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Keyser Söze

On 2/18/15 5:52 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:35:46 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/18/15 4:39 PM, Stick Left-Steer Left wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:27:29 -0800, jps wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:30:08 -0500, Stick Left-Steer Left
wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:19:51 -0800, jps wrote:

On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:34:06 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/18/15 1:20 PM, jps wrote:
Law enforcement officials in Michigan said that they learned this week
that an elected Republican official who had recently shot herself to
death had been adjusting her bra holster when the accident occurred.

Earlier this year, St. Joseph Public Safety officers reported that
55-year-old Christina Bond had died on New Years Day from what
appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her eye.

Although the full autopsy had not been completed, officials released
new details on Wednesday.

“She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn’t get it to
fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and
accidentally discharged the weapon,” St. Joseph Public Safety Director
Mark Clapp said.

According to an obituary published by Florin Funeral Service, Bond
joined the U.S. Navy out of high school, and served two terms as an
active Military Police. She was an administrator for the Road to Life
Church, and an “active member of the Christian Motorcycle
Association.”

The obituary described Bond as being “on FIRE for the LORD.”

Fired herself from life.

She was "looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon." If
she could fire a gun simply by looking at it, she didn't really need a
gun to defend herself.

She was clearly a very capable person. But it's clear that the more
time you spend with a weapon and the more you handle it, the more
likely you'll be bitten by the odds of a mishap.

Very astute observation. Reckon that's true of driving a car, flying, skiing,
boating, and on and on. Life is a dangerous occupation, and we all lose.

Fortunately, all those other items provide something other than a
quick death in their use.

As do firearms.

And please don't start with all the crimes thwarted. They've long
been debunked as frighteningly overblown false positives.

I didn't, you did.

Plus, the variety of mishaps that occur with those other items are far
less likely to be deadly than those that occur with a gun.

Tell that to the 33,000 folks who died in auto deaths in 2012.

Here's some more from 2013

Motor vehicle traffic deaths

Number of deaths: 33,804
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7

All firearm deaths

Number of deaths: 33,363
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.6

Looks like guns are safer.

Completely specious argument. Cars are used x hours a day on average by
y number of drivers. Guns "sit around" doing nothing at all most of the
time.

How many people are killed by those guns sitting around doing nothing?

What I said only refers to the fact that most people killed in both
cases involve someone not following basic safety rules.

For the purposes of these discussions you really have to take suicide
out of the mix anyway. (more than half of firearm deaths) That is an
intentional act and people will find a way to do it. The Japanese
manage to have much higher rates and virtually none of them involve
firearms.

Murder with a firearm is not an intentional act?

The comparisons with car deaths is an absurdity anyone who has taken
college level stats and logic courses will see.

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