Rochester police say a grandfather shot and critically wounded his teenage granddaughter after mistaking her for an intruder.There are many ways in which a gun in the home can do more harm than good. This is an extreme example. The simple and obvious fact is that the chance that his gun would some day save the day are smaller than the possibility that it will be misused one day.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"This is a rare example." Fixed that for you.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing simple and obvious about your claim. Fatal gun accidents amount to around 600 a year. Non-fatal accidental injuries happen more often--the numbers I've seen are in the low tens of thousands. By contrast, as we have shown you before, the number of defensive gun uses per year is in the hundreds of thousands to 1.5 million.
This.
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ReplyDeleteNowhere anywhere does it say the man was a preacher.
ReplyDeleteI thought they said so in the video.
Delete"Nowhere anywhere does it say the man was a preacher."
ReplyDeleteYou bin sniffun the KKKordite fumes too long, bro.
Watch the video, you fucking moron.
Someone asking where the man being a preacher is mentioned justifies you calling him a fucking moron? What is wrong with you?
DeleteGreg Camp (in reference to demmocommie):
Delete"What is wrong with you"
Everything. That's what is wrong with "democommie".
Ian
Greggie, you fucking moron:
ReplyDelete"Someone asking where the man being a preacher is mentioned justifies you calling him a fucking moron? What is wrong with you?"
Well, for starters, my sciatica is fucking KILLING me! My eyesight is getting worse. I have way too much hair on my back and knuckles and in my ears--and not enough on my head. I can't eat extra hot TexMex with Dos Equiis and Patron shooters and then go to bed, without waking up in the middle of the night. When I'm with a woman...well enough about what's WRONG with me.
What's not WRONG with me is my reading comprehension of this:
"Get the facts straightDecember 14, 2012 1:48 AM
Nowhere anywhere does it say the man was a preacher."
Do you see a question of some sort in there? Here's a hint, Mr. English teacher. Questions, generally are concluded with a "?"* The sentence in question is declarative, not interrogatory.
He's a fucking moron for making the statement; you're a fucking moron for thinking it was a question.
For those who have short attention spans--if you go to the video and push the little buttontoggle thingy that marks the time up to about he 40 second mark, voila, grandad deadeye is the pastor.
What's even more interesting to me is that the Rev actually didn't know it was his grand daughter that he shot, because he didn't open the door before pulling the trigger, at least two times, and wounding her in the "upper torso" according to the police spokesman.
After looking at that video again I'm beginning to wonder why a guy who has his granddaughter living with him wouldn't, upon hearing someone prowling around the house, check to see if she was in the house and then call out to the "prowler" that he was armed and the police were enroute. But, then, I'm just a guy whose too scare to own a gun and maybe have to make a split-second decision AND SHOOT SOMEBODY WITHOUT KNOWING WTF IS GOING ON.
* Question Mark
Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning "question" - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem - readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark. (source--http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/09/the-origin-of-everyday-punctuation-marks/)
Democommie, the other commentor was raising the question about this man's occupation, since it's not listed in the text of the news source. Questions can be implied in statements, but again, nuance and subtlety are not things that you understand.
DeleteMy point was that you weren't justified in calling someone a "fucking moron" for discussing this. The implication is that you are so filled with rage that you can't contain yourself. You went on to demonstrate what I implied.
Your support of the gun control side makes complete sense. You, of all people, should not have a gun. The fact that many others can have guns responsibly only fuels your rage.
"Democommie, the other commentor was raising the question about this man's occupation, since it's not listed in the text of the news source. Questions can be implied in statements, but again, nuance and subtlety are not things that you understand."
ReplyDeleteI understand when somebody is telling a fucking LIE, Greggie, and you're a fucking LIAR, once again.
Nobody "asked" anything.
This:
"Nowhere anywhere does it say the man was a preacher."
is not a fucking question.
It's a declarative sentence, making a statement.
So, is it that you're too stupid to see the obvious or too dishonest to admit it?
This:
"By contrast, as we have shown you before, the number of defensive gun uses per year is in the hundreds of thousands to 1.5 million."
btw, is a blatant lie. You've never proven anything about DGU. You puke up the bullshit figures that are bandied about on the gunzloonz blogz and then offer that maybe there are fewer but still a really big number. It's an extraordinary claim and it requires extraordinary proof and you NONE.
Democommie, you are an idiot beyond compare. I gave you links to the Department of Justice study--you know, the bureau that acts as the chief law enforcement body in the nation--that puts the number at 1.5 million. You demanded citations, and I gave them to you. Now, you're denying that I did that.
DeleteYou're also defending your cussing at someone who did nothing to warrant being called a "fucking moron."
I've tried to be reasonable with you, but it's impossible. The only remaining question is whether you're demented or an angry shit. The two are not mutually exclusive.