The Perdue Victim

This is Andrew Boldt who was a senior in electrical engineering at Perdue University. Andrew was from West Bend, WI and graduated from Marquette High School.

Hardly a gang banger or other person that you lot deem worthy of death, yet he was one of the many thousands killed or wounded by firearms in the United States.

Remember that even "shefearsnothing" was killed by her husband using a gun.  Not to mention the judge who restored her concealed-weapon permit last year questioned her judgment and said she had "scared the devil" out of other parents at the soccer field.

The ultimate upshot is that the more people who die or are effected from senseless gun violence, the more it hurts your position.  It can happen to you whether you own a gun or not.  In fact, having a gun makes it far more likely it will happen to you.

Unless they are idiots like you, but the good news is that you are more likely to die from your own weapon than use it on someone else.

In other words, you are a dying breed.

I should also add that this is not "dancing on the graves of the victims"--it's putting a face to the numbers and statistics.  Another thing you lot don't like as it is easier to blow this off if you believe all the people who are victimised by this plague are "criminals or gang bangers" rather than a nice guy or one of your own.

It pisses you off when you realise that you are wrong and you have to lash out at everything else besides your bullshit, antisocial beliefs.

What you should know...

Not sure if I can actually call Julian Lennon "my homey"--especially after my "pony" comments to him (pony is British slang for £25) and his reaction to it. Then again, I admit that I am an honourary Northerner--not a real one.  And pony is cockney slang.  But that is a serious "anyway".

That sad, this comes via Julian:

Picture of the Day!

Not sure which is more priceless: the pic of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand or this one of Ted Cruz hugging Fidel.  Not sure if it's for real, but it would be a scream if it is!

Some people need to keep their cold war biases.  Then again, the Koch's made a killing selling oil refining technology to Stalin.

Think about it.

I've been looking for a source for the "When we hang the capitalist, they will sell us the rope" quotation for a while.  Nothing like working from within with the help of willing sheep.

Why guns shouldn't be allowed in a coffee shop.

Just think of this happening in a Starbucks filled with armed gunloons.  Especially if they are the type of bozo who owns an assault weapon "for the Zombie Apocalypse".

Your mind on

Not that I have ever really seen Fox News, but...

This is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard

Well, next to US gun laws.

A pub has opened at a service area on the M40 motorway.

The company that opened this pub believe there will be no problems serving alcohol in a motorway service area.

Sorry, but the truth is anti-gun

It seems that yet another review of 15 credible studies on this matter of gun violence has decided it is correct that what most gunloons keep denying: that having a gun in the house is more dangerous for the people who own the gun than anyone else, such as a criminal.  In other words, Having guns in the home triples the risk of suicide and doubles the risk of homicide, researchers reported on Monday.

The bad news:

Andrew Anglemyer and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, trolled through studies that had already been done to see if they could clarify the association between gun ownership and violent death. They found 14 studies that found the odds of suicide went up by anywhere from 1.5 times to 10-fold if people had access to guns. Experts say this is partly because guns are far deadlier than other suicide methods, such as taking pills, which may not succeed.

Studies looking at homicide found that if people had access to guns, they were two to three times more likely to be killed themselves.

“Firearms cause an estimated 31,000 deaths annually in the United States,” they wrote in their report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. “Data from the 16-state National Violent Death Reporting System indicate that 51.8 percent of deaths from suicide in 2009 were firearm-related; among homicide victims, 66.5 percent were firearm-related.”

Nevermind, the "pro-gun" forces will just have to make sure reliable studies are not funded.

After all, the truth is "anti-gun".

The best part of this article:

“Obtaining a firearm not only endangers those living in the home but also imposes substantial costs on the community.”

The report can be found here.