They should ban children.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Couldn't have happened if we banned handguns, right?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:56 PM (1 hour ago)
salient point
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
well, those poor people are dead, but at least old men can still hunt small birds
― max, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
world without guns
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:OmM8cmOm_-ebUM:http://1funny.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/birds-attack.jpg&t=1
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
some interesting statistics from the mcleans article i posted on the arizona-shootings thread:
Since 1776, a total of 580,000 U.S. troops have been killed in action, including the carnage of the Civil War. In just four decades ending in 2008, the number of firearms deaths in the U.S. was 1.3 million.According to the most recent annual data, in 2007 31,224 people died in the U.S. of gunshot wounds—12,632 of them murdered (other causes of death included suicide and unintentional deaths). A further 66,768 people survived gun injuries—44,466 of them sustained in an attack. Over the past three decades, on average about 20 mass shootings—defined as having at least four slain victims—have occurred annually in the United States, claiming nearly 100 lives each year. Some have been worse than others. March 2005: seven people dead in the Red Lake, Minn., massacre. April 2007: 32 killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. March 2009: 10 people killed in the Geneva County massacre in Alabama. April 2009: Binghamton, New York, 14 dead.The U.S. has an estimated 283 million guns in civilian hands: approximately one-quarter of American adults own a licensed gun.
According to the most recent annual data, in 2007 31,224 people died in the U.S. of gunshot wounds—12,632 of them murdered (other causes of death included suicide and unintentional deaths). A further 66,768 people survived gun injuries—44,466 of them sustained in an attack. Over the past three decades, on average about 20 mass shootings—defined as having at least four slain victims—have occurred annually in the United States, claiming nearly 100 lives each year. Some have been worse than others. March 2005: seven people dead in the Red Lake, Minn., massacre. April 2007: 32 killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. March 2009: 10 people killed in the Geneva County massacre in Alabama. April 2009: Binghamton, New York, 14 dead.
The U.S. has an estimated 283 million guns in civilian hands: approximately one-quarter of American adults own a licensed gun.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxxp I don't think anyone thinks gun control = no guns.
― The Hankerciser 200 (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
well not in my lifetime but it's the goal
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ain't gonna happen
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:56 (Yesterday)
― Young Guns aside, the western is not my favorite genre. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
not with liberals constantly reminding me of that, yeah i know xp
xp sort of otm - anyone who thinks a child should be allowed anywhere near a gun is obv insane
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
You're more likely to get children banned than guns.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
one-gun-per-household policy
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure why you specified 'liberals telling you that' - is one's political ideology supposed to override reality?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the world changes in pretty crazy ways, maybe 100 years from now guns will just be kind of pointless cause there will be better ways to kill people / hunt birds / protect yourself from government fascism.
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
alternatively gun people might just get iphones and realize that playing angry birds is more fun than owning a gun
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I own Angry Birds on both iPad and iPhone. It has never been, in any way, as fun as taking three 9mm semi-autos to the range today and shooting 250 rounds.
Sex -> laughing with pretty girls = Catan with friends ->shooting guns ->>>>>>>>>>>>>Angry Birds
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
polar ice caps melting should help
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
so I guess we just need to get gun owners laid?
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I have never played angry birds fwiw
if not laid, then a regular game of Catan, yeah
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
so tempted to post the pictures I took at the range
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
cool bro
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:11 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
why america is great in 9 words
― max, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:19 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
only one of these things is lethal to other people, and no I'm not talking about sex, ba dum bing!
― dayo, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350721/Girl-9-father-shot-dead-anti-immigrant-vigilantes-begged-life.html
man, arizona
― iatee, Thursday, 27 January 2011 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The couple went to the front room - where Brisenia had spent the night on the sofa to be near her new dog - and spotted two people outside.
I want to throw up
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they were hunting quail?
― max, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a good thing the family had a gun of their own so they could protect themselves
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
'I can hear it happening,' Mrs Flores told the court describing how her daughter said: 'Why did you shoot my dad? Why did you shoot my mum?'
― buzza, Thursday, 27 January 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Main_Page
Wow.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 February 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Hollywood and gun violence: two great tastes that taste great together!
― Aimless, Thursday, 10 February 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
franks n beans day was always a winner @ the school cafeteria
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx too good for beanie weenies?
― pshhh- "fatmanitis" is more like it- or possibly "fatmantits" (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Ohio is about to let people carry concealed weapons into bars and sports arenas, plus other venues where alcohol is plentiful. Should be awesome.
― Paul McCartney and Whigs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
kid probably just wanted to hunt some grouse
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/09/05/2011-09-05_bloody_weekend_24_shot_in_24_hours_prompting_mayor_bloomberg_to_call_for_tougher.html
― iatee, Monday, 5 September 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
bloomberg otm
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 September 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/felons-finding-it-easy-to-regain-gun-rights.html
those republicans are sure tough on crime ;)
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Monday, 14 November 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Democrats went gun-shy in the 2000s. By 2008, Barack Obama had little to say about gun control, even trying to disavow his signature on a 1996 document signed by some Illinois legislators backing a ban on all handguns. In 2009, there were 65 pro-gun Democrats on Capitol Hill. The lobby owns the GOP, well, lock, stock, and barrel.
"Earlier this year, the Indiana state house passed -- with NRA backing -- a bill spelling out when citizens could kill police officers. Some prominent military leaders wanted military personnel to be able to discuss gun safety with troops as a way of trying to stem military suicides, many of which are committed with personally owned guns. The NRA was having none of it.
"And so it's no surprise that Obama and Mitt Romney (who once supported waiting periods and the assault weapons ban) produced mealy-mouthed statements on Friday that didn't even include the word 'gun'. Many Democrats from urban districts will continue to oppose the NRA. But the party will continue to quake, shooting after shooting after shooting, bodies upon bodies upon bodies.
"So this will happen again. And again, and again. In fact, as I said above, we are likely headed for a day in this country like the following. At a movie theater, in a mall, at a commuter rail platform, in a restaurant -- some glory-seeker opens fire. Most people duck and scatter, but a decent percentage of them produce their pieces. The gunman goes down like Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde, but, since 'most people' aren't marksmen, maybe a few other people do too, and maybe, oh, a three year old.
"But hey. There's always a spoilage factor. Rights are sacred. From their cold, dead hands..."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/21/after-aurora-michael-tomasky-on-the-country-the-nra-wants-to-see.html
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 July 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
Jill Lepore's article v good on what utter and modern bullshit "The right of citizens to keep and bear arms" is.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 July 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
I think this was quoted from that article in one of the other threads, but worth repeating:
That is the logic of the concealed-carry movement; that is how armed citizens have come to be patrolling the streets. That is not how civilians live. When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood not as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
― Nhex, Sunday, 22 July 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Hey I went to burning man with this guy!
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/19221052/dc-man-orders-television-online-receives-rifle-instead
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/letters/Nose+Hill+Park+confrontation+makes+visitors+feel+unsafe/7050028/story.html
― max, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ ppl from Michigan, basically
"have you been to our rodeo yet?""FUCK WHERE'S MY GUN"
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
The Great NYT debate about guns:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/us/politics/polls-find-opposition-to-stricter-gun-laws.html?hpw
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
I quickly moved between these two and my wife, replying, "Gentle-men, I have no need to talk with you, goodbye."
I hope he pronounced it with the hyphen and everything, and then firmly re-positioned his top hat and monocle as he strode away.
Wait, I know - it's because in Canada, only the criminals and the police carry handguns.
And yet their per capita firearm death rate is less than half of ours. Golly!
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
i don't even really want to talk about this but i just want to say somewhere that it's so hard not to be politically apathetic when i think about all of the mass shootings that have happened in the past month, many of which aren't even getting real press coverage (hi chicago), and knowing that there is no politician who is even going to try to do anything concrete or real about it
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link