Bill2e
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More kids drown in pools each year than are killed by guns, but hey this article was not looking for fact or intellegent comment.
I've scheduled Philip Slater for his lobotomy on Monday.
Rifles are used to kill animals more often than people, and hunting with a rifle is considered a sport. While there isn't all that much skill involved in killing an animal with a high-powered rifle, a case could be made that ridding the nation of its deer and rabbit surplus is serving a useful function.
Especially yourself. Over half of all gun deaths are suicides. And guns do kill people it turns out, for suicide attempts with guns are 90% successful, compared with 34% for jumping off high places, and 2% for pills. A household with a suicide is 3 to 5 times more likely to have a gun in it.
I challenge this writer to head out to NYC , Cali, Chicago etc and "get a license "Gun control doesn't prevent anyone who feels realistically endangered from acquiring the means to kill. All you have to do is make a case and get a license.
Well , the SC didn't make up something new . They simply recognized what was already there . They are not "now" saying it's an individual right since they never said it wasn't . They also don't say you have the right to kill , but instead , a right to defense . Big difference . A perp wants to "kill" , you want to "defend" against that act .The Supreme Court now says every American has the right to kill people, subject only to certain situational constraints.
I've had enough of decisive stupidity, of rigidly refusing to respond to reality. I want somebody with flexibility, no matter how much it freaks out the authoritarian personalities in the media.
Sure, people kill people. They do it with knives, pokers, rope, wire, etc. What distinguishes the gun from all these other murder weapons is that while these other implements have other uses, a gun has only a single function: to kill. And it's the most efficient way of doing it. That is, after all, why it was invented.
The NRA keeps saying guns don't kill people, although not even the nuttiest of their fanatics could deny that the presence of guns multiplies deaths. The more guns you have in your house, the more you, some member of your family, or your kid's schoolmates are likely to bite the dust.
Ah, but as I noted in another thread - value, meaning, and purpose are entirely arbitrary and thus specific to the individual making those assessments (including the inventor/maker/etc.) and irrelevant to all others.What distinguishes the gun from all these other murder weapons is that while these other implements have other uses, a gun has only a single function: to kill. And it's the most efficient way of doing it. That is, after all, why it was invented.
The intellectual equivalent of "Hustler Letters"...I was going to respond to the article but then I saw it was from the Huffington Post.
our nation has a large population of sexually insecure males
Philip Slater has an A.B. and Ph. D. from Harvard and taught sociology at Harvard, Brandeis, and UCSC. He was Professor and Chairperson of the Brandeis Sociology Department in 1971 when he resigned to found--with Jacqueline Doyle and Morrie Schwartz-- Greenhouse, a non-profit growth center, where he led encounter groups and personal growth workshops. He has been a merchant seaman, actor, business consultant, cookie salesman, marriage officiant, and president of a theatre. He co-wrote and narrated PARADOX ON 72nd STREET, a one-hour TV documentary aired nationally by PBS, and has acted in over 30 plays and films