2:14 PM yesterday
ScrawnyKayaker commented on
Listen Up, Gays: They're Coming to Recruit You.
@2, 8 I'll partially refute that: The only truly generic statement about guns is that they are designed to launch a small metal projectile at high velocity.
SOME guns are designed primarily to injure people. Some are clearly designed more to kill animals, and others mainly for shooting targets or empty beer cans. Given time, I make find a list a hundred guns that would not appear, by design or marketing, to be "for" use on people.
To give just one example, the best-selling rifle in the US is the Winchester 1894, at over 7 million copies. These were designed and purchased pretty much entirely for shooting deer.
May 18
ScrawnyKayaker commented on
In Which I Do Not Declare My Candidacy for Seattle City Council.
Didn't you write several times words to the effect "as soon as my daughter graduates from high school, I'm moving to another state?" That might be a slight liability in a campaign to have people waving that around.
But, yeah, I could pretty much echo CPN @35. I like a good loose cannon.
May 17
ScrawnyKayaker commented on
Tim Burgess Drops Out.
Wow. Throwing himself on an "anybody but McGinn" grenade. Taking a bullet meant for Ed Murray. Finding a good metaphor.
Oh, wait, did I type that?