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Flying to Nevada from Illinois with a gun
DrewKaree:
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Now, I know that technically it would be the vomiting that killed me,
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Don't be silly. The loss of blood would be what killed you.
Unless I could throw a bullet at you hard enough.
shmokes:
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Oddly the numbers don't match up in places like L.A. and New York, where they have stronger gun control. Stronger gun control seems to follow more people getting shot and less people drowning.
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Holy cow...this thread is like a chat room, not a message board.
But, what I mean, is that if there are, say, 500 bathtubs to every gun, you would have to have 500 deaths by bathtub to for every death by gun for those two items to be equally dangerous, all things being equal. And then, when you consider that all things are not equal and that those bathtubs get used on a daily basis, whereas guns spend most of their time (hopefully) locked up, out of reach of children, the differences become even more pronounced. Even swimming pools, which don't get used nearly as often as bathtubs (though you did mention you live in Arizona so they probably come close), are affected similarly. Kids play in swimming pools all the time. They are allowed and encouraged to do this. Kids don't play with guns NEARLY as often. If kids play with swimming pools five times as often as they play with guns, then a 5 to 1 ratio for swimming pool deaths to gun deaths would be expected if the two items were equally dangerous. Presumably kids play in swimming pools more often than guns at a ratio far greater than 5 to 1.
If this is true, once again, your statistic says exactly the opposite of what you meant for it to say. It says that swimming pools and bathtubs are FAR safer than guns.
SeaMonkey:
Far safer, but they kill far more people.
That's really odd.
If guns are killing so few people, compared to other things, my only point is, there are causes of death that need to be addressed, before taking away my guns. My guns are locked up, as would be my clowns, if I owned them, with the exception of the one on me now. (Gun not clown)
Your point is taken. These other things are more dangerous ONLY by virtue of sheer volume. They are more common. So a 15,000 gallon pool is less dangerous than 15,000 gallons of guns.
True enough. But the fact remains that my pool can kill a neighborhood kid more readily than my guns, even when I am not at home.
shmokes:
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I'd also like to point out that a person who claims to be a connoiseur of paper-thin tomato slices yet believes that ginsu knives are worth the paper-thin tomato slices they can allegedly cut cannot be trusted. What is your postition man? Do you believe ginsu knives are truly capable of said feat?
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I saw it on TV, so it has to be true. TV wouldn't lie to me, unless it was tuned to CBS.
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SUCKER
So.....Drew.....You walked right into my trap. You believe that Ginsu knives can cut cut paper-thin tomatoes, eh????
Well....I've got news for you, buddy.
Ginsu knives don't cut tomatoes. People cut tomatoes.
mwahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA
SeaMonkey:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on February 18, 2005, 06:54:39 pm ---
I'd also like to point out that a person who claims to be a connoiseur of paper-thin tomato slices yet believes that ginsu knives are worth the paper-thin tomato slices they can allegedly cut cannot be trusted.
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