Think about how we got here and try to address it.

Focus on:
Mental illness (of every kind)
Nuclear family
Gun safety like was taught in every boy scout troop for the past hundred years (before the pedos came around)
Personal accountability
Proper punishment for crimes (starting at about 2 years old)
Look into the violence in music, movies, kids cartoons, video games and TV (and many other forms of pop culture

I'm sure I.ve missed a bunch of other common sense approaches that a few beers have blocked from my feeble mind. Oh yeah! and substance abuse :)

And what percentage of plastic bags that end up in the ocean are caused by that "rough seas" scenario as opposed to 2 legged pigs??? Not very much I would guess.

Then you have to stop the PERSON, not the gun.

You forget who you're talking to...

Actually, I really wouldn't know. I didn't grow up in scenes from West Side Story.

Considering that 3% is MORE that the grocery store's profit margin, I doubt that will happen...

"Grocery stores operate on razor-thin profit margins. The industry average is between one and three percent, far below other retail sectors..."

Ummm...

Is that was is causing the "Plastic Island", floating around in the pacific? Grocery bags from Publix?

Hush, you'll give people ideas...

Oh, wait... Too late! :grumpy:

So far, so good. Two obvious options, 1, "Stop fhe person"! keep people who are impressionable, irresponsible, prone to violence, want to intimidate or control others with threats and/or actual violence, superiority complexes (narcissistic complex), . Etc. Basically, psychoanalysis for everyone in the US before they are allowed to touch a gun. Your tax dollars at work trying to protect you and your family.
Or, 2, ban guns, with few reasonable exceptions. Yes, bad guys and girls may still get their hands on a gun. But with far fewer guns available, it would be more difficult to come by them. Basically few tax dollars. And, I recon, far more lives saved.
Make your choice. Lives hang in the balance.

Go get ‘em Doc!

I don't remember which store it was, when I lived up north. Might've been Stop & Shop. But whoever it was, offered a 10-cent savings off your grocery bill per bag, if you brought in your own bags. There was a maximum savings per visit, so you couldn't put one item in each bag for 20 bags and expect a $2 discount.

But rather than charge 10 cents extra for their plastic bags, you did get that 10 cent discount for bringing yours in.

No! I did not miss your point. You do realize that virtually anything and everything can be used to injure or kill. Guns, knives (I used to have some beautiful and illegal ones I used aboard ship because of the ability to use one handed - all gone now), bat's, sticks, rope or cord, chopsticks, forks spoons, water glass, Q-tips, pillows, hands, feet fingers, teeth,,,,everything. But guns are far and away the greatest weapon of choice in use for humans killing one another. And it is very telling that you chose to deflect the seriousness of gun violence by trying to shift the focus to other "potential" weapons not primarily produced for hurting or killing people, unlike guns that are produced for the one thing they do,,, kill!

Good luck finding a physician who will take the responsibility to "allow" someone to purchase a gun... Will their malpractice cover them if the person turns out to be a mass shooter?

What about the political leanings of the person doing the "psychoanalysis"? I know more than a few "shrinks" who are rabid anti-gunners. They would love nothing more than to be able to prohibit people from buy a gun...

And since we're now putting a restriction on a "Constitutionally Protected Right", can we have an intelligence test before people vote? Hell, we can't even pass a "Voter ID" bill... It's considered to be racist...

So to recap... No way no how...

Most stores don't "charge" for plastic bags. They "collect a tax" levied by the State...

I actually just watched a video of a giant trash barge having a mountain of trash pushed off into the ocean by a little bulldozer. The commentary said the barge was from SE Asia but didn't give the country of origin and I have no real knowledge of that so I won't post it. I found it by searching for origins of Pacific trash island.

I’m actually tip toeing around getting banned on this forum for expanding on a topic that all of us have deep rooted opinions on. Not getting baited. Try Reddit!
Btw....some people just use them for range and target practice. Don’t use the broad brush analogy when you clearly don’t know and can’t speak for the masses...

GE is a great guy whose opinions often differ from my own. But I respect him and hold him in high regard.
Don't worry, he will "get 'em" when he has the time to waste on little old me.

English is not his first language.

As far as cockroaches go - the ones around my house, live outside in the flower bed. I haven't seen one inside my house in over a year (thankfully), and the pest control guy has strict orders to NOT spray in the flower bed. I have organic herbs in there that I use in cooking, and flowers that are intended to attract pollinators. So pesticides in the garden is a huge no-no. And of course - that means there's a LOT of creepy crawlies that wander around it. It's a symbiotic relationship. I leave them alone, they leave me alone.

Of course it's from Asia... My comment was "tongue in cheek"...

Also, you'd know that *that* person is the bad guy, because - he's the one with the gun.

Got a couple of "Moderator Warnings", have ya'?

Welcome to the "Bad Boys" Club!

The average person riding in a boat - large or small is NOT going to give a flying, fickle finger of fate about whether a plastic store bag is SECURED or NOT. So, the wind blows it off into the ocean or lake. And that happens often enough to cause serious environmental degradation. A year or 2 ago people were volunteering to take their boat out into the Gulf to help clear an area about a mile wide of plastic and plastic bags had formed - due to some wind and tide and wave conditions.

Got a link to that?

I didn't know for certain it's from Asia, I wish I had your level of confidence in that.

Not at all. I don’t take the cheese. This thread, you’d agree, has derailed no?

You are worried about plastic bags... just checking do you use paper plates, or cups, how about utensils, or paper towels or napkins, or best are you or your grandchildren in disposable diapers??? Personally I believe this is where things need to change if you are really worried about the environment?

To get back on topic, my only point about this thread is that Florida doesn't need a state law banning plastic grocery bags.

I second that sir!

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We’re not even ‘birds’ yet. We’ve been called ‘flakes’ I’m wondering how we can compensate for the environmental damage we do in our dozen or so flights a year. 😒

As far as longevity goes the US is concerned, in 2021 the US ranked 60th among nations at 76 years according to the World Bank. Previously, in 2016 the U S ranked 34th.

Sounds good to me.

Plasma burn plants may be capable of that, but around the globe, humans have micro-particles in their blood systems and they have had that for years. Scientists know that earthworm size has decreased in say the last decade, but they don't know WHY. Yet, they are very bothered because earthworms are ACTUALLY very, very important to AGRICULTURE.
......Incidentally, I turned on the car radio to NPR about 2 PM today and the subject was Global Warming (everyone here's favorite subject) and the statement was made that in the last 5 years that Midwest corn and wheat harvests were down 12% due to greater heat. And in the past years the US was located at the perfect latitude sweet-spot for agricultural production and human living. They said that in less than 20 years that perfect latitude will move northward with a center at about Chicago. And in about 100 years or less it may have moved northward to the border of Canada. The west has been burning and many people will move to the US northeast in the near future. Florida will NOT fare well in the future! If someone were interested, they could probably find that broadcast.

If you find the link, please share

Crowd at the water cooler says not only do you point out spelling errors multiple times you PM the people chastise them that either they have lack of education, or that English is not their first language, or have a learning disability.

So your statement “You don’t normally” is quite not correct.

That is one interesting link!!!!!

I thought so too and it led me to start searching for other articles on the topic and it's interesting but not very pretty.

My psychosis is better than your psychosis !

She can tell what state you are from due to your dialect and pronounciation.

The way to stop mass murders is require all guns for civilians to be single shot. Police then confiscate all multiple magazine guns and buy some back until there is mostly single shot. Then the mass murders will decrease. Australia did something along those lines with GREAT SUCCESS!