Quote of the day—mikeb302000
Linoge, You and Joe are too strong for me. By that I mean a great compliment. Your knowledge of the subject is too great for me to compete with. I’ve said this to Kevin a while back. Yet, as prolix … Continue reading
Linoge, You and Joe are too strong for me. By that I mean a great compliment. Your knowledge of the subject is too great for me to compete with. I’ve said this to Kevin a while back. Yet, as prolix … Continue reading
I think what you guys have decided, if I understand you correctly, is you’ve taken a fairly universally accepted right like “life,” the idea that we all have a right to “life,” and you’ve moved from there to “self-defense.” If … Continue reading
I couldn’t care less about truth and falsity or causation and correlation, or all that other double talk the pro-gun crowd like so much. MikeB302000 November 12, 2010 Austin, Texas Murders Way Up [We’ve known this for a long time … Continue reading
[Y]our generalization in calling your “opponents” stupid is just wrong. That’s a trick that you and other leaders in the pro-gun movement perpetuate. Thousands of your followers then pick up on it and pretty soon you’ve got millions repeating the … Continue reading
Joe Huffman, I don’t want to play that game. I didn’t want to on Kevin’s blog and I don’t want to here either. Does that give you a major victory over me, that you can say I don’t know the … Continue reading
Why do pro-gun folks refuse to accept obvious facts like these? Couldn’t they accept this data and still maintain their position on the 2nd Amendment? Why is it necessary to also deny the obvious? More guns means more gun deaths. … Continue reading
The national law enforcement organization PoliceOne conducted its Gun Policy & Law Enforcement survey between March 4 and March 13, 2013, receiving 15,595 responses from verified police professionals across all ranks and department sizes. Respondents were asked, “Do you think … Continue reading
Gun rights advocates are told: If You Own A Gun, You’re Probably A White Guy Gun Owners Still Overwhelmingly (Fat) White Males Scared white guys spur Black Friday gun sales to record high Racist white Americans more likely to own … Continue reading
Via Weerd. As Weerd points out this is a straw man argument. I also wonder if there is some “Freudian slip” in regards to almost all the triggers looking more like fishhooks than a real trigger. The overweight gun owners … Continue reading
Without a commitment to or capacity for eliminating the existing inventory of private guns, the supply-side ideal and regulations based on it cannot be taken seriously. It is best to acknowledge the blocking power of the remainder and adjust our … Continue reading
Thoughts on advocating freedom Just one question bit.ly link (copy and paste for use against gun control people) Stats on injury after using different means of self protection Tools and ideas (ideas are far more dangerous than tools) #EnjoyYourTrial (put … Continue reading
Take your feelings and go bang your head against a wall– we’re having a serious conversation here. Lyle @ UltiMAK August 3, 2012 Comment to Quote of the day—Charles Garcia in response to a comment from mikeb302000. [Runner up QOTD … Continue reading
I’ve met and talked to a lot of anti-gun activists. With perhaps one exception I always got the impression they were generally nice people. Misguided, sometimes ignorant, and frequently not very bright but they were nice and I wouldn’t have … Continue reading
You see the antis claim that these guns and practices would result in MORE violent crimes. Just the opposite has happened. But they’re attempting to spin this as a victory…I guess to the legions of the VERY VERY stupid. We … Continue reading
I don’t believe modern gun control advocates are fueled by racists and xenophobic fears, I think they are largely afraid of anyone with a firearm, but they have continually denied history, and denied its relevance. This has been a great … Continue reading
I finished up Monster Hunter International on Friday and started Monster Hunter Vendetta. There was so much mention made of Owen Z. Pitt’s specially modified Saiga shotgun which he calls “Abomination” that I had to get mine (stock configuration with … Continue reading
I often wonder how the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations can be so ignorant about guns. Then I find myself thankful that they are because it makes their arguments so much easier to refute. cloneboy June 17, 2011 [Well… … Continue reading
For those that regard facts, correlation, truth, and falsity important (i.e. people unlike MikeB302000 and other anti freedom people) this is an awesome article. Here are some of the graphs to give you a hint of the content: Obviously as … Continue reading
The following is what started out to be a comment in response to MikeB30200 here in my comments. When I got to about 500 words I decided it was time to make it a post. What you see below is … Continue reading
If there is no proof, it is not “obvious”. Alternatively, if it is so very “obvious”, present the proof. Linoge January 30, 2011 Comment to A problem with diversity [This was in response to MikeB302000 who was attempting a proof … Continue reading