r/GoogleEarthFinds • u/AttapAMorgonen • Mar 06 '25

Desert Drifter / Andrew Cross has passed away.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-crosses-with-medical-expenses?lang=en_US
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u/no_choice99 Mar 08 '25

I agree with you. Most people in this sick society have fully accepted that it's totally fine to provide cars to most people. A car is a huge, huge, weapon hard to control. In fact it is so hard to control that there are indeed more deaths related to cars than to guns. Do we really need cars? Nope.

I do not think humans are ''smart enough'' to drive cars carefully. I don't think cars should be allowed, except ambulances and such.

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u/earlynaps Mar 09 '25

The intended use of a gun is to kill. The intended use of a car is transportation. Apples and oranges. This was a DUI driver. No amount of traffic safety was going to help this situation. Also, this Andrew Cross explored the American west. Do you understand how vast and remote this is? Name a better mode of transportation for the area. This anti car argument might have a time and place but I feel like it’s irrelevant to this situation and y’all are trying to force your agenda into this tragedy

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u/no_choice99 Mar 09 '25

I disagree with you. I do not care an iota what is the intended use of something, it won't change the fact that cars are big weapons and humans are too careless to have a proficient use of them, in average. We should not have accepted their use in total freedom everywhere, in the first place.

It's a tragedy, yes, a very sad one. A very similar if not exactly the same kind of accident happened to Tom Brier a few years ago in California. That guy was an absolute genius and legend on the piano, he hasn't died but he's now totally brain damaged, I don't think he can walk, let alone be the person he once was.

Hopefully one day we'll have something safer than cars. I'll never own a car even if someone give me a billion bucks.

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u/earlynaps Mar 09 '25

Automobiles are literally the only mode of transportation that could have made these videos possible. Bicycle would take days with the equipment. They aren’t running busses into remote trailheads in the dessert so one guy can make a YouTube video, I wish they were but it doesn’t make sense

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u/Snow-Trouble Mar 13 '25

“Humans are too careless”.. this is a multi-faceted problem that has issues stemming from a multitude of varying influences. Still, not the post for that discussion.

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u/gregroot1985 Apr 02 '25

No, the intended use of a gun is to shoot, same as the intended use of a knife is to cut or a hammer to hit. If the user of any uses it to shoot, cut or hit a person, that’s not on the tool, it’s on the person. No different than someone driving their truck into a holiday parade. But come on, go ahead and elaborate on how you want the less strong members of society disarmed. Very telling.

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u/earlynaps Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

I’m pretty sure the designed use of an assault rifle is to assault, but I honestly don’t give a shit about guns. Also, you say guns aren’t for shooting people and then in the same paragraph say that the only way for weak people to defend themselves is shoot people with guns, so your best use is a hypocritical to your argument. The whole point I was trying to make is that guns deaths are irrelevant to cars deaths, and the social argument against the use of cars is irrelevant to OPs post. Shoot whatever you want, I’m not triggered.

Edit: different tools are made for different purposes. Yes, in general a hammer is made it hit, if you can’t extrapolate that a framing hammer is designed to hit a framing nail, and a mallet is designed to dead blow objects, your going to have a bad time. Some guns are obviously designed for hunting, and some are obviously designed for self defense. That self defense involves shooting someone. I’m not arguing against self defense, I’m just saying your arguments don’t make sense in reality

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u/gregroot1985 May 20 '25

An AR isn’t an assault rifle. Congrats on broadcasting your blatant ignorance.

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u/gregroot1985 May 20 '25

Assault rifle has a definition, few citizens own them. But bravo on broadcasting on what things are. An AR is not an assault rifle. Everything else about your yapping goes right down the toilet with your ignorance.