As in, the American system is the best in the world if you have money
No, it's the best in the world period. The only difference is that the people with money and/or insurance don't generally have to file bankruptcy after getting sick.
I've been through bankruptcy before and it seems preferable to dying or ceding more power to the Government -- but maybe that's just me.
Your number is nearly three times higher than reality but then the gun-grabbers never have let the facts get in the way of a bad argument. If you are wondering, they show 12,632 firearm homicides in 2007 along with 17,352 suicides. I'll let you perform the addition operation -- you'll note it's substantially less than 75,000.
That outnumbers the cases of self-defense by about 10 to 1
Where you'd pull the 7,500 cases of self-defense from? The same void that you pulled the number of deaths from?
Notice the Supreme Court didn't give you a right to carry a gun in their courtroom.
Of course they didn't. All they said was that outright gun bans aren't compatible with the 2nd amendment. Sorry if that notion bothers you.
And yet urban liberals plug their ears and scream "I CANT HEAR YOU" when you present the solid and provenfact that gun laws DO NOT STOP gun violence as criminals
Fixed that for you. Lots of rural liberals are pro-gun.
You don't suppose this could have something to do with the fact that "Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult" as the GGP put it?
No, because the GGP is wrong. In my state (New York, hardly a bastion of gun rights) it's perfectly legal for 13+ year olds to plink in the backyard without adult supervision. It's perfectly legal for older kids (I want to say 15+ but I'd have to double check) to hunt without adult supervision.
Better still is to keep your money on the opposite side of your body from your concealed weapon. They will focus on the hand that comes out with the money and ignore the one that's reaching for a defensive weapon.
Oh wait, you said Chicago, never mind, only the criminals are allowed to have weapons there;)
Where did I advocate arming children? All I said was that they should be taught not to meekly submit to those that would do them harm. If they can hand over the money and avoid a confrontation then great -- it's what I'd do even if I was armed -- but if the situation is such that they are in harms way regardless then they need to be willing to defend themselves.
Would you rather have a kid that climbed into the proverbial black van without a whimper or one that goes kicking and screaming and hopefully attracts some attention to themselves?
People don't want 12 year olds to defend themselves
Speak for yourself. My parents taught me never to meekly submit to someone that was trying to do me harm. I will teach my kids the same thing. You seriously think it's a good idea to teach your kids not to resist if someone is attempting to harm them?
Regarding bullies, my Mom had a saying: Never start a fight but always finish it.
One of the most pathetic things I ever witnessed was a woman out at some diner at 2am with two black eyes. She's talking on the payphone to god knows who explaining why it was her fault that her boyfriend had to hit her.
I am not advocating that 12-year olds should carry weapons, but had she known how to use one, she certainly would have been justified in defending herself.
This.
I knew a kid growing up that picked up a target rifle when someone broke into his house and attempted to rape his mother. Thankfully he didn't have to shoot the scumbag (guess he lost his nerve when he was looking at the business end of a firearm) but there's no way that you can say his actions weren't justified.
In my mind pedophiles deserve lifetime prison sentences with no possibility of a parole. This guy deserves a couple decades in jail for sure, but it's really not pedophilia. It's the rape of a minor.
So you think someone with an attraction to underage persons who never acts on that impulse should serve more time than someone who uses violence to satisfy his needs? Your kidding, right?
Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult
There are quite a few "Armed American" stories that involve children picking up legally owned firearms to defend themselves and/or their families against violent assaults.
I calculated it out as closer to 100 watts once upon a time. A 2,250 kilocarolie a day diet works out to 9,414,000 joules. Divide that by 86,400 and you get an average of ~109 joules per second. Since a joule is the same as a watt second that's a greater energy requirement than a 100 watt light bulb.
Of course the GI system isn't 100% efficient at digesting food and the actual energy output changes based on activity but it's still pretty amazing to consider the amount of energy that your body requires in order to remain functional.
Yeah. The Matrix is pure Fantasy fiction not science fiction. No way could that world exist in our reality
They lost me in the The Animatrix when the Humans decided to "win" the war by blacking out the sun. Apparently the humans of the future don't need to eat.....
For that matter, why didn't the machines just build a bunch of nuclear reactors?
Nope, I like seeing the big get punished. It's rather satisfying. But only when they are accorded due process of the law. That's the difference between the two of us.
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As in, the American system is the best in the world if you have money
No, it's the best in the world period. The only difference is that the people with money and/or insurance don't generally have to file bankruptcy after getting sick.
I've been through bankruptcy before and it seems preferable to dying or ceding more power to the Government -- but maybe that's just me.
I suspect unintentional gun deaths are a small minority of total gun deaths
You have a greater chance of drowning than you do of dying in a gun accident.
Don't let the gun grabbers find that out though, they'll be trying to outlaw swimming pools next ;)
There are about 75,000 gun deaths a year
Your number is nearly three times higher than reality but then the gun-grabbers never have let the facts get in the way of a bad argument. If you are wondering, they show 12,632 firearm homicides in 2007 along with 17,352 suicides. I'll let you perform the addition operation -- you'll note it's substantially less than 75,000.
That outnumbers the cases of self-defense by about 10 to 1
Where you'd pull the 7,500 cases of self-defense from? The same void that you pulled the number of deaths from?
Notice the Supreme Court didn't give you a right to carry a gun in their courtroom.
Of course they didn't. All they said was that outright gun bans aren't compatible with the 2nd amendment. Sorry if that notion bothers you.
And yet urban liberals plug their ears and scream "I CANT HEAR YOU" when you present the solid and provenfact that gun laws DO NOT STOP gun violence as criminals
Fixed that for you. Lots of rural liberals are pro-gun.
You don't suppose this could have something to do with the fact that "Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult" as the GGP put it?
No, because the GGP is wrong. In my state (New York, hardly a bastion of gun rights) it's perfectly legal for 13+ year olds to plink in the backyard without adult supervision. It's perfectly legal for older kids (I want to say 15+ but I'd have to double check) to hunt without adult supervision.
Better still is to keep your money on the opposite side of your body from your concealed weapon. They will focus on the hand that comes out with the money and ignore the one that's reaching for a defensive weapon.
Oh wait, you said Chicago, never mind, only the criminals are allowed to have weapons there ;)
Where did I advocate arming children? All I said was that they should be taught not to meekly submit to those that would do them harm. If they can hand over the money and avoid a confrontation then great -- it's what I'd do even if I was armed -- but if the situation is such that they are in harms way regardless then they need to be willing to defend themselves.
Would you rather have a kid that climbed into the proverbial black van without a whimper or one that goes kicking and screaming and hopefully attracts some attention to themselves?
If you leave your car keys and kitchen knives accessible as 99.9% of the population does then your kids already have access to deadly force.
People don't want 12 year olds to defend themselves
Speak for yourself. My parents taught me never to meekly submit to someone that was trying to do me harm. I will teach my kids the same thing. You seriously think it's a good idea to teach your kids not to resist if someone is attempting to harm them?
Regarding bullies, my Mom had a saying: Never start a fight but always finish it.
Because he loves me!
One of the most pathetic things I ever witnessed was a woman out at some diner at 2am with two black eyes. She's talking on the payphone to god knows who explaining why it was her fault that her boyfriend had to hit her.
It was some theft & some bad checks.
Ah, so Mom left her 12 year old daughter with a scam artist and thief. That's so much better.
Spare me the talking points Mayor Bloomberg.
I am not advocating that 12-year olds should carry weapons, but had she known how to use one, she certainly would have been justified in defending herself.
This.
I knew a kid growing up that picked up a target rifle when someone broke into his house and attempted to rape his mother. Thankfully he didn't have to shoot the scumbag (guess he lost his nerve when he was looking at the business end of a firearm) but there's no way that you can say his actions weren't justified.
In my mind pedophiles deserve lifetime prison sentences with no possibility of a parole. This guy deserves a couple decades in jail for sure, but it's really not pedophilia. It's the rape of a minor.
So you think someone with an attraction to underage persons who never acts on that impulse should serve more time than someone who uses violence to satisfy his needs? Your kidding, right?
Rape should be a capital crime, IMHO.
Children are not allowed to possess a firearm unless in the presence of an adult
There are quite a few "Armed American" stories that involve children picking up legally owned firearms to defend themselves and/or their families against violent assaults.
911: When seconds count help is only minutes away.
He probably thought it was a bar of soap
I'm sure he'll have enough of those to worry about where he's going.
The girl was raped and the guy left the room. It's not like Facebook saved the girl from being raped
.38 special > Facebook as a rape prevention device......
I didn't assume a "constant" wattage. I was calculating out the average. Obviously the requirements change based upon your level of activity.
My Free TV streams 19 Mbps == 6000 GB/month per channel. No cellphone can do that. WHY kill off this excellent service??
+1
I calculated it out as closer to 100 watts once upon a time. A 2,250 kilocarolie a day diet works out to 9,414,000 joules. Divide that by 86,400 and you get an average of ~109 joules per second. Since a joule is the same as a watt second that's a greater energy requirement than a 100 watt light bulb.
Of course the GI system isn't 100% efficient at digesting food and the actual energy output changes based on activity but it's still pretty amazing to consider the amount of energy that your body requires in order to remain functional.
Then how do you explain the United States Congress? ;)
Yeah. The Matrix is pure Fantasy fiction not science fiction. No way could that world exist in our reality
They lost me in the The Animatrix when the Humans decided to "win" the war by blacking out the sun. Apparently the humans of the future don't need to eat.....
For that matter, why didn't the machines just build a bunch of nuclear reactors?
Try adding the 4th and 5th amendments to that quote bot you were running earlier.
Nope, I like seeing the big get punished. It's rather satisfying. But only when they are accorded due process of the law. That's the difference between the two of us.