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July 18, 2007
Magical new technology creates signs that work!
Regular readers know that I write a lot about the issue which the media calls "gun violence." The argument is that guns kill people (often reformulated in an endless loop as "guns make people kill people"). I tend towards the belief that guns are inanimate objects which will not kill anyone unless someone picks them up and fires them. But there is no bridging the gap, as most of the people on both sides made their minds up long ago. Occasionally, though, a new idea will appear and, finally, via Frank J. at IMAO, I stumbled onto something that appears to be a genuine technological breakthrough which could stop all gun violence once and for all. How it works I don't know, but the video speaks for itself. Apparently, some people have manufactured what appears to be an ordinary sign, but which has magical power to stop gun criminals cold. Unlike using a taser, a dog, or another gun, it works by itself. Just watch the video! If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I'd have never believed it possible. And now that I think about it, I'm reminded of the "Nuclear Free Zone" signs which went up on all streets entering the city of Berkeley back in the 1980s: Much as I like to consider myself a skeptic, I feel forced to ask myself a searching and fearless question. Has there ever been a nuclear attack on the city of Berkeley? Obviously, these signs work. What I'd like to know is how. I'm stumped. posted by Eric on 07.18.07 at 09:28 AM
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What the sign meant was that the city of Berkeley would not approve transport of nuclear-weapons materiel through its area of authority. Unlike the gun situation you mock, they can do this. Of course, they have no ability to authorize or forbid Russian missiles. But the idea was to advertise the message, "We don't allow even U.S. nuclear weapons to pass through this area, so please don't target us with Russian nuclear missiles." As usual for Berkeley, by itself it doesn't do much, but if every municipality were to take that approach (without being over-ruled by federal authority), nuclear weapons would be unworkable throughout the U.S., because different parts need to be built in different places. Certainly, it's a Quixotic idea. Neal J. King · July 19, 2007 03:26 AM Now, wait just one minute. Some years back, I declared myself a nuclear-free zone, and I have not become a smoking crater that glows in the dark. See, you reactionary? It works! Bleepless · July 19, 2007 09:03 PM Why would you think it works? There are nuclei in Berkeley. Joseph Hertzlinger · July 22, 2007 01:50 AM Nice Anonymous · July 24, 2007 05:41 AM interesting Anonymous · July 26, 2007 02:43 AM Cool. Anonymous · July 28, 2007 06:13 AM Cool... Anonymous · July 28, 2007 07:27 AM |
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Nuclear free zone, with an international-NO over a radiation symbol?
That means, obviously, that they've successfully managed to stop atomic decay within the Berkeley city limits!
This has dire health-care consequences, of course, for the entire nuclear medicine field, but it's obviously worth it for a pointless symbolic gesture.