How to Stop Post-Tragedy Panic Syndrome: Podcast

Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.

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How to Stop Post-Tragedy Panic Syndrome: Podcast

On Sunday, a lone gunman perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

Is this significant beyond the human tragedy? Are we a more deadly, violent society than ever before?

On today's podcast, Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss the numbers behind mass shootings and gun violence. What's the biggest step American law can take to reduce homicides?

They also cover Donald Trump's Twitter feud in Puerto Rico, and parse out the difference between presidential malfeasance and just "being a super big dick."

Plus the Jones Act, and other strains of harmful protectionism foisted on Puerto Rico and the rest of the country by special interests.

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[Rhywun]

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[SIV]

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[Rhywun]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

BREAKING NEWS

Libertarian Solution to Vegas Tragedy: Heroin Vending Machines

Libertarianism is asking the public to think logically, but right now the country demands we think with our feelz.

[Juice]

Tom Petty died. NOOOOOOOOO

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

If the government could be trusted (it can't) I'd hazard a number of future tech solutions to evil (a thing I loathe).

1) Cameras fucking everywhere, an entire industry of placing cameras and paying people to watch them.

2) GPS tracking chip (upgraded to neural incapacitator when tech allows) injected into every citizen during childhood... said villiam starts pulling the trigger and you flip a switch incapacitating him 30 seconds later.

3) Apparatus of fingerprint scanners worked into every door or device.

4) Remote controlled tiny combat drones to fly in before swat get set up.

I could spitball ways at battling evil all day; sadly the government can't be trusted and I'd never sacrifice liberty for security. I could compromise more security for more liberty, I.e., cameras everywhere? Fine if you end victimless crime penalties etc.

THAT SAID, all these options come short of simply RETURNING FIRE!! 500 people in a fish bowl, lambs for the slaughter, if even 5 people could have returned fire on that balcony he wouldn't have been able to brazenly stand there emptying clips.

[Juice]

Cameras fucking everywhere

Like in a casino.

[loveconstitution1789]

Nothing a hat cannot fix.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The camera bit doesn't really pertain to this event, more related to stopping/solving back alley rapes and murders.

[CE]

Solving, not stopping.

[chemjeff]

"if even 5 people could have returned fire on that balcony"

He was on the 32nd floor.

Returning fire accurately from ground level while he is shooting at you would seem to be a rather tall order even for the pros.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The best scenario you could have hoped for here was for some "Second Amendment Citizen" in a room on that floor or an adjacent floor hearing the gunfire and leaning over his own balcony to assess the situation and return fire.

[CE]

There were no balconies. Look at the pictures.

[loveconstitution1789]

He chose this shooting position well and there were not any good or realistic countermeasures.

I thought the police finding his room because all the gunpowder set off the smoke detectors, was good police work.

Even with this shooting or 100 like it, I still feel safer with my concealed pistol in the USA.

[Episteme]

"if even 5 people could have returned fire on that balcony"

He was on the 32nd floor.

Returning fire accurately from ground level while he is shooting at you would seem to be a rather tall order even for the pros.

Old And Busted: Good guys with guns.
New Hotness: Good guys with shoulder-mounted rocket launchers.

[CE]

Society is less violent, because this nut is now dead.

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