"Regarding bicycles vs guns.I have had little success in locating the statistics on the number of guns vs the number of bicycles, the rate of injury when precautions are used (helmets or gun locks), and the actual death and injury rates for bicycles. I did find that motor vehicles are the leading cause of death in children, ages 0-14. (Source: NHTSA Traffic Safety facts) Obviously we can’t reduce speed limits or ban cars. But it is questionable as to whether we are as dependant on guns as we are on cars. "
This is classic. You are kidding, right?
“Oh, and lay off waterj2. He’s far, far better at this debating stuff than you, and is a really good guy to boot.”
If this guy is so good why not address the issue? Of course the NH legislator is insane. I draw a parallel between depriving someone of their freedom and shooting a cop. Why is a cop’s life so much more sacred than a citizen’s? Some cops are necessary. The rest are a giant leech on society’s neck along with the judges, jailers and prosecutors, etc. You people have been lulled into a dew lolly sheepish acceptance of the status quo.
“There’s a difference between “strong” opinions and loony ones. Killing cops because they want to put people in jail? C’mon…we’ve got it lucky.
Okay, the drug laws are unfair. The “war” against drugs isn’t working. But if someone is trying to break into your house, who are you gonna call? Mommy?”
What is this distorted crap? Can this have anything to do with what we are talking about? For that matter does it have anything to do with itself? These thoughts are not logically connected. All emotion and no thought.
“Chronolicht, in previous threads you’ve admitted to repeated instances of snorting cocaine and of driving drunk, so why does the same past behavior of George W. Bush incense you so much?”
Because watching the 52 year old frat boy speak of how we need his “leadership”, a leadership based upon values, not consensus (What the fuck do you think governing by polls is? An imperfect parallel admittedly, but as close to it as possible and the reason why Bubba was a success), makes me wretch. The little puppet is a first tier hypocrite, along with Henry Hyde (pooching his secretary while railing against Clinton’s infidelity), Tom DeLay (inviting lobbyists onto the Texas house floor to “help” write laws while giving patriotic speeches about the integrity of the new government), Gingrich (quickly bowed out before the people got wind of the fact that he was fucking someone other than his wife), and on and on, the two faced heroes of the Republican party. They are slime who line the pockets of the rich while raping the environment and sodomizing your children’s future. If you are not rich and support Bush, you are deeply and profoundly confused.
Imagine the hoopla if Gore had been bagged for DUI several weeks before the election. We never would have heard the end of it.
“Hmm. So lets ban bleach because a kid might find it and drink it. Lets ban plastic bags, because some kid might find one and suffocate. Lets ban pools, because some kid might fall in one and drown.”
This is good logic. Atomic bombs don’t create nuclear winter, fingers do. We ought to sell nuclear missiles to everyone because it is people that cause war, not bombs. This argument is facilely moronic.
