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When it comes to availability of guns in this country I feel surrounded by unreasonable voices, and the clarity and compassion in your posts gives me hope. Thanks.
Child gun deaths did not go up.
Child gun accidental deaths should be higher, but child gun homicides should be lower. But, total child death by gun remains the same.
Damn Korintia, thanks for speaking up! Nice looking blog. That close-up of the main violin photo. May I ask the settings of your camera? The strings are so close to the focal point -your name on the bridge (which kind of looks like swiss cheese hee-hee), yet they are out of focus. Nice effect. Maybe you had it professionally phototaken, which unfortunatley takes my admiriation down a notch, but not terribly so. Did you know that Stranger writer Ansel Herz once had a fancy camera?
How's that for reason, Goldy?
I was personally amazed by the parents who give kids as young as 3 their own guns, to basically play with. WTF?!
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I think you'll only get Goldie to respond when he believes he's got a tight defense. To show weakness and fallibility diminishes his credibility. He's got a tough job, no doubt. That's why lazy Joe Schmoe is in the homeless encampments, and Goldie is in an office making the big bucks.
I've long been on Goldy's side on this one, but that headline is just fucking amateur- worse than Kelly O's wobbly, high school bullshit from the last go-round.
STRANGER TROLLING BINGO!
Today's winning picks are:
Gun nuts!
Thee Olde Seconde Amendmente!
Suicide!
Assault weapons!
Apples and oranges!
You just do not care about X dead Y's!
Tautological tautologies!
Picking cherries!
I don't want to ban all guns but ... !
The NRA!
Beat a straw man for big bonus points!
I crack myself up.
Why is gun technology so primitive still.
For example, no electronic key locks that could be voice or fingerprint activated. Not only would this keep kids from using guns, but it would prevent a thief or madman from grabbing your gun and using it against you.
How about just looking at the stupidity/horror that is the father with his toddler son and a gun? Yes, that child is now dead...from a gunshot.
I don't really know what more people want.
I have zero sympathy for any of the parents in the article. I have all the sympathy for the dead child and their friend/sibling who accidentally killed them. The remaining child will have to live with a mistake that was caused completely by their parent's own negligence and inability to understand child development.
"The remaining child will have to live the mistake..."
Yes and no. An attentive school system could possibly have a great beneficial impact on the child having to deal with this tragedy. Goldie has been telling us over the past week, and probably before that, the amount of money involved in school reform. As long as he doesn't have to go into the classroom and touch the disgusting little rugrats, he may be able to really concentrate on his research and possibly get a Pulitzer.
Blood libel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
Goldy, can you link to any specific comment on SLOG that accuses you of that? "That" in this context being "blood libel".
If not, why did you attempt to imply that someone did?
"Child Gun Deaths Far Higher than Official Records Show"
No.
That is not what that article states.
So why did you attempt to imply that it did?
Actually, though, since the whole modern ideology of guns is driven first by the what the gun manufacturers want, sophisticated technology that you describe is not acceptable because it raises the price of the gun some amount and makes it more difficult to resell. For all the bluster here from the gun nuts, they (the gun nuts) really are in large part only the Frankenstein creations of the gun manufacturers in the last 40 years in their push to increase gun sales at any cost. Before that, people with these ideas were more often diagnosed as "dangerously obsessed individuals."
Gun owners in America are a dying breed. Your own extremism is the reason why, gun nuts. You're doing this to yourselves.
Your use of humorous satirical metaphor makes you unqualified to speak on child gun deaths!
(This is right in there with the arguments that focus on the lack of technical knowledge about something like bullet caliber to say a critic is unqualified to talk about people being able to buy and sell assault rifles without a background check.)
"a critic is unqualified to talk about people being able to buy and sell assault rifles without a background check."
Where in America is that legal?
Goldy doesn't give a flying fuck about children dying unless it's at the end of a gun.
The fact still remains that, according to the CDC, the number one cause of death of children under 5 is drowning. Gun deaths rank ninth, behind traffic accidents, unspecified homicide, fire/burn, suffocation, pedestrian fatalities, special homicides and natural/environmental disasters.
Somehow I don't imagine Goldy breathlessly searching the news headlines trying to find toddlers drowning in the tub, but when 43 toddlers are killed with guns each year, it's a fucking tragedy.
Keep grinding that axe, Goldy. You really do have a serious gun fetish.
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10…
I guess you didn't read the article. According to the Times' research, the incorrect classification of accidental gun deaths as homicide or even suicide means that accidental gun deaths are more likely twice as prevalent as commonly thought, meaning that it's more like the fifth leading cause of death of young children.
Nice try though.
Add them up, even being generous and giving them the same number of deaths as the #10 cause of death), and they still are not #1 cause of death.
The New York Times is being rather histrionic...which is more acceptable than outright lying like Goldy does.
As of 2008, 33 states do not restrict private, intrastate sales of firearms (like the AR-15 assault rifle) at gun shows or between private parties IN ANY MANNER. If it's legal to own you can buy and sell it.
"As of 2008, 33 states do not restrict private, intrastate sales of firearms (like the AR-15 assault rifle)"
"Assault rifles" are fully automatic.
"Assault weapons" are semi-automatic (with additional features).
So no, your statement is incorrect.
Which is one of the reasons why the "Assault weapons!" category is included in Trolling Bingo.
There is a difference between
revolver
semi-automatic
fully automatic
I said more like #5. The NYT said more like #5. Who exactly is being histrionic here?
it's a little redundant to say "nice Jewish boy" - we all know that Jewish boys are nice. Sure there's a Weiner here, and a Madoff there, but c'mon, who doesn't make mistakes, and mistakes they might not even had been. So Venomlash, "Jewish boy" is sufficient - for Catholics, Muslims and other religions that Judaism is superior to, yes, you must designate if a boy is "nice" or not - A simple reminder - ALL Jewish boys are nice, sincerely wonderful human beings.
So, a rifle is not a weapon. Got it. You and your gun nut pals can chalk up another victory of fetishism over common sense.
"You are using the your definitions that distinguish an "assault rifle" from an "assault weapon" to try to say I'm not qualified to comment - by saying a "rifle" is not a "weapon.""
No.
I'm pointing out that you do not know the definitions of the terms that you are using.
But don't let that stop you, right?
If you spend any time reading the previous "discussions" here you'll see that I and most of the other people who know what the difference is keep pointing out how arbitrary and useless the term "assault weapon" is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_wea…
Now you can either use the more accurate descriptions or you can choose to continue to incorrectly use the political label.
"As I was saying, when backed in to a corner even a little gun nuts refuse to talk honestly about the substance of critiques."
If you cannot tell the difference between an abortion and a miscarriage then correcting your usage is addressing the substance of your critiques.
That being that your "critiques" have no substance.
Again, which is one of the reasons why "Assault weapons!" was included on the "TROLLING BINGO" post.
Shit, the public can't distinguish "Obamacare" from "holy shit, I can afford health insurance!" They're the same damn thing, unlike assault weapons/rifles. Why is the public's understanding of a matter indicative of its benefit or detriment to the US?
What you call "intricate technical attributes" are anything but. They're fundamental distinctions.
Maybe I'm crazy, being pro-healthcare, pro-gun, pro-gays, pro-choice, etc. Yet here I am, and I'm not willing to stand idly by while people lie or misrepresent things I know and support.