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"Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:08:03 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "iBoaterer" wrote in message ... In article , says... On 2/19/13 3:46 PM, Eisboch wrote: "Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:48:20 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... On 2/19/13 9:00 AM, Eisboch wrote: For kicks I looked up the leading causes of death in the USA. Data is the final numbers from 2010 as published by the Center for Disease Control. Surprisingly, firearms related deaths didn't make the top ten and firearms related homicides weren't even close to the top ten. It's interesting that deaths caused by traffic accidents numbered about 3 times those of homicides involving firearms, but all the focus is on more gun control laws. Personal note: This is not a excuse of deaths caused by firearms, but rather an attempt to put it all in perspective. Heart disease: 597,689 Cancer: 574,743 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476 Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859 Alzheimer's disease: 83,494 Diabetes: 69,071 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476 Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097 Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364 Traffic accidents: 33,808 Firearms: 30,470 (19,392 suicides, 11,078 homicides) There are solid statistically based predictions that state that firearms deaths will exceed traffic accident deaths in a couple of years. Oh, you forgot to list the number of Americans who die of old age. On a more serious note, I only took one college-level statistics course and have forgotten most of what I ever learned about that sort of math, so I asked a family member who has taken four graduate-level stats courses about these sorts of comparisons (gun deaths vs. car deaths vs. cancer deaths, et cetera) and got a chuckle in response. "Such comparisions are based on silliness and are statistically absurd. Yes, more people die of cancer than of gunshot wounds but...so what?" ========================== The number that surprised me was deaths by homicide involving firearms. I read the same thing you did regarding firearm deaths exceeding traffic deaths by 2015 however that includes suicides. Unfortunately, although a gun is the method of choice for most suicides, further gun restrictions won't eliminate them. As stated in my post, the data is presented simply to put things in perspective. 11,078 firearms related homicides is too many of course but it's a reflection of violence in our society ... which also cannot be totally eliminated. There are bad people in the world. But the number is not the huge number that some of the media and proponents of even more gun control measure would like you to believe. My state has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Permits require background checks and every purchase of a firearm at a dealer involves a telephone check and taking of an electronic fingerprint to verify that you are who you say you are and your permit is valid. You must present a valid permit even for ammunition purchases. But, our me-too governor has proposed and is pushing for even more restrictive laws including jail time for purchasing more than one firearm per month for existing permit holders, making getting a permit more difficult, and putting a heavy state tax (up to 50%) on all ammunition sales (even range target practice rounds). I don't see how that is going to affect the homicide rate by firearms in the country. All it is is political posturing in reaction to a horrible but isolated event caused by a kid who was severely disturbed .... as are all cases of mass murders. By that twisted ****ing logic, we might as well do away with the NTSB and all the other safety protocols, since they result in fewer deaths. How about faulty cribs. What a load of horse****. You have a product that's killing 1000s of people, but since it doesn't kill as many as cancer, it's ok. ------------------------------------------------------- The numbers were presented to put things in perspective. Of course any deaths due to firearms is not ok .... but the number, especially in homicides, is not what is being hyped by the media and others and some politicians are over-reacting IMO, like the governor of my state. How are they overreacting? Because more people die from cancer? Is cancer made by others in a factory for the sole purpose of killing like a gun is? THAT is where you idiots sound so stupid. -------------------------------------------------- First of all, I am not an idiot. Second of all, although guns can kill, not all gun owners own them to kill. Third, and for the final time, the numbers I presented were not intended to compare cancer to guns. It was simply to establish some realism in terms of the major causes of all deaths, including those by guns. For a nation with a population of over 315 million, the number of homicide deaths involving guns is relatively small. Don't go off your rocker assuming that I therefore think that's ok. Of course it isn't. But people have to be realistic when babbling about new gun laws. Well, good. You're not an idiot. Umm... the major cause of death is death. Everyone dies. Your list isn't inclusive or accurate. What about hospital deaths? Who is not being realistic about gun laws and what does that have to do with cancer deaths? If the two are unrelated, then there's no reason to list them together... unless you want to list all the causes, which might be a****ing long list. --------------------------------------------------- Instead of shooting your mouth off, you might want to re-read the first sentence of my post. Here .... I'll repeat it for you: "For kicks I looked up the leading causes of death in the USA." Notice the word, "leading" ? If it's not ok, propose something that will help the situation... here's a few... universal background checks, limiting the size of clips, increase funding for mental health services, make it easier for phychiatrists to report people who are dangerous, relax the limits on how long transaction info can be stored, require all transactions of guns to be recorded (just like a car.. if it's a family member, a minimal fee is required), make these things federal not state, so guns can't be bought in one state and moved to another without a record. Feel free to add some of yourown. |
#132
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"Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... If it's not ok, propose something that will help the situation... here's a few... universal background checks, limiting the size of clips, increase funding for mental health services, make it easier for phychiatrists to report people who are dangerous, relax the limits on how long transaction info can be stored, require all transactions of guns to be recorded (just like a car.. if it's a family member, a minimal fee is required), make these things federal not state, so guns can't be bought in one state and moved to another without a record. Feel free to add some of yourown. ---------------------------------------------- I agree with everything on your list and have stated so. What I am *not* in favor of is limiting the number of purchases that may be made in a month by legally licensed people, adding a 50% tax on ammunition or any of the other hair brained proposals by some politicians that will do absolutely nothing to curb firearm violence. |
#133
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"Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:37:14 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote in message om... On 2/19/13 6:17 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote: Do you really think I am gonna' read any of this? LOL! Hey, most of your posts make absolutely no sense. Why should your latest idea of having everyone's cells shut off at 10 mph be any different. Oh...my wife just messaged me from her iPhone. Her commuter bus, the one on which is she a passenger and the one that travels at more than 10 mph except when it is stuck in traffic arrived at her stop downtown 10 minutes late so she probably will be home a littler later than usual. Under your plan, she wouldn't be able to send such a message. You're a moron. ------------------------------------------------------ If I were king one of the first commands I would issue is to completely ban the use of smart phones and their manufacture. Cell phones with voice-only would be permitted. No texting capability, no internet access. Smart phones with people walking, driving, shopping and whatever with a phone stuck under their nose and thumbs flying on the tiny keyboards would be outlawed. I think smart phones are having a major affect on how people communicate and relate to each other, much the same as how people communicate here in this newsgroup. It's an inward, isolated world without benefit of real human interaction and body language. Very few of the foul mouthed, derogatory and insulting comments would be made in this newsgroup if those involved were physically present to each other. Wait a sec... you're for banning smart phones, but not for some reasonable restrictions on gun purchases??????? ------------------------------------- Do you do this on purpose or is it how you think? I never said I was against reasonable restrictions on gun purchases. In fact, I support many of them. My proposed ban on smart phones was tongue-in-cheek but I guess in your haste to pile on you must of missed that. But, I do believe in the last paragraph. |
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On 2/20/13 4:25 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... If it's not ok, propose something that will help the situation... here's a few... universal background checks, limiting the size of clips, increase funding for mental health services, make it easier for phychiatrists to report people who are dangerous, relax the limits on how long transaction info can be stored, require all transactions of guns to be recorded (just like a car.. if it's a family member, a minimal fee is required), make these things federal not state, so guns can't be bought in one state and moved to another without a record. Feel free to add some of yourown. ---------------------------------------------- I agree with everything on your list and have stated so. What I am *not* in favor of is limiting the number of purchases that may be made in a month by legally licensed people, adding a 50% tax on ammunition or any of the other hair brained proposals by some politicians that will do absolutely nothing to curb firearm violence. Maryland severely restricts the number of "controlled" firearms that can be purchased each month to one, controlled meaning pistols of modern manufacture. There's a bill going through the legislative hearing process now that will, if enacted, "alter the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun to be within specified limitations; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; authorizing specified licensed firearms dealers to continue to possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer specified weapons under specified circumstances; etc." The bill as introduced: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0281f.pdf It prohibits mags that hold more than 10 rounds. I hope it passes. -- I'm a *Liberal* because I knew the militant christian fundamentalist racist militaristic xenophobic corporate oligarchy wasn't going to work for me. |
#135
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"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... On 2/20/13 4:25 PM, Eisboch wrote: "Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... If it's not ok, propose something that will help the situation... here's a few... universal background checks, limiting the size of clips, increase funding for mental health services, make it easier for phychiatrists to report people who are dangerous, relax the limits on how long transaction info can be stored, require all transactions of guns to be recorded (just like a car.. if it's a family member, a minimal fee is required), make these things federal not state, so guns can't be bought in one state and moved to another without a record. Feel free to add some of yourown. ---------------------------------------------- I agree with everything on your list and have stated so. What I am *not* in favor of is limiting the number of purchases that may be made in a month by legally licensed people, adding a 50% tax on ammunition or any of the other hair brained proposals by some politicians that will do absolutely nothing to curb firearm violence. Maryland severely restricts the number of "controlled" firearms that can be purchased each month to one, controlled meaning pistols of modern manufacture. There's a bill going through the legislative hearing process now that will, if enacted, "alter the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun to be within specified limitations; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; authorizing specified licensed firearms dealers to continue to possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer specified weapons under specified circumstances; etc." The bill as introduced: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0281f.pdf It prohibits mags that hold more than 10 rounds. I hope it passes. --------------------------------------- I assume that means that concealed carry permits will also become limited in terms of when and why one may carry. Deval has that one on his list as well. I don't support that. |
#136
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On 2/20/13 4:58 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ... On 2/20/13 4:25 PM, Eisboch wrote: "Urin Asshole" wrote in message ... If it's not ok, propose something that will help the situation... here's a few... universal background checks, limiting the size of clips, increase funding for mental health services, make it easier for phychiatrists to report people who are dangerous, relax the limits on how long transaction info can be stored, require all transactions of guns to be recorded (just like a car.. if it's a family member, a minimal fee is required), make these things federal not state, so guns can't be bought in one state and moved to another without a record. Feel free to add some of yourown. ---------------------------------------------- I agree with everything on your list and have stated so. What I am *not* in favor of is limiting the number of purchases that may be made in a month by legally licensed people, adding a 50% tax on ammunition or any of the other hair brained proposals by some politicians that will do absolutely nothing to curb firearm violence. Maryland severely restricts the number of "controlled" firearms that can be purchased each month to one, controlled meaning pistols of modern manufacture. There's a bill going through the legislative hearing process now that will, if enacted, "alter the authorization for a person to wear, carry, or transport a handgun to be within specified limitations; designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting, with specified exceptions, a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; authorizing specified licensed firearms dealers to continue to possess, sell, offer for sale, or transfer specified weapons under specified circumstances; etc." The bill as introduced: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0281f.pdf It prohibits mags that hold more than 10 rounds. I hope it passes. --------------------------------------- I assume that means that concealed carry permits will also become limited in terms of when and why one may carry. Deval has that one on his list as well. I don't support that. I haven't read through the bill yet, but...it is already fairly difficult to get a concealed carry permit in Maryland. I doubt if the bill "loosened" the regulations. -- I'm a *Liberal* because I knew the militant christian fundamentalist racist militaristic xenophobic corporate oligarchy wasn't going to work for me. |
#137
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On Feb 20, 7:04*am, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/20/13 7:59 AM, Tim wrote: On Feb 20, 6:45 am, "F.O.A.D." wrote: The decline in personal, face to face communications began in earnest with the advent in the 1980s of bulletin boards and commercial services like CompuServ. All the smart phones have done in that regard is make such "communication" more accessible and portable. I see virtually none of the foul behavior you mentioned on the moderated boards I frequent for chatting and learning more about boating, computers, smart phones. I see very little of it on FaceBook, but then, I do pick and choose my friends there, and if I encounter someone who is overly aggressive or foul-mouthed or insulting, I just drop that person. |
#138
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On Feb 20, 5:42*pm, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/20/13 6:30 PM, Tim wrote: On Feb 20, 7:04 am, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 2/20/13 7:59 AM, Tim wrote: On Feb 20, 6:45 am, "F.O.A.D." wrote: The decline in personal, face to face communications began in earnest with the advent in the 1980s of bulletin boards and commercial services like CompuServ. All the smart phones have done in that regard is make such "communication" more accessible and portable. I see virtually none of the foul behavior you mentioned on the moderated boards I frequent for chatting and learning more about boating, computers, smart phones. I see very little of it on FaceBook, but then, I do pick and choose my friends there, and if I encounter someone who is overly aggressive or foul-mouthed or insulting, I just drop that person. I'm in a couple of affinity groups with literally hundreds of posters and virtually everyone seems to behave reasonably. rec.boats was a reasonably pleasant place until the extreme righties drove almost everyone off. Most of the posters here are righties, and they've tea-partied the joint. There's less than a handful of us remaining here who are moderate right to moderate left and in the middle. Harry, I'm glad I read this before I went to work. This was the laugh of the day. Thanks again! Maybe you should drop your crazy right-wing friends from rec.boats off your Facebook friends list. -- I'm a *Liberal* because I knew the militant christian fundamentalist racist militaristic xenophobic corporate oligarchy wasn't going to work for me. Maybe you need to add a few. None of these righties have exhibited the sort of craziness, small-mindedness, racial hatred, and bile of some of the righties here, None on my friends list do either. |
#139
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Meyer wrote:
Didn't realize that the old boat was only 240 lbs You must have got 2 footitis and moved all the way up to 16 feets. Lessee 850 lbs for the boat. 200 lbs for the engine. 500 lbs for the trlr. 200 lbs of gear and batteries and you are a tad overloaded. It's not a matter of the engine pulling it. But , CAN YOU STOP on a moderate downgrade with the car loaded up with passengers and more gear. I think John already cautioned you about that. The engine may pull it but the transmission won't like it. You already covered the safety issue. |
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True North wrote:
------------------------------------------------------ If I were king one of the first commands I would issue is to completely ban the use of smart phones and their manufacture. Cell phones with voice-only would be permitted. No texting capability, no internet access. Smart phones with people walking, driving, shopping and whatever with a phone stuck under their nose and thumbs flying on the tiny keyboards would be outlawed. I think smart phones are having a major affect on how people communicate and relate to each other, much the same as how people communicate here in this newsgroup. It's an inward, isolated world without benefit of real human interaction and body language. Very few of the foul mouthed, derogatory and insulting comments would be made in this newsgroup if those involved were physically present to each other. I agree with this post. My #2 son ignores my calls to his cellphone but will answer a text message back before I have a chance to set my cellphone down......and it costs me 15 cents for each text I send. Don't send enough to justify a monthly plan. He doesn't want to speak with you. Are you surprised? |
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