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[AugustWest]

If she fires that, she's going to brain herself.

[Arachno-capitalist]

This guy has deluded himself into believing his obama=hitler and God Save the Guns posts on facebook are his gift to saving the future of the planet?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Yet according to FBI crime statistics, more people are killed by "bats & clubs" than by guns every year. Shall we start banning bats next?

Actual FBI crime statistics show that this isn't even goddamn close. In 2010 homicides by gun outnumbered homicides by "blunt object" by a factor of 10 to 1.  http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/baseballbats.asp

Which, if you had thought about it for ONE fuck*ng SECOND you might have realized without looking at a viable source. How many shootings do you read about in the paper or see on the TV news every night? OK, how many bludgeonings? But someone threw out a stat that supports your argument and you went "Works for me!" without giving it a second thought.

[wombat]

How many shootings do you read about in the paper or see on the TV news every night? OK, how many bludgeonings?

And note that if there was a baseball bat murder you'd probably be more likely to hear about it because it's unusual and thus newsworthy, but I can't think of one recently.

My friend in California regularly sends me news items about criminals wielding samurai swords. But that doesn't mean there are a lot of them. It's a "man bites dog" kind of thing.

[miles]

Actual FBI crime statistics show that this isn't even goddamn close. In 2010 homicides by gun outnumbered homicides by "blunt object" by a factor of 10 to 1.  http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/baseballbats.asp

Which, if you had thought about it for ONE fuck*ng SECOND you might have realized without looking at a viable source. How many shootings do you read about in the paper or see on the TV news every night? OK, how many bludgeonings? But someone threw out a stat that supports your argument and you went "Works for me!" without giving it a second thought.

I think this may come from a viable source that shows homicides by blunt objects outnumber homicides by assault rifles. Someone at work sent a link to some kind of .gov page with a bunch of rambling about how stupid some people are for supporting a ban on assault rifles or any additional gun control as a reaction to recent shootings. The same page also showed that the handgun is the single largest cause of homicide in the US. I didn't point out that he was making a terrible case against gun control because we were at work and I had other shit to do.

[jaydub]

This guy has deluded himself into believing his obama=hitler and God Save the Guns posts on facebook are his gift to saving the future of the planet?

Based on the feedback I get from various posts I have put up, FB viewer demand is: Pictures of Food > Pictures of Younger Relatives > Random daily stuff > Pictures of Family Pets >.........................>political shit.



Despite that - the stat was indeed deaths by "assault rifle".  If you want to go by deadliness of gunshot though, close range shotgun trumps just about everything.  You don't need to be skilled, you can be so frightened and stressed that your aim isn't steady, and their effect is ruinous.  Traumatic amputations, multiple wound tracts, huge transfer of shock, etc. Ammunition is cheap, plentiful, and relatively easy to manufacture through reloading. They will be the last gun banned however, because they really do have a multitude of hunting and peaceful sporting uses.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Despite that - the stat was indeed deaths by "assault rifle". 

That may be so, but my original poster definitely compared bats/clubs to "guns." If you're gonna argue this shit, be precise in your terms, dammit.

[theinevitable]

Now the lady has revealed that the kids who are "purposely" throwing balls into her yard are FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD.

[pmcd9]

Those little cretins.

[jay-ell]

Not to take the side of your neighbor, who is obviously a lunatic, but what are four or five year old kids doing playing baseball outside without parental supervision?

My neighbor has a four-year-old and a two-year-old and they are outside by themselves all the time. The older one comes over and I have had to tell him one a weekly basis not to come in my gate and play on my kids' swing set and trampoline without an adult's permission. I've got no problem with him coming over and playing, but I don't want him to get hurt on my property when I'm not even home and his own mom has no idea where he is.

Also, if he's outside and sees me pull into the driveway, he'll deliberately run into my yard and into the path of my car because he wants to see if my kids are in the car with me. He wants to play, and if I tell him no (which is usually, because for pete's sake, we just got home from somewhere) he wants to know why, and where we were, or whatever. The same if he sees me leaving -- where are we going? When will we be back? I brush him off, usually, and I feel bad doing it, but I've got 99 problems and your inquisitive ass ain't one.

I live in fear that he's going to turn up behind my van while I'm backing up one day and it's going to be tragic. But his mom is hopeless. I've known her since high school. The kids live with their single mom and her parents, and between the three adults in that house nobody really seems to care where the kids are or what they're doing. All I can do is be extra vigilant about backing into or out of my driveway and keep telling the kids to ask their mom or grandma before they come into my yard.

[side_show]

Or you can report them for neglect.  Because, yeah.

[jay-ell]

I don't know if that'll fly in this county. The kids are well-fed and healthy, and they're not being left home alone during the day while mom works. They just run around outside unattended a lot. But even that would be hard to prove -- it'd be my (anonymous) word against my neighbors'.

[theinevitable]

oh, no, they are playing outside with their parents, in their own fenced-in yard. That is part of why she claims it is somehow intentional. Still won't explain why she thinks that.

[miles]

If she fires that, she's going to brain herself.

Apparently you haven't seen Resident Evil.

But fine, perhaps more realistic (and IMO sexier):

[wombat]

oh, no, they are playing outside with their parents, in their own fenced-in yard. That is part of why she claims it is somehow intentional. Still won't explain why she thinks that.

OK, now that is bizarre.