Quote from: Solar on January 22, 2013, 11:17:41 AM
Then I suggest you make clear when you're joking around.
I'm the last person you want to be telling to lighten up to on this forum.

Well you are Solar, so yea, you're pretty light, like a star!  I thought it was a fairly obvious joke.  How could a complete sentence be a simple typo?

The point was to dismiss the notion that since a researcher said something like, "This is just the beginning," then the entire study must be a sham.

Maybe we should allow the CDC to study gun violence to get a better perspective.  Too bad it's illegal for the CDC to study gun violence.

"Virtually all gun control advocates say that 30 bullets in a magazine is far too many for self-defense or hunting – even if they have never gone hunting and never had to defend themselves with a gun. This uninformed and self-righteous dogmatism is what makes the gun control debate so futile and so polarizing.

Anyone who faces three home invaders, jeopardizing himself or his family, might find 30 bullets barely adequate. After all, not every bullet hits, even at close range, and not every hit incapacitates. You can get killed by a wounded man."


"Gun control laws allow some people to vent their emotions, politicians to grandstand and self-righteous people to "make a statement" – but all at the cost of other people's lives."


http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell125.html

Quote from: Turks on January 22, 2013, 11:31:23 AM
"Virtually all gun control advocates say that 30 bullets in a magazine is far too many for self-defense or hunting – even if they have never gone hunting and never had to defend themselves with a gun. This uninformed and self-righteous dogmatism is what makes the gun control debate so futile and so polarizing.

Anyone who faces three home invaders, jeopardizing himself or his family, might find 30 bullets barely adequate. After all, not every bullet hits, even at close range, and not every hit incapacitates. You can get killed by a wounded man."


"Gun control laws allow some people to vent their emotions, politicians to grandstand and self-righteous people to "make a statement" – but all at the cost of other people's lives."


http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell125.html

Look up the statistical chances that you'll have to actually use a firearm to repel a home invasion.  It's about the same chance you'd have of getting struck with lightning.  Burglars prefer it when no ones home before breaking in.  Just stay home from now on and your fine.

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 11:44:11 AM
Look up the statistical chances that you'll have to actually use a firearm to repel a home invasion.  It's about the same chance you'd have of getting struck with lightning.  Burglars prefer it when no ones home before breaking in.  Just stay home from now on and your fine.

I think you meant "you're" fine

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 11:44:11 AM
Look up the statistical chances that you'll have to actually use a firearm to repel a home invasion.  It's about the same chance you'd have of getting struck with lightning.  Burglars prefer it when no ones home before breaking in.  Just stay home from now on and your fine.

Burglars also hate when they break into a house with a gun pointed at them.

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 11:44:11 AM
Look up the statistical chances that you'll have to actually use a firearm to repel a home invasion.  It's about the same chance you'd have of getting struck with lightning.  Burglars prefer it when no ones home before breaking in.  Just stay home from now on and your fine.

Read the 2nd amendment. It's not about home invasions or hunting:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

It's about the ability to protect our freedom against tyrants. More important now than ever.

Quote from: Turks on January 22, 2013, 11:48:16 AM
   


I think you meant "you're" fine

Yup!  Thanks Conan the Grammarian! 

There you go again with your conservative Ivy league elitist educated crap. Apostrophes are for nerds.

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 11:55:37 AM
Yup!  Thanks Conan the Grammarian! 

There you go again with your conservative Ivy league elitist educated crap. Apostrophes are for nerds.

It doesn't take an Ivy League education to know the difference or recognize a troll.   

That's like saying driving a car will increase your chances in getting into an accident, that get's a big C"MON MAN

Quote from: kramarat on January 22, 2013, 11:54:58 AM
Read the 2nd amendment. It's not about home invasions or hunting:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

It's about the ability to protect our freedom against tyrants. More important now than ever.

Good job Sherlock, you solved that one.  I said earlier that the 2nd is outdated and does more harm than good.

Quote from: Bronx on January 22, 2013, 12:01:36 PM
That's like saying driving a car will increase your chances in getting into an accident, that get's a big C"MON MAN

True, and yet through the regulation of our highways, we've minimized deaths.

Sensible rules and regulation like national 55mph speed limit, better roads, better cars, seatbelts, cupholders, fuzzy steering wheel covers.  Stuff like that.

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 12:13:07 PM
Good job Sherlock, you solved that one.  I said earlier that the 2nd is outdated and does more harm than good.

You've established your anti-Americanism....

Quote from: taxed on January 22, 2013, 12:18:52 PM
You've established your anti-Americanism....

Americanism is not being a mindless follower of the constitution.  You see, in America, we are free to criticize our government and even *gasps* disagree with the constitution.

But yea, whenever faced with an opposing view point, spew derision and call me un-American. Straight out of Rove's playbook.  How's that working for ya?

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 12:17:35 PM
True, and yet through the regulation of our highways, we've minimized deaths.

Sensible rules and regulation like national 55mph speed limit, better roads, better cars, seatbelts, cupholders, fuzzy steering wheel covers.  Stuff like that.

Prove it.

Quote from: Capt.Obvious on January 22, 2013, 12:21:55 PM
Americanism is not being a mindless follower of the constitution.  You see, in America, we are free to criticize our government and even *gasps* disagree with the constitution.

You are free -- that's the point.

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But yea, whenever faced with an opposing view point, spew derision and call me un-American. Straight out of Rove's playbook.  How's that working for ya?

You're anti-American.  You can't be against freedom and be pro-American.  It doesn't work that way.