Tuesday, May 26, 2015

We don't want to ban guns, we just want to prohibit them within 5 miles of a school...

How is within 5 miles of a school not a ban? Here's Houston, with a mark on the map for each elementary school, middle school, high school, college and university. Note the scale at the bottom right. That's 5 miles.


Here's approximately what that map looks like when you expand each dot to a 5 mile radius circle. (I missed a few, but you get the idea.) Note the scale is still there.



No gun ban indeed.

4 comments:

  1. I thought you'd zoomed in at first...
    LOL. Good job with the map.

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    1. Thanks. Visualizing it makes all the difference in the world right?

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  2. We're seeing something similar here in Australia with regards to monitored internet usage: "why don't you want your internet usage monitored? Are you a pedophile?"
    BTW we lost the ability to buy guns after the Port Arthur Massacre where a guy with mental issues was blamed for killing 35 people. His sister has since come out claiming he didn't do it, but it was trial by media.

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    1. I feel for you. My brother was living down there for a while, and asked us to send him some vitamins. Customs demanded to know what the Vitamin C and Calcium were made of.

      We were like... uh... oranges and minerals, I guess?

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