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Texting on a phone in a car cause my niece to crash. Her car was hit by another car after her car crashed. I am told she died from the other car hitting her.
What killed her?
Her phone? Should I throw away my phones?
The car that hit her? Should I stop driving any car and/or stay off the roads?
Or was it her actions - the fact that she was texting and wasn't paying attention to her driving?
I think it was the latter. I generally do not text and drive at the same time. I almost always pull over or I am otherwise not moving if I need to text while driving my car (rarely happens) - easier anyway to just call (my car connects to my phone).
A gun didn't kill his son. A person killed his son.
What killed her?
Her phone? Should I throw away my phones?
The car that hit her? Should I stop driving any car and/or stay off the roads?
Or was it her actions - the fact that she was texting and wasn't paying attention to her driving?
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Liberals need other people to know and acknowledge they are a good person. More conservative leaning people, know themselves as a good person so lack the need to go around proving it.
Texting on a phone in a car caused my niece to crash. Her car was hit by another car after her car crashed. I am told she died from the other car hitting her.
What killed her?
Her phone? Should I throw away my phones?
The car that hit her? Should I stop driving any car and/or stay off the roads?
Or was it her actions - the fact that she was texting and wasn't paying attention to her driving?
I think it was the latter. I generally do not text and drive at the same time. I almost always pull over or I am otherwise not moving if I need to text while driving my car (rarely happens) - easier anyway to just call (my car connects to my phone).
A gun didn't kill his son. A person killed his son.
I agree with all of you about video games -- it's just an easy scapegoat. Japan is a huge video game market, where kids play tons of games as well as watch mature animation and read mature comic materials (nudity, violence, sex, etc.). You can easily walk into a book store and see a kid reading a comic that is full of violence standing next to a dude reading something borderline pornographic.
YET their crime rates are among the lowest (if not THE lowest) in the world.
It's their culture that ingrains a strong sense of social responsibility from a young age that offsets any of the violence/etc. they see in their media.
It was a choice to buy those remington 700s so...A gun...even a loaded one , can doing nothing until a person does something with it.*
Its about having a choice...
Just what you do with a gun , can make a life changing difference , for you or someone else ...Having someone else make that choice for you , is just wrong.
Andy
* Except for some Remington 700 rifles...
Japan is a poor analogy. They are bred from birth to be subservient and domicile. They have almost effectively zero % cultural melting pot or diversity. And they lead the world in suicide rates. They don't have the diversity or socio-economic problems found in America, nor the freedoms of choice. They are born, live in a homogeneous society, follow oppressive laws, keep their head down, work, and die under their state run tightly controlled government. If accused of a crime in Japan, conviction rates are over 99% and penalties for crimes are significant (by contrast, US conviction rates are high 80% and penalties are generally mild and offer court diversion or non-incarceration options).
Owning a gun in Japan is a fantasy. Near total ban. If you fire the gun, you can be sentenced to life in prison. Think about that for a moment. Yet, even with that, there's still illegal gun ownership and gun related homicides... in spite of the stiff gun penalties.
Even gangsters live in fear of Japan's gun laws | The Japan Times
"In 2002, there were 158 shootings in Japan and 24 deaths. Last year there were 45 shootings and eight deaths — and of the 45 shootings, 33 were yakuza-related."
And yet, still plenty of non-gun homicides including mass murder. Just 3 years ago there was a knife attack mass murder of at least 19 people in 2016. Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead - CNN
And just this week, knife attack kills 3 and injures over a dozen in Japan. Three dead including child after mass stabbing in Japan