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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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He was full of holes and down on the ground when his brother ran over him.
Since 1984 327 children have drowned in buckets, about 30 a year.
http://www.preventinjury.org/PDFs/DROWNING.pdf
We need to ban buckets!
Better yet demand background checks and strict regulation of the possession of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Perhaps what we need most of all are mandatory school courses in logic.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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And statistics.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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That's gonna explode some minds
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Yearly there is 1 child killed by a gun for every 1 million-plus guns.
There is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential swimming pools.
Obviously we need to ban swimming pools!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Mr Kay writes:
"All other civil societies that limit access to these killing machines are generally speaking LESS VIOLENT and as a consequence MORE CIVIL."
You mean someplace with limited firearm access like Mexico?
Or Brazil?
Venezuela?
Those places are less violent than the U.S.?
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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someone's mind just exploded and spewed all over their keyboard
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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The ratio that is relevant to a civil society is gun violence per capita. Why? because guns are by far the most efficient killing machines available and when widely available they are used as the preferred tool of violence to the detriment of civil society by an exponential rate of efficiency. American society is living proof. All other civil societies that limit access to these killing machines are generally speaking LESS VIOLENT and as a consequence MORE CIVIL.
After leaving the USA where there was a lot more gun crime, most all done by idiots, and moving to BC where I know a lot more people/friends/neighbors who own guns, but fewer idiots, and almost no gun crime I can see now how gun crime over many years increases or decreases as a result of the laws that shape society. Initially, no, there will be idiots who grew up thinking guns should be toys. But yeah, given a few generations and new laws in the US, things could change, like I said earlier in this thread, (months ago?)
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Mr Kay writes:
"I f you consider the USA to be on a par with Brazil, Mexico or whatever then fine. I get it."
I don't consider America to be on par with any other country. We're exceptional.
But of you want to compare different countries, you can't cherry-pick the ones that seem to advance your point while ignoring similar ones that would contradict it.
Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela are all civilized democracies, yet harsh gun laws there have caused their murder rates to skyrocket.
Laws don't always work the way you want them to, and the liberal left doesn't have a good track record of predicting the effects of the laws they pass.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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How about Chicago?
Chicago has exactly equal social/economic status with the US, and extremely harsh gun prohibition. And look what those harsh gun laws have done to the murder rate there.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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How would you account for a law banning guns having one effect in somewhere like Great Britain, while the exact same law on the books in some place like Mexico has the exact opposite effect?
I'm saying it isn't the law ( or absence thereof ) that makes a safer society.
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WBraun
climber
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Chaz -- "I'm saying it isn't the law ( or absence thereof ) that makes a safer society."
One guy gets it.
The rest just plain stupid ......
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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there are swimming pool barrier regulations in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and probably any state that has private swimming pools...
good thing the Bill of Rights didn't have an amendment
A well regulated fitness being necessary to the serenity of a free state, the right of the people to possess and use swimming pools shall not be infringed.
We'd be having a debate about the attacks on it imposed by state governments regulating their access...
as for drowning in containers, it is a serious problem for children... and one also subject to regulation... there is the Bucket Drowning Prevention Act of 1993 that requires a label warning of the risk...
This was because research showed that there had been 400 accidental drownings of children between 1985 and 1993.
In 1999 alone there were 214 unintentional gun deaths of children (0-19 yrs) and 73 gun deaths to children under five years old, yet no action on the part of the Congress... just taking those 73, it's a higher rate than the deaths due to drowning in buckets...
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WBraun
climber
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The Bruce -- "you idiots a civil society or not?"
We can easily see that you are uncivilized.
Excessive laws to force control.
Mistreatment and slaughter of all living entities only to satisfy your lusty tongue.
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Sredni Vashtar
Social climber
The coastal redwoods
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To clear this up as its inaccurate, only certain firearms are illegal in England & Wales (although UK, N Ireland and Scotland have their own firearms laws). There are plenty of guns in the UK but you have to be in posession of a license to own one. Semi autos larger than a .22 rimfire and all handguns are banned. Shotguns are easier to obtain than rifles. I grew up in the country, plenty of guns about there.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.
Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.
In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.
The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%.
That's what it's really about. It's not about hunting weapons; it's not about the "National Guard" (which isn't a militia). It's about everyday law-abiding citizens having the ability to resist a tyrannical government. And with that deterrent in place, we've managed 230 years without our government descending into tyranny (though it's come close).
And that's why Progressives hate it. Deep down, progressives (i.e. socialists) are not populists. Deep down, progressives despise the majority of their fellow citizens, and don't trust them at all. They love America but hate most of the Americans. Progressives are entranced with the possibilities presented by a benevolent dictatorship. They ignore the peril, that it can mutate into a malevolent dictatorship because they believe in their own virtue. They're sure it won't happen if they're in charge. As to Democracy? It's a burden, a barrier; it gives the vote to all the rednecks and knuckle-draggers who have been mislead by the evil capitalists (remember the Doctrine of False Consciousness? Pernicious claptrap, that one, but it has a lot of currency on the left) and will resist the Progressive program even though it's Obviously the right thing to do.
If only Progressives, as an enlightened elite, had the ability to impose their program on the rest of us, eventually we'd come around to their point of view. But that means they need dictatorial power, and Democracy prevents that.
And the last and strongest barrier against the creation of a benevolent dictatorship by the Progressive enlightened elite is that damned Second Amendment, and all those firearms owned by the rednecks and knuckle-draggers.
So let's be clear: Progressives don't fear guns in the hands of criminals, or not very much. It's not about school shootings, either. It's guns in the hands, and homes, of law abiding citizens that Progressives hate. Those are the guns they wish were gone; those are the guns they will try to eliminate if they can. Because those are the guns which stand in the way of them taking over.
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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"All your Rights can be infringed by the Gov. at any time you morons, to say that you have any right that is unrestricted is totally at odds with history, the law, and reality."
more importantly, he displays (gleefully and self-righteously, i imagine) his ignorance of the founding principles behind the declaration and the constitution and the perils of atheism
see, f, your joyous pronouncement of the power of government is precisely why tj wrote the declaration and why we now have the constitution
see, f, tj and the other founders understood that we have rights (life, liberty, etc.) given to us by GOD, not the gov...they also knew the only reason to have a gov is to protect those rights from others and the reason for the constitution is to protect those rights from the gov
and f wants more government
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