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Sure, but it's just stupid name calling which doesn't get you anywhere. Generally, that's how I tell someone believes their arguments are weak (I'm looking at you, Rush). Resorting just makes you look stupid. If you can't discredit their arguments while calling them by their proper name, Tea Baggers, then you're the weak one.

And no mention whatsoever of Norway's successful program... http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/jan/01/norway-cuts-antibiotics-successfully-battles/

That's like saying you should wear a fireman's suit all the time in case the building you're in catches fire. Packing iron is just as extreme. My interpretation of someone carrying a gun is that they want to live unreasonably and be "prepared" when life catches up with them.

It's more like wearing a seat belt whilst driving. Most buildings must meet fire codes and they generally have fire extinguishers, alarms and escape routes. Life does not come with an alarm system and escape is not always an option when someone wants to take your life.

It is obvious you have not consumed as much Mountain Dew as I have because we have wildly different ideas of extreme.

See above. Your interpretation is a fallacy and you should do further research.

Insurance holds law enforcement accountable by higher premiums to their municipal government (city/town/county etc). If crime gets out of hand, the municipality is faced with a prohibitively high rate increase, and must either shape up or pack up. State and federal governments share in the responsibility and lend their support as needed. If law enforcement becomes ineffective, the economic pressure sorts things out.

So take money from a municipality and give it some insurance company? Sounds great. Where do they pack up to? Does the town becomes a ghost town? Please provide a citation for this program that seems to be working so well for Canada opposed to the gun ridden streets of the United States.

There are services available to victims of crime, more than just financial support, obviously no replacement for not having been victimized in the first place. But more importantly you should know it's your children that are more likely to be victims of gun-related violence. The age at which murderers are most likely to use a gun is 17. Guess what age group they're shooting at. Are you then going to send your kids to school packing? Of course not. You shouldn't carry a gun either FOR THE EXACT SAME REASONS.

Actually, there is a school district which allows concealed handgun permit holders to carry their firearms on school grounds. There is also legislation being introduced next session to allow concealed carry on college campus If my children decide to obtain their permits when they become of age I will support them 100% and I am encouraging my school district to adopt similar policy.

There are distinct differences between myself and my children. I am an adult. I am capable of making rational decisions under duress and I have a much better dispostion than most children. Therefore, the reasons that my children should not carry a firearm to kindergarten do not apply to me. Also, you have to be 21 to obtain your permit in Texas.

I don't buy it. A reasonable reaction for when someone believes their way of life could lead them into mortal danger is to change their way of life to avoid such a situation. By arming yourself, you knowingly accept the risk and in fact add to it by doing so. Your family comes along for the ride, and are more likely to b

How about a hyperlink to back up this completely untrue statement?

Thirty seconds with Google:

Ten percent of Texas prisons are privately run.

In 1999, 15,000 of the state's 151,000 inmates were in privately run prisons.

Unfortunatly Texas jails have quite a few ammenities that I wish my tax dollars weren't paying for.

Since you're ignorant or mislead about such an important issue as privately control of your state's prisions, might I suggest that you take a more careful look at your beliefs about the "ammenities" being provided in prisons?

NASA could pull my dollars directly if they were to include an IMAX camera setup on their future space missions

Done.

Overdone.

Weaselmancer

It must be the political spelling: Governor pushs math initiative

And remember that even the big boys sometimes have to play by the rules. Microsoft ended up paying a defunct company called SyNet $5 million for violating their trademark on "Internet Explorer."

-Bruce

FBI director assures police shooting victim's family of a "vigorous" investigation

By TERRI LANGFORD Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) -- A civil rights investigation into a botched drug raid in which an unarmed man was killed by nine police bullets will leave "no stone unturned," FBI Director Louis Freeh vowed Friday.

Freeh met privately with relatives of Pedro Oregon Navarro, shot to death July 12 after six Houston police officers stormed his apartment in search of drugs. Oregon was shot a dozen times, including nine times in the back.

"I pledged to them our commitment to conduct a fair and full investigation and share those results with them and the community when we accomplish that," Freeh said.

The six officers went to Oregon's apartment on a tip from an informant who had just been pulled over for public intoxication.

Once there, and without a warrant, officers kicked in his bedroom door and shot 22-year-old Oregon, a father of two. No drugs were found in the apartment, and the officers later said they started firing because they thought Oregon had fired at them. A police investigation, however, showed a shot from one officer hit another's bulletproof vest.

Autopsy results showed at least nine shots entered Oregon's body at a downward angle, suggesting he was shot while face-down on the floor or while diving toward the floor.

All six officers were fired from the Houston Police Department shortly after a state grand jury declined to indict them on murder charges. One officer was charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

Freeh, who was in Houston Friday making a regular field visit, said his the civil rights investigation -- now three weeks old -- will be thorough.

"The investigation does not mirror or even review what was done by the previous investigation," Freeh said. "We'll do it as quickly as we can, but as carefully as we have to, to ensure that it's a full investigation and also that it's a fair one."

Houston Police Chief Clarence Bradford, when he announced the firings of the officers last week, called the case "super-egregious," saying the officers were fired for lying, violating several department policies, the constitutional protection against unlawful searches and state official oppression laws.

The Mexican government also has expressed its concern about the shooting because Oregon was from Michoacan, Mexico. He had been in the United States about eight years and had worked as a landscaper.