "accidents" are more of a threat to family safety than "Bad Guys" invading your house. Suicides, shooting a family member during an argument and kids playing with guns cause many more fatalities...

Another Reason Guns Should Be Outlawed is that Suicide using a Gun is usually Fatal but other methods OFTEN FAIL. I know a person living today that tried to kill themselves... BUT FAILED!

He Took all the pills in the medicine cabinet. That method was not fatal... just made him throw up. He is glad to be alive. I know another person that slashed his wrists... I saw the scars that were healing... If he had used a Gun he would be dead.

When you have a GUN in the home you are more likely to have a Gun ACCIDENT. Kids playing with a loaded gun... Shooting a friend during an argument... Cleaning a gun and OOPS.

A better hobby is creating ART on photoshop... It's easy, fun and safe...

Great Movie: FAIL SAFE... Atomic War by Accident... Similar to Dr. Strangelove -Filmed in 1964 during the height of worry about Atomic War... Duck and Cover drills at Schools etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(1964_film)

Amazing performance BY Henry Fonda and Larry Hagman as President of the USA and his Translator as they call the President of The USSR that accidentally an airplane carrying Nuclear Bombs was going to Moscow... Written soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis when many Americans were preparing themselves for the end of the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" by Stanley Kubrick.
a Satirical look at the End of the World by Atomic War... Funny and Absurd... Peter Sellers plays a closet NAZI... and Slim Pickens rides an Atomic Bomb down to the Earth like  it was a Bucking Bronco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Alert_(novel)
Both Movies were based on Peter George’s dramatic novel Red Alert.