Fact: Google has a self-driving car. They're not the only one.

Fact: ZipCar is a business. They turn a profit.

Fact: This is ZipCar with cars that don't need to be at a garage or a curb-side parking spot within walking distance; it's essentially cabs without cab drivers.

Fact: The taxicab business is a thriving industry. This is in no part due to the wondrous experience of interacting with a cabbie, and almost wholly in part due to the convenience of a service by which you can have a car come and get you instead of navigating public transportation routes.

Argument given: it sounds fancy, must be a fantasy that can't happen in real life.

This is why somebody will be rich and it won't be you.

vs. someone else using the available gun in your home to cause harm to yourself and your family.

Very high because I know how to get to the guns (or even that hey are there), an intruder does not.

or some sneaky kids in your home causing an accident with a deadly weapon.

Same thing, not going to happen.

or some otherwise harmless burglar/intruder killing you out of fear of the gun in your hand.

Well then he was probably going to shoot me anyway if he was so freaked out, at least I had a chance of scaring him off before I was shot.

In your last scenario without a gun my wife was probably raped while I was forced to watch at gunpoint, whereas if I had a gun and *if* I was shot instead of the burglar (despite knowing my own home better than him) at least the guy probably would have run off after shooting me, and my wife is safe.

That's what I never did understand about gun control nuts, just why they were so adamant in the protection of rapists from harm.

So you readily admit getting rid of guns does nothing to reduce crime.

Therefore getting rid of guns only hurts lawful citizens who simply want to be able to protect themselves as needed.

You don't appear to understand humor or how to post just once. :-)

God, yes. So many small-minded MBAs have this completely unrealistic bullshit going through their heads, and they actually think it'll work. Like there was this college grad once that wrote up this ridiculous business plan about how he was going to bring packages from all over the country back to a single distribution center, and then ship them back out on planes and have them delivered the day after they were sent. Ludicrous. And now we have shit like Amazon talking about same-day delivery, laughable, never happen.

I've been listening to excuses like this for years. "No, it can't be done..." "No, corporate is too tight with money..." "No, the government doesn't care about us..."

You can shut it. 12 years of the whole neighborhood calling city services to complain about a burned down house and they staunchly refused; in two weeks I had placed phone calls to 5 city offices, my councilwoman, and the mayor, and the house is now scheduled for demolition. People claim security just "makes things too hard" and I build systems that integrate security such that workflows are only affected by minor adjustment and some security administrator gets the job of managing all the big stuff in the background. I've been told time and again that certain tools can't be used because "nobody will buy into that, it's too expensive" or whatever and I've done the analysis and gotten buy-in from parties who stood in staunch opposition just days before.

Stop telling me what can't be done. Go jump off a bridge, we don't need you.

This is a lot of decision-by-negativity. I see opportunities.

Very few people are killed by criminals carrying seat belts.

So after reading my original post again, and reading this response, I have to ask; is "minus9" your username or your IQ?

"On Monday evening, only days before an area man masturbated yet again to 3D images of Bigfoot getting a blowjob, the Senate extended the Undetectable Firearms Act."

Irrelevant bullshit is irrelevant.

Maybe you do.

Yes, I do. Along with you. The simple truth is any criminal can easily get a gun if he wants one.

If you live in so much fear

I live in zero fear. Do you "live in fear" because you buckle a seatbelt in a car? No, you do so just as a precaution. 99% of the time it does nothing. But that 1% it's a useful tool indeed.

To many people guns are things you see on television

Well the world is indeed a generally ignorant place with people being told to be afraid of something just because, as you demonstrate.

Go ask the guy who runs Ford if there would still be a Ford if GM and Chrysler had gone under.

There would have been a much larger Ford, and probably a lot of new factories making cars in the U.S. for all of the other major manufacturers.

Or if the sudden collapse of the suppliers relied upon by all 3 would have put them out of business as well.

In a bankruptcy the bankrupt companies would be required to still make replacement parts, so no.

You think so? You don't think the smoking carcass would own all of the patents and make it impossible for a bunch of new startups to get into the industry?

Thus innovative new cars that worked around the old patents.