bifrost

Dogpatch is well situated for commuting, as is a fair amount of SOMA. The SFBOS is looking to change that because they want to take down the 280 connector that gets people in and out of SF quickly.

WFH is slowly going away so I wouldn't keep counting on that either.

People who live here, and I mean actually live here, not ones that just pop in for a few years and decide it needs to change.

YIMBYism is very misguided in SF.

Exactly. They should take their YIMBYism somewhere else. Maybe like Oakland. Oakland is permitting more buildings than SF but the problem is that Oakland has a huge crime and governance issue, even worse than SF.

No, there is no market for this.

And even if there was it'd be hamstrung by the lack of infrastructure (roads/parking) so it'd be a nightmare to live there.

100%

Vacancy is at an all time high right now, people are leaving my hometown because of our horrendous government.

They're not screwing their children lol.

Homelessness in SF is about drugs, not housing, its very clear.

This is a terrible idea. The SF YIMBY movement is completely out of touch with the spirit of SF.

I say this as a native San Franciscan.

Sorry, that requirement is illegal.

Money has very little to do with people excercising their civil rights.

Not really. They'll just find another way.

There are also a lot of people who believe people have the right to end their own lives.

You cannot gate a right with a requirement to be in a militia. Even if you could, you only need one person to be a militia.

The government looking through your personal information requires due process, otherwise its a violation of the 4th amendment.

Yes, 5 people were killed and 3 injured by a psychopath with a knife.

Violent dangerous people find a way.

The scale is irrelevant to the actual problem.

What you are suggesting is illegal.

Its illegal to license a right.

We shouldn't penalize the hundreds of millions of legal gun owners in the US because we're unable to catch psychopaths before they kill people.

Thats pretty orthogonal to the issue at hand.

There are over 350 million legal gun owners in the US, we're statistically safer than any other country.

Its because buying a gun is a civil right.

Smoking is not.

That said, the 21yo requirement may be unconstitutional as well.

If we're going to talk numbers - most gun deaths involve gang/drug activities. The real numbers once you remove suicide and gangs all point to mental illness and DV/Violent individuals.

Or we could take the spate of teenage psychopathic murderers and develop a plan to combat it sanely.

It'd have to be threat of violence.

The age restriction is illegal, just ruled on by CA Supreme Court.

Social Media activity check is a violation of the 4th amendment.

You can't tax or gate a right by requiring someone to join a militia.

No, I'm saying their cultures do not tolerate abberation and violence.

There was a mass stabbing in Norway last week, so thats pretty accurate.

Waiting periods are never effective for anything aside from suicide, and they may technically be unconstitutional, that is being fought in the courts right now.

NICS checks are really only effective in dealing with criminal behavior. In this case we're talking about a psychopath who had been manifesting outwardly for a while. For the most part you can't legally background check someone's mental health. What would've worked in this case is "social surveillance" and having the people he interacted with every day report him.

Its true.

Texas had a plan in to spruce up school safety, they just didn't go forward with it, its pretty sad. I read through it, it looked like it would be very effective.

Luckily first responders neutralized the shooter otherwise more kids would've died.

Beto is right and wrong at the same time.

This psycho kid had red flags everywhere and there was no real mechanism in place to close the loop.

It likely will for a variety of reasons.

People will make up all kinds of reasons why "this doesn't happen anywhere else", they'll completely ignore the actual cause of the violence (a person), they'll make excuses, bring up solutions that are illegal, entirely ignore cultural issues, ignore that psychopaths are looking to be famous, point at more laws which won't do anything because the existing ones didn't work/etc.

He's not wrong.

Thats basically exactly whats happening. Its a travesty.

SF enacted massive taxes to basically do this and it does nothing but waste money and drive businesses out of San Francisco.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1494709072414707720

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1514230547203203074

San Francisco is the perfect example of what happens when you house addicts - they don't improve, continue the bad behavior, they destroy the housing and are often kicked out of it. We've got several examples a week of people making meth in their housing and creating a severely hazardous situation.

If you check out @bettersoma on twitter he's got a looooot of info about this.

Homelessness on the west coast doesn't really have much to do with the market pricing of housing, its all about drugs.

Harm Reduction is a sham, its why SF is the way it is.

Simply giving people access to free needles does nothing for the actual problems - unabated drug use.

The shelters usually require sobriety and don't have a good track record of dealing with violent people.

The alternative is actually putting them in jail for the crimes they comitted on the street so they detox there.

It got a mediocre success rate but its 100x better than whats happening now.