More Hilarity Regarding Magazine Bans
I need to keep mentioning this because it's important: If you aren't well-trained in a subject, it's dangerous and foolish to try to legislate it. Consider all the internet "equality" and "freedom" and "safety" acts to come out of Congress.
One of the items during so-called "Assault Weapon Ban," is being bandied about for renewal-a ban on "high ( Read more... )
This thing regarding the clamor for bans of ugly guns, bans of magazines, bans of 'assault' guns are caused by a refusal on the part of most adults to think about a subject they are uncomfortable with, namely the possibility of a psychopath entering a school. Since they don't want to consider the possibility of it happening, they therefore cannot consider realistic solutions like arming the teachers (allowing the realistic solutions would force them to consider the unpleasant possibility). So instead, they engage in 'magical' thinking, and demand bans that they think will somehow magically prevent the unpleasant possibilities that they don't want to consider. I've seen exactly the same thing in 'Christian' parents who are so psychologically immature that they don't want to consider the possiblity of their child having sex at an age when nature dictated that they normally would start having sex. Therefore, they refuse to get their child a vaccination for the HPV virus. Not getting their child the vaccination doesn't actually prevent the child from having sex, any more than not arming teachers prevents maniacs from invading schools, and if the child gets cancer, or the maniac kills 20 children, at least the so-called 'adults' didn't have to previously think about things like sex or violence that made them uncomfortable.
As for making it more difficult for the military, because soldiers will have to waste time accounting for every single magazine, this sort of mind set doesn't seem to grasp logistics, either. Their 'magical' thinking, to the degree that they think about it at all, probably thinks that keeping track of a magazine in a war zone, when you have been awake for three days, are standing in 2 feet of mud and have 15 people shooting at you from different directions is no more complicated than keeping track of your cell phone or eyeglasses during a peaceful day on the beach after 10 hours of sleep the previous night.
So, I heard more magical thinking on the radio this morning, some so-called scientist claiming that we need to switch completely to solar and wind power. Not going to happen any time soon, unless 99% of all people are willing to have their lifestyle reduced to that of a medieval peasant. Really, I do wonder about people who support Obama, he contradicts himself constantly. On the one hand, he promises everyone free goodies. On the other hand, he says he is going to reduce our energy usage. The wealth of a society is largely dependent on the amount of energy of a society. I just read a book by Murray Leinster that briefly outlined this principal. A strong man can produce, perhaps, 250 watts for a reasonable length of time with his own muscles. With that amount of energy at the disposal of himself and everyone else in his society, he is a savage. When he first tames a horse, he has 1000 watts (1 kilowatt) at his disposal, and becomes a barbarian. When he learns to direct the energy of the horse better by inventing the plow and other tools, he becomes a medieval peasant. The Victorian age saw the invention of the steam engine, and gave an average of 4 kilowatts of energy for every human being (in countries that had the steam engine). - to be continued in next post.
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