Apr 22
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
@95 Wait a minute - now you're telling me I should *clean* them?! WTF, none of my fat redneck buddies (the fools) told me *that* was part of the deal. Jesus, maybe I should rethink my worldview so that right-thinking prejudiced fucks like yourself have an easier time setting us all straight while you put together the next Five Year Plan.
Apr 22
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
@93: Good one! That *is* a ridiculous thought! It sounds almost as stupid as imagining a few thousand dirt poor, uneducated goatherders fighting the two richest and most highly armed nuclear superpowers in the history of mankind to a standstill and defeat over the course of several decades of invasions of some desert/mountain shithole the size of Texas! There's just no way these stupid fucking American rubes should be trusted to think for themselves on this topic...
Apr 21
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Over 90% of the American People Support Universal Backgrounds Checks.
Hey @3, haven't seen the whole "you're losing" schtick from you lately - what gives? Is this all part of the master plan?
@13: You might want to take a couple of moments to reflect on how the US Constitution works - every time a 'rural redneck' dies off, the ones who are left behind have proportionally even more power in our system. The more that leftists crowd tightly into urban areas, the more chance there is for the Senate to swing in a distinctly un-urban direction.
You guys might want to send some pioneering lefty settlers into flyover country before it gets out of hand...
@13: You might want to take a couple of moments to reflect on how the US Constitution works - every time a 'rural redneck' dies off, the ones who are left behind have proportionally even more power in our system. The more that leftists crowd tightly into urban areas, the more chance there is for the Senate to swing in a distinctly un-urban direction.
You guys might want to send some pioneering lefty settlers into flyover country before it gets out of hand...
Apr 12
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Gun Nuts: Home, Home at the Range.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Gun Nuts: Home, Home at the Range.
@12: As long as you don't give a shit about locking up said violent criminals, I'm happy to be their friend and let them shoot each other - go nuts, fellas.
Mar 27
Boring Dad is Boring commented on No-Tax and Spend.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on No-Tax and Spend.
I'd gladly exchange significantly increased education funding for a system that allows superstar teachers to make large bonuses and crappy teachers to get flushed out of the system. It's sad but I can tell you from personal experience that there are a significant minority of lousy teachers who are riding the coattails of the good ones via the tenure system and are completely untouchable in the current setup.
Mar 21
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The NRA Now Knows That the Governor of Colorado Has Balls.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on The NRA Now Knows That the Governor of Colorado Has Balls.
@36: speaking as a gun nut shill, I can also tell you another unintended consequence of magazine limits when it comes to pistols - if you formerly had a 9 mm with 15 rounds, and it's now illegal, there's very little reason not to move up to a .40 caliber or 10mm etc, which are significantly more destructive, since the gun size is the same. The tradeoff between capacity vs power is an old one.
I know this will get shouted down very quickly, but trust me, that is how it works. Same thing applies with rifles. Sorry.
I know this will get shouted down very quickly, but trust me, that is how it works. Same thing applies with rifles. Sorry.
Mar 20
Boring Dad is Boring commented on NRA Is Going to Win Again.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on NRA Is Going to Win Again.
@38: No, it's a shit day, because it's been three months and (with very few exceptions) we've done almost precisely nothing about the real issues around violence.
Very few schools and places where kids congregate have taken concrete steps (like security doors, cameras, and guards used by basically every medium and large corporation or government entity in the country/world) to stop the next crazed asshole who wants to be the most famous person in the world.
Drugs are still illegal and providing enormous cash flow to criminals, just like during Prohibition.
Tens of thousands of violent criminals are going about their business of shooting and killing each other on the streets while the aforementioned drug war victims sit in cells.
I've not seen anything done to increase suicide prevention for those at risk, despite there being proven strategies that work.
Maybe now that the political grandstanding is dying down we could address some of those items?
Very few schools and places where kids congregate have taken concrete steps (like security doors, cameras, and guards used by basically every medium and large corporation or government entity in the country/world) to stop the next crazed asshole who wants to be the most famous person in the world.
Drugs are still illegal and providing enormous cash flow to criminals, just like during Prohibition.
Tens of thousands of violent criminals are going about their business of shooting and killing each other on the streets while the aforementioned drug war victims sit in cells.
I've not seen anything done to increase suicide prevention for those at risk, despite there being proven strategies that work.
Maybe now that the political grandstanding is dying down we could address some of those items?
Mar 19
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Because Guns Make Us Safer.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Because Guns Make Us Safer.
@44: Um, I think you just made up a whole bunch of stats.
Mar 14
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Washington State's Pro-Suicide House.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Washington State's Pro-Suicide House.
Interesting - I don't have access to PubMed but the abstract of this CDC study (that seems to get referenced a lot around this topic)...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924…
...defines "impulsive" as being " if the respondent reported spending less than 5 minutes between the decision to attempt suicide and the actual attempt."
I retract my earlier statement - 5 minutes is more than enough time to find and contact a private seller, meet him or her, examine the gun, transact, and then do the deed. A background check program would completely fix this issue.
On to a referendum...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924…
...defines "impulsive" as being " if the respondent reported spending less than 5 minutes between the decision to attempt suicide and the actual attempt."
I retract my earlier statement - 5 minutes is more than enough time to find and contact a private seller, meet him or her, examine the gun, transact, and then do the deed. A background check program would completely fix this issue.
On to a referendum...
Mar 13
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Washington State's Pro-Suicide House.
Boring Dad is Boring commented on Washington State's Pro-Suicide House.
This is so fucking stupid I almost don't know where to start.
If you're intent on blowing your head off on a whim, you can drive (or take a bus) a few minutes to your nearest Big 5 or Fred Meyer, ask for a shotgun, fill out the form, pass the check, buy the gun and a five shells, walk out to the parking lot and Kurt Cobain yourself right beside the cart return. I'd wager most people reading this could do it in less than 90 minutes.
There is literally no plausible way you could do it faster in a private sale, if it were truly a whim.
Get your shit together, Goldy, this is embarrassing from someone who normally uses at least a thin thread of logic in his writing.
If you're intent on blowing your head off on a whim, you can drive (or take a bus) a few minutes to your nearest Big 5 or Fred Meyer, ask for a shotgun, fill out the form, pass the check, buy the gun and a five shells, walk out to the parking lot and Kurt Cobain yourself right beside the cart return. I'd wager most people reading this could do it in less than 90 minutes.
There is literally no plausible way you could do it faster in a private sale, if it were truly a whim.
Get your shit together, Goldy, this is embarrassing from someone who normally uses at least a thin thread of logic in his writing.
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