tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post3836703606255173361..comments2023-11-09T02:06:49.126-06:00Comments on Rancho Santa Clara: Who should be afraid now?alcubanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-21027763738269641212015-12-08T09:52:23.465-06:002015-12-08T09:52:23.465-06:00We have always answered that question with"We...We have always answered that question with"We lived 4 miles from the border of Detroit. San Miguel de Allende Mexico seems far safer"<br />As for real worry I look at it as a math problem. Your chance of being murdered by someone unknown to you is .0047 per 100'000 (FBI 2012). Your chance of tripping and breaking a bone on a cobble here are about 1 in 3'000. So I will just be cautious and watch my step. <br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16494212589935711411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-69773455977281001572015-12-08T06:25:34.336-06:002015-12-08T06:25:34.336-06:00Yes, urea was used in Oklahoma. Supposedly they p...Yes, urea was used in Oklahoma. Supposedly they put markers in iit today but that is not much help in stopping the nut job before he/she sets off the model rocket engine or M-80 used to start the reaction. <br /><br />I figure the crazy guy down the hill from me is far more likely to take me out than a terrorist so in the words of Alfred E Newman, " What me worry?"normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651902762232427335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-2316631655023224822015-12-06T10:37:32.317-06:002015-12-06T10:37:32.317-06:00As Bill Clinton used to say, "we feel your pa...As Bill Clinton used to say, "we feel your pain (and frustration and depression)" even here, south of the border. <br /><br />alalcubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-24572508854047765732015-12-06T10:36:25.547-06:002015-12-06T10:36:25.547-06:00Some folks have said that you still have terrorist...Some folks have said that you still have terrorists in Paris, despite strict gun controls. Except that the frequency of mass killings, and gun deaths—for whatever reasons—is alarmingly higher in the U.S. There is something wrong in America. Wasn't urea that the Oklahoma City bomber used? alcubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-526603577340165392015-12-06T10:32:19.896-06:002015-12-06T10:32:19.896-06:00I agree with you entirely. Thanks for adding my bl...I agree with you entirely. Thanks for adding my blog to your site.<br /><br />al alcubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-45545450656564101262015-12-06T10:30:28.267-06:002015-12-06T10:30:28.267-06:00Yep. I just saw a picture of Ted Cruz at a gun sho...Yep. I just saw a picture of Ted Cruz at a gun show (store?) thoughtfully examining a handgun. Way to go. alcubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-58365017939840317412015-12-06T10:24:32.922-06:002015-12-06T10:24:32.922-06:00I wondered about exactly that when, after the shoo...I wondered about exactly that when, after the shooting at a movie house in Louisianna, some pol (it may have been former presidential candidate Bobby Jindal) suggested that people ought to be allowed to bring guns into a theater. Whaaat? Are these people stupid or are they so busy pandering to the lowest common denominator they have no time to think? alcubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12667546605871850986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-19770275222647313592015-12-06T07:43:10.471-06:002015-12-06T07:43:10.471-06:00Excellent post. And for me here in the U.S., way b...Excellent post. And for me here in the U.S., way beyond frustrating and depressing.Kathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05633623919935824338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-48526891814666182792015-12-05T11:06:02.620-06:002015-12-05T11:06:02.620-06:00The gun industry needs to step back from the plate...The gun industry needs to step back from the plate and think about its future. I can see a bean ball in its near future if it keeps with its strident rhetoric.<br /><br /> We do not need a gun that can drop a person at 600 yards and have thirty more shots behind it in the magazine for home protection. As far as the mass killers: I can still buy urea at 50% nitrogen at any farm store and high speed gun powder is sold by the 8 lb can in any shooting store. The mass killers have access to some powerful boom boom material, high speed guns or not. <br /><br />The solution is not simple. We need to keep a better eye on people who feel the need to own military type weapons. A person wants that kind of firepower, the rest of us need to know what they are up to. Put those type of weapons in the same basket we keep Tommy guns in. People can own full auto ordnance but they have to jump through a good number of hoops. Owning military ordnance should be as hard to do as opening up a bar. We should keep the high speed stuff legal but keep a much better eye on whoever wants to own the kill thirty people at a clip type guns. <br /><br />The urea and gun powder bomb materials are a different egg. The government puts markers in both materials today but that is useful only after the fact. If the nut jobs are going to kill, they are going to kill, we just need to make it a little harder. High speed guns are just too easy. <br /><br />To address the Mexico or US safety issue; it depends on where you're at in ether bailiwick. They both have their danger zones. normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651902762232427335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-43920028853961921912015-12-05T07:58:43.802-06:002015-12-05T07:58:43.802-06:00Excellent post. I too used to get the frequent qu...Excellent post. I too used to get the frequent question, "Isn't it dangerous to go to Mexico?" But I have noticed in the last couple years that I am asked that less often. Perhaps people are starting to realize that the United States is not necessarily a haven of safety.<br /><br />By the way, I just added your excellent blog to the blog list on my own site.<br />¡Saludos! Retired Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697897155105288077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-48957776835286884672015-12-05T06:43:21.104-06:002015-12-05T06:43:21.104-06:00Exactly. And as of late the politics in the U.S. a...Exactly. And as of late the politics in the U.S. are as scary as anything else. Barbara Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619511749548265127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-16041097044504504292015-12-04T20:59:51.170-06:002015-12-04T20:59:51.170-06:00We are in SMA now and loving the beauty of the cit...We are in SMA now and loving the beauty of the city and the people. Eveyone is kind and helpful. Never felt better.Peter Kouwenhovenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10197113786491782884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672834250325632231.post-74626882450267826732015-12-04T20:18:11.026-06:002015-12-04T20:18:11.026-06:00Alas, here in America, guns are a matter of religi...Alas, here in America, guns are a matter of religious fervor, not any rational thought. <br /><br />No gun enthusiast that I know can give a good answer to the following problem. Say you're in a theatre and some nutcase starts shooting. But ("fortunately") there are "good guys" with guns who shoot back. You too are a "good guy" with a gun, but weren't particularly paying attention to the rest of the audience until the shooting started, so you don't know who shot first. What prevents you from shooting another "good guy?" What prevents another "good guy" from shooting you as you attempt to vanquish the "bad guy?" What prevents a total shootout where everyone kills everyone?<br /><br />The fact of the matter is that there is *NO* good answer to this question, except the obvious: ban guns, or at least make them VERY, VERY difficult to own. <br /><br />Why this isn't obvious to everyone, I don't know. <br /><br />And yes, I'm starting to think it's safer in Mexico. At least there, the shooters have a specific agenda that's easily understood, and fairly easily avoided. <br /><br />Here in the USA? You're at the mercy of every armed nutcase. <br /><br />Saludos,<br /><br />Kim G<br />Boston, MA<br /><i>Which fortunately has some of the stricter gun control measures possible.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com