Predictable as the sunrise. Sayeth the Light Bringer and erstwhile armory to the Mexican drug cartels:
As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it is an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago, these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods and these children are our children. And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
Yes. And we can begin “coming together” by stoking race hatred, engaging in class warfare, and terming our political opponent “enemies,” or “teabaggers,” or mental defectives — then use every last tragedy, be it the shooting of Gabby Giffords or the Aurora theater shooting or the murder suicide of an NFL linebacker or the Oregon mall shooting or today’s shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, as an opportunity to restrict a basic human right, the right to self-defense (a right disallowed, incidentally, by the law-abiding players in many of these tragedies, thanks to gun-free school zones, or gun-free movie theaters, etc.). That is, we can pretend our rank and disgusting political opportunism is some moral cloak, to be draped on like public finery only when it can be used to push a leftist agenda. This is what you mean by taking “meaningful action,” and everyone knows it.
Only, here’s the meaningful action we should all be taking, were we truly serious about reducing the likelihood of such tragedies taking place going forward: On a personal level, get a concealed carry permit, and ignore signs telling you to leave your guns in the car. If it’s concealed, and they don’t have metal detectors, then you aren’t carrying. Until you need to defend yourself. On a societal / political level, get rid of restrictions on guns in school zones and theaters and the like, because the people who go shoot up these places care not a whit about the restrictions — criminals by definition don’t follow the law — and so they haven’t a fear in the world that they’ll meet any kind of armed resistance.
The idea that doing away with firearms or particular types of firearms (here, the gunman left his rifles in the care and used pistols) will somehow magically restrain violent outbursts has been disproven in countries where strict gun laws are in effect. But most egregious of all about these canned arguments for gun control are that the people who make them either don’t know jack about firearms, or else know they full-well that gun bans or restrictions won’t do anything but exacerbate the problem — yet they believe taking the position will buy them some public moral grace. It makes them feel enlightened, even as on a practical level it makes them (and us) less able to defend against violent offenders.
Obama and most of the other public leftists who leap on these shootings to begin pushing for gun bans are opportunists of the worst sort. And it happened while the bodies of those dead children were still warm. That they pretend their opportunism is somehow disconnected from their political aspirations is shameful. That they pretend that disarming a population makes it safer — while simultaneously trying to maintain the facade of individual freedom — is despicable. And we shouldn’t even pretend to engage their arguments on some level outside of politics.
My children aren’t your children, Barry, and your children aren’t mine — though unlike mine, yours have a security detail to protect them. Michele is not the dietitian to the collective and you are not its avuncular guardian. Give up your own security detail and we can maybe have a talk about restricting gun ownership.
More, the only thing “we’ve” got to come together on is the idea that, in advance of your willingness to surrender your protection, you and your regulatory henchmen had better not try to stand between me and my ability to protect my family.
There’s a reason gun sales are at an all-time high, and it has nothing to do with millions of people wanting to shoot up an elementary school. “Progressives” — like, eg., your friend Bill Ayers, who once posited that come the new order, 25 million Americans may have to be put in camps or otherwise disposed of — want a helpless and compliant pool to manage, the “masses,” they like to call it, and it’s a wet dream of theirs to secure not only all political power in their own hands, but all the policing power as well.
Fuck you. Molon Labe.
“Just after the shooting spree, they try to take the guns away from everybody who didn’t do it.”
I think I might stockpile a few more hi-capacity magazines.
They’re cheaper than gold, and hold their value just as well.
More portable and readily convertible too.
Union made cudgels would be golden, it seems.
Cranky, Squid, you taking notes?
– Here is the live PatchNews feed from Newtown for those interested.
– Theres a local news personality here on KOGO that probably should have gone to just straight news cast coverage and skipped his show today. He;s totally breaking down on-air trying to cover it.
There’s a reason gun sales are at an all-time high, and it has nothing to do with millions of people wanting to shoot up an elementary school.
well i’m buying guns because i’m afraid of the people who want to shoot up elemntary schools. That and the zombies. and the food rioters.
I run a non-union shop, but everyone gets a percentage of the net so they are motivated to not drive up the cost of production.
I’d stack my cudgels against any union-made cudgels any time. The craftsmanship is second to none.
Yeah, I split an infinitive. I’m a rebel.
“split infinitive” Outlaw!
– Nothing wrong with that.
It may have been me, but watching Obama was like watching a poor actor struggling to display the correct emotion for the scene.
Like I said, maybe I’m just a cynical bastard.
“Like I said, maybe I’m just a cynical bastard.”
No Lee, it’s just that Obazma’s instincts are colder than any of us can comfortable imagine, I think.
comfortably, consarndit.
baracky does luvs some infanticide/partial birth abortion
– Pro-choice is about Adult choice, babies, not so much.
Are you implying that Obama has little to no capacity for empathy?
Racist!
If just one of those 5 year olds had a good ’60, this whole thing could have been stopped before it got started.
“If just one of those 5 year olds had a good ’60, this whole thing could have been stopped before it got started.”
I’d be glad to see this piece of shit got gone.
Jeff, your Governor is on it .
What is the matter with you people? Forget gun control – 20 children and 6 adults were killed today. Is that really equivalent to union violence in Michigan? Do you hate Obama so much that you cannot believe that he would have the same reaction as any parent would? Maybe a couple days of silence would be appropriate.
Fuck off, slippery.
That’s stupid slipshod, kindergartners need at least an armed 12 year old around.
Physician, heal thyself.
A good ’60?
I think locking up retards would be a better first step, you would be next in line slope.
Maybe a couple days of silence would be appropriate.
You first.
The latest troll, gbesq1, instantly displays his lack of reading comprehension.
Good show, sir (or ma’am)!
I’m taking bets on whether the latest from slipshod finally gets him the banning he so desperately wants.
I want to hear what a ’60 is first. Google is letting me down.
– I would highly recommend that all piss ant Progressives, and Libturds in general. control their urge to chortle and bloviate at every opportunit during events of social tragedy.
– As much fun as it may be for you amoral soulless bastards, there is a limit to peoples patience.
I cannot figure out what a ’60 is either. It must be fairly obscure.
That works both ways gbesq1: 20 kids and six adults are murdered, and the first thing the leftist politico-media complex wants to do is start taking away even more civil liberty.
I have no idea what slippery means by “a good ’60,” but I imagine a teacher or ass’t principle with .40 pistol might have saved a number of lives today. If he or she had that option available, that is.
me i’m effin’ sick of the proggtards never letting a crises go to waste
winchester 60?
I’m thinking somebody’s seen Rambo too many times.
Telling me to shut up is fine, I guess, but what’s your point? And what does the reaction of the leftist politico-media complex have to do with posts that assert Obama was faking it? Even more, why is “Fuck you, come and get our guns” an appropriate response to Obama’s statement? Children were killed today. do none of you care?
All of you stupid sick twisted leftwing bastards take a good hard look at what gun control will get you. The school where the massacre occured is a “gun free zone.” The twisted sick bastard who opened up purposely chose a soft target. Just like Columbine, the movie theater massacre, the mall shooting and Virginia Tech, Newton is a “gun free” zone.
You asshole leftists never want to admit there might be a problem with the so-called “gun free zones.” You never want to admit your policies are directly responsible for allowing shootings such as what happened today in Newton. You stupid ass leftists create these utopian “gun free zones” and all these zones shout is “hey evil twisted bastard, here’s a nice soft target for you to take out.”
Slippery and gbesq1, go fuck yourself.
The lefties got wind of this post. The wilding is on. See Twitter. Me, I’ll be out with the family.
Obazma faking it? Oh hells no. He said and meant: “As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it is an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago, these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods and these children are our children. And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”
Now dipping his fingertips into the corners of his eyes every 20 secs. or so to dab away tears which did not exist? Yeah, ok, he was faking it. But aiming to seize ever more power? Not faking, dumbass.
gbesq1, shut your pie hole. Fucking jackass. Your type is all concerned about whether or not we care when in fact you should be looking in the goddamn mirror and questioning whether or not fucking gun free zones actually work.
In my case it isn’t about my taking to the fainting couch, as you liberals are want to to. It is about being royally pissed that something like this happened and you stupid fucks are playing the goddamn emotion card, trying to lay guilt on those of use who support gun rights. The reality is that people like you, gbesq1 are the ones who should be ashamed and feel guilt.
Fuck off and die.
As much as Obama does.
What makes you think you have the moral high ground here?
I won’t pretend not to be a troll, but you people should stop and consider how vile and repulsive you come off to people who aren’t a part of the tribe. Seek mental help before it’s too late.
No, the people who are vile are people like you, Jamesclark.
Gun Free Zone=Soft Target.
Idiots like you, James, create the perfect conditions for a massacre and then act surprised when a massacre occurs.
Moron.
I have never really cared how “I come off” to goose-stepping pinheads.
Care to explain why I should?
Think like freemen and find oneself repulsive to people who think like slaves? That’s not a difficult choice, if you give it a second or two.
Wow this article is full of jackoffs, racsists and hillbillys. Keep your fucking guns pussies how dare you make light of this. What kind of fucking disgusting human are you. Before you say some dumb shit about me being a liberal fuck you and fuck liberals too. I really hope all you stupid gun nuts use your firearms to off yourself and not take a bunch of bystanders with you. why don’t you all go drink some more whiskey and beat your wife some more before you go to your klan rally you fucking pigs. you would rather a rich douche bag be in office that wouldn’t change shit he has no real power congress does go back to school and learn how our goverment works dumb asses. who cares about holding on to your small dick replacements when something like this has happened. Put aside the fact that you want to keep killing machines legal and think of the parents whos kids didn’t come home from school today. All you NRA gun pyschos are fucking losers. Guns Don’t kill people oh wait yeah they do sorry.
I agree that union thugs punching a journalist is nothing compared to this massacre. This massacre is absolutely the sickest shit that’s happened since, well…the last mass shooting.
But the Left screeching about banning all guns just make themselves look stupid, like they don’t actually care about these kids dying. because we know that gun grabs would never have stopped someone intent on murdering a bunch of kindergarteners. They were chosen because they were easy defenseless sheep
SCHOOLS NEED ARMED SECURITY. end of story.
I was going to post that I appreciate that I have not been banned from the site. That has not been my experience on other conservative sites. I have little interest in engaging with people who agree with me (what’s there to learn?) so this seemed like an opportunity. But the responses to my posts have made me realize this is not the site.
Ernst: I have no doubt you care as much as Obama or anyone else who can feel for the parents and families. I apologize for suggesting otherwise. I should not have done so.
Bye
vile and repulsive
– Jebus, give me a fucking break. Moralizing from people who have zero morals, yeh that works.
– The problem for society is that we simply do not know what to do about mental illness, so we rush to place blame in areas we imagine we CAN control.
– The problem for the Progressives and the Left is they simply can’t resist using every tragedy as a political opportunity to push their statist bullshit. Since that seems always to be your one trick pony act I would inform any Lefwards trolling here you’re about 11 years to late with the PW audience for Alinsky based crap to work. Save you energies for the typical lo-info types that gravitate to your warped cult.
Mattness7, if words were bullets you would be a mass murderer too! Way to open fire on random bystanders.
You are going to try to find a site where folks disagree without being so disagreeable?
Well, you make more sense that mattness, so you have that going for you.
If words were bullets mattness would still be shooting blanks.
well you proggtards brought up gun control before the children’s bodies reached room temperature
– Matress7 – Anger can be a g0od start, but useless if its directed at the wrong target.
– No, as much as it would simplify the problem and allow you to not have to actually think, guns do not get up and walk around shooting people, as much as you want desperately for that to give you flesh to your argument.
– Which is not just inaccurate, but worse steals the time and spotlight from the ral problem and ever doing anything about it.
– But don’t feel bad, most of society shares your aversion to thinking seriously and acting intelligently to actually deal with mental illness.
Beemoe: OK, I changed my mind (or lied, take your pick). I’m back for this: do you have any suggestions?
Mattness7 , save some of that straw for later.
This is a traumatic day. Everyone is very emotional.
I’m back for this: do you have any suggestions?
I suggest first we see if we can find out what was wrong with the kid did the shooting.
Somebody who kills his own mother and then opens up on a room full of kindergardners before he offs himself, I think we see if maybe somebody should have seen that coming.
um no more posted “gun free” zones?
John Lott’s Website. Buy his book, for a start.
So let’s all ignore the fact that, punched reporter = dead children. That’s its own issue.
Turns out, it’s not about guns at all.
Mike Huckabee: “We don’t have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem”
Just arm the children and pray it away!
#serious
So let’s all ignore the fact that, punched reporter = dead children.
You don’t have to ignore it, it doesn’t exist.
And if you think there are a bunch of Huckabee fans here, lololol.
I just watch Gerldo come on O’Reilly to wallow around in the Connecticut school massacre like a dog rolls around in the remains of a dead bird. He even tried to cry. I despise that butt puppet.
According to this post they somehow belong in the same sentence.
I didn’t see Obama shed a tear over the coffins of the Ambassador, the ex-SEALs that he held the giant spectacle for at Andrews a ways back.
I’ve likewise never seen him shed a tear over the dead Arab children his Commander-in-Drone self has sent home to Allah.
Re, today’s shooting: All the shootings he spoke of in his tearful speech took place in Blue states. Coincidence? I think not.
dead ambassador = dead children or dead mexicans = dead children
– Dalekhunter. I’m guessing when you do your laundry you must have a hell of a time with all the straw that gets lodged in the washing machine and dryer filters.
– It would be most helpful of you’d just take a few moments and actually, you know, READ what people post here. Otherwise its all sort of a waste of everyone’s time.
According to this post they somehow belong in the same sentence.
Yes. According to your post, they do.
I don’t bother trying to engage you proggtard dumbass liberals in conversation. You idiots will never examine or admit that you operate from flawed premises. Nor do any of you proggtard dumbass liberal engage in honest debate.
Matness7, you sound like you’ve got some anger issues. You probably should be locked up before you committ a violent crime or possibly kill someone.
Proggtard liberals, get back to me when you understand “natural” or God given rights. Until then, there’s nothing to chat about.
He also mentioned Michigan and Connecticut in the same sentence, does that mean they are the same thing?
Quit digging.
“Wow this article is full of jackoffs, racsists and hillbillys. ”
Yeah. We aren’t in the mood for dull witted shit heads like you today. This mass shooting didn’t make you any smarter or more righteous than you were yesterday. You are still the same opportunistic dishonest, amoral, clueless, left-wing, statist shitball with the usual candy coated police state to sell. So, go fuck yourself scumturd. Seriously.
Schools need armed teachers, principals, janitors etc., missfixit.
Or I could go the other way, and ask why you think Obama should wait until someone is killed in Michigan before he condemns the union violence?
’60 = the M60 and modern variants such as the M240 – all of which are often referred to as 60s.
(first, I’m not in favor of banning guns, but I do want to point out a problem with your logic)
If banning guns just means that the shooter would have committed mass murder with some other instrument – sporks, for example – just as effectively – then why do they *always* use guns?
Yeah, I took today off. Didn’t listen to the radio. Went to go see the Hobbit. Got home, and boom…it’s reporters lining up and essentially making up stories to solve the mystery of yet another psycho who shot up a school.
– They can’t stop digging for a second moe. If they stop the walls of their propaganda tunnels will crash down on their empty heads.
schools need to take hit me i’m unarmed sign off their backs
How high would the pile be if everyone surrounding and charged with guarding the lives of Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, Barack Obazma, Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, et alia — government-wide — were to surrender all their firearms into a ceremonial “big fucking deal” stack on the National Mall? Anybody? How’s about they start with themselves, eh?
” then why do they *always* use guns?”
They don’t always use guns. Bombs. Cars. Fire. Sometimes knives and clubs. Someone recently used a #@#$ing bow or crossbow.
Unless you are seriously asking about the ridiculous tautology of ‘why do they always use guns in every gun massacre’.
Why don’t you just say that every adult needs to carry a gun at all times and in all places as the best way to reduce inappropriate use of guns.
Take a breath mint and try reintroducing yourself.
ieds are popular with the jihadi crowd slippery straw
Someone killed 18 people with a car? With a club? With a crossbow? Links please.
poll dat on the south side of chitown
Oh we have an 18 people threshold now? What bullshit.
How many IED mass murders are there in the US each year?
This is true. Like how 9/11 wasn’t about airplanes.
Nidal Malik Hasan says you proggtard/infidels are the stupid
Why don’t you just say that every adult needs to carry a gun at all times and in all places as the best way to reduce inappropriate use of guns.
Why don’t you just listen to what we are saying instead of trying to talk for us?
Why don’t you focus on the inappropriate behavior, rather than the instrument?
Thanks for the responses to my request for suggestions. I was not clear about my question (see below). But as for gun control: gun regulation is not going to stop someone from shooting up an elementary school. That includes eliminating gun free zones or posting police in every elementary school in the country (who’s going to pay for that?). Today’s tragedy may be a reason to reopen the possibility of having a debate about gun control, but that is all. As for John Lott, I think he falls into the category of people asserting a single cause for the dramatic decline in crime in America over the last 20 years (yes, it did happen). All the multiple regression in the world does not enable us to distinguish correlation and causation, not to mention our inability to identify all the variables.
As for my intended question: I was asking for suggestions for conservative websites where responses to my non-conservative posts (1) do not lead to an immediate ban, and (2) do not result in responses that I shut my pie hole or that I am a stupid sick twisted leftwing bastard. Of course, “that’s the stupidest fucking idea I ever heard a supposedly sentient being utter” is fine when followed by what’s wrong with the idea.
oh you know the media covered the social security bombing in az 2 weeks ago. the baracky has “won” the war dontcha know.
“With a car?”
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-02-24-pedestrians.htm
” With a club?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
” With a bow?”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/01/man-killed-father-wyoming-bow-arrow-attack/1739125/
– Chi-town, Bummblefucks own hood, has some of the toughest gun ownership and acquisition laws in the country. The Result?
– A murder rate second only to NYC. a murder a day now is common place.
– I’m just not going to waste any more bandwidth on this non-cause, non-ussue,
“With a plane? ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_plane_crash
changing your stupid policy and removing stupid signs dont cost much at all
My suggestion is to ignore those kind of sites.
This isn’t one of those kind of sites, we have intramural dust ups here on a pretty regular basis. I was just accused of being a caustic bastard by one of the other regulars here a day or two ago.
I considered it an honor.
– and with a knife in China the other day, but maybe we should ban knives.
gbesq1, you pile straw on a foundation of faulty premises. Why should I respect anything you have to say?
Again, none of you leftists have the slightest interest in honest debate.
Yeah, I told you to shut your pie hole, but did you even bother to admit gun free zones merely create soft targets for cowards like the guy who killed all those kids?
No, instead, you get all emotional and weepy (though your emotion has all the sincerity of a Barack Obama promise) and try to get Second Amendment supporters to feel guilty about what happened today.
beemoe, damn, you received the honor of “caustic bastard?” Damn, I’m jealous.
Stoopid html
mr “caustic bastard” your car is ready
Newrouter: I meant the cops in school, not the signs. And, as a member of stupid sick twisted leftwing elite, please believe me when I tell you that parents in communities like Newtown do not want police in their elementary schools and will not feel safer if there are. You can call them all the names you want but it is true. The reality is that, for twisted leftists like us, particularly urbanites, seeing someone with a gun who is not a cop makes us feel WAY less safe. Maybe we shouldn’t feel this way, but there you are. Culture and expectations matter. What feels OK in Arizona does not necessarily feel the same way in New York or even Portland.
Ernst: I just brushed my teeth, notwithstanding that I don’t know why I needed to. Hope it helped.
What is it about the deviantART crowd that they keep coming to PW?
Suggestions?
Speak to the subject matter
Listen carefully to the answers then reply.
Find the ones on site who engage in civil discourse and focus on them.
Ignore the ones who don’t.
gbesq1, I see, you’re a member of the “feelings trump thought” crowd.
It’s grotesque when a grown adult admits their feelings overcome their though processes.
*thought
– gbesq1, that post you just spewed branded you as an un-serious noise source. I don’t even want to know what sorted of tortured logic brings you to type projected lies like “no matter how many names you call the parents”.
– Where in the hell do you dumb fucks come up with this shit you type?
He was first, right out of the gate.
Blake: I think it highly debatable whether having people carrying guns makes one safer, but it is a debate worth having. It is an empirical question, although very difficult to answer. It necessarily includes, for example, questions such as (1) accidental gun deaths, (2) number of criminal acts stopped or ameliorated by armed citizens, (3) efficacy of gun carry in urban v. non-urban environments, (4) effect of availability guns v. weapons of much less lethality in the hands of mentally ill individuals. It seems to me those are the questions that need to be addressed before we can say anything useful about “soft targets.”
so you look to gov’t 1st to protect you not yourself? me i don’t look at sanfrannan and think the botox will protect me.
“All the multiple regression in the world does not enable us to distinguish correlation and causation, not to mention our inability to identify all the variables.”
But humans made the world warm up, didn’t they?
why? do you consider cars/bathtubs/5 gallon buckets like that?
lol
gbesq1, I see, avoid the soft target issue, because you don’t care to examine that premise.
Instead, let’s bring in a bunch of other goalposts before discussing the issue of gun free zones.
And yet, gbesq1, you have the nerve to complain when I tell you to shut up.
You’re not arguing in good faith, just as I expected.
The reality is that, for twisted leftists like us, particularly urbanites, seeing someone with a gun who is not a cop makes us feel WAY less safe.
You know, i felt the same way the first time I went through the airport in Paris, and saw all those soldiers with big machine guns roaming around as security. It freaked me out because I wasn’t used to that, growing up in Ohio in the cornfields with all the deer and shit.
But I’ve grown up since then.
Again, how high the pile?
Blake: actually, the “soft target” claim you make is based on many assumptions which I tried to address in my post. Any social policy has consequences and it is necessary to balance imperfections. Example: your “soft target” argument assumes that armed school personnel will reduce school shootings. Maybe so, but I would like to see some evidence first before I put guns in elementary schools.
But I’ve grown up since then.
– And that is what separates the Left from the rest of society, being grown up, and when you finally realize that then some of their “catch phrases” like the emotional is the political fit their childish ideas perfectly.
he’s so cute when he tries to act like a big boy president
But you need no evidence nor ask for any when it comes to the praetorian guard? That’s odd.
missfixit: calling me a juvenile may be accurate as far as many of my friends are concerned but it is not a response to what I said. Let’s suppose I am right. Telling people not to feel the way they feel is not very useful. You need to tell them why they are mistaken.
well except for that butt ugly caesar cut
somebody needs to tell him
Maybe so, but I would like to see some evidence first before I put guns in elementary schools.
– Evidence that improved security can lower certain types of crime? Are you serious?
Speaking of 9/11, this day has kinda the same feel to me. Like the world is different now, because of this.
Little babies. How awful.
out, damned italics
Newrouter: actually, that is exactly how we think about, for example, cars. largely because of the insurance industry, cars are much safer because there are negative consequences to the car society. We don’t get rid of cars, but we do think about the harm they can do and what might be done. Why not with guns?
– Ok. What we have here is an open italics tag.
Slartibartfast: I agree about the italics. How?
Who broke the blog?
Missfixit, being a victim of violent crime convinced me that being armed was the best solution to keep that from happening again.
gbesq1, you’re not debating in good faith. I already pointed out the attacks have been carried out in “gun free” zones. Yet, you persist in needing more data.
Okay, so, how about arming everyone who is capable of carrying a gun at a school and see if there are any more attacks and if there are, how lethal are the attacks? Quite obviously, the current “gun free” zone policy is not working, so, probably best to try another policy.
But, you’ve already demonstrated that you’re unwilling to examine anything that challenges your premises.
today’s crime wasn’t enough?(va tech, hasan(army base no gun zone!!11!!), movie theatre…)
bbh has the html fu ;)
crap, I tried closing the italics. Obviously didn’t work.
car society?
What?
Bigbaghunter: we are not talking about improved security, we are talking about letting individuals make unregulated individual choices about bringing guns into schools.
when mass school shootings reach 30,000/year as with cars let’s talk
Newrouter: do you seriously think that if staff at elementary schools had the right to bring guns into schools that today would have been different?
IOW, making up some more laws that outlaws can ignore
lol proggtard fascism
works for alot of homeowners
gbesq1, gad, can you pile the straw any hire? So, armed and dead is different than unarmed and dead? At least if someone is armed, they have a chance.
Let’s just move somewhere nice and safe where deadly weapons are only legally allowed in the hands of the authorities...
Newrouter: not fair. It’s total gun deaths, not elementary school deaths. I know it’s the Huffington Post but check it out anyway. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/gun-deaths-outpace-motor_b_1955347.html
crap *higher
gbesq1, the guns used by today’s shooter were all legally owned by his mother and thus registered to her. He stole them and killed her with one.
How much regulation do you folks need before you just admit you want our whole society disarmed? Nothing will be enough for you until we’re all defensless chumps, waiting around for the police, like you guys do.
who should the regulator be? the fed gov’t state, local?
Okay let’s try this differently. I was scared the first time I saw soldiers with big weapons patrolling an international airport. The first time.
After that, and after witnessing enough crime and violence by criminals who don’t care about laws, convinced me that I was safer with armed men patrolling, and I got over that initial fear.
People who are terrified of law-abiding citizens having weapons are usually very sheltered. They have never been mugged, they have never had their children threatened, they have never lived in a bad neighborhood full of drug pushers, and they grew up in sheltered homes where nobody was a hunter or ever owned a gun. In short – it is easy and feels good to ban guns, because they’ve never been faced with real, personal threats.
great let’s lump stuff together. wheat from the chaff sir
crap, I forgot the liberal thought process: unarmed means a chance to crawl on your knees, in the hopes the new master won’t kill you and will toss a crumb once in a while.
Yea! No more italics.
That’s because you’ve allowed yourselves to become sheeple.
I didn’t do it.
I am enjoying this discussion, but I still am not getting any evidence. Is it true that homeowners defend themselves against assault? How often? Do bad guys ever turn homeowners’ guns against the latter? How Often. How do those numbers compare to the number of accidental gun deaths in homes? How do we weigh accidental gun deaths in homes against successful defenses? Do we care? Should we? Why aren’t these important questions?
geoffb: in addition to you properly spelling your name, I appreciate the compilation. These are are highly relevant facts. and need to be included in the debate. So how do we consider them? Are we dealing with mental health issues for which gun control is largely irrelevant? Do these incidents support the “soft target” argument and, if so, how? How do these incidents look when we do a statistical comparison between the countries involved and the USA? Don’s we have to know the answers to these questions before we decide on gun policy?
Total gun deaths? Including self-defense?
no worries, found the broken tag.
been following this from work, which is frustrating since I cannot post … AND must run out again in a couple of minutes.
the “THERE OUTTA BE A LAW” jerks demanding “SOMETHING BE DONE” about “guns”
well, what are you then going to do about knives? ice picks? fertilizer? moth balls? hammers?
It isn’t the gun, never has been. Jaysus on a Pony, but in much of the US up through the early 70’s you could find schools with rifle clubs, kids who brought their guns to school (in the car or locked up) so they could go hunting after school.
It’s the principles, stupid.
How high the pile again? 20′? 40′? 60′? Why isn’t that an important question?
Yes.
Of course there is that pesky problem that weapons only in the hands of the proper authorities have led to more deaths than privately owned ones over the past centuries. But who cares about those little inconvenient ones?
I vote we just ban assault weapons, once those can be sensibly defined
quite often. just dont depend on nytwapocbsabcnbcnpr et al to tell you. local news covers these events all the time.
gbesq1, ever read about the Luby’s massacre from the POV of a gun rights activist who survived the carnage? From what I’ve read and heard (Suzanna Hupp has been interviewed more than a few times) Suzanna had a CCW at the time of the massacre at Luby’s. However, it was illegal for Suzanna to carry in the restaurant. So, like a good, law abiding citizen, Suzanna left her pistol in the car. Suzanna got to witness both her parents be gunned down in front of her, and was unable to do anything about it.
In Suzanna’s testimony before Congress (it may have been the Texas State legislature, I don’t remember which) it sounded very much like Suzanna is or was dealing with a lot of guilt over what happened.
my high school in the ’70’s had a gun range. now it is where condoms on cucumbers is demonstrated.
There have been plenty of studies, a professor at FSU did a massive one a few years back. You never hear of them because they don’t ever say what you want to hear.
Here you go,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kleck
There is no constitutional amendment about your car, nor does your car have anything to do with the right to life, unlike how a gun defends that right.
Stop thinking about tools, and consider, do we have the right of self defense, or not?
That’s what one homeboy gets when two homeboys share 3 40’s.
Ernst: Oh for Christ’s sake. I am no more a sheeple than you. I am more threatened by a private citizen I don’t know with a gun that one without one. I want nothing to do with janitors and teachers carrying guns in my kids’ elementary school. That makes me a sheeple? Puleeeze. And if you want to take my Prius and glass of chardonnay you will have to pry them from my cold dead hands.
One of my extremely leftwing friends (who lives in Australia now) was ranting on facebook this evening about how stupid Americans and their guns are the cause of all these tragedies. Then another leftist chimed in about stupid “testosterone driven men” who think “guns solve everything”…then a poor lefty male chimed in and said “hey I’m not a violent person and i don’t own guns” (like proclaiming his meekness and inability to defend himself was a virtue) – it was a big clusterfark of name-calling, bigotry against gun owners, and very bad logic.
She said that in Australia she never “felt the need” to protect herself with a weapon, therefore “gun bans are good”
It is all based on feelings. no logic. no reality. just feeeelings.
On the other hand, there have been multiple home break-ins in my area, jewelry theft, and the like. And I won’t be caught defenseless in that situation with 3 kids to protect.
“That’s because you’ve allowed yourselves to become sheeple.”
A chickenshit sheeple who wants to tell other people how to live so he doesn’t ever have to feel weird.
– gbesq1 Why should anyone waste time with things that are not the root of the problem?
– You’re simply dodging the true issue just like society in general. Lack of support/means for people with mental health issues.
Yes, gbesq1, you’re a sheeple. You fear an inanimate object. Yet, you think nothing of driving the 3,000 pounds of steel that is responsible for more mayhem in the last three dedades than all the gun massacres in the same period of time.
Oh, you made Wonkette. That place just hasn’t been the same since the anal sex lady left for Time Magazine.
“then why do they *always* use guns?”
Gasoline: 87 dead
Fertilizer: 168-169 dead
Boxcutters: 2,996 dead
Left-wing governments: well over 100 MILLION dead, and still counting
That would be the sound of you shutting the fuck up we hear, right?
If you want to save lives, ban left-wing governments.
P.S. Hi, everybody!
beemoe: thanks for the link. I’ll read it.
Blake: I know about Luby but not about the lady with CCW. Thanks. But we need data. That is only one data point.
Newrouter: I could’ve used the cucumber lesson.
If obtuseness were armor, gbesq1 could withstand a hit from an asteroid.
You know if the government can find the money to fund Obamacare, surely they squeeze out a bit for schools to have security. We pay superintendents like $150k/yr. A couple security guys could be had for less than that.
Of course, I’m kidding because I know we don’t have any money, for Obamacare or anything else. But you know. Trying to play along.
Yeah.
Bigbaghunter: totally agree with you on mental health.
especially in chicago
You perceive a greater threat, that doesn’t mean there is one.
Fear of the unknown or misunderstood isn’t rational.
I already pointed out data: Luby’s was a gun free zone, Newton:gun free zone, Virginia Tech: gun free zone; Columbine:gun free zone, Theater massacre: gun free zone.
Yet, you insist there is no data to work from.
How much more do you need?
Yeah, I know, there is no data set that will ever satisfy you, gbesq1.
Later, I’m going to watch “Scrooge” staring George C. Scott with my wife.
P.S. Hi, everybody!
Hey Spies! Good to see ya!
Fuck Wonkette. It’s a PALACE of stupidity over there. Oh look, dead kids! Let’s use them to push our anti-gun agenda! Fucking parasitic imbeciles.
How would you know a private citizen with a gun was a threat to you?
For that matter, how would you know he had a gun?
Blake: well at least you didn’t call me a left-wing shithole. But I will defend making public policy on data, not data points.
missfixit: there are around 100,000 elementary schools in America. And no head fakes with Obamacare – not relevant here.
baracky only likes certain kinds of evil. stuff that makes his sh@t smell good ok
Slope…and others :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
The thinking that is in the Obama statement is that “if we just get the smartest people to work together we can craft a law, a policy, a rule, that will fix this thing.”
The problem is that that is the thinking that when it is done and acted upon always results in what I chronicled above, and it is that desire to go down that old road just one more time, do it right this time of course, that is a worse thing than even this horror that happened today.
Yup. Armed school guard would be a horrible job and the types you’d get to fill it are not really what you’re looking for. Also, in a situation like this, the armed guard would be the first one to get shot. Then again, it would mean a million or so new government employees to unionize…
Let people who have skin in the game handle the defense of themselves and their charges. If you can’t trust them with a gun, but you trust them with your kids, you’ve got some rethinking to do.
Don’s we have to know the answers to these questions before we decide on gun policy?
Nope. The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution lays it out quite clearly. Don’t like it? Repeal it.
you are made for “global warming” too bad that fraud failed too
SBP! Where the hell have you been?
Ernst: true, would not be threatened by an invisible gun. But dont ask me to trust someone I do not know with unknown training, unknown reasons for having a gun, and unknown personality. Cops are one thing, my neighbors are something else.
Beemoe: It is irrational to distrust the unknown with lethal power only if there is a way to make it known.
new narrative: public schools are unhealthy to children and the peeps running the show
do you personally vet every cop in your local community?
Pablo: kindergarten teachers are the meekest women you’ll ever meet. They couldn’t be trained to carry firearms in the classroom for the most part. This is not a feasible plan.
gbesq1: every superintendent in America makes a shitload of cash relative to the surrounding area. Far more than the average taxpayers in their districts. We can afford that, but we can’t afford security? seriously?
So we have: 1. we can’t afford security, 2. security guards wouldn’t be very good anyway 3. kindergarten teachers are not mentally equipped to go to war. 4. gun bans won’t stop the lunatics from targeting schools or movie theaters
So the solution is?? Locking people up in mental institutions before they do this shit. The mental health laws in the country are crap. However, they can’t be done slap-dash, otherwise they will be abused.
If that someone were you, and you knew how to use the damn thing, you’d feel differently.
have you’ve done tsa today?
newrouter: no. got to rely on something.
All: thanks for the discussion. Enjoyed it. I will raise a glass of chardonnay and have a bit of brie in your honor. May you come to understanding of the eternal progressive truth my fellow sheeples. Merry Christmas. And since I am a pinko libtard whatever, happy holidays.
final final comment: I am totally with newrouter on TSA. at least they aren’t armed
because the clowns have a “kick me” sign on their back. no “gun free” zones. the proggtards failed and wipe their blood soaked hands in their failure.
How many adults are present daily as a matter of doing their jobs in the typical public elementary school? Are all these adults to be presumed kindergarten teachers, if not in fact, then in personal psychological make-up? Faugh.
Our TSA should look more like Israel’s.
me not the fed gov’t. too many idiots. but you might like it there?
When seconds count, the police are
only minutes awayunder no legal obligation to come at all.sdferr? do you spend much time in elementary schools? Unfortunately I have to be there on a regular basis. The place is nothing but women and I haven’t met one yet that I felt would be good in a gunfight. Maybe the gym teacher. But that’s it. This is not feasible.
We’re not necessarily talking about kindergarten teachers, though I suspect the protective instinct is strong there. Wanna motivate them to learn? Show them Newtown. Anyone can be trained to responsibly handle a firearm.
That needs a look. Unfortunately, crazy is subjective and the arbiters would be the government.
depends on the meaning of “armed”
link
Kitchen workers? Janitors. Grounds crews? Principals and assistant principals. The outnumbered male teacher here and there. C’mon.
why is that? who made it that way?
We need to ban death.
Oh, did Barry give any shout outs?
Schools. We need to ban schools.
And move theatres.
You trust the cops more than your neighbors?
What a sad way to live.
*movie
The point is that if all school staff can be armed, the would-be mass murderers will have to assume that at least some of them are. It comes down to the principle espoused by that old bumper sticker:
…except in tis case it’s:
Would you put armed guards there?
I didn’t go to kindergarten, but my first grade teacher deer hunted with a 30-06.
She appeared to be a woman.
you get more male teachers/admins/coaches in the upper grades. But elementary schools self-select for extremely nurturing and child-focused women. They tend to speak softly & wear cardigans. C’mon man.
why is that? who made it that way?
Traditionally, school teachers made very little money but had prestige. It was a good job for middle class women as was nursing, but nursing also didn’t pay well and didn’t attract too many men.
Then the unions got involved and presto! teaching and nursing now pay decent coin, attracted more men to higher paying jobs when factory work went away. And, here we are.
You trust the cops more than your neighbors?
What a sad way to live.
A-men
Given the statistical probability of mass murder by a deranged killer, we shouldn’t worry about it at all.
well there are exceptions to all stereotypes. of course.
I trust my neighbors with guns no problem, I wish there was some way to keep ballots out of their hands.
the nuns that taught me were anything but. oh sorry we’re talking gov’t schools
I grew up a country boy several decades ago. My teachers were all farm women, I realize that it isn’t that way these days.
How many adults fixit? 25? 30? 40? 45? 50? And do you insist that from this number there will not be 5, 8, 10 who would choose to take up concealed carry if given the opportunity, and then do so responsibly? I for one find the contrary hard to believe.
I think in our case, the janitor and the gym teacher could handle it. Is that really a feasible plan though.
there’s the 2nd amendment. oh sh!t england and other proggtard nations don’t got that
@sdferr: You too!
@leigh: It’s a long story for another time.
How many could handle waiting to die at the hands of a mad-gunner while unarmed? Seems to me the alternative is fairly inviting.
“May you come to understanding of the eternal progressive truth ”
No, may YOU come to understanding of the eternal progressive truth: pursuing utopia and power leads to misery, tyranny, and failure OVER ad OVER again and each time the progressive will claim that the dismal record of the past doesn’t count because supposedly these progressive ideas have never REALLY been tried, which is why everything went to shit, and next time it will be different.
can you say
Lena Dunham
Wonkette is a blog that happened purely because some twerp named Anna Marie Cox thought that Gawker didn’t have enough snark or posts about butt sex. Then it got passed on to people who cared even less about real life.
It’s a start. First one or two go for it, then they invite their less confident co-workers to the shooting range…
In a case like this, it only takes one well placed shot to neutralize the threat. Of course, anyone worth shooting once is worth shooting twice.
Slippery slope blames Bush because someone pulled his talk-box string.
Yup. Next thing you know firearms are demystified, and these women realize they’re empowering themselves and that the practice is a lot of fun.
Women are fine for the tip of the spear in A-stan but can’t be trusted with small caliber handguns in a school.
Is this a wonderful country or what?
Ah, women…
No, they aren’t. You are a liar. My brother served and shot an M60 to defend his helicopter.
The M60 is a .308, the M24o is a .223, you are an idiot.
Spies, Brigands, and Pirates! I’ve missed you buddy!
I didn’t say that “women” couldn’t do it. My position has been that “typical women in an elementary school are not going to be on board with this”
but ok. I think there are no solutions to this. Other than slapping all the mentally ill back into institutions like they used to.
By the way, all you drive-by trolls can fuck yourselves senseless, if you have any sense to begin with, which is highly unlikely. You don’t get it. Never let a crisis go to waste is the bread and butter of those you support and serve. You don’t stand a chance around here. This place has about the most intelligent commenters on the innertubes. You can wail and thrash and spout your idiocy but it will not leave a mark around here because you don’t pack the gear.
We get it, and we know how you operate, and what you do to advance your agenda. We will not let it happen as long as we can fight.
You are lightweights, and out of your league. Do us all a favor and fuck off.
Also, any of you who do stay, note that you are a mouse being played with by a cat.
These drunken rants have been brought to you by Guinness. It’s what’s for dinner.
A good friend of mine is married to a little Filipina who stands about 4’10” and probably weighs 90 pounds soaking wet. She can shoot the nuts off a gnat at 100 yards and isn’t the least bit afraid of doing it.
Training works.
Levin’s show tonight. Drag the slider (first turn down the volume!) to 56 mins in to hear his discussion of the issue with John Lott.
a gov’t school? why are men discriminated?
that’s the part that grates with the gov’t run indoctrination centers. kick out the men then kick out any sanity. give me some 1880’s wymen. at least they aint stupid
oh please. Men don’t go into teaching at that level because they don’t want to babysit 1st graders for 25k/yr.
That is beside the point
SBP! Hey, man, great to see you around! Actually put a smile on my face.
That’s one fine rant, cranky.
By the way, BMoe, I meant to say “a gentleman and a scholar”. It was probably just the auto-correct on my phone.
Everyone should go back and read Mattness7 says December 14, 2012 at 5:36 pm.
That was quite possibly the greatest joke on current leftist thought I’ve ever read. Mattness7 is a freakin’ genius to be able to write satire of that caliber.
sexist. men don’t go there because the wymens done carved out that niche politically. gov’t “money” its too die for
ok be delusional if you want. whatever. Elementary schools actively try to hire men because there are none. We had one guy who taught 3rd grade for a bit, he was treated like a rockstar, but of course he didn’t last long because the pay sucks. He went into administration at a higher level, different school.
I’ve never seen a man hang around at the level of teaching for long. it’s not because of the women.
Pretty good rundown of what is known here.
The cool thing about guns, they are as easy to use as, say, a stapler. They have been called “the equalizer”, ‘cuz a 12 year old girl can learn to run off men twice her size with one.
If that was taught, instead of the idea guns are inherently evil, the world would be more peaceful.
Get the girls a peacemaker, please.
Missfixit is correct about elementary school teachers, nr.
Stop being a prick, please.
The BLS says as of 2011 men comprised 18.3% of elementary and middle school teachers.
Mattness7 says December 14, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Wow this article is full of jackoffs, racsists and hillbillys. Keep your fucking guns pussies how dare you make light of this. What kind of fucking disgusting human are you. Before you say some dumb shit about me being a liberal fuck you and fuck liberals too. I really hope all you stupid gun nuts use your firearms to off yourself and not take a bunch of bystanders with you. why don’t you all go drink some more whiskey and beat your wife some more before you go to your klan rally you fucking pigs. you would rather a rich douche bag be in office that wouldn’t change shit he has no real power congress does go back to school and learn how our goverment works dumb asses. who cares about holding on to your small dick replacements when something like this has happened. Put aside the fact that you want to keep killing machines legal and think of the parents whos kids didn’t come home from school today. All you NRA gun pyschos are fucking losers. Guns Don’t kill people oh wait yeah they do sorry.
EPIC. I think Mattsky just publicly felted himself.
gov’t schools discriminate. ask the nea. effin’ commies run the “schools”
State police Lt. Paul Vance said officers arrived instantaneously, immediately entered the school…
Instantaneously? O-kay, then.
What do you suppose an armed elementary school babysitter would make? You know, they guy who would sit around doing jack shit day after day after day. And given that he’d be the first one a committed nutbag would shoot, how many would each school need?
And never fired a round.
A maniac steals his mother’s guns, of which she apparently had four even though she must have known he was crazy, and I’m supposed to believe tighter gun control is the obvious answer, and not even examine for a second the leftist idiotic notion that no maniac should ever be locked away for whatever reason. Cause family, love, and puppies conquer all.
I’m not saying that the above simple solution is the answer here, but I am saying that there are at least two simple knee jerk reactions to this, and I don’t think the obvious one is “Ban all guns cuz teh evil!1!” unless you’re a smug, sheltered idiot.
Possibly the greatest comment ever typed at pw. I imagine it took him draft after draft to get it just right.
I still cannot fathom how anyone could have done this. I pretty much dislike almost everyone, and I still could not kill children, or adults either, like that.
yea right
after 9/11 i don’t care anymore. shoot them. oh shit proggtards with gun control.
Mattsky performed the first public auto-felch on record.
I can. He’s fucking nuts.
Exactly.
By the way, to those people critical of mentioning the union violence in Michigan in relation to this, here’s something I’m guessing will never be seen again:
Also, when gbesq1 says December 14, 2012 at 7:27 pm I am enjoying this discussion, I threw up in my mouth.
and that protesters would be at his “daughter’s soccer game”
Maybe they could drive home on 4 flat tires? Shit happens you know…
I cannot understand being that nuts, then.
They were his Mom’s? What is a kindergarten teacher doing with guns?
Too bad they weren’t in her desk, probably would have been a lot harder to steal.
Any means huh?
Someone relieve that man of any dangerous objects quick, before it’s too late.
No problem, I thought it was funny. I probably do need to try to dial it down a notch or two, this election and my prospects for the future have me in a bit of a mood.
LBascom, I saw that shit about the Union. Threatening the kids because you don’t agree with Dad’s politics? Pathetic, and, as far as I’m concerned, grounds for a visit from the cops.
And people wonder why Sarah Palin took a bye on elective office this election cycle.
25 States won’t build health care exchanges
Some good news.
For all this — which is in its own way a necessary but ultimately dirty political work to be done — do we not still have a sense that no amount of cleansing will rid us of the filth of participation in an inhuman act? That the necessary defense of liberty is not enough (and damned that the need is pressed upon us so soon)? That mourning for the innocent lost has also a place in our deeds?
Speaking only for myself, sdferr, I’m not mourning in the sense that I don’t feel grief in the sense that I don’t feel loss. If I actively attempted to feel these things by watching news coverage (I’ve watched none) or dwelling on photos of grieving parents (I’ve seen one or two now), I would do so reflexively and I wouldn’t have any control on how that would grow.
If I did that in all available instances? I’d be suicidal in a couple weeks.
– The Left went into hi speed damage control today, no doubt the hypocrisy was dripping from the Progressive ceiling so badly they were feared of drowning in it. They’re so fucking predictable.
To paraphrase a teacher in the hard school of life, honors sequence:
They’d better learn.
This a Gods of the Copybook Headings thing.
Perhaps the term mourning isn’t apt? While it is certainly not the direct loss of one (or many) of those close to us, I feel for my own part an injury of a sort, akin to the injury of that Sept. morning those years ago. This is not to suggest we’re required to seek to find these motions in every crime or inhuman act we may encounter, but at least in this case, and for my own particular state of mind on that subject, to say there is something lacking were this all the thought we should make of it.
The reality is that, for twisted leftists like us, particularly urbanites, seeing someone with a gun who is not a cop makes us feel WAY less safe. Maybe we shouldn’t feel this way, but there you are.
Then you twisted lefty urbanites have two options: Grow up and get over your fear of seeing guns (eek!) or sit tight and wait for the same thing to happen again.
If you spoiled rotten costals can’t recognize simple cause-and-effect—an armed populace is a damned good deterrent to spree killers, who want to take out as many people as possible before they off themselves—then I don’t know how to help you.
Apparently, that warm and holy feeling you get by objecting to visible armaments and by proclaiming that you inhabit a gun-free zone (WE’RE BETTER THAN THE KNUCKLE-DRAGGING REDNECKS!) is more important to you than saving the lives of kindergarteners.
Those are your options: revise your absurd sense of morality or continue to suffer the consequences thereof.
I think it highly debatable whether having people carrying guns makes one safer,
Why?
If you want to shoot up a school, will you choose the “gun-free zone” or the school with the armed principals and teachers?
The areas of the country with the strictest gun-contro laws have the highest rate of gun crime.
It would seem that the only thing you’re debating is whether you can stomach the thought that the ignernt rednecks might be right about something.
You need to tell them why they are mistaken.
Right. They’ll totally listen to a bunch of cousin-humpin’, Bible thumpin’ rednecks who hate Obama because he’s all black and stuff.
Criminey. We’re blue in the face trying to tell you mooks that you’re “mistaken,” but agreeing with Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney about the Second Amendment will earn you the mockery and contempt of the hip crowd.
And we can’t have that, can we?
but we do think about the harm they can do and what might be done. Why not with guns?
What a novel idea! None of us who lives in fly-over country—WHERE ALL THE GUNS ARE—is remotely acquainted with the idea that guns might pose a danger.
we are talking about letting individuals make unregulated individual choices about bringing guns into schools.
Aaaaand there it is. Individual choice—independent of their betters—Cannot Be Allowed. It always comes back to that, doesn’t it?
How much regulation do you folks need before you just admit you want our whole society disarmed?
They never seem to understand that outlawing guns doesn’t make them go away, and that people who want to shoot someone will ALWAYS find a way to get a gun.
Is it true that homeowners defend themselves against assault?
Good God almighty. Often, all it takes is a brandished weapon in the hands of a steely-eyed homeowner to send the would-be thief running.
How do we weigh accidental gun deaths in homes against successful defenses? Do we care? Should we? Why aren’t these important questions?
How do WE weigh? Who’s we, Sparky? The individual gun owners get to make those decisions: those who don’t have kids in the home find that the risk of accidental death is quite small. Other have, oh, I don’t know.
GUN SAFES!
I want nothing to do with janitors and teachers carrying guns in my kids’ elementary school. That makes me a sheeple?
Actually, yes, because you’re insisting that they be left UNPROTECTED against armed monsters, and all to preserve your place at the cool-kids table.
I’m a little messed up myself. I can’t help but think of the immense evil unleashed before such innocence. The other children that survived but with wounded souls. The parents going to a home with presents under the tree for little ones that will never open them. The emergency responders that walked into a scene that will haunt them forever.
It’s all very dispiriting.
Men don’t go into eduction because the education curriculum is
femalefeminist-centric.I lasted less than a quarter in the early 90s.
And all I wanted to do was get a teaching certficate so I could teach high-school history.
I imagine that compounds the problem at the K-6 level
I hear what you’re saying, sdferr. Think I do anyways.
To be completely honest, I suppose I don’t particularly want to have that sort of discussion out loud with other people. Certainly not in a forum riddled with stupidly malicious trolls.
“Certainly not in a forum riddled with stupidly malicious trolls.”
Yes, and, noted: couldn’t agree more about that aspect of the deal. Maybe I should have left it at the mere observation that we’re pressed into service in defense of our narrower political rights even when given our druthers we may be apt to dwell on other more comprehensive human concerns? Like parents required to give descriptions of what clothes they sent their children off to school in this morning.
Think I’ll have a drink and listen to some music. That’s about all I have here.
He left mom’s M-4gery* in the back seat, but the AP wants you to know that it was a “hi-power” rifle
*going off of something I heard on Levin’s radio show.
What kind of a person does this thing? Ace has his number:
If nothing else, these crimes are crimes of notoriety, and the press should be mindful of the role they play in these monsters’ dark fantasies.
A personality disorder, huh?
Sociopathy, no doubt. Autism has jack-all to do with it. (Also, you’re either autistic or you have Aperger’s: you can’t on two points of a spectrum at the same time.)
I think they want to kill themselves and can’t do it unless they do something so horrifically awful that what they want and what they deserve coincide. Which is why it’s important that somebody start shooting back immediately, so they get to stage two of their sick master plan that much faster.
Either that or they hate themselves, the world, and everybody in it, and can’t leave it without taking somebody with them.
Blake says December 14, 2012 at 7:41 pm:
That’s because that kind of mayhem is according to plan, so nobody panics, whereas today’s was somebody introducing a litle anarchy into the system.
Personally I equate those who rush to take a madman killer’s resultant body count and stack them as objectified evidence to bolster their far-Left fascist ideology to be no better than the madman killer himself. They, too, are using these horrific deaths to draw attention to their own twisted ends.
Oh, and hey! to SBP! Don’t be a stranger!
cranky-d
the M240 shoots a 7.62 which is more or less a .308
the M249 shoots a .223
That said, just for all the new visitors…. those are automatic weapons and no, we don’t want every kindergarten teacher to have one in the closet alongside the graham crackers. It’d rock if she’d actually shot one out the door of her Humvee in Afghanistan though.
I read earlier in the day that the largest death toll in a school related mass murder still resides with some idiot school trustee back in 1912 who didn’t use a gun… he used a bomb.
I’d also read that the assault rifle was found …. well, in the back of the car not in the school…
When does a gun being black make it assaultive?
Anyone else hear a dog whistle?
And wtf was the smartest President ever doing prattling on about AK47’s this AM? Jeez. I’ll bet I could get more cheap chinese knock off AK47’s doing gangbanger parole sweeps through Chicago or South-Central LA than Obama could ever find in the hands of bitter clingers
Let’s see just how much was known about this psychotic’s diseased mind. If his mother, ostensibly the closest person to him, had any clue that he was this far gone, and still allowed this madman to have access to these unsecured guns, not only was that a fatal mistake for her but also a criminal act. She may be directly responsible for this tragedy. Let’s let the dissection begin.
Of course, our now-too-far-left control-freak Liberal Fascist Democrats won’t wait. They want to seize the moment, not to ‘prevent gun violence’ but to take control of this Republic’s citizens’ guns. We are only controllable when we are completely disarmed, as the founders knew when they crafted the 2nd Amendment to make sure we weren’t so easily controlled.
Oh yeah
To all the wonderful newcomers emerging from the primordial ooze… good job missing the point of the title.
Obviously the President is now expected to speak to a shocked nation, and of course we expect Obama to veer off into attacking AK47’s.
It’d be nice in less chaotic times if the President could ever find the stones to tell his Village People fanboys in Michigan to eschew all the negativity that surrounds them…
Dang…. Step in it much Jeff?
Also, WordPress 3.5 is out. might wanna upgrade. :D
-Pat
Step in it? When the American left is blasting it out of a firehose twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, every week of the year? It’s impossible to avoid, you idiot.
Regarding the post earlier about maybe some union thugs drive home on 4 flat tires?
Yeah. Try it. You’ll be jailed. However tossing over some guys hot dog cart because he is feeding conservatives? A-OK!
“He left mom’s M-4gery* in the back seat, but the AP wants you to know that it was a “hi-power” rifle”
Yeah shorter barrels are all about upping the ‘power’ n’ shit. That’s why the crooks like to saw off da shotguns right ? SCIENCE!(TM)
Pat. There’s a reason you’re forever a pariah.
I hope your mother has secured the knives and forks!
And I am an idiot.
This AM I was watching the news and moving firewood into the house… and some news agency was playing a speech Obama made a while ago about the AK’s and I thought it was a live shot.
I was thinking: what a fucking clown… which was true, but never knowing that I’d be mirroring the President
From now on I will try to keep up…
Maybe it was the M-4gery* that shoots a .22LR which everyone knows is almost halfway to a .50 cal machine gun.
Velocity is good.
If the round is designed to fragment or mushroom.
Or if you’re Jimmuh Carter and you’re faced with an attack rabbit.
AP says the police recovered a .223, Mark Levin talked w/ a Fox News reporter who mentioned police were saying they recovered an m-4. I translated that to M4gery, because I doubt Mom has tax stamp for the happy-fun switch.
I don’t know what caliber the Glock and the Sig Sauer were. I’d guess 9mm and/or .40 before I guessed .22lr, though that would be my 3rd guess.
A high power rifle makes the same round travel even faster and hit harder! It does this with solar capacitors and a proprietary blend of leprechaun blood, Formula 412 (which is three points higher than Formula 409 on the formulae chemical power scale) and Sanka that was originally developed by the Secret Navy (not to be confused with the publicly acknowledged US Navy) for arctic circle fracking, which was abandoned when it was discovered that you can’t really frack goddamned water, and you need some land to split open, or it won’t work. High power rifles are often used by hillbillies to shoot down low orbit satellites which they think are shiny metal techno-demons a watchin’ ’em from up-ere. A high powered BB gun can cut an Abrams tank in half from 60 miles away, or even more if you use those freaky metric miles.
Where do I git me one of them bb guns? Is that there one o’ them specials billy-jim and joe-bob cooked up in the shed?
@serr8d
Yeah, I know I said that to Frum and ya know what? I am fucking proud of it. That asshole son of a bitch has no class at all. Not to mention he’s about as Conservative as Michelle Malkin.
and if you and your little yarmulke-baiting friends with the persecution complex disorders don’t like it, too bad. I, as a WASP, find it to be absolutely sickening that Frum can say stuff like that, and face no repercussions. But someone like Rick Sanchez pops off, he loses his fucking career.
It’s a sick double standard and I will always speak out about it.
Learn it, like it and fucking DEAL WITH IT! Ya asshole.
*snaps finger and walks away*
Oh and Mayor Bloomberg, fuck you too.
^^^Truth.^^^
Sometimes, it’s even better than that.
Burglar calls 911 to save himself from gun-wielding homeowner
I’m with bh here. Since I heard about the shooting, I’ve avoided as much media as my “job” here allows. Best I could do was voice my (obvious) displeasure with the opportunistic pols and the morally preening leftists whose irrational, doctrinaire anti-gun position immediately knee-jerked me in the gut — then scoop up my wife and my two young boys and go out for dinner.
I was asleep by 9.
To all those visiting here for the first time — the assholes trafficking in phony sanctimony, pretending I don’t care about the dead children — I can only say this: you haven’t a fucking clue how I feel. But more importantly, how I feel about dead children — which I suspect is how nearly every parent feels when they learn of such horrors — is not the issue here. The issue is, what’s the best way to prevent me from having to feel such things again and again and again. And I’ve determined that advertising yourself as a big old feel-good collection of sitting ducks isn’t the best way to go.
To Missfixit: as others have pointed out, it is the THREAT of their being concealed carriers at a particular location that gives spree killers pause. After all, if you want to go down in a blaze of mass murdering infamy, it would totally suck if you decked yourself out in your trenchcoats and wrote your manifestos, then walked inside the school, pulled out your rifle to shoot the ceiling and make a big grand entrance, only to be put down like dogs by some faculty member with a .40 and some Critical Defense ammo before you can even really begin living out your murder-porn fantasy.
You’d be remembered as the pathetic wannabe punk you are. And no self-respecting spree killer is going to risk that ignominy.
We live in a strangely surreal culture, one where people write about accidental gun deaths as if that’s a viable reason to remove a right of self-defense. Grown people make choices, and those choices have consequences. Sometimes the consequences are unintended. But the truth is, we have no idea how many crimes are stopped by homeowners with guns. Except that in areas of the country where guns are more prevalent among law-abiding citizens — and known to be so — picking a target of opportunity is a more iffy proposition for bad guys with ill intent. And so the crime rates reflect that.
Just as I won’t die for political correctness, I won’t let my family go unprotected because it makes some person with no gun experience and no real idea about self-defense feel (irrationally) safer and morally superior.
This post took issue with Obama’s (and many in the leftwing media) having used the occasion of this massacre not to mourn the loss of these innocents; but to use the pretense of mourning the loss of innocents to immediately begin screeching for the removal of a basic natural right.
This is who they are. This is what they do. And as cranky-d said upthread, we all here know that — and we aren’t the type to be cowed. No matter how many Tweets I’m sent in which I’m depicting as a monster who cares not a whit about the children.
I suspect I care a whole lot more than many of these puffed-up childless lefties who see in such massacres just the latest crisis they can’t let go to waste — having first, of course, set the conditions for the crisis with ill-advised policy in the first place.
Their demanding I prove my morality to them is a deflection. I’m not looking for their approval. I’m looking for their defeat. So that fewer children ever have to experience the kind of horrors we witnessed yesterday in order for some leftist politician to check off the resume point “tough on guns.”
A cop on Fox: “Those are the worst bullets you can have. They’re hollow points, and those are the kind we in law enforcement really hate those because they can actually penetrate a bulletproof vest.”
Astounding ignorance from a supposed expert. Law enforcement hates hollow points so much that they carry them all the time. And, of course, a hollow point is less likely to penetrate body armor, not more likely.
Yup. More disinformation so that only cops can have superior fire power. My cop neighbor being the prime example of somebody who should never be able to wield that kind of power over others.
I’m hearing .223 Bushmaster. As for the M-4, they’re marketing semi-autos as such, so that wouldn’t be as implausible as you might think.
One of the most striking things about all this, beyond the carnage, is the number of things that have been reported that just aren’t true.
You’d think that folks on the left that have a frequently adversarial relationship with law enforcement might be a bit wary of things the police say that lefties find argumentally convenient.
It’s an understandable sin, but one, as our Betters, they really ought to avoid.
My wife just now told me: we need to get you another gun, quickly. Today, maybe.
That Wonkette doesn’t do nuance well is a surprise to nobody besides maybe Ken Layne.
Damn, Goldstein, Wonkette just named you Stupidest Man on the Interboobs.
Way to stay relevant.
The Man is too big. The Man is too strong.
O!
All the best.
Hi, happyfeet.
Wonkette…isn’t that the shithole that hosted Jack Stuef, the lardassian who posted some awfulness about Trig Palin ?
Yeah, Wonkette. Certainly they are all concerned about kids over there. May they all wallow in the frying fat of slow-roasted stuffed Stuefs.
“One of the most striking things about all this, beyond the carnage, is the number of things that have been reported that just aren’t true.”
I’d think that the Zimmerman case and Benghazi would have promoted glaring reporter inaccuracy from striking to blase.
Yes, James, that’s the one. She hosts a very humorous and popular blog.
Okay, SteveG, in my drunken state I melded the 240 into the wrong weapon. Am I also wrong about them not both being called ’60s? No one has ever used that term around me, including people who have fired them in anger, as it were.
You just described pretty much every story ever reported, at least since Murrow died.
Oh noes… a humorous and popular blog. Woe. Woe I say.
Hm. My initial run on twitter has amusing results. One of the folk who were wailing in Outrage (OUTRAGE!!!) at JeffG decided that my sarcastic tweet in response to his was soooo irrelevant, he spent some time actually informing me of such.
Again. Woe. Woooooooooeeeee…. ;-)
“Ernst Schreiber says December 15, 2012 at 1:12 am
Where do I git me one of them bb guns? Is that there one o’ them specials billy-jim and joe-bob cooked up in the shed?”
I hear you can pick them up at Walmart Ernst! Walmart! Doom!
I had no idea so many of her readers were there to point and laugh at her..
Why when you think about it, any muzzle loaded cannon from the 18th century is a kind of big BB gun…in a way. Ain’t gonna crack an M1’s hide though. You need a hight power BB gun for that.
“I had no idea so many of her readers were there to point and laugh at her..”
Anna Marie Cox left Wonkette to die a long time ago and it replaced her with an amateur gossip columnist. She’s over at Time magazine. Which is ironically on its way to being the next Newsweek, which recently went from being a weekly news magazine to a…blog.
So “repubsrock” has the facts wrong? Knock me over with a feather!
What we seem to need is another group that will be empowered to decide who shall and who shall not be able to buy weapons. Skipping right over the fact that this guy simply stole his moms guns and killed her first before embarking on his day of killing.
I also would say that “sociopaths, psychopaths and the violently mentally-ill” tend to already have felony records which preclude them from legally buying a gun. But then as in so much from the left the solution to any problem always is to give away some liberty to government in return for the promise of security. Promises that expire upon their assumption of the new power.
Mcg, I honestly cannot tell parody from self-parody anymore, so I am keeping mum for now.
What are the odds that repubsrock hails from Murfreesboro?
“and if you and your little yarmulke-baiting friends with the persecution complex disorders don’t like it, too bad. I, as a WASP, find it to be absolutely sickening that Frum can say stuff like that, and face no repercussions. But someone like Rick Sanchez pops off, he loses his fucking career.”
The problem with Frum is that he’s a smarmy unfair dishonest leftist prick with revolting views.
It’s not that he’s a Jew. His being Jewish is no reason to hate on him. His behavior is the reason to hate on him. He’s having laffs (not actual laughs) about the right because of a mass child slaying. That is what’s sickening. Being a Jew is NOT what is sickening about him. It’s incidental. Bringing it up is stupid as fuck. Why the hell would you want to?
I say that as a wasp or possibly a wfsgsip (White franco-swiss-germanic-scots-irish protestant), 75% heavy on the g.
“Pablo says December 15, 2012 at 8:36 am
What are the odds that repubsrock hails from Murfreesboro?”
See if you can commission him to draw you a space stoat with big tits. If he takes the bait then you know what’s up. Or else it might mean that unemployment has finally made faux-manga anthropomorphic cartoon animal smut artists of us all.
cranky, I used to carry the M-60. slope has always been a pinhead.
Okay Jeff. I agree that teachers should be *allowed* to conceal carry on the premises. My issue is that I think they would freak out about it and not actually carry, and I didn’t think that was going to be very effective in actually STOPPING one of these nuts, plus I don’t think that we’ll ever get past the political left on that one (esp w Obama in charge) – and we will continue to see these massacres. Maybe there will be another ban on certain types of weapons, but it won’t stop the crazies.
My next thought this morning is that we need to go back to a time when we locked up the mentally unstable. I know that won’t be popular either.
geoffb, what people like Goldberg ignore is that you cannot stop a madman, you can only limit the body count. (obviously, I’m ignoring the “Minority Report” aspect of the article)
I think it’s quite obvious that had there been two or three armed citizens at the school at the time of the shooting, the body count would have been substantially less.
It is also possible there wouldn’t even have been a body count, because the school would no longer be a soft target. Or, there would have been a body count of one, the one being the would be shooter.
This just in : “Good Ol’ Ass Sex” is in the front running to be Time’s new ‘Person of the Year’.
my dad picks up all of my kids every day from the elementary school. He is getting his concealed carry ASAP. But he won’t be in the school all day, so it doesn’t feel quite good enough. I wish our janitor was packing.
missfixit, the thing is familiarity breeds confidence.
di
If you spoiled rotten costals can’t recognize simple cause-and-effect—an armed populace is a damned good deterrent to spree killers, who want to take out as many people as possible before they off themselves—then I don’t know how to help you.
Ok, someone help me here (I’m on my first cup o’coffee … hubby’s company Christmas party last night … er “holiday” party … heh) but I recall a few years ago a shooting in California involving FBI? ATF? armed investigators in their office? Some disgruntled guy came in to shoot his boss and another armed investigator got him before he could shoot others in the office.
Rather than it being gun free zone so the disgruntled guy could pick off secretaries and file clerks huddled under desks …
Darleen, Larry Elder gives a good rundown of shooters stopped by someone with a weapon.
Oh, this is cute. My twitter account just got suspended.
“This account, @Sinapus, was suspended for sending multiple unsolicited mentions to other users.”
Riiiiiight.
So if someone tweets something particularly dumbassed, and I call them on it, I’m a bad person?
chester, you got twitter gulaged? You must have been right over the Leftist target … their fave SHUT UP tool
I’m sending a ticket to support. “I didn’t like what that person” said does not sound like a valid violation of the rules.
Welcome to the Obam-ocalypse.
One other thing has come out. School was locked up, he broke in, he wasn’t let in.
I’d sure like to know whether Adam Lanza and Christopher Krumm had anything else in common besides Connecticut, Asperger’s, and the urge to kill their parents.
What’s amusing is one of the people who were making remarks towards JeffG that I made a response towards suddenly has his account protected.
hello repubs and also a joyful holiday season to you
2013 is a new year and that’s exciting… A new year filled with old friends like the boehner and the pelosi and the limbaugh and the huckabee, but also new friends like the new guy what plays elmo once he passes his background check and a new secretary of state! (it’s rumored that this historically minority-held position might could be filled with a White Male)
yes sir 2013 promises to be eventful and fascinating
…in an educational setting, I would also point out. Just fucking spooky.
My 9:49 am was a follow-up to my own 9:46 am.
The stupid and the shameless.
Obama couldn’t push Congress to appropriate pork, raise its own pay and go on a mass fact-finding junket to Tahiti.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Anyway, isn’t Nadler too fat to be a member of Congress?
He’s the Chucky Schumer maxi-me.
Not all that unusual, actually, with a breaking story, and the stress is on getting the information on the air rather than making sure the information is right. With the Portland mall shooting a few days ago, one of the things that jumped out at me was the police spokesman emphasizing that the shooter was wearing a load-bearing vest, not body-armor. That’s a legacy of Aurora.
Which reminds me, does that Brian Ross asshole still have a job with ABC?
I propose that schools be made as secure as an Israeli shopping mall.
Is he planning to leave his carry piece in the truck and the truck parked a block away? Wait in the truck parked a block away for the grandkids to come to him, or violate the law?
Something I wasn’t aware of. It appears the Clackamas Mall shooting may have ended when the shooter was confronted by an armed citizen. Link.
The thing that strikes me is sheer volume of false facts. This one seems worse than most.
Ernst, depending on the State, it may be legal to carry on school grounds. For instance, in CA, it is legal to CCW on K-12 campuses.
Something was a bit off about that whole presser to me too. And if the title of this post is alluding to the “Rosewood” like attack on that guy’s hotdog truck, I am wondering what the silence is all about as well. So is a “racism pass” issued to dues paying union members? You can totally do a race riot and destroy someone’s business if you are doing it to a conservative or a person providing a service to a conservative organization? I wonder if you pay a little extra in your yearly dues, do you get a lynch-pass?
So, before I moved (first to Europe then to the Middle East), I used to be a regular here. One of your resident commie delusionals. I am glad to see that the Ole Perfesser is still keeping this site going as well as the regulars like Slartibartfast, Happyfeet, Pablo, JD, Sdferr, et al. I am sad to see that a great deal of the lightheartedness has gone out of the banter here. Most of that is because this country has devolved precipitously and there is not much to laugh at anymore. I take responsibility for my part in that. I voted for this terrible administration in 2008.
I remember arguing fiercely with the Ole Perfesser about classical liberalism vs. the sham progressivism that is practiced and called liberalism in this country. I have always believed in the innate goodness of a society that protects it’s most vulnerable and takes an active role in regulating the economy to promote a fair distribution of wealth. When you get to travel around the world, you are quickly disabused such notions. Nations have been experimenting with government and economics for millennia. Using one to regulate the other does not ever do a thing to promote freedom. It is merely an instrument to do the exact opposite.
It is not even the faux progressivism that alarms me (meaning, authoritarian government expansions disguised as benevolent “people-powered” social programs). It is the tribalism and simmering race and class resentment that is terrifying. A social program can be reversed. Even the most egregious power-grab can be corrected. Authoritarians can be deposed. Stoked-up race resentment and class-warfare cannot be reversed, however. It takes on its own life and keeps going until it burns out or everyone is hacked up a la Rwanda. And if we are very busy hanging white people and rich people from the lamp posts, we will not be terribly concerned with reversing a government expansion or looking critically at our terrible new dictator for life. I have always thought white people were just being paranoid. That they were just so used to their white privilege that they could not stand to share their privilege with anyone else. I generally made fun of the whole concept. No one gives a crap about your white asses, I would say. Go fondle your guns, dude. Wolverines!1!! But resentment of white men is the gasoline that has been poured over the dry brush. This is a real thing. When the incendiary – whatever that will be – is thrown on that, the conflagration will be be a diversion – but it will not be controllable or stoppable. Because that kind of shit never is.
I sound totally dramatic and over the top, I know. But I feel pretty strongly about this. And if any of you remember me at all, you know that I was always the one to throw cold water on dire predictions of a sinister future for this country. Especially about progressivism. I have always thought it was a force for good, even when it was misguided. But I don’t see that now. I am not some Alex Jones wacko or a god-bothering Christianist hoping for red-heifers and signs of the apocalypse. It just took me being away from my little enclosed echo chamber for a couple of years to see things clearly. Living somewhere where people have been manipulated with class and cultural resentment since before the Ottoman empire, I can look at my old peers and see that we have been similarly herded like cattle by our own predators. At least the Arab autocrats have perfected this craft and expertly divert their mass’s rage outward and away from their country. But our rage is being directed at our neighbors.
Just let me get back to Abu Dhabi before everyone starts shooting.
and takes an active role in regulating the economy to promote a fair distribution of wealth.
There’s your problem, when you give Big Gov the power to steal from the producers under a something as subjective as “fair” you cannot help but get a government that operates under the same moral precepts as a shoplifter or mafia goon.
Lisa, in the coming meltdown, even a place like Abu Dhabi probably will not be a safe haven. Abu Dhabi is too tied into the Western Financial system. What happens when Abu Dhabi goes broke and can no longer afford to buy off the population?
I am a Christianist I suppose – and it this point I see Armageddon on the horizon. Never thought I’d see the day. I am sad that all the light-heartedness has gone from this place too, but I can clearly see why.
Gird your loins – that dumbass Biden was right about something at least.
I just can’t shake the astonishing devolution downwards this killing represents. Such utter, astounding evil directed at those who are the definition of helpless. The unleashing, as Lisa noted, of the profound anger and resentment towards each other is also sickening. The public square is a disgusting place.
We are coming apart, as many here have noted, at the seems in ways big and small.
Oh, and full credit to you, Lisa. Most of the leftists we deal with refuse to learn anything from experience or history. Congratulations.
Lisa,
I had wondered what happened to you. You are correct–this place was where one could find some sharp humor. If memory serves, JD used to call you “SugarTits.”
Glad you are well, in a professional sense, under the sad circumstances.
(I used to post as McGruder, now I use my name.)
cranky-d
I figured you knew the difference and was just trying to help… that said, man did I get out on a limb and then start sawing.
I have so little faith in Obama to be decent enough to let a crisis go to waste, that when I saw that old clip on TV (I had never seen it before) That I just assumed (which makes an ass out of me *insert juvenile snicker* ) I assumed that of course Obama would try to turn another mental health tragedy into political movement. Forward! are it were.
To be honest I blame the ACLU and the courts for hamstringing parents and the state by denying even parents the right to medicate their mentally ill 18 yr old plus children.
I remember people blaming Reagan for putting the mentally ill out onto the streets, but it was the ACLU and the courts who made the law.
We’ve been here before.
Of course, then there was no reason to get all worked up. No over a bunch of religious freaks (Who doesn’t like buttons, anyways? Weirdos.) and especially not when a Republican President and Congress can’t be moved towards legislating more gun control, right?
I blame Ken Kesey and Jack Nicholson.
And Walt Disney too.
Lisa has come into the Light! Welcome back from the brink.
Damn, Goldstein, Wonkette just named you Stupidest Man on the Interboobs.
Shows what she knows.
Jeff is the Honey Badger of the Interwebs.
Lisa was cool even before she came to her senses.
Wonkette is the one who likes it up the ass, like thor.
And welcome back, Lisa! Don’t be a stranger.
Lisa was an honest Lefty. Welcome back!
The other children that survived but with wounded souls.
– Yes, but maybe “that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”. Children are vastly more resilient and adaptive than adults. The adults in any tragedy will generally further traumatize the kids due to emotional/overwrought reactions themselves.
– Thats only human. Its also, in this sort of case, symptimatic of the true problem, and why these events will continue until society decides that facing our monsters is better than burrying our heads in the sand or looking for anything “else” we can blame it on so we don’t have to tackle the real cause, lasck of mental health programs support and recognition.
– But hey, yammering on and on about gun control lets us all avoid that terrifying prospect, some of us actually suffer from mental health issues, and it gives the Left the perfect templete to play head games with every crisus. So you know, win, win!
Lisa and Spies back – a silver lining. It’s good to see you both.
Yes! I fucking loved that name. Those were fun days. Though I am totally embarrassed when I think of all of my rattling on about collectivism (and “national conversations about race” lolz) at 40 years old. I sounded like a marginally literate freshman at NYU.
Oh Sugartits, I hope you liked Brussels.
Lisa, is there a 12 step program for recovering liberals? If so, what step are you on?
I’ll take grotesquely false equivalents for $1000, Alex.
Casey Stengel is running this joint?
Who knew?
I’ll take grotesquely false equivalents for $1000, Alex.
Because …?
Didn’t think so.
This anonymous poster thinks his intellect is the equal of any of the regulars here.
Who is TBPlayer?
Perhaps he’s from Tennessee. Those guys have been silent a few months.
– Ok, false equivalemcy for $1000 it is….”Finding any fault with this politician or his policies is constantly characterized as racist”?
…….. dut dut dut dut dut dut dahhh, dut dut dut dut dahhhh
……. *ding*
……Any one?…..Bueller?
= When you see the hive of cockroaches turn out in ernest you can bet your bitter-clinger white supremist bible thumping ass that Jeff the Goldstein is over the target.
Well now, here’s an idea.
Great to see you too Silver! Hugs to everyone. I am going to be here in this heavily armed enclave of one percenters in Wellington for the next month visiting my sister. Hope I get to catch up with everyone while I am here.
Access to Western websites is spotty over yonder, though they constantly swear on a stack of camels that they do not censor or manipulate access to the web.
(Loved Brussels, btw. I want to go back! But one goes where the work is.)
Ah, and Lisa! S’good to see you back (not just here at pw but in the good ol’ USofA too for a time? Christmas bonus!)
Lisa, I always liked you. I always thought it was because you could be respectful and fun in your disagreement with the rest of us. I confess I suspected it meant you were open to our point of view even as you argued against it.
See what that gets you?
So, are you back, or just visiting? I think we all missed you.
missfixit says December 14, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Pablo: kindergarten teachers are the meekest women you’ll ever meet. They couldn’t be trained to carry firearms in the classroom for the most part. This is not a feasible plan.
Not always true Miss. My daughter is a teacher, and trained in self defense with handguns, rifles and shotguns. She always thinks the schools are safe, but not safe enough. You’d have to have her explain it, but there are a lot of what she calls ” whackjobs” out there, and wishes she could carry.
Ah. Well, I hope you have a Plan B in case the Gulf states do prove vulnerable to the Arab Winter troubles that have befallen places farther to the north and west.
Maybe we can draw Lisa out later on her interactions with Gulf Staters and their views of the confrontation with their hegemonic neighbor Iran? But later, as mentioned, may be better.
Hi Blake, your link at December 15, 2012 at 11:01 am is broke, would you try again please?
Hiya Lisa, glad you stopped by!
I was awarded Wonkette’s Stupidest Man on the Internet! Which would have been cool if the trophy wasn’t of a bronze Jessica Cutler taking it in the pooper.
– Dah Hildebeast did a faint today, so maybe health issues will “prevent” her from appearing on Benghazi.
– Drip, drip, drip.
Hill has a concussion. She’ll be unable to recall any signigicant details now.
significant, I mean
I sure hope her concussion doesn’t cause her to go shooting people like a football player.
RACIST!
Damn. Caught out by a misspelling. ; )
What would Freud have said about that?
LISA!!! Good to see ya, chickie.
Yup, it’s all your fault. Told ya.
Something Rousseauvian no doubt, along the lines of Spellification and It’s Discontents.
People who intend to parachute in and insult the host under a pseudonym like “TBPlayer” should consider not using an email address that actually contains their real name. Jeff isn’t the only one who can look at that information.
Of course, he’s free to log in to his dashboard and change the email address on his PW user account, if he belatedly wishes to preserve his pseudonymity…
LBascom,
Looks like I screwed the html pooch. One more time about the armed citizen versus Klackamas shooter.
Sorry about that.
Link
Could be sdferr. Freud is usually my default guy to blame.
Wow, I am html link challenged today.
Blake, how are you inputting the URL? It winds up as an empty <a> tag, without even a href.
Blake, there will be no beastiality on this thread, mister.
McGehee, I would swear I’m putting a href in, but, knowing me, possibly not.
The third link should do the trick. (that last one’s for you, leigh)
Thanks. Looks like he held off shooting because of danger to bystanders.
Armed AND responsible. How woulda thought?
Before Connecticut tragedy, administration eliminated emergency preparedness program,let school violence prevention programs lapse
who, not how…
Yeah, amazing, isn’t it LBascom? A youngster who is not a trained cop or security guard acted responsibly. Imagine that.
O for zeus’s sake, this didn’t happen because the Federal gov. slipped funding. Shit. Fucking progressives never quit.
Seems outlawing guns isn’t the cure all some would have us believe. Who knew?
Also, what the hell are those Bobbies packing? Pre-Sturmgewehr 44 grease guns?
From what I have been able to ascertain from the garble of news on this topic, the young man was mentally ill. With what exactly, we don’t know. As was mentioned upthread, mom knew about this and still had (presumably) unsecured weapons in the home. Was the kid on meds? We don’t know. Mom should have been making him take them and if he was intractable and uncooperative, she should have had him in a halfway house or some sort of a group home, provided the whole mental illness thing isn’t just a go-to leap of logic from the media.
This all boils down to a bunch of bad parenting, feel-good mental health treatment or lack thereof that led to the tragic outcomes we will all be beaten about the head and shoulders with for the next week or two.
Tear-gas canister lobber? Bean-bags? Dunno.
Also, what the hell are those Bobbies packing?
Whistles.
– Wouldn’t pay that much mind Jeff. Getting an award from a Leftie skank whos only claim to fame is poop-shute sex is like getting a $20 dollar discount bj from a hooker with stage 4 TB.
‘Z’at it? Rubber biscuits.
Oh, rubber biscuits.
Thought it was one of these for a minute there…
– Actually, the Brits “responde” to the situation as it presents itself, and will issue firearms when deemed necessary. Which results in even more people getting mowed down. Brilliant. 007 just can’t be everywhere at once for bloody sake!
Someone may have already developed an actual grease shooter, with the proviso the “grease” splatters all over the rioters with a stink worse than turds and skunk paste combined, which would tend to concentrate the rioting mind on seeking lavage.
In other words, Tuscon all over again –save for the leftwing activism for which to shut-up the media.
“This all boils down to a bunch of bad parenting, feel-good mental health treatment or lack thereof that led to the tragic outcomes we will all be beaten about the head and shoulders with for the next week or two.”
In a country where guns are less expensive than comprehensive mental healthcare, because “commies.”
DK, why do you hate the universe?
I’d say because “comprehensive”
just for starters.
If there was a point to that, it flew over my head.
When you get to travel around the world, you are quickly disabused such notions.
Damn straight. Every spoiled American (i.e., all Americans) need to spend some time in some dysfunctional economies and see how incredibly good we have it here.
And to understand why that might be.
And it’s good to see ya Lisa. I was wondering what happened to you. Sorry that your bubble got burst, but as they say, “The truth will set you free, but it will make you miserable first.”
I have always thought white people were just being paranoid. That they were just so used to their white privilege that they could not stand to share their privilege with anyone else.
It’s easy to see things that way. Whites were privileged, and they didn’t want to let Those People into the club.
But it’s not 1953 anymore. Sometimes when you reverse the tide, it rebounds and comes back magnified tenfold.
If the gun market were as heavily distorted as the health insurance and health care markets are, maybe they wouldn’t be less expensive.
Nice to see Lisa and SBP commenting. I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas.
Been at a gun show this afternoon. Didn’t buy any as I already spent that money on Wednesday. Just something to do on a rainy day. Safest place in town.
In a country where guns are less expensive than comprehensive mental healthcare, because “commies.
Is there some sort of reversal of knowledge filter you run all the comments here through, dalek? No one mentioned commies excepting you. Certainly I did not and I wrote the comment about which you are having comprehension problems.
geoff, my son’s wrestling club is raffling off a Mossberg 500 field and security shotgun. $1 a chance or 6 chances for $5. Need not be present to win.
….because “commies.”
– Why do you hate the Unions?
So, how do you propose to do this over the intertubes leigh?
I don’t really. I was just mentioning it to rile up the lurkers and lefties.
Wow. Robbie Parker, a father whose daughter was murdered yesterday is speaking to the press. This guy has his head screwed on straighter than I could ever imagine being possible.
Damn, my heart breaks for him. His little girl had a stand up Daddy.
Yeah, commies must be why the costs to produce a simple tool are less than the cost of hours upon hours upon hours of the labor of a number of highly educated professionals and the overhead required for them to provide their services. Idiot.
[…] end with Jeff Goldstein, who expresses exactly the way my thinking on this matter runs [worth quoting in full]: Predictable […]
– The Left has stepped up to a high pressure fire hose to spew teh hipocracy:
“Pro-Union Activist Threatens the Michigan Governor: ‘We’ll Be at Your Daughter’s Soccer Game’
Welcome back, Lisa. You were missed.
Jeff’s link back to that old Jessica Cutler post gave me some highly stifled chuckles.
link
Yes, this. Any chance you’re spreading a bit of this around while you’re back?
Well there is your answer, Dale. The Democrats should mandate handguns and put themselves in charge of distribution.
Few years you wouldn’t be able to find one anywhere.
My-Parents-Are-So-Proud-of-my-Famous-Asshole Krispies
oh Lord have mercy. sorry i missed that.
Leigh: me and my mom are looking for purses that would be good for CC. got any suggestions?
For your comment on Hillary Rodham and her ‘concussion’ McGehee, you have been awarded the THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY at:
The Camp Of The Saints
I found my tin foil hat, and I’m going there:
Oops, they forgot the” kill yourself” programming.
Say, anyone interested in talking about Benghazi?
Imma go throw this hat away and lie down now…
Galco is your friend, missfixit. They have many different styles of bags.
Coranado handbags is another one.
They are both pricey, but I’ve had mine for over 15 years and it looks just like a Coach bag.
thanks i will check it out Leigh! Just in time for Christmas. :(
JHoward – I tweeted that pic. awesome
WJC says to believe her: “When she says she’s got a headache, she means she don’t want no funnin’. Best to just stay clear.”
Israel, JHo?
Looks like Israel to me.
i saw that pic here this am
There is one fatal flaw to arming teachers. It would expose the lie to children, that guns are only for police and bad guys. This must not happen! Generations of indoctrination will be ruined!
I want to thank all the abnormally small people I trampled into the dust to get where I am today. You like me, you really, really like me!
Not to worry, Comrade Bascom. We’ll just issue teachers badges and uniforms like the TSA.
I’m going to go ahead and guess M-1 carbine.
That’s a nice lookin’ teacher.
– Plus that way the Lefturd activists can have both a teacher and a parole officer. all in one.
her stocking was hung on the chimney with care in hopes that lisa the expat soon would be there
I didn’t think you’d make it so I ate your chockit bar
sorry we can go to Cracker Barrel and you can pick out something tasty for to replace it
and merry christmas to you Mr. spies it’s our last christmas without the obamacare, so that makes it a very special christmas indeed
btw my niece says we have to wear green n white on monday cause of those are the school colors of the connecticut kids
she doesn’t say which green though
algore green perhaps?
monday seems forever away
In a country where guns are less expensive than comprehensive mental healthcare, because “commies.”
It’s one of the many hysterical and cynical memes the gungrabbing Left is running through Twitter. Some are demanding the NRA be charged as accessory to murder, Bill Moyers is conspiracy mongering that the NRA has America under the gun.
I’ve been seeing the same Healthcare v Guns stupidity all over the place.
Usually goes “If everyone has guns society will be better but if everyone has healthcare it wont?”
As if the NRA or any Constitutionalist has been demanding Big Government PROVIDE at taxpayer expense, a gun for everyone!
Ed Shits … er Schultz … says the Founding Fathers “had slaves, oppressed women and were not tolerant” so that negates the legitimacy of the 2nd amendment or something.
The Left’s barely contained giddiness at dipping their hands into the blood of these children and running through the streets is disgusting beyond words.
I’d say “shame on you” to them, but they are far beyond shame.
Shame is not even on their radar. That’s a big part of the problem.
start referring to the shooter as a pete singer abortionist
soledad keeps touching herself when she thinks nobody’s looking she’s really getting off on this
it’s kinda disturbing to tell you the truth
JH
Thanks for that pic … I’ve put it up on Twitter, too.
– When your life is pitifully empty of anything approaching human kindness and sustenance like the typical Progressive/Lefturd, the only thing Left is to be a pariah, At least that way you get a sort of attention.
– Even ridicule and loathing is preferable to being ignored when your soul is a burned out husk, and the only thing that makes you happy is otheres misery.
– I have no idea who Soledad is, other than a local mountain, but maybe ita a message she doesn’t need you or something.
obrien – cnn
soledad has always seemed very distant
I think it’s cause she has her own agenda
crises waste dept.
Holder: We Must Answer ‘Hard Questions’ About Gun Rights
the real ? (who watches cnn) is answered
Already been done…a hundred years ago not withstanding.
I lol everytime I hear Soledad mentioned thinking about the time she got pissy about the man keeping her down or some shit and it turned out nobody even knew she was black.
You could start by answering hard questions bout Fast and Furious, asswipe.
oh. I thought she was vaguely hispanic like that chick bieber’s been hooking up with
“Hard Questions about Gun Rights” means “You should not be able to defend yourselves, subjects, so we’ll take that basic human right which precedes the Constitution by thousands of years away from you.”
Justin Bieber’s murder, castration plotted, police say
“Hard Questions about Gun Rights”
meanwhile at gun control inc
10 shot, including 4 teens, Friday afternoon and night
Boom. +eleventy
Yes. So, you know, Jooos and other unsavory types given to lax airport security and murderous tendencies.
By the way, repubsrock is thor. I recognize his lame ass schtick.
Investigation focusing on micro-surgeons?
Mr. thor is back?
twas the night before Christmas and 40 below when proteins went up in search of their foe!
happyfeet says December 15, 2012 at 5:56 pm
oh. I thought she was vaguely hispanic like that chick bieber’s been hooking up with
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They’re Latino until they are forced to defend themselves from a more equal more equal than others other.
Or they’re a verified Republican voter.
At which point they are White (hispanic)
Soledad O’Brien’s parents named her after a prison and a potato dish.
I don’t get it.
whatever she is i did notice they let her do a “news special” called *Who’s Black In America* that nobody watched but I bet she gets gobs of stupid awards for
I wondered why a vaguely hispanic white Latino was doing a show on black people but I figured maybe she had a little sumpin sumpin going on with the donlemon, who looks like he’s eager to lose his virginity
to a girl
Why aren’t morons like dale k, etc, the recipients of a psychopath’s rage? Really.
I see by her bio that her mother is Afro-Cuban, whatever that is, and her father is Australian. And that her real name is Maria Teresa O’Brien. And she doesn’t speak Spanish.
It’s looking pretty good for me getting my Tribal benefits since I have high cheekbones and old family pictures with Indians in Tribal dress. Headdresses and the whole nine yards. I had a Shawnee woman at the post office tell me that she could tell by looking at me that I’m Indian. Who am I to argue with an old Indian woman?
so was her mom a commie I find that really easy to believe
Commie mommy. Aussie daddy. It’s all starting to make sense.
Oh, and she dropped out of undergrad at Harvard and then went back after she had her career revved up to ‘earn’ her degree. In Journalism.
I’ve been thinking it over, and I think I know how to stop this sort of thing in the future.
Make it a HS grad requirement, every student must have at least one semester of fire arm proficiency, and pass a test for concealed carry*.
The class would cover constitutional principles of the right to life and self preservation, basic familiarity of weapons, and practical application. Second semester covering tactics and advanced concept (reloading, military philosophy) available.
*Test scores not official, permits authorized through the sheriff dept. of your county exclusively.
It’s not clear that she could have helped snapping to become a brain-dead indoctrinated leftist moron, poor girl. She went to all the wrong schools.
I’ve been behind mandatory conscription for at least two years after high school for ages now. You don’t see this kind of shit going on in Switzerland where everyone owns a rifle and knows how to use it.
She didn’t have a prayer, sdferr. Her mom and dad met at Johns Hopkins. (Sorry Jeff)
What that is is that she’s got more slave blood than the white guy in the Oval Office.
That’s what that is.
I don’t like mandatory conscription. Mandatory civics instruction I can get behind.
Assuming the use of force continuum is included in that, I like it, Slart.
Err, Lee.
Seems to me LBascom the idea is good enough (which is to say appealing on its own merits to the likes of high schoolers) that it ought not be necessary to make mandatory, but leave to voluntary election (so as not to have to struggle against the tide of current paedagogic doctrine), yet you’d still have enough graduates to see an improvement in the cohort’s general knowledge, skill and historical understanding to make quite a difference in the world they go on to inhabit.
Civics instruction would depend on who was doing the teaching, though. If it’s through the schools? Eh.
I like the idea of the citizen soldier and everyone being familiar with firearms, firearms safety and owning a firearm that they know how to use properly. Maybe not conscription, but a summer school sort of a boot camp thing before college or work.
taught by nea proggtards?
18 were female. Why do guns hate women?
Soledad isn’t Latino, she’s Cajun. At least a quadroon, maybe an octoroon. Also, she’s half white as a ghost, like Obama.
No kidding, Pablo. My swarthy half Portuguese cousins are darker than her.
It wouldn’t hurt for the nea proggtards to become proficient enough to teach the course as well…
well since everyone in Israel is required to enter the service, it makes it easy to train and arm their population. Whereas here….like .02% of the population serves in the military? So we get to all be sitting ducks I guess.
Leigh those purses are expensive. i’m thinking ankle holster.
They are expensive. But you deserve it. ; )
thing is, me carrying at work all day doesn’t really make me feel better. Because my kids are at school.
i want to homeschool. but what would i do for $$
Prostitution never looked so good :(
Sdferr, my idea of making it mandatory was to make it universal. All the little skulls full of mush (along with those teaching them)would have to learn basic firearms use and safety, along with the principles of the right to self defense.
Still sounds better than the draft to me.
how much do you need to make?
no do it at a state level
Hi guys. Any comment on the following? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930121512.htm
Ooh, let’s for sure leave the military draft out of the conversation. For one, it’s a well settled issue for now. For another, it just doesn’t belong. Whereas your own idea on the other hand is very pertinent to the raging questions on the scene, and in many respects a great beginning. I don’t know why universality is a “value” or to put it plainer, aim, in this instance though, where our nearer principle is liberty? But I’d be happy to entertain your arguments for it (universality, that is). But then, would we be well advised to make similar arguments to introduce a teaching of say, Homer, Virgil, Aquinas, and others?
Oh…well, yes. Do it constitutionally.
More in line with HS grads should be proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic, is my thinking.
Couple things on the psycho kid Adam Lanza stand out…
Well, there’s a tight family group. A loner kid, ‘brilliant’, ‘goth’, ‘LAN parties’ (video gamer), ‘skinny’, introverted, and with easily noted mental impairments, living in a McMansion on a hill with his mother, who was ‘overbearing’.
The kid suffocated on acute loneliness.
after this year I could probably pay all bills and feed my kids etc for $2500/mo… maybe less.
engineering doesn’t work as a freelance job. Unless you’re in coding i suppose. Been wracking my brain about this for 8 months now with no solutions. besides cooking moonshine and general illegal activities.
did daddy dearest abandon Adam Lanza? Seems an epidemic these days. I had a leftist scream at me that I was a fool to own a firearm because one of my kids would likely get his hands on it someday. And I guess one of my kids could go nuts.
In some sense there won’t be any learning worthy the name learning without reading, mathematics and writing (which is more or less just reading done over again from the productive end). But surely reading and maths. Whereas learning without knowledge of the use of firearms and instruction in the historical context of their development and use? Easy peasy, as that’s being done now. So it seems like we’d need more explanation. We could sooner offer the civics lessons as a universal need on the simple grounds that we presume the kids grow up to be citizen-voters, and in that respect stand in need of education to those ends.
can you work from home?
Maybe it’s just spite. If they can throw God from the classroom on 1st amendment rights, we should go on offense with regards to 2nd amendment rights.
Inalienable rights are so hundred years ago…
– Well fellow bitter-clingers, Butler beat Indianna today, and I’m headed out for some Kimchee and Borgogee with my kiddo, his suster and his cousin from Korea after the Aztecs roundball game thats coming in a few.
– Seven more days to the apochalypse, so might as well enjoy,
yes. i want to work from home. was going to ask my boss but i already know the answer.
So while we’re at it we may as well toss in mandatory Latin and Attic Greek. Oh, and French, German and Mandarin Chinese. But hey, eat your peas.
Yeah. Stay the fuck out of Philadelphia.
Yeah, let’s not try to extrapolate the denizens of Philadelphia across the entire American population.
Maybe if you could tell me how many of the shot while carrying Philadelphians were ignorant, untrained gangstas, we could talk.
OK, beemoe did it better.
Missfixit, relax. Your kids are as safe in school as they are anywhere.
If your going to worry, they are probably in more danger getting to school than they are at school. But that level of worry is destructive. Faith and hope are virtues.
Did you list your house yet? If you can sell it or rent it, you can get out of there and get to goat herding.
ha! Leigh if i could sell enough goat cheese to pay the bills I’d be set :)
Faith and hope are virtues yes. That have been dwindling the last 2 years at a horrific rate.
Sdferr, I don’t understand. Are you arguing there should be no mandatory standards for graduation?
Not many Americans speak Latin, there are millions of guns in the US. Is that immaterial?
Most shootings occur among people who know each other, as in rival gang members. If you remove that element from the stats, gun crimes are quite low.
You could make goats milk soaps. They are all the rage and cost a fortune, but are relatively easy and inexpensive to make and the children can help out.
I think the cheeses are going to take finding a cheesemaker to help out until you get it knocked.
The Philly study also only covered folks who were actually shot. Someone who successfully defended themselves without getting shot weren’t counted.
But there attackers would have been counted as victims, of course.
Pretty laughable stuff.
Beemoe and Pablo: do you think Chicago, DC, New York, LA, Kansas City, Miami, etc. are any different? 45% of the US population lives in cities with > 1 million population.
depends on how you sell it. commute, lunch, breaks, water cooler bs eliminated. you do your job and home school. maybe take a small pay decrease for a productivity clause. if you have elementary age kids i push this up til they are in middle school where a cyber school plus some of you works. just my $0.000002(thx bernanke)
<700 people in that study, too. No access to the data and how it was compiled, either.
No, I’m not arguing that […no mandatory standards for graduation?], let alone much of anything (as yet), save perhaps that I think the idea you presented is both worthy in substance on its own legs to be ‘useful’ in the sense of improving the general knowledge and skill in a future population, and to that extent, worthy enough to avoid the probable pitfall of the struggle to make it universal, as opposed to see it instituted in instruction as an elective offering (which I assert! would be popular enough to make a serious dent in the prevalent ignorance now ruling the scene; even if only taken up by a part of the whole population of high school students. Half a loaf, to gist the thing I believe, is better than none. And indeed, so much better as to make a promise to change the whole psychological climate, to speak loosely, surrounding concealed carry and firearm liberty in general. It may even turn out to be so popular that the voluntary demand could catch on to become ‘cool’, and result in the end in near universal adherence on its own.).
Umm, OK. I’ll take half a loaf to none.
Plus.
Beemoe: Please. The study looked at that.
My experience yesterday (after the stupid fucking proggtard etc etc stuff calmed down a bit) was that my interlocutors were not interested in data. “Soft target” is not the end of the conversation, it is the beginning. The soft target argument REQUIRES that fewer people die in violent incidents when the potential victims are armed that when they are not. This is an empirical question, however difficult it may be to answer. I would ask the following question, although I suspect I know the answer: if the science says what the Philadelphia study concluded, will you change you mind about gun-free zones? You don’t have to, but you need a reason (as in reasoning to an idea) if not.
cnn says a lot of the kids what didn’t get shot are sad and anxious
the anderson cooper says maybe counseling would help and asks the sanjay goopta if he thinks that’s a good idea or not
the sanjay goopta says yes sometimes counseling helps but sometimes it takes a long time but sometimes it doesn’t take a long time
i smell peabody
To make shorter, it’s just my experience that the (even potentially justifiable) arguments about ‘mandatory’ aren’t likely to be successful, so may as well be avoided from the jump (unless they’re really good, i.e. really strong — in which case, we’d have to see them to judge). If they’re in any way based on non-universal principle (like my desire to see more people educated in dead languages, say). they’re doomed to time-wasting squabbling.
The only actual bit of data in that Philadelphia study is that, in the period listed, 6% of the people shot were carrying a gun at the time.
The “matched the cases to a control group” of Philadelphians who had nothing to do with the incidents, presumably to see what the carry-rate of the average non-shot Philadelphian happens to be. They don’t report what that number was in this ‘news story’, so we’re only to assume it was lower than 6%. Or not, they don’t say.
So the only take-away I’m getting from the data is that there’s some degree of correlation between people who get shot, and people who fear getting shot, because they live in shitty neighborhoods, or engage in high-risk jobs (like, say, drug dealing and/or general gang-bangery) — and thus carry.
To which… “duh!”
Also, I’d suggest that “getting shot” or “shooting someone” isn’t exactly a disease, and as such would appear to be well outside the purview of the field of epidemiology. Sort of like how “US Senator and Divinity School Dropout” wouldn’t indicate knowing shit about “climate science”, but whatever.
Also, this quote: from study author Charles C. Branas, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology. “Will possessing a firearm always safeguard against harm or will it promote a false sense of security?” sort of gives the game way. False dichotomy, anyone?
yeah I’m getting up the nerve to ask him after Jan 1st. as of right now he won’t even let me have my office away from the sales dept, he is making me wear earplugs so I can concentrate on my equations. If that gives you any indication. lolz
so who’s taking bets that this time the gun grabbers will be successful?
I wouldn’t care if a lot more people died by firearms. Self-defense is a fundamental right. If you take away that ability you create a society in which the strong prey on the weak. That’s how it is already in many cities. You are kidding yourself if you think taking guns away from law-abiding people will cut down on crime. It does just the opposite.
The police cannot help in your defense. It’s up to you.
advertising your defenselessness is proggtard stupid. would you like a “kick me” sign on your back?
But I see everyone else already said the same things while I was writing that. I may curse you all with my dying breath, but I’ll probably have forgotten about it by then.
About data.
Gun-free zones are a special case that lets criminals know that the law abiding people who make up a good chunk of their prey will not be able to defend themselves. In other words, they make places good hunting grounds.
shouldn’t we be more focused on locking up all the mentally unstable people? Seems like none of this shit would happen if it weren’t for the nutbags.
In other words, gun-free zones don’t work because criminals, by definition, will disobey the law. Nothing more need be said, really.
if you are doing work that requires alot of thought ask to do it a few days a week as a test. instead of 8 hrs/day you might be able to solve more things within 9-12 hrs/day(because you are at home and pondering a problem while cooking dinner) in a less distracted environment.
I don’t. Sucks for them, huh?
ok. I am going to try, worst he can do is say no right? he probably won’t fire me because I’m the only employee left who can operate some expensive software there. #YAY
gbesq1 , that study is garbage. See geoffb’s lengthy post above.
Kathleen whats-her-face was onto something when she wrote about this country being divided between the city dwellers and the rural. There is some truth to the idea that what works for one group doesn’t work for the other.
I don’t own a gun. Never have.
The day i buy a gun is the day they ban them.
BTW, have you noticed that all those murderous shitholes have long been run by Democrats? I have.
All these little studies which never get to the real nub which is that no matter how many laws against guns you have, two classes of people will still have them. Those whose lives revolve around breaking the law and the ones empowered by the State to have them.
As much horror, terror, and murder are committed by the armed criminal element it is, has been, and always will be dwarfed by that done at the behest of those in power in a government. This has been chronicled over and over again. Disarm the general public and at some point it will become easier to simply eliminate some of that same public who have become political problems and since they are not armed it is not hard to do. Reasons always abound to just do it, and do it again, and again. And still the call goes out that the fire can’t burn this time because this time we shall do it right.
I’d suggest you get ahead of the curve, BT.
Come for my guns and you’ll get my ammo at a rate that can be measured in feet per second.
well the work at home thing also has big brother. a lady i know who does it has her keyboard activity monitored. tradeoffs. so i would say ask folks doing this already before going to the boss. don’t rush it. also can you do cyber school in your state?
Pablo,
I have been sorely tempted as of late.
Pablo: actually, it doesn’t. From ages 4-17 lived in small towns in Colorado, Oregon, and Alabama. Went urban after that. I like cities. Different strokes. Still love the mountains. After the holidays (dare I call it Christmas?) I plan on taking hunting/rifle course so I can track and shoot Bambi. Then I will eat her.
newrouter: the vast majority of residents of major cities are not gun owners and I suspect almost none of them feel vulnerable. The world has changed. Crime rates in American cities are where they were in the 50s.
On the Branas study.
More.
As others have already noted, these kinds of studies — which as John B points out gives away the game in the framing — are notorious for including victims who were at the outset the attackers, but then were shot. It’s playing with data, not science — and the data it plays with is heavily weighted toward reaching a preconceived conclusion.
GIGO.
So you’re OK with the state of things then? So what are you looking for?
Bambi was a him. Learn the difference or Mr. Ranger will write you up.
“newrouter: the vast majority of residents of major cities are not gun owners and I suspect almost none of them feel vulnerable.”
Substantiate these “suspicians” of yours. Hell, substantiate the ‘vast majority’ stuff too.
Suppose they held a gun buy back program and nobody came.
Those evil gun shows? Nobody ever gets shot at them.
From the Reason article by Sullum:
I bolded the important bit.
the shots fired and injuries and deaths weekly in chicago make your observation false
yeah don’t forget those doe tags or you get in trouble. the DNR man cometh.
The “vast majority” have no fear? hmm don’t know about that.
the issue in chicago isn’t guns. it is young black men with illegal guns. but i’m the coward pointing that out. thank you holder.
Just the fact that it’s Filthydelphia-centric is enough to discard it, AFAIC. Do it again in Dallas and get back to me.
There it is: cities cause gun crime!
Time to ban cities. Quick, someone ring up Dr Branas. I smell a research grant!
I won’t speak for anyone else, but if some random person called me up to ask if I had guns in the house and a bunch of demographic information because they were gathering information for a study I didn’t volunteer to participate in I’d hang up on them.
Or if I were feeling fiesty, tell them a lot of lies to skew their study.
Except that they don’t, because:
I think we’re all good here. There’s really nothing to worry about, aside from the fact that those ignorant white folks in Newtown are suddenly flooding into churches. That’s probably unconstitutional.
leigh: Holy moly. Really? I am not being sarcastic – I always thought Bambi was a girl. Good thing Mr. Ranger is a nice guy. I hope the gender of the deer is not relevant to tastiness.
paleoramus: it is hard to collect data in the US. check out http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/politics/gun-ownership-declining/index.html
another interesting article. What say you?http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dranove/htm/Dranove/coursepages/Mgmt%20469/guns.pdf
We are legion.
Timewasters anonymous. /s
Why is our new friend simply listing studies that skew his way and having us defend against them? Why not reverse the trend and cite studies that he need defend against?
It could be fun. For instance, have at it, gbesq1.
Here’s another. Get busy! (Note: you can click through to the actual study in pdf form)
You want to understand? Go read this right now.
Jeff G: well aimed, although I would prefer not to have to pay for the articles. I am soon off for the holidays – thanks for the reading materials. But sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander – you ought to be reading and commenting on my citations, new friend.
Ah, that’s the point though. The right of self preservation IS a universal right, uniquely presented in the DOI, and the ideology of that should be a mandatory point of instruction for every school child.
“paleoramus: it is hard to collect data in the US. check out http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/politics/gun-ownership-declining/index.html”
Does not support either of your claims.
“But sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander – you ought to be reading and commenting on my citations, new friend.”
They were unconclusive cherry picked local shit. Utterly worthless.
Oh damn, I’m way behind. Oh well.
Depends on who gets to define who is mentally unstable.
I remember TEA partiers being a terrorist threat to the DHS.
But I’m glad it’s still important to say “No” to gay people who want to marry each other. Because, you know, decline, America, tyranny, socialism, immoral.
We are legion.
Heh. We are indeed.
paleoramus: details please
I’m glad it’s still OK to say no to men who want abortions.
Get lost, slippery.
“gbesq1 says December 15, 2012 at 9:33 pm
paleoramus: details please”
Philadelphia study + CNN article contain no useful data that supports either of your claims. They are insufficient and advocacy material to boot.
And to men that want unicorns. No. There, I said it.
“newrouter: the vast majority of residents of major cities are not gun owners a
I suspect almost none of them feel vulnerable.
The world has changed. Crime rates in American cities are where they were in the 50s.”
These are the wild unsubstantiated claims your ‘citations’ so far have utterly failed to support.
Gun Sales In 2012 Set Record, FBI Data Indicates
Like I said earlier, apparently everyone should carry a gun in all times and in all places because that would greatly reduce shootings.
Yeah, twice. Which is enough.
Fuckin’ slipshod…just when you think he’s irredeemable, he throws a lifeline!
I’d rather you not carry a gun, slope. That should be reserved for teachable people.
I’m probably a better shot than you. Remember, I can afford ammo.
Let’s have more of Mark Shields ranting that it is easier to purchase an automatic weapon in US that it is to rent a car. Let’s have more of even Rupert Murdoch babbling that they ought to outlaw sales of machine guns in the US. Or Bob Costas ranting about why does someone need to buy a bazooka on O’Reilly.
And these people are passed off as smart and informed.
See there! that’s what I’m talking about.
Meanwhile, in San Fransisco, people argue whether everyone should wear pants.
Odd world…
“I’m probably a better shot than you. Remember, I can afford ammo.”
From what I’ve read Pablo was an SP in the Airforce and a SAW gunner.
The shooting that result from that in SF are less fatal (but still messy)
How much HIV is in that skid mark?
Yeah San Francisco is a gun and crime free paradise.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/06/28/san-francisco-mayor-mulls-stop-and-frisk-policy-to-reduce-crime/
FWIW, I’m a liberal, Obama voting, socialist and tyranny supporting Democrat that’s not in favor of banning guns.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/bay-area-gun-buyback_n_2304231.html
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/12/gun_buy_back.php
I understand NYC is beautiful this time of year.
What’s that.
That wasn’t the point of your post?
Less than there used to be, but you’re still gonna want to give yourself a good scrubb’n.
paleoramus: it’s all in the FBI crime stats. The dramatic decline in crime since the early 90s is real. Easily available just by googling crime rates in american cities. The fact is not a disputed issue. Why is highly disputed.
gbesq, I wonder if CNN is more reliable than the FBI:
The number of federally required background checks of prospective gun purchasers has nearly doubled in the past decade
“paleoramus: it’s all in the FBI crime stats. The dramatic decline in crime since the early 90s is real. Easily available just by googling crime rates in american cities. The fact is not a disputed issue. Why is highly disputed.”
Substantiate all three claims.
Like I said palaeomerus, I’m in favor of gun ownership.
You might also want to cite statistics about the % of burglaries that happen in the UK while the residents are home.
slipperyslope says December 15, 2012 at 9:51 pm
FWIW, I’m a liberal, Obama voting, socialist and tyranny supporting Democrat that’s not in favor of banning guns.
Sure you are. Just like you’re a 1% with a McMansion and privately schooled kids and a trophy wife and. . .
yes let us talk about the”freaks of nature” now according to darwin. ANTI – science
“Like I said palaeomerus, I’m in favor of gun ownership.”
I don’t care what you claim to be in favor of.
I just avoid the place altogether. And touching anything from there.
Hollywood too.
palaeomerus, gbesq1 is a lying proggtard who loves to build utopian sand castles on premises of sand.
gbesq1 is not debating in good faith. He claims his data is worth a look at while ignoring the incontrovertable fact/data all of these massacres have occurred in gun free zones. Doesn’t matter if you point out it’s obvious the gun free policy isn’t working. gbesq1 just waves his hands and says “not enough data.”
gbesq1, shut your goddamn piehole. You’re just another stupid proggtard who is worth less than the dog shit I pick up in my backyard.
why point to a country? do states statist.
Wait, why isn’t gbesq1 reading Jeff’s link to a free .pdf and studying it intensely? He seems to have enough free time to engage in comments.
Also, what Blake said.
I think I’m more like a 2%, but close enough. And that doesn’t buy a McMansion. We inhabit a 1928 3,500 sq foot hovel in a great neighborhood. And, she’s a trophy wife to me.
Just don’t think about it too much with you order honey prawns in China town. Now Hollywood – that place really is a pit.
newrouter, why do you hate gay people and black people so much? Did something happen in your childhood that involved a gay black person? Just trying to help. If you can’t tell us about the guy you strangled to get an erection, who can you tell?
Demystifying firearms and their use goes a long way towards minimizing fetishization of same.
It’s a tool. Nothing more, nothing less.
I love it when trolls pretend they’re productive members of society.
I’m happy and successful but my true joy in life is trolling a blog that’s beneath me over and over again under different names.
Yes, that certainly adds up.
slippery, you must be gay and black, I guess, ’cause I surely do hate you.
“newrouter, why do you hate gay people and black people so much? Did something happen in your childhood that involved a gay black person? Just trying to help. If you can’t tell us about the guy you strangled to get an erection, who can you tell?”
And this is why nobody here takes any of your smarmy shit seriously anymore.
well the one good thing they have going for them on this anti-gun crusade, is that the Chinese guy who attacked 22 schoolchildren couple days ago? he only had a knife. so the kids didn’t all die because all that stabbing isn’t quite as deadly effective as shooting.
so i still think that schoolyards need some kind of protection besides a sign that “hey some of the ladies here might have a pistol. maybe. but likely not.”
“I’m happy and successful but my true joy in life is trolling a blog that’s beneath me over and over again under different names.”
How is a blog that makes you look stupid almost every time you post anything beneath you? I don’t buy the happy or the successful part. Dim, snarky attention whores are generally neither.
“. . . schoolyards need some kind of protection besides a sign . . .”
Claymores?
We need to have a meetup. I’ll show you my 1040A if you show me yours.
That’s odd. I had been led to believe that if people couldn’t get guns, they’d use something else, and that it would be every bit as effective. You mean guns are more lethal than sporks?
Heresy! (you should denounce yourself)
“. . . schoolyards need some kind of protection besides a sign . . .”
See picture above of the gal with the carbine slung across her shoulder. Use said picture as the warning sign.
The kids the guy in China got stabby on will probably get infections that will lead to complications and maybe even death. Stab wounds are actaully worse than GSW.
pointing out the obviouis is “hate”? go ax the raptards?
slippery, stop it with bragging about your income. It’s crass and highlights your poor manners.
Tell us another one, ss.
“That’s odd. I had been led to believe that if people couldn’t get guns, they’d use something else, and that it would be every bit as effective. You mean guns are more lethal than sporks?
Heresy! (you should denounce yourself)”
Yeah. Knives are ineffective and hardly a threat. Good thinking.
slippery, you dumbass.
Oklahoma city bombing. No firearms involved. 168 dead.
World Trade Center. No firearms involved. 3,000 dead.
Haymarket riot bombing. 12 killed.
1910 bombing of the LAT. 21 killed.
1920 Morgan bank bombing. 38 killed.
1927 bombing of a school in Bath, Michigan. 46 killed.
The list of bombings is long, deadly and even more indiscriminate than the recent spate of massacres by firearms. Someone coming at you with a bomb is a lot harder to stop than someone with a gun.
Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre
Jamie Foxx Jokes About Killing ‘All The White People’ In His New Movie
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-08-02/china-teen-knife-attack/56683112/1
demonrat losers i say
We should restrict the First Amendment’s speech guarantees to those who have funny or interesting things to say. Most people are boring. Why should we have to listen to them? We could set up local American Idol like panels of experts who could audition potential speakers, weed out the cranks and bores, and issue speech permits to the ones who have a genuine need to publically speak.
oh, and slippery, palaeomerus is a lot smarter than you are. By a wide margin.
Tell that to the 28 people that are dead in Sandy Hook you fucking moron.
Blake – congratulations, you’ve proven that bombs are more lethal than guns. Would you admit that knives are less so? If not, why do we arm police and soldiers with guns when just a knife would obviously be more effective.
He doesn’t understand any of the tells he’s showing, leigh. He imagines that successful people are always bragging about their money so he does so.
How he imagines that a happy, well-adjusted person would make a hobby of trolling a blog over and over again under different names is beyond me though to be honest. Go figure.
Ernst, I have to laugh when you say that. Can you imagine how many people would be shocked to find out just how unoriginal they are? Hell, I know I’m hardly original. I cling to my quirks and eccentricities, but, in the end, I get up and go to work every morning like most people.
bh – I just think it’s funny that you’re more worried about my tax rate than yours. It’s cute.
And there should definitely be a Federal Speechifier license for bloggers. And commentators should only be allowed to comment through a licensed Federal Speechifier Person. I mean, we can’t have people thinking that just anyone can report the news, can we?
Fuck you, slippery, I won’t let you move the goalposts. Right there, quoting your own words and I showed you exactly what you don’t want to admit. So, you change the subject.
Asshole.
So if people couldn’t use guns (or bombs) they would likely kill fewer people?
slippey leading the charge for a flat tax rate!
Remember that a fair percentage of our trolls have turned out to be academics, bh, and their behavior makes perfect sense.
You think they could hear her?
ask the rwandans ? huti tuties take your pick
good God, beemoe, now there’s a thought. slippery as an academic.
Probably because the guy didn’t know how to work a knife against human anatomy.
Actually, I care more about your tax rate than mine. Please don’t hate me.
yeah okay i wasn’t talking about machetes. I don’t actually know what kind of knife the Chinese guy used on those kids – from the sound of it (22 stabbed? no deaths?) he was using a butter knife.
So machetes – gotta ban those too.
Yeah… maybe that’s it, BMoe. They’re bizarre people.
with a flat tax you don’t care
Why do we give our police and soldiers guns when machetes are so much better?
I’ve got my eye on this bad boy, but I don’t see where to mount the scope..?
http://www.hayneedle.com/sale/condorbolomachete.cfm?source=pla&adtype=pla&kw=&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=TXSP065&gclid=CIj8gZKdnrQCFal_Qgodoz0A6Q
Puppies.
They’re so cute when they chase their tails like that.
He seems to be a bit smarter than Professor Caric, but definitely in the ballpark.
you pick the weapon most effective for your combat zone. Here you need a gun. In the middle east it’s bombs and rockets. in Rwanda a machete was good enough.
I’m looking for advice for a good rail system for my machete…
I don’t know who Professor Caric is, but I’m guessing that doesn’t set the bar very high, beemoe.
No, no, no. If the shooters in these mass murders couldn’t get a gun, they would use something else and kill just as many people. That’s what I keep hearing over and over. Apparently this awesome thing they would use would be a machete. So I wonder why we’re keeping this super weapon from our boys in blue.
Oh! A pw archivist type person should provide some links here. It’s really, really good stuff.
crossbows!
that’s next. stupid things are so f-ing dangerous
Quiet, ss, we’re trying to think of past dummies you most remind us of.
Heh, almost caught it that time!
Who knows, you might have been one of them.
Yes, I’m sure someone armed with a crossbow would kill just as many people. We should obviously take those outdated M16s out of the hands of marines and equip them with the best in crossbows.
Propane
ha i remember professor caric, but it was so long ago it’s vague. how do you guys keep all these idiots straight in your memory.
shoot, I’ve been around PW off and on for going on a decade and I missed Caric? I feel so ashamed.
well i think i got lucky and stumbled in a few times when Caric was here. that’s why i don’t remember details
Ric Caric, that was it.
I think we just met our next spree killer.
there is always jihadis with a prius or an airplane
Okay, here’s a bit from Dan.
slippey you be doing federal $ doing this stuff?
Caric was, and I assume still is, an idiot of truly epic proportions.
One of the dumbest motherfuckers I have ever encountered, and a tenured professor at a state university.
“Yes, I’m sure someone armed with a crossbow would kill just as many people. We should obviously take those outdated M16s out of the hands of marines and equip them with the best in crossbows.”
Awwww. Your smart assed nonsense argument lead you to name a select fire weapon in military hands. That’s too bad.
One of the dumbest motherfuckers I have ever encountered, and a tenured professor at a state university.
a tad redundant.
whatever happened to him?
The two weapons were a Glock and Sig Sauer, both handguns and both 9mm.
How are they going to ban those? Only the hardest of the most obsessive anti 2nd amendment set wants to ban handguns.
I don’t see any end to these, ever.
These=mass killings.
There is seemingly an endless supply of profoundly ill and alienated people for whom the celebrity and infamy of mass slaughter of the truly helpless–only Neo-Natal units and an old age home have a denser collection of less mobile targets–more than justifies their death.
It’s not going to end. Today was Alabama and apparently another Oklahoma college student was prepping something, but was apprehended.
We could only wish they were automatic.
“I’m looking for advice for a good rail system for my machete…”
Yeah machetes are no problem. Just ask the Tutsi genius.
He’s still at MSU it appears, missfixit.
Ah, thanks for the link. Now I remember Ric. Knew how to put together quite the little eye rolling screed, didn’t he?
“The two weapons were a Glock and Sig Sauer, both handguns and both 9mm. ”
link
Gun club skeet, h/t Maggie’s
only Neo-Natal units and an old age home have a denser collection of less mobile targets
please lets not give them anymore ideas. Jesus the next one will be a children’s hospital or something.
So what we’ve learned that there is a secret liberal massacre threshold that crossbows, bombs, cars, knives, and machetes can’t reach but guns can, and that more restrictive gun laws would somehow guarantee us smaller more single digit massacres which is a reasonable improvement because nobody would use a gun for a massacre illegally. The murder law has no force but the gun ownership law is absolute. Because smart.
palaeormerus, I’m copying that for posterity. Hillarious.
For starters they’ll cap magazines at 10 rounds. (Puppy would stop chasing his tail for that probably.) And then, after some sick sonofabitch drops 20 to thirty people by bringing a couple of spare magazines with him, they’ll ban semi-auto handguns.
After that, they’ll wait for somebody with an old fashioned wheel gun and speed-loaders to get his hate on.
Speaking of idiots, slope got crossed up and is over there posting in that Caric thread you linked.
lmfao!
yeah i was kinda wondering if SS would be okay with people dying in massacres as long as they were maybe less than 10 people at a time and the weapon was anything besides a gun. (9/11 was an outlier and not okay. of course.)
Most of the killing in the Batman theatre was done with a pump action 12 guage. The unstoppable high powered military grade semi-automatic 100 round AR-platform gun of doom jammed.
I guess we’ve solved the question about liberals knowing what year it is.
Just wait till slippery finds out about molotov cocktails.
and rocks!
Yesterday the Bushmaster was in the back of the car. Today, it’s a “long gun” Interesting.
I’m sitting here, laughing like crazy, because slippery is posting on a 5 year old thread. Priceless. Absolutely priceless.
I hope somebody remembered to close the door after bh let the puppy out.
shhh! maybe he won’t come back.
Good times.
The puppy was cute, briefly, until it was discovered it was impossible for the puppy to learn anything.
later all.
This shooting shit has to stop. These cowardly assholes need to take one between the eyes before the body count starts.
Steely Dan Here At The Western World
Caric was, and I assume still is, an idiot of truly epic proportions.
True ’nuff, certainly, but could he make a paella? An awesome paella? Could he serenade a bored-looking cat with classical guitar music? No, I say! As such, I hereby nominate William Yelverton as the most amusing PW troll of the last decade. Truly, for he is the King of the Dumbfucks.
‘Slope and Mr. “I slammed my left hand down on the keyboard and some gibberish spewed forth” are but pale imitations of the Greats.
I am one of those nurturing, soft-spoken, cardigan-wearing sorts of ladies.
I’m still thinking about getting my CCW permit.
The Ruger LCP is available in pink.
Helps maintain the nurturing, soft-spoken, cardigan-wearaing image.
I would love to test that theory, for money.
Why would he do that? They aren’t. Both can kill you just as dead.
Contrary to what that nitwit Obama would have you think, we arm soldiers with knives too.
That cbs report must be crap. The rifle was found in his (mother’s) car.
They seem to have changed that fact, geoffb. Now, the Bushmaster was found with the shooter.
Professional courtesy.
The journolistas need to have better minders to coordinate their spins. Susan Rice for Journolista Czar, she knows how to manage the talking points.
I first read that as “promises,” which…
I wonder how SS (appropos initials) and gbesq1 will spin this:Clackamas man, armed, confronts mall shooter
Armed, present, didn’t fire because he didn’t have a clear shot….. and didn’t need to. Contrast that with 2 of Mayor Bloomberg’s finest, who opened up like they were playing “Grand Theft Auto” and with predictable results: Police: All Empire State shooting victims were wounded by officers
And this ain’t Fox, it ain’t an NRA press release, so read it, weep, and STFD and STFU.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is not to take out half a city block, slope, perps and innocents alike. (For that option we have increasingly armed cops over the years.) I wonder, do you know the purpose of the 2nd Amendment?
Do you care?
Conversely, do you suppose your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of fallacy involves wholesale bans on fertilizer and airliners? How about down at the small end 64 oz sodas?
In other words the answer is contextual, assuming the question was serious. My mind is somehow clouded with doubt at the prospect of divining your intentions therein.
As much fun as you’re having with ‘slope, just consider that if he’s not who he says he is, he probably doesn’t believe most of what he’s saying.
He even got the logical fallacy wrong. If you were to pick a favorite from the legion he employs, ‘strawman’ would be more apt.
Long and short: you’re being played, and by someone who may someday realize they’ve wasted a decade or more of their life as an internet troll.
Which is pretty pathetic. Stop enabling his dysfunction.
gbesq1 has left y’all a Mack truck-sized logical hole: Re: Philadelphia, what visible telltale has gun toters being shot more than everybody else?
Is it the bulge under the tee shirt*? No? Then if not association and precondition, what?
That “study” is quite bogus.
*in my state one million legally carry concealed. We don’t have a Philadelphia.
Previously shelved (Republicans to blame BTW because they pushed on F&F so hard) ideas are being taken down and dusted off as now doable if done promptly by executive order.
I will bet that before two years are over we will find out that all the FBI insta-check data has been saved somewhere even though that is not supposed to be done. I just can’t imagine this crew throwing away such an excellent and useful list of their enemies. BAMN always.
slope is but a ball of yarn, Slart. It is to be played with, not taken seriously.
No, it’s quite clear. They would have done nothing to prevent the massacre. The shooter tried and failed to purchase his own gun.
FTFY.
Here’s that Robbie Parker presser. Words fail me.
Why aren’t morons like dale k, etc, the recipients of a psychopath’s rage?
I got excited for a second there because I thought that this conversation had shifted to daleks. Damn. Seriously, there has got to be a Dr. Who allegory somewhere in this whole mess.
Trolls like DK have found a way to get the TARDIS through the void between parallel universes?
– 758 comments….We have us a Mega-thread.
– Resist the urge to keep a Progressive tard for a pet. Yes its fun pulling their wings and ridiculing them but they’re unteachable and impossible to paper-train.
If not, why do we arm police and soldiers with guns when just a knife would obviously be more effective.
Knives are not especially effective against people armed with guns, you know, like criminals and enemy soldiers and such. That whole “death at a distance” thing, y’see.
Knives, tire irons, chainsaws, etc. all work just peachy on unarmed victims, particularly if you can run faster than they can. Old ladies and little kids: not known for their exceptional sprinting abilities.
Okay, so this goddamn thread is too big for me to sort through it to see if anyone has discussed the epic number of stabbings that have also been happening. I was actually reading an article about some dude stabbing his way through a school in Henan Province, China when the news of the Newtown massacre popped up on my news alerts. Seriously, as a former libtard (I am still pretty hardwired toward libtardishness, so don’t get too excited) how can we be talking about the instruments of violence as the solution when the problem is that people are suddenly feeling the need to randomly off each other? I do not a fondler of guns. I am fairly indifferent about guns one way or the other. But let’s just set aside the gun debate for a second and ask ourselves whether we really believe that this guy (or any of the other shooters and stabbers that have made news in the last ten years) would have decided to just stay home and take up hydroponic gardening if he could not get his hands on some guns. If you are really honest with yourself, you know that he would have gone and rented a U-Haul, filled it up with fertilizer or some other thing that would blow up, and drove it into that school (or movie theater, or mall, or courthouse). I want to know what the goddamn hell is going on. The crazies have always been with us. The cruel and brutal have always been with us. And ever since the first time someone stuffed a ball of lead into a barrel with some charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur – guns have been with us. Sometimes a few of them get together and cause a senseless war or brutal genocide. The craven have always preyed on us. They have robbed us, raped us, beat our asses and sometimes killed us in pursuit of their own ends, so we have been careful to not consort with sketchy types, beware of dark vans parked next to our cars in the mall parking lot, and try to create and maintain decent neighborhood communities where we could look out for each other. And on the whole, we were always mostly able to trust that the guy two cubicles down or the emo kid who skateboarded to school past your house every day was NOT going to suddenly decide to kill you and everyone within a half mile of you one day. Why isn’t that the central issue being discussed? Is it too scary to wrap our minds around? That maybe we are collectively losing our grip on humanity and don’t know fuck-all what to do about it?
Rule #1 when you’ve pulled your gun on somebody: don’t let him get close. The advantage of your gun evaporates if he can get close enough to slash your gun arm with a long knife, or jam a spear through your chest.
And if he gets out of your sight his options multiply.
Can’t find it now, but Pablo linked up thread to a piece by the mother of a disturbed kid.
Heartbreaking and scary. Would be interested in somone starting a new thread on this problem, this one is getting hard for me to load.
And we used to lock them up and leave them there.
Plus, our popular culture fetishizes all the things that encourage people to act out rather than learn to cope.
Banning tools is easier, especially if one’s political camp has built its power base on emotionalism.
– Its human nature to avoid the really hard to deal with issues in life, particularly when you have to face certain realities that bruise your ego, or that society as a whole treats with distain.
– Like the old joke about the guy who loses his watch in an unlit pitchblack alley and spemds hours looking for it under the nearest street light because he can’t see anything in the alley.
Banning tools is easier, especially if one’s political camp has built its power base on emotionalism.
I am just flummoxed by the sheer stupidity of it. It is like trying to ban forks to combat obesity. I have had the opportunity to visit places like Sweden and Norway where, while they are not as heavily armed as the US, they are pretty heavily armed. Gun ownership tops 50% in both countries – and they manage not to blow each other’s heads off every other day. As a matter of fact, gun violence is almost non-existent. I have also been in the Netherlands where almost no one has a gun – and they manage quite nicely as well. Conversely, Yemen is full of guns – and it is a dangerous shithole. But in Palestine, very few people own guns – but it is an even more dangerous shithole. It really does not make much of a difference how many guns are around. If you are an unstable, violent country, you are still going to be fucked until you fix your instability and tendency toward violence.
When I say this to anyone they just look at me like I just farted loudly.
Actually, Lisa, in liberal circles, a loud fart is more socially acceptable than an honest and open discussion about firearms.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/
Sadly true, Blake.
“. . . in pursuit of their own ends . . .”
Against which, we might think, we have devised government, or political order — to put it another way — to implement higher ends of our own, safety against attack (whether from other political entities or from criminals) being among them. The safety, of course, is an ultimate and not immediate matter, as for instance in the case of Pearl Harbor in 1941 or the attacks of 2001. Whether we retain our understanding of our connection from any circumstances in the given here and now to the aims or ends of our political arrangements is often a problem to ascertain. Too often, it seems to me, we lose or have lost contact with the necessary core of those motivations, to pursue frivolous ends or intentional distractions, and frequently these latter themselves are designed to alter the ends of our original compact — often for the benefit of a narrow faction or of individual powers. We might even see such a case here, were we to look closely enough.
A couple of related things, here, here. Found at Althouse.
Yeah here’s another bullshit lefty-favorite book someone wrote in a fit of naivete or dishonesty.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Tea-Mission-Peace/dp/1606862170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355680912&sr=8-1&keywords=cups+of+tea
So what?
Here’s yet another one.
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Balance-Ecology-Human-Spirit/dp/B005M4TFV4
Stupid books are stupid.
Okay, everyone, I’m going in..I’m going to click the link provided by dalek.
If I don’t come back, it’s been nice knowing you.
My eyes, my eyes…..
You take that shit seriously, dalek?
Wow, just wow.
DK hates the universe. If he didn’t he would take one for the team.
So much stupidity, so little time. Anyone, anywhere, has had the power to mow down civilians since man first snatched up the jawbone of an ass, a stone hand axe, or a sharpened, fire hardened wooden shaft. Murder and mayhem have been common in man since there was such an animal.
And the Second Amendment has referred to an individual right since its inception, irrespective of the ignorant attempts to rewrite history. Please, get a clue, wipe the snot from your nose, and grow the hell up.
“The right of the people” appears multiple times in the Bill of Rights. In each case the right in question is an individual right. SCOTUS had no choice but to recognize this fact.
If reading plain English the same way wherever it appears means the Court is “cowed,” then cowed is what it should be.
Furthermore, the Court has never held the Second Amendment to refer to anything but an individual right. It’s just that until relatively recently it managed to avoid ruling on the substance of the question — and Warren Berger, the son of a bitch, claimed it had to be a collective right because it mentioned “well-regulated militia,” completely glossing over “the right of the people.”
What a profoundly stupid book.
It comes lowly recommended.
If Dale wants to see Moloch, I suggest he look to planned parenthood for “Their children’s cries unheard, that pass’d through fire”.
Literally a million times more innocents butchered than the tragedy at Sandy Hook…
Haven’t clicked on the link Dale K. crapped on the thread, but this bit of it jumped out and caught my attention: our-moloch
Our Moloch is the 3000 other lives that (on average) were destroyed on Dec. 14th as well. But, since that’s according to plan, nobody panics. We just call it choice and move on.
To answer Lisa’s question, what’s going on is that we live in a noisome culture of death, and reckless hate. And political correctness, among other things, prevents us from riding out to meet it.
Meanwhile, the tree is dry.
LBascom, dalek is okay with Planned Parenthood, because PP is sanctioned by his god, the state. Nevermind that the state bears more than a passing resemblance to Moloch.
Hoo boy, Ernst. I think the hair on my neck just stood up.
Thank you.
I’m going to go ahead and guess that it was Luke’s Gospel that got a rise out of you, and not the artful way I worked both The Dark Knight and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to explicate the signs of the times.
the right to have an abortion comes from the same shit-stained constitution what gives us the right to bear arms
we live in a little country what at one time had a profound reverence for individual liberty
it’s a problem
To do that, we’d have to recognize that the Utopia we’re supposedly building has some unintended consequences. We can’t have that, it doesn’t serve the “greater good”, so let’s scream about people owning guns and how they really don’t need to be so free, do they?
Which amendment is that?
Seems like the right to survive gestation is in that constitution a little more firmly, chirpyfeet.
Something about how no one shall be deprived of life without due process. The only processing going on at a Planned Parenthood abortion mill is the initial stage of producing Soylent Green.
The whole thing was artful, Ernst. But yes, Luke was the one that caught my attention.
Well, McGehee, all pro-aborts try to claim they aren’t really aborting a baby, life, etc. Therefore, it isn’t murder when a woman choses an abortion. (though, shooting and killing a pregnant woman generally results in a double homocide charge, but, I digress)
Anyway, when a woman gets pregnant with a Buick, Mini-14, or similar inanimate object, then we can discuss whether or not abortion is, in fact, murder. Until such time, abortion is murder, plain and simple.
nobody should be deprived of liberty without due process Mr mcgehee
soylent green is pickles
The one right before the “penalty is a tax” amendment SCJ Roberts discovered.
We generally do subject murderers to due process, unless they work at Planned Parenthood. They get a free pass.
Some quotes from one of the links I put above. Long comment again, for which I apologize.
Much more there.
And there’s a reason why, in the whole sentence, the things of which no one should be deprived without due process are — in order — life, liberty and property.
That’s ’cause life is more impor’nant.
Welcome back Lisa!
The humor is still here: Happyfeet still delivers some wicked one-liners (when he isn’t stuck on abortion loving, Palin hating or googoo for gay marriaging) and newrouter can get in a pretty funny jab himself (when he isn’t declaring DEFCON 4 on Happyfeet and proggreissives;)
JD has franchised out his anti-bigotry crusade but he still occasionally does personal webinars to keep us all in line.
Cranky (only in the Grumpy old men sense of the word)-d still makes me laugh daily and I’m comforted that he and Squid have Cudgels, Pitchforks and all of the anti-riot/zombie acopolypse equipment I’ll need to keep my bunker well stocked.
bh remains a staunch and dedicated assistant-head hall monitor that leverages his brand of funny to defuse and redirect discussions gone awry.
Lamont and Alpuccino make occasional cameos and force all of us to change out keyboards and monitors (yay early upgrade!;)
Geoffb brings the internet-fu, Google, Yahoo and Bing are all competing for the rights to franchise his skillz. Little known fact: Ask.com (along with all of the other similar sites) is actually a redirect to Geoffb’s mailbox.
Serr8d and Darleen do magic with photoshop and bring the troll outrage bursting out of the earth’s crevices. We all jockey for a position in line, load our shotguns and conduct a socialist skeet shoot.
Sadly, we have lost a couple of giants to Cancer. Rick Locke and Brian Texeira (BJTex) brought wisdom, insight and grace that we will never forget and that we will never be able to replicate.
Donald and Serr8d lost their wives but soldier on and check-in with us giving all of us hope that survival from tragedies is painful but possible.
As you noted Team America is feeling the effects of a full-blown, all-night, party like it’s 1999, hangover and seems to be content with more of the hair of the dog that bit them. I hope that you and others that return after an extended absence will forgive us if we dont display quite the same level of humor and optimism as in past years.
Oh and one more thing,
Could you upgrade your gravatar please! I’m sure you’ll find that we are very appreciative of naturally sweetened life giving mammory gland containers here at PW ;)
Just to be pedantic, the bill of rights does not outline the only rights we have. It was intended to give examples of rights that were already protected by the existing document. The Constitution is not a “The government can do everything but the following” kind of thing, but a “Here are the very few things the government can do” kind of thing.
The right to life is a no-brainer. To actually have the “right” to kill any innocent in the Constitution, it would have to be amended to account for that. Currently, it’s not there. However, enforcing anti-abortion laws such that they weren’t there just to be used arbitrarily against political enemies would be so onerous that it would violate most of the rest of the rights we still (somewhat) enjoy.
Don’t waste your time. A sample:
Denying proggy myths comes from religious fundamentalism, you see. Definitely not from, you know, the facts.
I’m having trouble parsing this.
encroachment on even the most distasteful exercisings of freedom are diminishing of Liberty and give succor to those who wish its demise
*encroachments* plural I mean
Including the freedom to kill the most defenseless human beings alive. Got it.
“The fact that the gun is a reverenced god can be seen in its manifold and apparently resistless powers. ”
???
Really? An adult wrote this, and it got published ?
geoff, interesting thesis, however, the huge flaw in the mental illness argument is the majority of these people go after soft targets. Someone who is interested in a high body count before offing themselves is aware enough to know they are not going to get the body count they desire if they go after a group of citizens known to be carrying arms.
I would tend to argue these mass murderers wouldn’t have been mass murderers, had they been raised in an environment that was more disciplinary. The younger generation has been raised in a “consequence free” einvironment and as such, live in a world that is geared more toward instant gratification, no matter what the outcome or consequence.
I think the knowledge of instant and severe consequences, more than likey, restrained a lot of people 40 years ago or so. Those kinds of constraints have been lifted, leading to our current problems.
I think guns are more of a Dagon or a Nisroch myself. On the outside maybe a Forsetti. Maybe.
I think about that a lot leigh
That certainly appears to be chirpyfeet’s position.
geoffb, I think I worded things badly. Instead of using the word “environment,” I should have used “culture.”
no fetuses are wee small babies you should have to answer to god for when you delete one but you shouldn’t have to answer to idiot americans
geoff, both the articles you link upthread are very good. (The second one I find disturbing due to the seeming lack of insight on the part of the writer, but it could be that I am just unfamiliar with his style.) I have been looking for articles about deinstitutionalization since there is a lot of incorrect information out there. Mainly of the IT’S ALL REAGAN’S FAULT!!!! variety.
The crux of the matter isn’t that guns are necessarily a problem; we have always been an armed society. The speed of daily living and its impact on people who are either unable to cope due to mental illness or societal indulgence is what I find to be the problem in the main.
The problem is societal and I put the blame on Sociologists and mushy headed psychology majors of the Rogerian stripe. Taking responsibility is an empty phrase that means nothing when used as one of the mantras of self-help groups. I’m not a fan of group therapy, anyway. They generally devolve into bragging and one upmanship.
I have a lot to say on this topic, but I need to streamline it first.
I think about that a lot leigh
Moi aussi.
Liberty doesn’t include having some dude kill your baby.
Happy, I really don’t understand your glee about aborting baby people. Your own mother, whoever she was, could have opted to have you sucked into a sink instead of going through pregnancy and birth and letting nice Lutherans adopt your squalling ass.
You think you’d count your blessings and stop being a shit-stirrer.
well there’s every reason to let women make their own decisions cause of if you don’t then they are not equal to the mens
besides my mom kept me too long to abort me she was hoping the dude she was fucking would leave his wife
fail
“the right to have an abortion comes from the same shit-stained constitution what gives us the right to bear arms”
right to bear arms -> Explicitly written in 2nd Amendment, 1788
right to an abortion :
Penumbras and Emanations of other rights generate a right to privacy as illuminated by William O. Douglas , 1965
-> ” the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state’s two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women’s health. Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the trimester of pregnancy.” 1973
-> Webster v. Reproductive Health Services 1989 – Modified trimester framework for determining right to an abortion –
-> Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992 affirmed right to an abortion and struck down one cause of restrictions of that right (spousal notice) but upheld the other four (informed consent of health effects of procedure, 24 hour waiting period, parental cocsent requirement, reporting mandates on abortion providers)
-> Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000 – allowed states to outlaw partial birth abortions EXCEPT where the “health” of a woman was threatened- (effectively making it legal whenever health, any form of health including stress reduction, was claimed as the reason for the procedure)
-> Gonzales v. Carhart, 2003 -said congress had the right to nationally ban partial birth abortions –
By a book reviewing outfit, no less.
Brain + scissors = dead
It’s never too late, sayeth Obama.
it is what it is mr. pal
at one time there was hope that the question may one day return to the states
but Team R pizzled away the presidency once too often
That part of my above “right to bear arms vs. right to an abortion post”, right after the 2nd ” -> ” was supposed to mention “Roe Vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton”, and say that the text was quoted from Wikipedia. I did not hit CTRL-Z again though and so it got left off.
“it is what it is mr. pal”
Is that Aristotle or Popeye ?
So what’s next? Punch and Judy puppet shows about the danger of guns? Maybe a cartoon with a Captain Planet like superhero who appears to save kids from the guns that are taking over their minds?
It takes both a man and a woman to make a baby, but only one of the three people involved gets to make the decision to make that threesome into two. That is a strange equality, like unto the some are more equal than… variety.
Not to worry however as once Obamacare gets going in full all those decisions will devolve to some panel somewhere making at least the remaining two fully, equally, powerless again. It’s all for the best I’m sure.
Always my problem, solving of which I’ve given up.
What if I don’t believe in God?
it is a strange equality it’s sort of a highly imperfect level playing field thing
It’s part of the culture of death, geoff. Killing babies in the womb is A-OK. Applauded, even, by some.
It’s not much of a leap to infanticide, spree-killings at the elementary school, tire irons to the back of your spouse’s head, poisoning the neighbor’s dogs, &c.
Once you greenlight one, it’s hard to put the brakes on the rest of it. Kind of like that domino effect they were always going on about when talking about the Commies when we were kids.
if you don’t believe in god you’re probably going to hell with adam
“It’s all for the best I’m sure.”
Hail Leibniz!
Always my problem, solving of which I’ve given up.
Heh. I can most definately relate.
From the late Ric Locke:
To do the above would violate many liberties women enjoy to protect the lives of the unborn.
So, if one is not going to enforce a law protecting the unborn at all times (that would be impossible in our current system, as no one would put up with it), the law would then exist to be enforced just in special circumstances. I don’t care for laws that are routinely violated and enforced just when someone wants to make a point or punish a political enemy. I would rather they didn’t exist in the first place. The fact that we already have a truckload of such laws does not excuse making more of them.
Aristotle or Popeye?
Both, yet, I believe, each is truncated at some loss.
The Aristotle one ends: “. . . and what it is, we don’t know, and is that which remains the thing to be discovered.”
The Popeye one, on the other hand, ends: “. . . and that’s all what it is. End of story, for I, Popeye, embody the whole.” (He was a follower of Descartes, this Popeye.)
nobody wants to be tossed into a lake of fire
i wonder who’s in charge of the tossing or is it more like a laundry chute
nobody tells me anything
nicely said Mr. Ric
– feets must be referring to the XXVII amendment:
“The individual right to murder the unborn by anyone not choosing to raise the little bastards shall not be abridged.”
no it’s number 14 silly
the same one where we get a debt limit from btw so we for sure don’t want to repeal it willy nilly
With all due respect to Ric,
is utter and complete bullshit.
The least we can do is defund
Murder, Inc.Planned Parenthood and return authority over abortion laws to the several states.I will not be preached to about life or liberty by someone who thinks it’s “liberty” to kill a baby, but Christofascism to tell women to keep their damned knees together.
can you elaborate Mr. Lee?
Don’t worry, chirpyfeet. No one’s going to draft you to go looking up any old girlfriends.
– Abortion + legal theft = responsibility avoidence.
– But you can call it something else if you like. Doesn’t chnage anything, but maybe it helps you hide your nagging doubts.
cnn says everyone should take a bath for to start the healing
i’m not shitting you
i would love a baby wazzle i think but i would have move for sure
All the networks need to observe a day, no a week, of silence about angsty crazy shooters and their targets. Ixnay on the soft photo montages of happy smiling young’uns and heroic teacherettes accompanied by string music.
No sense in egging on copycats.
have *to* move for sure
my tablet doesn’t like this long thread
They aren’t babies for long. They are small people.
What if I don’t believe in God?
Guilty as sin, but free as a bird!
yes the wazzles grow and grow this is why you can’t procrastinate going to disneyland
– Leigh, the press has always pandered to tradgedy and the macabe. They’re the ghouls of society. They depend on these things to make a buck. The only time we were “comparitively” free of yellow journelism was at the height of WWII.
– Lincoln, the founding fathers, they all had to endure the crazy fucking press. The reason its more obvious now is they have such a target rich invironment with the political division in the nation right now, and they incite, and they use it relentlessly.
link
They’re the ghouls of society.
That’s the truth, BBH. I knew a news anchor back in the day and I asked him once “How the hell can you stand there in the front of the smoldering ruins of someone’s home (and by extension, their life) and ask them ‘How did you feel while you watched your house burn to the ground?'”
He shrugged and said “It’s a living.”
Cripes.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/indiana&id=8922348
47 every so necessary implements needed to fight some imaginary govt. foe. . . or something
The three self-blinded
micerats.“Cedar Lake is about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.”
finally a wedge issue team r is on the right side of
So the 47 guns as Moloch MADE the Illonois man threaten a school? Is that the shit I am being asked to swallow?
Say, doesn’t DiFi keep an M-1 at her mountain retreat in Colorado? She used to.
Dalekhunter hasn’t met a logical fallacy he wasn’t in love with, palaeo.
What is the purpose of any law?
Should the law against murder be dropped because of it’s miserable failure in ending murder, and the misguided belief of some it requires a
pussy patrolassault weapons ban?it’s a that government is best what governs least thing mr. lee
can society get along in absence of abortion criminalization
yup it can
can society get along in absence of a prohibition against murder most foul
nope
A substantial fraction of men make it very clear that they would like their mate to get an abortion. Something that none of you have apparently ever noticed ever.
Apparently whenever Slippery Slope uses the word ‘apparently’ silly, sloppy, childish, bullshit assumptions follow which will then be passed off as if they were valid taunts or deep thoughts.
Men who don’t want children shouldn’t have unprotected sex with women with whom they don’t have a dedicated, monogomous relationship.
I figured well-heeled slippery would be off watching a professional football game from his skybox, not trolling the interwebs with us knuckledraggers.
It’s a woman’s right to choose, you sexist, oppressive bastard, slipperyfuckstick. How dare you insinuate otherwise.
No shit. They just don’t seem to get mentioned much in these conversations about sluts that want free birth control lest they become independent mothers or baby killers.
Yeah, our society is real fucking healthy, ain’t it.
Still, I was objecting to the notion that protecting life requires a pussy patrol. Like how it being illegal to sell human kidneys doesn’t require an organ patrol.
They get mentioned quite often, slippery. Do you really think we’ve not discussed this before?
Independent mothers? This means they aren’t on public assistance, yes? Never married mothers is more like it.
The new upper class isn’t very into sports. ’cause it’s a dumb way to spend 3 hours.
That said, I do like to take in a Mariners game a few times a year when I’m up in Seattle, mainly for the photography opportunity, but I’d never watch a baseball game on TV.
Snob.
Danger: Great to see you. Thanks for the updates. I am devastated to hear about Rick and BJ. My deepest condolences to Don and Serr for their losses.
From Insty: “U.S. Falls Out of Top 10 On Prosperity Index For The First Time.”
http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/12/balancing-economic-control-and-entrepreneurship.html
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Also from Insty: “top-5-foreign-policy-screw-ups-of-2012”
http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/14/top-5-foreign-policy-screw-ups-of-2012
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Brits smarter than democrats: ” susan-rice-was-brought-down-by-the-long-shadow-of-benghazi-not-race-or-gender”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100194182/susan-rice-was-brought-down-by-the-long-shadow-of-benghazi-not-race-or-gender/
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‘Bout d’em nice lookin’ unions ya got…it’d be a real shame if someptin’ were to happen to ’em.
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2012/12/13/whats-the-matter-with-michigan/
“The new upper class isn’t very into sports. ’cause it’s a dumb way to spend 3 hours.”
Yah, that must be why sports tickets are so high priced and hard to get and the satellite sports packages are so expensive. It must also be why an F1 track opening near Austin filled up the local hotels.
McGee: I hate wading into the topic of abortion. But if we are going to have a serious discussion about our devolving respect for the life of our fellows, we have to talk about that. One of my old bosses once told me that no issue facing modern society is unconnected to the legalization of abortion on demand. Because she was a devout, god-bothering papist, I tried to dismiss it as just religious cray-cray. But she planted a bug in my head and I often play a game in my head similar to the Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon game with abortion and public policy issues. Damn her eyes.
The fact that unless you shoot or stab a BUNCH of kids, you don’t even make page one anymore could reasonably be connected to legalized abortion on demand. Though neither the US nor China are the most violent places for children, both of these countries seem to have lots of incidents where the children are the target, not the collateral damage. Neither are they political or terrorist targets. They are selected to be murdered by people for no particular reason. Is it related to both countries high abortion rates? Fuck if I know. It is worth exploring though.
But, on the other side of that argument, a student of history could point to periods as recent as a few centuries ago when human life was not considered all that valuable at all, and people were profoundly indifferent to human suffering. And there was no abortion on demand. Not only that but the bible and public policy were pretty much one in the same (or the Queran, if you lived over yonder). One only has to pick any village or city and check out the ordinances that were dreamed up during the Middle Ages and were not wholly abolished until the advent of the Industrial Age. Or check out Charles V’s criminal code, The Carolina, written in the 16th century. It reads like a rejected George Romero torture-porn script. And this was the actual law. Torturing, dismembering, burning, roasting, boiling, and dropping people in caustic substances for misdemeanors (or just for the fuck of it, if your Feudal Lord was off his meds and feeling frisky) was pretty routine shit.
This conversation is worth having, no matter how uncomfortable and patriarchal and retrograde it seems.
abortion prohibition is not compatible with a philosophy of limited government mr. lee
that’s how come it got legalized to begin with
prohibition made for an icky america
Independant mothers like Julia?
I am getting tired of even calling it Orwellian. It is too fucking absurd.
“No shit. They just don’t seem to get mentioned much in these conversations about sluts that want free birth control lest they become independent mothers or baby killers.”
Why would they? The subject of interest in those discussions is other people aka the public being forced to pay for free birth control even though birthcontrol is cheap and easily available. Why should someone be obligated to detour to some stupid rhetorical device that suits you in such discussions?
How much do they get mentioned in conversations where they would rather the mother of their child not abort it?
This conversation is worth having, no matter how uncomfortable and patriarchal and retrograde it seems.
I’m glad you’re back, Lisa. We never met, since I was just lurking back then, but I always enjoyed our posts.
“prohibition made for an icky america”
Prohibition was a national policy. Abortion was made a matter of national policy (on false premises, specifically a false rape claim) in order to take it away from the states 185 years after the nation was founded. On the basis of a right derived from penumbras and emanations found in a 1965 case. And this was based largely on an induced state of confusion regarding what a human fetus is before the law.
And legal abortion is not compatible with a philosophy of basic human rights.
What we have here is a conundrum.
Lisa – I think the reason we’re so shocked by violence is because it has become the exception rather than the norm.
Modernity does have its advantages as well as certain downsides.
This is why civilizations tend to follow an arc that seems almost foreordained, as the prosperity and liberality that make it possible for people to not worry where their next meal is coming from, also detaches them from the dangers and challenges of the world outside their civilized bubble and they get ideas like a “right” to food, housing and healthcare, but not a right to self-defense or to hold and espouse their own devoutly held beliefs. As soon as any civilization in history eclipses all others in its day, it begins to die. Rome was toppled by outside forces but it was rot from within that made it toppleable (I hereby declare that a word).
To make sense of it, just think of a set of balance scales, with good things on one side and bad things on the other. No matter how many things get piled on the good side, a counterbalancing weight of bad is sure to appear on the other. Life in the so-called “state of Nature” lacks the sheer mass of both good and bad that civilization offers.
We were never promised Heaven on earth, and our attempts to create it give the story of the Tower of Babel new meaning every day.
Really? Did happyfeet just threadjack this thread, too?
mr. moe… what ric said about causes and symptoms
me i think the best way to address abortion is to work towards a prosperous america
the more disgustingly third world we become as a little country the more quixotic banning abortion will become, especially when we start having to turn piggy piggy independent mothers away from the welfare trough
you might be able to ban it in a few states, but i doubt you’d accomplish very much as far as actually decreasing the number of abortions goes
actually no mr. slart it was yonder lifeydoodles what said the newtown massacre was eclipsed daily by the horrific toll of abortion
or something
“the more disgustingly third world we become as a little country the more quixotic banning abortion will become, especially when we start having to turn piggy piggy independent mothers away from the welfare trough”
Yes, Happyfeet. The surplus population must at times be liquidated so the trains to run on time. So our Dear leader always says. Juche!
To know if an abortion has occurred, you have to know there was a pregnancy. To know there was a pregnancy, you would need to test women all the time to see if they’re pregnant. Then, if the pregnancy was terminated (which can be done in a wide variety of ways, or it could have spontaneously ended), you would need to know the circumstances of that termination to know if charges need to be brought. In other words, a pussy patrol.
When you already have an independent human being whose existence can be proven, you can enforce murder laws. When you don’t, you cannot necessarily do so without gathering said evidence, which you would probably have to do before the fact to be sure. I believe that is what Ric meant, though of course he is not here to tell us.
I’m sorry I helped carry this conversation off-track.
I think abortion is murder. However, I don’t think we can stop it by legislating against it, because those laws are basically unenforceable. I also don’t think the government should support it or sanction it in any way.
(Addressed to chirpyfeet, lest anyone misconstrue)
The difference is, the lifeydoodles have thought about the issue and its friction between rights of one and rights of another, and arrived at a position that satisfies more than just how they feel.
Your chirps, on the other hand…
no mr. pal it’s just most womens what have abortions already have kids, and sometimes they have to do best by the kids they already have
it’s a fallen world can i get an amen
Got a link, assertion monkey?
gosh that is an arrogant assumption you are making mr. mcgehee
no i don’t have a link that is my own assertion
If by “icky” you mean much less casual sex and unwed mothers, indeed.
If I were king for a day, I would have a federal law granting a woman’s choice to abort. UNTIL there is a babies beating heart (I’m not sure exactly, let’s say the first trimester). After that, only under extenuating circumstances (health of the mother, blah, blah) granted(or not) by the various states.
Also, it would be prohibited for any tax funded government entity to fund abortions. It would be completely on the dime of the one making the “choice”, then and now.
Plus, if the pregnancy occurs in and from a marriage, both parents must agree to an abortion even in the first trimester.
People act like it’s a major imposition and a nearly an impossible thing to keep the little sperms off the egg, but it really isn’t!
it just makes sense
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
government funding just raises the price… it’s like college
You’ll pardon us if we don’t consult you on what makes sense.
you do so at your own peril mr. mcgehee
Then again, this might be a way to make pro-aborts oppose ObamaCare…
Contraception is reasonably affordable for a gal like myself. But all contraception is not created equal (since the most effective contraception is a cocktail of hormones – it carries lots of risk and is not suited for everyone). And it is not universally available. And though they keep saying that major advances that would vastly improve the efficacy, affordability, and availability of contraception for all are around the corner – we are not there yet.
Though the pill was a cultural game changer, it has not evolved beyond what it was at its inception. We can inject it in our arm, wear it in a patch, or stick it on an IUD. But it is still the mildly carcinogenic dose of progesterone. Sometimes it does not work. It causes some women to get fatter and hairier (and I am quite sure that they were not trying to avoid pregnancy by taking a pill to turn into a bearded fat lady and thus never get laid again). It could carry a small chance of acting as an abortifacient (and if you are a god-botherer, that might be disturbing to you). And it always, always increases your chances of finding a dreaded lump somewhere.
Just saying that to clarify with some of you cockbearers that contraception is not like popping a Cialis and a couple of hits of ecstasy. It is kind of crappy and not much fun. And most of us aren’t getting Jenna Jamison level humping action just because we are on birth control. We are in committed relationships or married. Or not getting laid at all. But when you take birth control, you generally keep taking it because it is such a pain in the ass to find what works best and then take it for the appropriate amount of time for it to be effective.
Can you tell in the first few months a woman is pregnant just by looking at her, McGehee? You’re a wizard, then. Go you!
Lee, that totally works for me.
However, it’s still murder to kill the baby before that time. It’s just not one we would enforce.
Maybe now I’m making more sense? I prefer just to snark. Maybe I’ll go back to that and leave the important stuff to others who explain things better than I do. Besides, I should be working anyway.
Now you know more about contraception and girlie bits than you have ever wanted to know. Feel free to stab out your mind’s eye with a hot poker now.
I’m tired of having this discussion about abortion.
I say we just repeal all the statutes pertaining to murder and call it a day. Unlock the jails and let those people go! They probably all had a damned good reason for doing what they did and who are we to judge?
– feets, you and your fellow baby murder lovers can mince words from now til doomday. Murder is murder no matter how you dress up the pig.
– Ypu dodge dealing with that hard fact by pretending a baby inside the wob has lesser rights than the mother. That is the sum total premise everyone of your arguments keads back to. Its pure bullshit, and I would like to see it challemged on exactly that basis, but you’ll move heaven and earth to avoid that happening, which says it all about your real motives.
– Slipperyshit seems to think theres no Progressive males or something.
Lisa, in general I’m not a fan of taking medication that doesn’t actually help a person with a health problem. That might be because I’ve had to take medications daily since before my teens (asthma and allergies), and it bothers me that I’m tied to them.
It’s a conundrum.
As a parting gift (really this time) let me note that if abortions had been easy to get when I was conceived in 1963, I likely wouldn’t be here. I should not know this, but I do, and yes, my bio parents raised me. If abortions had been as socially acceptable as they are now, my best friend and his twin brother (born in 1973) would not be here either.
So, I’m definitely conflicted.
a baby inside some lady’s womb is none of my business really and i don’t want my morally risible piece of shit government getting involved either
“And it is not universally available. ”
Neither are shoes. Or Gum.
Because taking a morning after pill is exactly the same as shooting up a first grade. Dipshit. Even if you’re pro-life, you don’t believe that, and I can prove it.
If contraception had been available, my 9 of my 10 other siblings wouldn’t be here either. Except they aren’t here because contraception was available. And yet, I’m not conflicted about contraception.
“Can you tell in the first few months a woman is pregnant just by looking at her, McGehee? You’re a wizard, then. Go you!”
We’ll put a network of sensors in all the toilets and have a satellite that scans people and determines from biometrics whether they are likely to be pregnant or not.
Then we’ll put no-murder sensors in everyone too so we can detect murder impulses or the sort of pain, fear, and shock that a victim experiences during the attemped murder process and that will call the cops.
Or we could just tell doctors not to fucking do it on a state by state basis except in certain circumstances to be determined by said state, and bust up a back0alley abortion ring whenever we find one.
Y’know, like we did until 1973.
Or we could do the chips and sensors thing. It could all be solar powered and have zero carbon footprint. Waddya say?
“Because taking a morning after pill is exactly the same as shooting up a first grade. Dipshit”
Yeah, the silly asshole ACTUALLY just typed that and thought it was pretty good stuff.
Sheesh.
Or you could get out of the business of telling everyone else what to do all the time. And I thought you hated tyranny?
We are THIS CLOSE to a total game changer in contraception. They are either on phase two or three in testing the contraceptive vaccine. The efficacy is somewhere around 100%. The affordability will mean it will be available even to the poorest countries. The non-pregnancy related benefits (in preventing fibroid tumors and polycystic ovarian syndrome or whatever the hell you call that shit) are off the charts.
It is creepy but cool because it works by flipping some switch that will, for as long as she wants it to, cause her body to hunt down and kill those lil swimmers. Somehow it does something to regulate your lady hormones too.
I wonder what our conversations about this kind of thing will be when contraception becomes so easy, effective, and cheap that only the droolingly stupid and the ferociously devout are having unplanned pregnancies?
Lisa – expect half the people here to hate it because it will let a woman fuck without getting permission from her pastor which is why a school and a mall and a movie theater got shot up. And Jeff won’t like it because marriage is only for making babies so gays can’t have it.
I, on the other hand, think it might be one of the most important advances for the entire planet.
i think it is called the todd akin switch
“Or you could get out of the business of telling everyone else what to do all the time. And I thought you hated tyranny?”
The FED is telling the states what to do. And I do hate tyranny. Roe V. Wade WAS tyranny.
“Lisa – expect half the people here to hate it because it will let a woman fuck without getting permission from her pastor which is why a school and a mall and a movie theater got shot up. And Jeff won’t like it because marriage is only for making babies so gays can’t have it.”
Slippery is afraid of no straw man!
that sounds neat lisa i hope it happens soon
then Team R can focus full time on opposing the scourge of gay marriage
Slipperyslope: It is incredibly exciting!!!
“The affordability will mean it will be available even to the poorest countries.”
You mean like Illinois and Philadelphia, and Georgetown University Law school ? Gosh!
Of course once we identify any mutant males with super-survivor sperm they’ll have to be sterilized or tattooed or kept in colonies.
See this is the bullshit part, and the same confused thinking that makes proggs want to ban guns because of murder.
A law is just a standard. The law against murder doesn’t stop murder, it can only judge a murderer.
When abortion has no judgement, life itself is devalued.
I told you ‘slope picked the wrong logical fallacy for a handle.
Humm, I get the feeling happy and slipshod are more comfortable yalking about gay people than baby people.
Heaven forbid that women get better and cheaper contraception. Esp women who want to complete college. I mean, what the fuck does some chic going think she’s going to do with a Law degree? Arbitrate disputes between the 4 year old and 6 year old?
You know, when women someday enter the work force, businesses will need to make accommodations so they can do things like rush home and cook dinner for their family. Mitt Romney said so.
“Heaven forbid that women get better and cheaper contraception.”
Yeah man. I’d hate to see anymore bleached jackal gnawed skulls on the roadside from all those lost caravans that tried to make the treacherous journey to Walmart.
I actually think that after a certain point, abortion is murder. I just don’t think that point is 1 nano-second after conception.
Lol @ Newrouter. And you don’t even have to have a legitimate rape for it to work!
The woman vote will belong to your party in 2016, just stay on course.
Let’s pretend expensive, bad contraception is a problem in America!
Anyone notice how Slippery is now the champion of all new contraception and therefore Protein Wisdom must be agin’ it if’n he’s fer it ? The dude never made a cartoon he was a afraid to take a weak, tenuous, confused shot at.
i love babies they’re the future plus they almost always like me back they’re so much fun
plus i usually get to take them to disney later when they’re really little my favorite is peter pan cause you get to fly then later they get older and we can stay up late and ride splash mountain over and over and i love that one the best cause it’s an adventure but also it tells a story like the haunted mansion which is my second favorite
” The woman vote will belong to your party in 2016, just stay on course.”
Yeah there is only one woman vote and it is totally powerless against democrat voodoo.
Outside of white guys, what other demographic gives you the majority of it’s vote? Yeah, you guys are really cook’n. Like I said, stay on course. I’m rooting for you to fail and I’m not even particularly worried that you’ll get a clue.
LBascom: It is not expensive to me. But it is not good for everyone. We have not changed the method of preventing gestation since the inception of the pill. The efficacy rate is 80ish percent. And we know that dosing up with progesterone does increase one’s risk of cancer. If we can have a 100% percent effective rate, make it cheap with few hassles and side-effects and NO risk of cancer – that is something to be excited about.
They come out with a new boner pill every 18 months. What the heck is so awful about FINALLY making some really significant improvements to contraception?
I’m going to have to do some reading to even figure out which logical fallacy this is. It’s like a cross between appeal to ridicule and strawman.
Fortunately, like a lot of crossbreeds it is sterile.
Maybe with a sprinkling of red herring.
Lisa – there’s apparently something these guys just find reprehensible about a woman not being filled with fear and guilt if she wants to do someone. Even their husbands they ought to be servicing out of marital duty, not because they really like it.
UNTIL there is a babies beating heart (I’m not sure exactly, let’s say the first trimester).
Actually the cardiac smooth muscle cells get going by day eight, when the fetus is still an unrecognizable blobby mass.
With a beating heart.
I’ve always found science makes me less likely to accept progressive mores, rather than more.
Maybe ‘slope has created a genetically modified fallacy that is completely new. If so: best patent it posthaste.
I’d be very interested to know when you can recognize a fallacy.
Your level of interest is of no interest to me.
Why would being pregnant prevent a woman from finishing college? I worked on my doctorate with two kids at home and completed my course work and dissertation when I was five months pregnant.
I’ve always found science makes me less likely to accept progressive mores, rather than more.
Well said.
It is creepy but cool because it works by flipping some switch that will, for as long as she wants it to, cause her body to hunt down and kill those lil swimmers. Somehow it does something to regulate your lady hormones too.
That IS interesting. Given women already have pretty serious issues with autoimmunity, though–some of which are actually suppressed by exposure to seminal contents (no really, pre-exposure to a guy’s semen can prevent pre-eclampsia if you’re later carrying his babeh)–how extensive have the studies been? Is this going to be like the penicillin moment for birth control, where everyone gets prescribed immunological birth control and then years later when everyone’s allergic to penicillin (or in this case has lupus and rheumatoid arthritis), only THEN do we decide that maybe it was a bad idea?
I agree current birth control solutions are not incredibly super and that more research is definitely warranted in fixing the side effects. But in defense of boner pills, birth control drugs are modifying a hormonal situation that underlies basically everything a woman’s body does, including things like bone maintenance and calorie consumption–where boner pills are mostly just inhibiting the breakdown of a single chemical (nitrous oxide). It’s hardly surprising it’s easier for drug companies to rebrand Yet Another Nitrous Oxide Inhibiter for helping with erectile dysfunction, while getting new birth control pills through the regulatory chute is nearly the same kind of slog that faces chemotherapy drugs.
It’s more the underlying biology than anything. And unfortunately biology is pretty damn misogynistic and does reward women for being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen up until menopause.
Which is why I kind of roll my eyes when people go “SCIENCE!!!” in defense of whatever dumb thing it is that’s trending on tumblr. SCIENCE!!! tells us what is and what we can do about it, technically.
Culture (which includes ~le religions~) tells us what we should do with what is. Biology is a hot, steaming, angry mess that doesn’t care about what “feels good” to espouse.
“Outside of white guys, what other demographic gives you the majority of it’s vote?”
I’m not terribly impressed. 47 to 51 is pretty doable.
Also, please stop telling me that as a woman I am being ~suppressed~ by my male relatives or culture or whatever for my desire not to bone things OR use birth control (in order to bone things without getting pregnant).
Seriously. Cut it out. I don’t speak for you, you don’t speak for me.
You’re right, it makes it easier. More women getting pregnant during college would then logically lead to more women graduating. Why has no one thought of that?
“I’d be very interested to know when you can recognize a fallacy.”
No, your whole posting history here is people exposing your idiotic fallacies one after the other.
“You’re right, it makes it easier. More women getting pregnant during college would then logically lead to more women graduating. Why has no one thought of that?”
30 year old law students who spend 70K on tuition expeicially!
Pellegri, the scientifically illiterate among us are trying to convince themselves that biology isn’t destiny after all.
They are in for one rude wake up on that score.
Which is just another way of saying we decide what we should do – which I’m fine with. Like, we should require vehicle passengers to wear seat belts, and we should make there be a penalty for denying someone housing or employment solely on the basis of race. I’m fine with us making these collective decisions.
” Lisa – there’s apparently something these guys just find reprehensible about a woman not being filled with fear and guilt if she wants to do someone.”
It’s true Lisa. You heard it from Slippery Slope and there is NO more reliable witness on what guys here think than that guy! Shucks! Why he embodies honesty, intellectual rigor, and lateral thinking…you know, when he isn’t just making shit up wholesale, moving goal posts, and behaving like a fool. (4% of the time)
Hi Lisa. I’m an old fashioned guy (you may remember me as lee), and believe if young ladies and men were taught (as an ideal standard) to have sex with only their husbands and wives, we could go back to the days where half the people didn’t depend on government assistance, worry about STD’s and unwanted pregnancies, or think contraceptives were a right.
Crazy, I know. You may as well try and control the weather!
I’d be very interested to know when you can recognize a fallacy.
– Yes, we could tell early on you are fallacy challenged.
Slippery Slope to women: ” They gonna putchoo all back in chains! “
I don’t want a woman to feel fear and guilt AFTER she does someone. It would be good if she (and/or he) felt a sense of self worth and responsibility when she wants to do someone.
I don’t think there are many here who care all that much about things like sex and contraception. Most of us just have a problem with people demanding to be provided with contraception at our expense, rather than ponying up for it themselves.
But that’s probably way too complicated for the likes of a slippery-slope hawker.
I take back what I said about ‘slope being a bit smarter than Ric Caric.
He obviously has risen to the challenge.
When he starts talking about sperm armies using shipping containers to get around balloon fences in the uterus we will know we have a new champion.
Pelligri: You are correct, damn your eyes.
The fact that it is hard to get our bodies to gestate or not gestate according to our dictates and in defiance of our biological imperatives has been a challenge. Men and their simple issues. Sad-boners and baldness. There are little pills to take care of both. Happily, Cthulu, god of pain and humiliation, created proctologists and yearly prostate exams to bring balance to the universe.
I think Leigh is to be congratulated for juggling all the various components of her life and going forth and getting the degrees she sought, no matter the obstacles in her way.
Your condescending mockery reveals more about you than her.
Thank you, BT.
and we should make there be a penalty for denying someone housing or employment solely on the basis of race.
Except to the extent these policies become deleterious to everyone involved. Yes, saying “racial discrimination is not okay” is perfectly good and in fact should be ensconced in law.
Deciding (as happened before the housing crash) that denying someone who happens to be a racial minority a loan constitutes discrimination when there are other perfectly valid reasons for that denial (such as poor financial history or insufficient evidence of employment), and then using the law to bludgeon lenders into compliance with what we think “should be” does not work.
So it goes with other matters of social policy, which is why I would rather leave that outside the realm of law except where there are negative rights (the right not to be harmed or defrauded or stolen from, say) that need to be protected that social mores would otherwise infringe on (cultural permissibility of certain kinds of rapes and murders comes to mind).
I am not saying this is an issue where one philosophy–political or otherwise–has all the pain-free answers to these questions. But I do believe that less legal regulation gives us more freedom to develop morally, and more moral development means less legal enforcement is required because people don’t even consider doing bad things.
When he starts talking about sperm armies using shipping containers to get around balloon fences in the uterus we will know we have a new champion.
That’s awesome, BMoe. Well done.
Prostate exams are neither painful nor humiliating, merely annoying. It’s the sphygmoidoscopies that I dread. And they put you out for those, or at least I never remember them. At least now they can tell what they saw as soon as you are half out of the sedative instead of making you wait five long nervous days for your results.
The fact that it is hard to get our bodies to gestate or not gestate according to our dictates and in defiance of our biological imperatives has been a challenge. Men and their simple issues. Sad-boners and baldness. There are little pills to take care of both. Happily, Cthulu, god of pain and humiliation, created proctologists and yearly prostate exams to bring balance to the universe.
Indeed. :)
Fortunately for men, prostate cancer remains a disease more of them die with than die of. Not so for female reproductive cancers, and a part of that is the total hormonal nightmare we live with.
And that’s not to say there’s not a good bit of medical inequity just because we haven’t done enough study of women’s problems. Some of this is due to the default assumption on the part of a lot of people (regardless of sex) that women are just men with boobs and an innie, so women’s medical issues are identical to men’s. The mortality rate from heart attacks among women because the symptoms are totally different and no one realized that for a long time comes to mind.
Don’t forget testicular cancer. So, what’s the sexual dimorphism doing to our average life spans these days?
Great conversation all – how I have missed you!
I am baby sitting and I am trying to decide whether to put the yappy little dog outside and the whiny five year old in the bath then bed – or put the whiner outside and put the dog in the bath.
Both of them are smelly and annoying. Also – I have not watched kids shows in a long time. I know that when you look at any of them objectively – it appears that they were created by someone who was rolling pretty hard on hallucinogens. That said: My niece and her buddies are in love with this exceptionally odd show with a black guy in an orange freakwig and tight shiny orange body suit. I don’t understand what the hell. Also, what the fuck is the striped monster thing supposed to be? And the orange pickle cyclops thing? Is this a real show or am I having a protracted acid flashback?
I have a hard time believing any man who has ever lived with a woman thinks that.
PS: Leigh and those like her who achieve their goals are to be commended. Going to school after you grow up and have to pay bills is hard. Going to school after you are grown up, have to pay bills, and raise a family is straight up badass.
Good night all.
I’m wondering if you been hitting the Qatar hashish a little hard. But then I haven’t watched children’s programming in a decade, so what do I know?
‘Nite Lisa.
Back on the topic of firearms: I had been considering a .223 semiautomatic, but seeing as those are probably going to be made illegal soon because they are very much more deadly at close range than a Glock and a few spare magazines, I may have to settle for a .243 Thompson/Center Venture bolt-action. That’s probably going to be legal until one like it kills someone important, and then it will be considered too dangerous for regular citizens to own.
So maybe I should just skip forward a couple of steps and buy into a break-action.
SUGARTITS !!!!!!!!
Oh, slurpysloop is a mendoucheous twatwaffle.
I have a hard time believing any man who has ever lived with a woman thinks that.
I am pretty sure that it’s, hm.
Well. I think most men who have lived extensively with any woman know it intuitively. It doesn’t mean they may not make assumptions about women’s health in a professional capacity that are fallacious.
The trend in medicine prior to the last, oh, thirty years has been that women’s health, aside from issues of their breasts and their uteruses, is functionally identical to men’s health. In some respects that’s an okay assumption to make; things like infectious diseases (outside of STIs) don’t show a lot of discrimination between the sexes in terms of symptoms if you control for age, provided the women you’re looking at aren’t pregnant. (STIs, on the other hand, generally hit women very differently and sometimes–but not always!–a lot harder, like chlamydia causing sterility due to fallopian tube scarring in women while men can be symptomless carriers. Or HPV causing genital warts in both sexes but cancers only in women.)
But as we have an increasingly aging population subject to more of the diseases of age–heart disease, most cancers, arthritis, etc.–and as medical care is weeding out most of the sex-blind causes of death, like infectious diseases, poisoning, shock, and violent trauma, we’re gradually discovering that in fact men and women are distinct, medically. I think it’s really interesting–but I also think in some ways that the “women-distinct” forms of medical treatment have lagged behind problems that plague both sexes and even some problems that only affect men (see Lisa’s above comment on ED and male pattern baldness). This is not necessarily a perception of women as “less valuable” to society, as I am sure some people might interpret it, but the fact a lot of the differences that result in distinct issues for women happen under the hood. Aside from emotional changes that not everyone gets and the bleeding, it’s hard for anyone aside from the woman in question to tell where she is on her menstrual cycle–and as I’m finding out, even the non-bleeding phases of the cycle result in hormonal changes that cause me problems my male relatives just don’t have. In the past, prior to the understanding of how pervasive hormonal control of biology is, it would be easy to overlook those issues as being because of my different biology.
Whereas when a man can’t get it up, it’s pretty obvious something is wrong.
anyway tl;dr men are different than women biologically.
Don’t forget testicular cancer. So, what’s the sexual dimorphism doing to our average life spans these days?
Last I checked, women still get a few more years on average. I don’t think that’s controlled for violent or accidental death, however, which has been predominantly a male occupation. (Sorry, guys.)
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@Lisa: That’s apparently Yo Gabba Gabba (warning: psychadelic flash loader), which I have never seen, just found via googling “orange pickle cyclops”. So it is a real thing, or you’re on some really fantastic drugs that will destroy us all.
…maybe muzzle-loader would be ahead even another step. Flintlock, anyone?
ON THE OTHER TENTACLE, the ignorance of sexual differences in diseases does go both ways. Men and suicide, and men and eating disorders, are two examples of things that have only recently been coming into light, even in academia. The fact that women attempt more suicides but men succeed at more certainly has a lot of alarming implications for mental health. It is, after all, very hard to get successful suicides in for treatment for severe depression. Not so much if you fail.
Cannon, imo.
Park it on your lawn and make a show of practicing loading and firing it every day at dawn.
No one will mess with you then.
OK, Pellegri convinced me. Women should be paying way more for health insurance…
I stepped away to watch Nutcracker: The Movie on Netflix. It seemed a better use of my time than rolling my eyes at slippy and chirpy, and waiting for the former to realize Lisa knows us better than he does.
I’ve also got a bunch of old favorite Christmas specials saved up on the TiVo, but we’re saving those for next week. Still a few to record before then, come to think of it.
What I’d really like is to have these shows from their first broadcasts, complete with the old commercials. God, I’m old.
That’ll change as more women become more adept at using weapons effectively, sad to say.
Women seldom use weapons to commit suicide. Homicide, sure.
Women usually take pills or lock themselves in the garage with a running car.
I think that has a lot to do with the fact women do tend even now to be less familiar with weapons.
And it isn’t just the knowledge but the psychological effect of having that knowledge. When you know what it would take to end a life, when you’ve thought about it and in many cases trained for it, it completely changes your way of looking at it.
Someone proficient with weapons is less likely to fail if he or she tries, but is also I think less likely to try unless he or she is absolutely serious about it.
You do occasionally read about women who shoot themselves, although it seems to be generally in the South where women may be more likely to be familiar with weapons, so you’re probably right about that. There are quite a few historical documents of women killing themselves with shotguns. A pretty ugly way to go if you’ve ever had the misfortune to see crime scene photos of same.
Drowning is another biggy with women.
I’ve seen pictures where the only way to know that was someone’s face is because the caption says so.
I can’t think of anyone I hate so much that I’d leave myself in that condition for them to find.
No, dumbass. It’s only reprehensible if she wants to do everyone and have me fund her consequences.
In lady-related gun news, my 80-ish mother is currently considering what her first gun will be. Lord, but I raised that woman right. I just hope I don’t cry on the occasion of her first trip to the gun store.
The sentient and the self sufficient.
Speaking of cannons.
Heh, Slip is using the “I’m wealthy” claim? Yeah, typical troll. Amazing how they’re always wealthy, well-to-do, have “superior” college degrees, etc. compared to all the mere peasants in their midst.
Alas, even if such claims were miraculously true, none of that changes the fact that they’re jackasses.
Oh, he brings it up daily, Patrick. He even tried to insult bh about his income. Wnated to have a tax return measuring contest.
It is to laugh.
Slip blathered:
Reading your posting history can provide some examples. Usually something like, oh:
You’re right, it makes it easier. More women getting pregnant during college would then logically lead to more women graduating. Why has no one thought of that?
Which isn’t what the person you were speaking to meant. You likely knew it, and tried that because you couldn’t deal with her actual point: that it was possible for a woman to complete a degree while having children to care for. She didn’t advocate what you wrote above, you made it up so you could pretend to be clever.
Alas, you’re not. Just a simple-minded liar who makes up crap and pretends it’s what your opponent believes.
I guess it all depends on whether or not you believe the FBI discards those background checks like they’re supposed to.
Me? I think there’s boxes and boxes of data at the National Archives.
Or maybe it’s all on a hard drive or three. Who knows?
If you’re seriously thinking about .223 semi-auto, I’d go ahead and get one while you know you can. Banning future sales is a lot easier than confiscating legally purchased firearms.
Is the Venture the dial-your own caliber (so to speak) TC rifle? Or am I thinking of a different TC model?
People who understand contractions?
Sorry, there’s something about watching a witless troll try to put on airs that brings this out in me.
@leigh: If he claims his house looks like a castle, I may have run into this troll under another ID.
He has 3700 square feet, Pat. And his place is vintage 1928 in a ‘great neighborhood’. He’s got three kids and I believe, claims to have employees.
He’s a 2%er he says.
A “father of three”, eh? That was another claim by the troll I met elsewhere. Could be using the same template.
I can’t imagine why anyone would buy anything chambered for .223 rather than 5.56 these days. Is there something enticing out there that’s a whole lot cheaper up front? If not, then why?
It’s been a regular Trolls R Us this weekend,
Wow, 3700 square feet. I’m not sure how my dick can possibly measure up to that.
– Just keep it rolled up Slart and no one can step on it.
good point
Belatedly, yeah. I do think more women will succeed at suicide if they’re more proficient with what they’re using to take their own lives.
I would however like to see more studies done on method of suicide, success, and proficiency with said method. I am almost sure scientists, for example, typically pick to poison themselves in ways that are more “successful” than just downing a bunch of sleeping pills.
I am morbid like that however.
Which (the acute knowledge possessed by ‘scientists’) is why the Hippocratic Oath. Folks just couldn’t trust ’em, time was. They knew how to kill without getting caught, not to mention being privy by dint of their service to all manner of otherwise hidden privacies.
<snicker>
Ask him how many more years he’ll be paying on that mortgage. Debt substantially reduces how much of what you have is really yours.
Equality!