You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of the gun crowd telling us gun accidents are too few to worry about. There are over 500 fatalities a year, a couple thousand people wounded, and nobody knows how many negligent discharges in which no one is hurt. I'd guess tens-of-thousands.A Colorado Springs man shot Saturday while looking at a gun, died from his injuries early Sunday.Police have identified the victim as 27-year-old James Crouch.Police say Crouch was looking at a gun with 22-year-old David McRea. Police say the gun McRea was holding fired, shooting Crouch in the chest.Stephen Stanulonis, who lives in an apartment in the building, said the shooting happened on the front porch.He said it sounded like a cannon shot. “Then I heard a blood-curdling scream,” he said.When Stanulonis went to the porch, he saw Crouch with a bullet wound in his chest and several people trying to save his life. He was told that a group of people were looking at guns and, when a gun was handed to McRea, he grabbed it wrong, somehow pulling the trigger.
That's too much.
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About 3,000 people drown in pools every year. Estimates say that one to four times that number have to be hospitalized due to near drowning. Are we to ban swimming pools?
ReplyDeleteOnly you guys are talking about banning things as a solution. We're not. And don't give me that bullshit about "ban" means prohibiting any single item. When you say "ban" you mean total ban, as you did with the swimming pool example, as silly as it was.
DeleteIf you can ban one member of a class, you can ban all members eventually.
DeleteI think we need to have background checks before you are allowed to enter a pool, own a pool, rent a house with a pool, or visit a beach. We also need to register all of these pools, and not let private pool owners allow others to use their pools without background checks. Maybe with these common sense rules we can reduce the number of innocent pool victims.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah one last rule - no splashing allowed in pools!
We also need to control those evil features on pools such as diving boards that are only designed to get people hurt.
DeleteAnd ban pool noodles, since they're designed to lure children into swimming culture. We'd also better criticize bikini makers. They're just using crass manipulation to get women to swim.
DeleteGreg CampMay 22, 2012 6:31 PM
ReplyDeleteAnd ban pool noodles, since they're designed to lure children into swimming culture. We'd also better criticize bikini makers. They're just using crass manipulation to get women to swim.
Nope, the are bikini makers are using women to lure men to watch women swim..... or not swim.....
Too right there, mate.
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