Comments on: Guns don’t shoot people; Stray bullets shoot people!

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:49:52 +0000

Guns don’t kill people, dumbasses do.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:53:14 +0000

I agree with JoeBuddha,
ALL guns are loaded by definition.
Anyone who doesn’t understand that is an idiot.
You don’t point the disassembled BARREL of a gun at anyone, let alone a complete gun.
Unfortunately there are a LOT of Idiots out there.
Never point a gun at anything you don’t plan to shoot and
Always treat a gun as if it is loaded.
Any intelligent gun owner knows that.
My parents taught me that when I got my first BB gun.
Many gun accidents could be avoided if EVERYONE was taught proper gun safety in school.
Because it isn’t always the owner of the gun who pulls the trigger.

By: Rick Pikul

Rick Pikul — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:12:30 +0000

As far as I know you can not purchase a gun without a back ground check & this takes a couple days.

Well, unless you call a guy who advertised on Craigslist or something to set up a meet in a parking lot. Or perhaps go to a gun show in certain states. It’s easy to buy a gun in the US without having to pass a background check.

Sure, they’re not supposed to sell to you if they think you wouldn’t pass a background check. Which is why multiple investigations have had the buyers say things like “I couldn’t pass a background check,” something that should have instantly killed the sale.

Should have is a long way from did.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:32:37 +0000

David: “Average” is correct. “Average” = “Central Tendency” = “mean, median, mode, etc.”

I know, I know, the definition of “Average” in many dictionaries is the arithmetic mean. I don’t recommend getting your statistics from the dictionary.

Even there, in normal linguistic use, the word “average” is hardly ever uttered in relation to anything but a number (statistic) when the user means “the sum of the vairates divided by n”

By: David Hart

David Hart — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:08:04 +0000

Die Anyway: “half the people on the world are below average in intelligence. (ok, below the mean)”

Surely you meant ‘below the median’?

@pedantry

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:32:53 +0000

It was a damn close call

By: kyoseki

kyoseki — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:13:59 +0000

My God! You’re lucky you weren’t killed! If only you’d known!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:57:24 +0000

On purses with guns:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/2011/11/22/manspace/

By: kyoseki

kyoseki — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:53:07 +0000

Clearly we need to ban purses 😉

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:48:21 +0000

The assertion that guns don’t go off by themselves is invalidated by the gun in the purse. Full stop.