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Interesting thesis, inapplicable analogy.

Totally applicable.

While discrimination based on sexuality may interfere with someone's
pleasure, it's hardly the same thing as denying someone the tools for
defending their very lives.

?

Preventing someone from enjoying an orgasm (regardless of the sex of the
partner) is not the same thing as placing them at risk of death because they
have been forcibly disarmed. You can always make up for a missed orgasm, but
once you're dead, you're dead.


What the hell are you talking about now?!?!?


I'm not surprised you're confused.


Who woulnd't be! Since it makes no sense.

If you (as I am sure you dream) were the leader of a country and you
declared that homosexuals have the status of slave, could you then see that
parallel?

Slavery is unlawful.


It is now.


Yup. What's your point?


Things change.

It's absurd to discriminate against homosexuals. Move on.

If black people were not allowed to get married, that would be
discrimination.

Indeed. And unlawful discrimination at that. Being black is a status. One
does not get to choose to not be black.

Why is it different for gay people?

It's not different for gay people. It's not illegal to be gay.


Just illegal for gay people to get married.


Yup. Marriage is a sanction of the state, at least insofar as the benefits
conferred upon couples who are married under state law. The state has
authority to determine to whom those benefits are offered. Whether they
should offer those benefits to gay couples is a matter of public policy, not
a matter of rights.


It's a matter of discrimination to deny them the right to marry.

Which, after much blather from you, brings us right back to the simple point
that this is no better than deying the right to marry to black people.

Which is discriminatory,


Discrimination is not a priori unlawful or even immoral.


Discrimination against gay people simply because you do not like gay people
is no better than discrimination against black people simply because you do
not like black people. It is most certainly immoral, and should be unlawful
in a society that is not governed by hatred.

just as
it would be if black people were not allowed to get married.


Nope. Once again, being black is a status, being gay and wishing to get
married is a voluntary choice.

Prohibiting state-sanctioned marriage because
of ones status is generally unlawful. Prohibiting state-sanctioned marriage
because of ones choices of behavior is not.


Being black is a status, being black and wishing to get married is a
voluntary choice.

Being gay is a status, being gay and wishing to get married is a voluntary
choice.

Being disabled is a status, being disabled and wishing to get married is a
voluntary choice.

However, from the above examples, only gay people are not allowed to get
married. That's discrimination, and it is discrimination founded in hatred
and fear.

My take on it is that the state should have nothing whatever to do with
marriage at all, either by sanction or prohibition, and any benefit of the
state offered to two people cohabiting should be offered to any two people
cohabitating, without regard for sex, race or religion.

"Marriage" is one of two things: It is either a religious observance, in
which case the state has no place in the equation, or it is a civil contract
between two individuals, in which case the only interest of the state is
that the contract be valid and enforceable.


Marriage is a great many more things than that.

In the simplest and most important terms, it is the highest-ranking social
status for relationships in north american society. Making it unavailable to
homosexuals is all about hatred and fear and wanting to deny that group
access to the same social status that can be enjoyed by heterosexual
couples.

If an individual has a benefit or a right, like a pension or health care or
the right to determine medical treatment, available to them, then that
person should be able to assign "power of attorney" and beneficiary status
on ANYONE THEY WANT, whether a spouse, sex partner, brother, sister, friend
or whatever. The state has no legitimate interest in dictating to whom an
individual may grant power of attorney or to whom a person may grant state
benefits due that person.

That would take the whole marriage issue off the plate entirely. Gay people
can engage in whatever solemnization of their partnership they choose, they
can write whatever contract of cohabitation they choose, and heterosexuals
can do the same thing, and the state would do nothing other than simply
record (not license) the transaction in the county records.


What is it with freaks like you? Would it not be easier to simply allow gay
marriage? Good grief.

It may, however, be illegal to engage in same sex behaviors.

Having sex with someone is a voluntary act without which one will not die
nor be physically harmed. It's a behavior, not a status. Slavery is a
status. It's the status of involuntary servitude. Being black is a status.
It's a racial characteristic that one cannot change.

Sexual behavior is entirely under the control of the individual. Every
person has a desire to engage in sexual behavior. The physiological changes
that take place during sexual excitement are the same for both men and
women, regardless of the stimulus. It's a behavior. You can control it. You
are not harmed by not being permitted to engage in a particular sexual
behavior.

The society in which one lives generally dictates rules of conduct and
morality for its members, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the
type of society and its governmental structure.

In any society, certain behaviors are unacceptable, and for the overall
well-being of the society, as judged by the society, those behaviors can be
constrained to some degree or can be prohibited. The reasons for such
constraints and their justification in the moral and ethical sense depend
largely on the society as a whole and what it recognizes as important rights
worthy of protection.

Thus, while in one society consanguinity (incest) may be acceptable, in
another it may not be. Likewise, in Canada, the age of consent for sex is 14
years old (as I understand it) while in the US, it's generally at least 18.
Thus, in Canadian society, it is acceptable for a 50 year old man to have
sex with a 14 year old girl. In most places in the US, thatıs not legal. It
depends on the society.

Thus, if "gay people" wish to engage in behaviors that are proscribed in one
place or society, they need only go to some place or society that does not
proscribe their behaviors.


I daresay that most lesbians engage in sexual behaviours that pose a much
lesser risk than routine heterosexual sexual behaviours. Thus, according to
your logic, perhaps only lesbians should be allowed to get married?


It's not my logic.


It's more like your illogic.

It's the logic of the law. I never said that the law was
"right." I'm merely explaining to you why it's not a violation of a gay
person's civil rights to prohibit sodomy or "gay marriage."


And you are wrong.

And so is the law.

The point is that in a society of law, decisions are made about what conduct
is acceptable and what conduct is not. That is the purpose of government and
law, and nothing done by way of prohibiting homosexual sex acts is, legally
speaking, a violation of the Equal Protection provisions of the
Constitution.


Then the Equal Protection provisions of the Constitution suck eggs, and the
people who have the power to improve those provisions should stop being a
bunch of discriminatory pukes and get to work on fixing it.


I don't disagree.


Groovy.

Whether those laws currently reflect the will of the society is an entirely
different matter. If the society has changed its views on homosexual sex
acts, then society is free to repeal the anti-sodomy laws. And wonder of
wonders, that's been happening all over the US in the last 10 years or more.
In many places homosexual sex is no longer unlawful.


Whoopdeedoo!


Indeed.


Indeedeedo.

The actual issue is whether the fact that one is gay, and that one may be
attracted sexually to a person of the same sex excuses pleasure seeking
CONDUCT that is proscribed by law. Remember, one may be physically attracted
to someone of the same sex, or to a child of 12, but that doesn't mean you
must, or must be allowed to ACT on that attraction. Celibacy is always an
option.


What the...?

The law, in this case, is an ass.


Perhaps.

It's not the fault of gay people that the
law is an ass.


Probably true, though they don't necessarily always act persuasively to
convince those who have the power to change the law that it's in society's
best interests to do so.


Perhaps you should give them the benefit of your wisdom as to how they
should go about it.

It's the fault of people who have the power to change the law
that the law is ass.


Indeed. Thus, one would think that rational and dispassionate debate would
be preferable to radical flaunting of something that many members of society
find to be obscene and disgusting. Whether that feeling is justifiable or
not is beside the point.


Oh, you are one of those guys that blames the girl for dressing
provacatively when she is raped, aren't you?

You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.


Yes, well, that's the thing about being a marginalized group, if you just
shut up and take it, you'll stay marginalized. The fact that you are
shutting up and taking it might be welcomed, but it's not likely to bring
any progress.

Talk about intellectual weakness...comparing adult homosexual consenting
relationships with pedophilia? What is the point of that?


It's not a comparison, it's an analogy. Try to discern the difference.


The choice of analogy happens to be the same choice of analogy that is most
popular with right-wing religious fanatics.

I hope I don't need to point out to you that there are some heterosexual
couples that engage in anal sex, and some homosexual couples that do not.
You do realize that, right?

Of course. It's central to my argument because if anal sex is proscribed by
law, then it MUST be proscribed for EVERYONE, regardless of sexual
orientation. Surprise! That's just the way it works. That's WHY the civil
rights of homosexuals are not violated by bans on sodomy.


What kind of a screwed up country tries to put a ban on what consenting
adults want to do in their own bedrooms?


It depends on what the acts are. There are numerous reasons the state might
have a legitimate interest in banning certain private conduct.


It's amazing. The same guy that doesn't want the state to take away the
right to keep an assault weapon under his pillow thinks it's just fine for
the state to tell people what parts of their bodies they can rub together.
Only in America!!!


So, your comparison between race and sexual orientation is inapplicable.

No, it isn't in the least.

Yes, it is. You're just too ignorant or too narrow-minded to accept it.


No, it isn't, and no, I'm not. One of the problems is I don't think we are
even talking about the same issue.


Ipse dixit, quod erat demonstrandum.


Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.

Now, if you grant that the state does have the power to proscribe SOME
sexual behavior (such as pedophilia or rape) then you implicitly agree
that
the state has the power to decide WHICH sexual behavior it wishes to
control.

There is no relevant comparison between pedophilia, rape, and
homosexuality.
This is totally illogical.

No, not at all. The comparison is not between the acts, the issue is whether
the state has ANY power to proscribe ANY sexual act by ANY person.


But there is a huge difference between relations between consenting adults
and acts of rape or pedophilia. To include them together in this way is
totally illogical, and frankly, indecent.


Not at all. For one thing, your definition of "pedophilia" presumes that no
child is capable of giving consent. While this is the current legal policy,
any child psychologist or historian can tell you that this is not
necessarily universally true.

Heck, as recently as the last century, it was not at all unusual for girls
of 13 to be of "marriageable age." How have children changed in the
intervening hundred years that makes them any less "marriageable?"


Rape and pedophilia (whatever your definition) have nothing to do with two
consenting adults having sexual relations, and the attempt to link
homosexuality with rape and pedophilia are typical descipable tactics of
anti-gay fanatics.

The state can't do a thing to limit consensual sexual behaviour. I don't
think law enforcement has the resources to go busting into the nation's
bedrooms and doing sniff tests to see who has been porking whom.

Okay, so you admit no proper constraint on consensual sexual behavior. Fine.
Let's examine your stance a bit.

First example: Persons A and B decide to have sex. Person A has a
potentially deadly STD and both deliberately fails to inform B and refuses
to use protection, thus infecting B with a disease that eventually
debilitates and kills B.

Does the state have a legitimate interest in proscribing unprotected sexual
activity by a person knowingly carrying a dangerous STD?


The fact that sex is involved is irrelevant. Deliberately exposing someone
to a deadly disease - whether done by injecting them with a needle while
they are asleep or by having unprotected sex with them - should be criminal,
in my opinion.


But if the state deems that it is the sexual activity that produces the
highest risk of transmission, why can not the state proscribe unprotected
sexual activity?


LOL. What, is George W going to hook up little cameras in everyone's bedroom
and see what is going on there? Wait, don't answer that.

Second example: Persons A and B like to engage in sadomasochistic and "water
sports" as well as coprography. They choose to do so while B's underage
children observe. The children are not involved in the acts, but merely
watch.

Does the state have a legitimate interest in protecting these children from
exposure to such acts?


Sure, in the same way that it is inappropriate for children to have access
to the porn channel.


Some people would argue that exposing children to sex early, even if they
don't participate, is psychologically beneficial, and that in fact,
concealing sex and sexuality from children, even when they are quite young,
is pathological behavior that is harmful to the child's healthy sexual
development, in part because it reinforces the "forbidden fruit" syndrome.

This was a strongly prevailing attitude in the 60's, particularly in
alternative "free" schools.

Who's right?


I'd agree that concealing sexuality from children is unhealthy.

But I'm starting to get very lost once again in figuring out how this
relates to the fairly simple issue of gay marriage.

People who don't want gay people to get married don't want it because they
don't like gay people.

It's really not all that complicated.

Third example: Persons A and B get off on having sex in public places in the
view of passers-by.

Does the state have a legitimate interest in prohibiting public displays of
sexual behavior?


Sure.


Third example: Persons A and B engage in consensual sexual activity that
includes partial asphyxiation. A strangles B during a sex act, but during
orgasm fails to release the stranglehold and B dies.

Does the state have a legitimate interest in prosecuting A for homicide, in
spite of the fact that B consented to the strangulation?


You got me, sounds like a debate for a Law and Order episode during ratings
week.


Fourth example: Persons A and B engage in consensual bondage and torture. A
binds B and causes serious physical injury to B that requires
hospitalization, at public expense, to heal and rehabilitate B.

Does the state have a legitimate interest in proscribing consensual sexual
behavior that poses an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to
one of the partners?


You got me, sounds like a debate for a Law and Order episode during ratings
week.

What does any of this have to do with discriminating against homosexuals?


What it has to do with it is that the state obviously does have some
interest in regulating private consensual sexual behavior. What the limits
on that interest is are a matter of societal beliefs and mores, not just the
personal preferences of the people involved.


The people who are against gay marriage are against it because they hate
and/or are afraid of homosexuals/homosexuality.

Sometimes, the exercise of even carefully protected and explicitly
recognized fundamental rights are justifiable regulated. Viz: the First
Amendment does not protect one from state sanction for falsely shouting
"FIRE" in a crowded theater.

Likewise, if the people who have been granted authority to enact law find
reasons to prohibit sodomy, well, that's what they are paid to do and we
have two choices: We can accept their judgment, or we can unelect them and
elect those who see things differently and then change the law.

But the fact that a prior administration has made a particular choice about
regulating sexual conduct does not mean that the regulation is illegal,
immoral or fattening. Society determines what is immoral and illegal.
Science generally determines what's fattening.


Here we go again.

Gay people do not have a monopoly on sodomy.

So gay marriage is not about sodomy.

Those who oppose gay marriage do not want gay people to get married, because
they don't like gay people.

That's discrimination based in fear and hatred, and it is most certainly
immoral, and most definitely pathetic.

Scott Weiser: asinus asinorum in saecula saeculorum













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in article , Scott Weiser at
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A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/8/05 12:36 AM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:


"BCITORGB" wrote in message
oups.com...
Weiser says:
================
...what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE to be armed, or not to
be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to deny them, ever.

=================

You're contradicting yourself. Not too many days ago you asserted that
there is no "right" for gays to marry gays. You were quite clear in
stating that it was up to the state to make such decisions.

So, how exactly is this behavior -- the carrying of guns -- a "higher"
right that NO ONE (I'm assuming, not even the state) has the right to
deny? Either the state has the right to govern behaviors or it doesn't.
Which is it Scott?

frtzw906

That's what it all comes down to for gun nuts. The right to carry a gun is
more important than ANYTHING.

Pert near. For, without the right to keep and bear arms, one is a slave to
anyone with a gun and the willingness to use it. Without the ability to
defend one's other rights by force of arms, one's other rights are exercised
at the mercy of those in power.


I just know I will regret this, but have you heard of the concepts of police
and armed forces?


Yup. When was the last time that the police were around to prevent a crime?
You do know that the police are, first and foremost, a reactive
organization, not a protector, don't you?


If you mean do I realize that a police officer is not hiding in the closet
of every home, yes.

As for the armed forces, they are not the police and have no place enforcing
law, and they are one of the threats against which our society chooses to be
armed.


Great.

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"KMAN" wrote in message
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in article t,
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"KMAN" wrote in message
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"rick" wrote in message
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"KMAN" wrote in message
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snip continuing boring crud

my interpretation of that story is correct or not, we know
what it does not say: that no one in Canada is waiting
for
treatment. Since
it is obvious that everyone in every health care system
has
to wait for
treatment (that's why they have waiting rooms) I neither
said, nor believe,
that no one in Canada is waiting.

You know I never said any such thing. You are making a
deliberate false
accusation, and you are a scumbag and coward for
continuing
to do so.
==================
You should know all about being those things

Only what I have learned from watching you, as you continue
in your lies and cowardice. ====================
Nope, I've shown neither, liarman. I've proven what I say,
you on the other hand......

Your problem is the lies you tell about other what other
people
have said.
==================

Nope, because I haven't done that. Your problem is that you
don't understand what you are writing.


You said that some people in Newfoundland were waiting 2 1/2
years for
treatment. I disagreed with you, given one of the doctors in
the article
described how those patients were in care. In voicing my
disagreement, I
said "no one is waiting for treatment."

=============================
No, fool, that isn't when you made your ignorant statement. That
you cannot read or follow the posts, even after you repost them
is amusingly apparent.



You have responded by making the false accusation that I made
the statement
that no one in Canada waits for treatment.

==================
It was your statment that was false, not mine, liarman. I read
exactly what you said, and when you saidit. You did not say it
during the post about the boy Nfld.


That is a lie, and you are a liar, because I never said that.
You are a
scumbag and a coward for continuing to repeat your false
accusation.

==========================
Nothing false about my statement, liarman. Why you continue to
blather on about it is only because you cannot discuss the rest
of your lies, that no one is dying while waitung for treatment in
Canada. Why do you refuse to discuss that lie of yours, liarman?





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in article , Scott Weiser at
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A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:


I've
lived in Ottawa most of my life and never seen a gun that did not belong
to
a member of a police force.

Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they donıt exist. In fact,
gun ownership in Canada is quite high on a per-capita basis.

I know they exist.

This is my point, it is not a gun culture.

Sure it is.


No, it isn't. We don't talk about guns, unless it's a conversation about
"that idiot with the gun who shot those people in Texas" or something like
that. We don't love guns and talk about the right to have a gun as though it
is more important than oxygen. It's not a gun culture.


Just because YOU don't talk about it doesn't mean other people don't.
Clearly you don't know everybody in Canada. Besides, your definition of "gun
culture" is specious.


I wasn't talk about all of Canada.

And yes, one could write books and books about what constitutes a gun
culture, but I know I am not in one. People here are more interested in
identifying bird species than they are in guns.

Would be safer if gun loving was a more popular part of our
culture? Not.

Would you be more unsafe?

Yes, most definitely.

You're dangerously wrong. You also show a deep mistrust of your fellow
citizens.


I trust that we don't need to shoot each other.


Which is true, until it's not.


I should probably carry a machine gun waiting for that special day when it's
not, and yet, I manage to carry on happily each day without it.


Would the individuals who ARE shot by
criminals be safer if they were allowed to carry a gun to defend
themselves?

No, and other innocent people would be dead.

So, it's okay with you that people are killed because they are rendered
defenseless by you and your ilk?


Amazingly enough, thus far my walking around without a gun hasn't gotten
anyone killed.


But your advocating that other people not be allowed to walk around with
guns almost certainly has.


ROFL. OK, you are really losing it now. And I really didn't think you had
room for progress in that area.

Why is it that BC is opting out of the gun registration scheme,
which is WAY over budget and is flatly unsuccessful?

Because a bunch of incompetent bureacrats were given the job, and the fact
that it was a gun registry that they messed up has little to do with why
people are ****ed off. They are ****ed off because they fouled it up and
spent way to much. If the car registry system worked that badly, we'd be
just as ****ed off.

And, it doesn't work.


What do you think the registry is intended to do?


It's intended to facilitate the confiscation of guns. It can have no other
purpose, because no other purported purpose, particularly the ostensible one
of reducing criminal access to guns, can possibly be accomplished by a gun
registration program. You see, criminals don't register their guns because
it's already illegal for them to possess them. The only people who register
guns are law-abiding citizens, and there is absolutely no purpose whatsoever
for having law-abiding citizens register guns except as a precursor to
eventual bans and confiscations.


The gun registry has the same intent as an automobile registry.

How do you imagine it
differs from the registration of cars?


The government has no intention of confiscating cars.


Cars do get taken away from people who aren't supposed to have them, and I
believe the fact that cars are registered enables this in many cases.


For one thing, it's so damned easy to pick up a gun in the USA! You can
buy
a wicked assault weapon like you are buying a pack of gum.

That is a flat-out lie. It's entirely untrue, and you know it.

What's so hard about acquiring an assault weapon in the USA?

Why don't you do some research and get back to me.


Done. They sell them in stores. You can buy them there.


Can you buy them there like you're "buying a pack of gum?"


There are some minor inconveniences, but if you can handle opening a bank
account, you won't be dettered by the process of getting a gun.

I like to live in a place where people don't get shot.

Who wouldn't.


Then perhaps we have little to argue about.

Problem is that your plan actually gets MORE people shot, and
victimized by violent criminals.


What plan?

I think the only concrete change I've advocated in any of these gun threads
is the elimination of assault weapons.

Other than that, what plan have I put forth?


That'll do.


Why are assault weapons needed?

I happen to believe
that a place where people don't associate their love of guns with their
love
of life is a safer place to be.

What a singularly ridiculous statement. According to you, one who loves his
life is wrong to wish to protect it.


That's not what I said.


That's what you implied.


Not even close.

You think Gandhi was some sort of wimp, wherease
some asshole with a basement full of assault weapons is hot ****?

No, I just think that I'm not going to turn the other cheek, and I'm going
to defend myself using reasonable and necessary physical force when it's
required.

Yup, and every moron with a cache of assault weapons in that special hole
in
the floorboards thinks they are capable of deciding what is resonable and
necessary and when it is required, but what actually happens is children,
wives, and husbands end up dead in their own house, shot by a member of
their own family.

Not very often at all


Extremely often.


How often, exactly?


particularly when compared to the number of times
that those same firearms are used to thwart a crime.


What is the ratio of gun deaths in the US where the dead person was a
relative or friend of the shooter vs a stranger committing a crime?


You made the claim, so you tell me.


A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional
shooting, a criminal assault or homicide, or an attempted or completed
suicide than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense.

Bad things happen.
People get killed in accidents every day. More children die by drowning than
are accidentally killed by firearms, and the number of children accidentally
killed by firearms is at an all-time low and continues to go down, thanks in
large part to the NRA.


Heehee. What a group of saints they are.


Indeed.


You should note that Gandhi was killed with a gun, and that even though
Britain is not in control of India anymore, there is a wealth of guns, not
to mention nuclear weapons, in India at the moment, and that non-violence
hasn't gone very far in dealing with Pakistan.

Uh.

And to you this is an argument for a stronger gun culture?

Indeed. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.


Hold on their pardner.

What happened to the police? And the armed forces?


Well, in a disarmed society, they most often become tyrants.


You have a tyrant now.

I don't think you know what is meant by "culture."


I do. But the question is whether you do or not.


I questioned you first.

You can have a culture that includes guns without having a gun culture.


Since you have yet to define "gun culture" your statement is non sequitur.


Actually, it's not a non sequitur at all. Just because a term in a
particular statement has not been defined that alone does not establish the
information that follows as illogical.

Peace through superior firepower is even recognized in India, which is why
they have an army armed with firearms, among other weapons.

Why are you pointing out that India has an armed forces? They have from
moment one.

To make it clear that even your utopian icon was wrong.


My utopian icon? Who or what are you talking about now? You mean Gandhi? I
think you brought him up, not me.

But just because the world is a violent place full of gun nuts doesn't mean
Gandhi was wrong...in fact, the state of the world might be proof that he
was right.


Er, no.


I disagree.

Me, I'll achieve peace through
superior firepower. There's a lot of violent people out there hiding in
the
bushes alongside your path. Best of luck with your journey.

ROFL.

The myth of the violent stranger in the bush.

That's not who is going to kill you.

That's who kills most of the people in the world.

Actually, it isn't. It's a relative or other person that is known to you.

Actually, you're spouting long-debunked HCI claptrap again.


Really eh? According to the Journal of Trauma (1998) a gun in the home is 22
times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting, criminal assault
or homicide, or an attempted or completed suicide than to be used in
self-defense.

22 times more likely.


Which is a long-debunked and biased report based on cooked books.


Somehow I thought you would say that.

But you sit down there in your safe room with your cache of weapons waiting
for the stranger to pop out of the bush.

Nah, I'll just go about my daily life while carrying a handgun.


Sad.


No, happy. And free. And unafraid to walk down the street after dark.


If you were not afraid you would not need to carry a gun.

You and your big rack of guns are more likely to get turned on a member
of
your own family

Not true. This is more HCI claptrap that has been long disproven.

You keep waiting for the stranger then.

Do you have a fire extinguisher? How about accident insurance on your car?


When fire extinguishers and insurance start killing people, get back to me.


You miss the point, again...predictably.


Let me know.


- or on yourself.

That would be my right, now wouldn't it?

Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised if you exercise it one day.

And why would that be an issue for you?


It will probably be an issue for you, and the person you kill.


Um, I believe we're talking about suicide here, so the only person killed
would be me.


How often do you think about it?

Or you'll put a big hole in some person
you've mistaken for an attacker because you are so damned eager to have
your
chance to be a hero gunslinger.

I doubt it. I've been carrying a concealed handgun almost every day of my
life for more than 20 years, and I haven't shot anybody yet.

I haven't shot anybody either! And I didn't have to carry a gun around for
20 years. Cool!

Indeed. Lucky too. Have you checked that fire extinguisher lately?


There's an awful lot of lucky people.


Yup. Some not so lucky though.


Maybe it's not luck.


Nor do the
vast, vast majority of people who choose to be legally armed. The "blood
running in the gutters" hysteria you parrot simply doesn't happen where
concealed carry is made lawful.

Still, I'll take the chance, and I'll take responsibility for every round
I'm forced to fire. Nobody said it was easy or that carrying a gun should
be
taken lightly. Mostly it's a pain in the ass. Guns are weighty, and bulky,
and they seriously constrain your wardrobe choices, even in the heat of
summer. You have to manage your gun carefully *every second* of the day
when
you're in public.

Mhm. And most people don't seem capable of managing a credit card or even
keep their shoes tied.

My, do you have a dim view of your fellow man.


Just the facts. Take a look at the state of personal debt in north america.


Which has absolutely nothing to do with the issue.


I was pointing out that a lot of people have trouble with some basic tasks
in life, and I'm not comforted by the idea of those same people walking
around with guns making decisions on whether or not to blow someone else's
brains out.

It makes me more than a little nervous that they are
carrying around concealed weapons.

Your paranoia is of but little interest. Get used to it because the chances
are that one or more of the people you were around today was carrying a gun.
Most likely, up in Canada, it was a criminal. At least down here, it's most
likely to be a law-abiding citizen.


LOL. Also known as a criminal in waiting. Carrying a gun around allows a
law-abiding citizen to turn into a murderer quite easily.


So does driving a car, only more so.


Check your statistics. There's a lot of cars out there. Not too many of them
get used as murder weapons. Not so for guns.

Your wife has a vagina, which allows
her to turn into a prostitute quite easily.


ACtually, being a prostitute has very little to do with having a vagina.

Should we therefore concludethat she is a prostitute?


No, we should conclude that you are a blithering idiot, LOL.

Strawman argument that has been conclusively disproven by facts and history.


It's hard to argue my most recent assertion though!

Take it off at lunch or at the gym and forget it *just
once* and you'll be in deep doo doo with the police. No, it's not for
everybody by any means. But what IS for everybody is the right to CHOOSE
to
be armed, or not to be armed. That is something that NO ONE has a right to
deny them, ever.

I disagree.

And you're free to do so because people with guns secured the right and the
ability for you to do so.


Sorry, gun nuts like yourself have nothing to do with the freedoms I enjoy.


Wrong.


Not only that, but apparently you've got a major god complex too!


But I take my duty to myself and my fellow citizens seriously, so I choose
to be inconvenienced in order that I am prepared to step up and defend the
defenseless should it be necessary.

You take delusions of grandeur seriously, which is what a big part of
weapons ownership seems to be about.

Dissing people who have courage only proves you a coward.


What is courageous about carrying a gun around?


It's not the carrying, it's the willingness to use it


Oh, that's just beautiful!

, at significant risk
to one's own safety, to protect others that's courageous.


Man, you can't WAIT for the chance to play hero and kill somebody, can you?
Really, be honest...you just can't WAIT!

What's cowardly is refusing to take responsibility for either your own
safety or show any concern for the safety of others. By refusing to provide
for your own safety, you put off your responsibilities onto the police, or
on other armed citizens who aren't going to inquire about how much you
deserve to be protected (or not) at their risk before they put their safety
on the line to save your pathetic, cowardly ass. That's immoral and evil and
cowardly.


I've actually devoted most of the last ten years of my life to supporting
some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and doing my best to
ensure their safety has had nothing to do with carrying a gun. Not everyone
has to carry a gun in order to be responsible or courageous. The police here
don't feel that their safety is on the line because citizens don't all carry
weapons around. In fact, quite the opposite, their lives are at greater risk
were they carrying out their duties in a gun culture full of gun nuts like
you.

I warrant that you, faced with the situation Wilson faced, would fall to the
ground, cower in fear and **** your pants, all the while hoping that
someone, anyone with a gun would stand up and save your life.

The irony is that the vast majority of armed citizens would do exactly that,
for you


If you are representative of the vast majority of armed citizens, that's
because you spend much (if not most) of your day fantasizing out getting the
opportunity to kill someone with your gun.

one who can do nothing but denigrate and demean the gallant
sacrifice of someone who had no legal duty to intervene, but did so because
it was the right thing to do. And he got killed for his altruism. Pity you
weren't in his place, because he deserves life far more than someone like
you does. People like you are a festering boil on the ass of society. You
take from others and expect them to do for you that which you are unwilling
to do for yourself, and then you insult them when one of them makes the
ultimate sacrifice for others. Despicable.


Interesting. All because I don't want to walk around with a gun.

I guess to you the bravest
person in the world is the drug dealer that shoots up the local park.


Yes, that would be your guess.


By the way, were you by any chance kicked out of the police academy for
being too trigger-happy? That would explain a lot, particularly your latest
furious outburst.



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in article t, rick at
wrote on 3/8/05 8:05 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article t,
rick at
wrote on 3/8/05 3:47 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"rick" wrote in message
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"KMAN" wrote in message
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"rick" wrote in message
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snip continuing boring crud

my interpretation of that story is correct or not, we know
what it does not say: that no one in Canada is waiting
for
treatment. Since
it is obvious that everyone in every health care system
has
to wait for
treatment (that's why they have waiting rooms) I neither
said, nor believe,
that no one in Canada is waiting.

You know I never said any such thing. You are making a
deliberate false
accusation, and you are a scumbag and coward for
continuing
to do so.
==================
You should know all about being those things

Only what I have learned from watching you, as you continue
in your lies and cowardice. ====================
Nope, I've shown neither, liarman. I've proven what I say,
you on the other hand......

Your problem is the lies you tell about other what other
people
have said.
==================
Nope, because I haven't done that. Your problem is that you
don't understand what you are writing.


You said that some people in Newfoundland were waiting 2 1/2
years for
treatment. I disagreed with you, given one of the doctors in
the article
described how those patients were in care. In voicing my
disagreement, I
said "no one is waiting for treatment."

=============================
No, fool, that isn't when you made your ignorant statement. That
you cannot read or follow the posts, even after you repost them
is amusingly apparent.


That you are trying to slink away from your false accusation is glaringly
apparent.

You have responded by making the false accusation that I made
the statement
that no one in Canada waits for treatment.

==================
It was your statment that was false, not mine, liarman. I read
exactly what you said, and when you saidit. You did not say it
during the post about the boy Nfld.


The only statement you have referenced is the following:

===

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article t, rick at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical facility in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2 years
for treatment.


No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type of scan in a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for non-emergencies.

===

I did not say that no one in Canada waits for treatment. You are lying. And
this conversation is over. You are a scumbag, and determined to remain as
such.

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"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article t,
rick at
wrote on 3/8/05 8:05 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
...
in article
t,
rick at
wrote on 3/8/05 3:47 PM:


"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

"KMAN" wrote in message
. ..

"rick" wrote in message
ink.net...

snip continuing boring crud

my interpretation of that story is correct or not, we
know
what it does not say: that no one in Canada is waiting
for
treatment. Since
it is obvious that everyone in every health care system
has
to wait for
treatment (that's why they have waiting rooms) I
neither
said, nor believe,
that no one in Canada is waiting.

You know I never said any such thing. You are making a
deliberate false
accusation, and you are a scumbag and coward for
continuing
to do so.
==================
You should know all about being those things

Only what I have learned from watching you, as you
continue
in your lies and cowardice. ====================
Nope, I've shown neither, liarman. I've proven what I
say,
you on the other hand......

Your problem is the lies you tell about other what other
people
have said.
==================
Nope, because I haven't done that. Your problem is that you
don't understand what you are writing.

You said that some people in Newfoundland were waiting 2 1/2
years for
treatment. I disagreed with you, given one of the doctors in
the article
described how those patients were in care. In voicing my
disagreement, I
said "no one is waiting for treatment."

=============================
No, fool, that isn't when you made your ignorant statement.
That
you cannot read or follow the posts, even after you repost
them
is amusingly apparent.


That you are trying to slink away from your false accusation is
glaringly
apparent.
==========================

LOL Where am I going? I've been right here, exposing your
willful ignorance and lies.


You have responded by making the false accusation that I made
the statement
that no one in Canada waits for treatment.

==================
It was your statment that was false, not mine, liarman. I
read
exactly what you said, and when you saidit. You did not say
it
during the post about the boy Nfld.


The only statement you have referenced is the following:

======================
Yep, and it is not during the post about Nfld, now was it
liarman? It's a discussion about the convenience of waiting, and
whose convenience the wait is for. In your case, it's the
convenience of the health care system.


===

in article , KMAN at
wrote on 2/20/05 2:14 PM:

in article
t, rick at
wrote on 2/20/05 1:18 PM:

Another strawman, I see. We aren't talking about their
'convenience', we're talking about the convenience of the
medical
systam. When that 'poor' person arrives at a medical facility
in
need, then yes, I'm saying that they will not wait 2 1/2 years
for treatment.


No one is waiting for treatment. It's about a specific type of
scan in a
specific geographic area and the waiting is for
non-emergencies.

===

I did not say that no one in Canada waits for treatment. You
are lying. And
this conversation is over. You are a scumbag, and determined to
remain as
such.

=====================
Yes, you did, liarman, as you have just again proven...
Why you continue to blather on about it is only because you
cannot discuss the rest
of your lies, that no one is dying while waitung for treatment in
Canada. Why do you refuse to discuss that lie of yours, liarman?
Still trying to dodge this lie too, I see, liarman.





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in article 1110340422.0f166db598e207fc9e839e738f0d5c7b@terane ws, Nisarel at
wrote on 3/8/05 10:53 PM:

Scott Weiser wrote:

A Usenet persona calling itself Nisarel wrote:

Scott Weiser wrote:

But it cannot step one inch outside the
boundary we the people have established.

Patriot Act.

It's leaped way outside it.


Really? How, specifically? Can you name specific instances where
enforcements under the Patriot Act have illegally infringed on
protected rights?


You're that ignorant?


I find it interesting the the New York City Council (that's the city where
most of the people in 9/11 actually perished) want the Patrio Act revoked.
They obviously aren't as informed as Scott Weiser, but they seem to feel
rather strongly that it infringes on fundamental rights and liberties.

I find the most recent version of their resolution quite well written.

http://www.nycbordc.org/resolution0389-2004.html

Even the American Library Association is getting radical!

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Sect...=/ContentManag
ement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11891

A search on

Patriot Act infringe on rights

or some such combination will give you a plethora of links to hundreds of
organizations that have come forward (at obvious risk) to stand up against
the anti-freedom (aka Patriot Act) act.

It's so ironic that at the very same time as US troops are fighting on
foreign soil - according to their President's revised mission to secure
freedom for the Iraqi people - freedoms in the USA are at one of the lowest
points in decades.

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BCITORGB wrote:
Tink, commenting on my new view of JC:
=================
I clearly made a false assumption about JC being kind,
loving and forgiving. Thanks to you, and your refeences to
scripture, I have been disabused of such faulty notions.


Yes, and Good.

======================

But, Tink, why do you see this as good? Are you thus definitely

saying
that JC was neither kind, loving, or forgiving? The only reason I
repeat my question is because this revelation stuns me.


I believe it is better to figure out what is not right and fix it, than
to think every thing is Ok, and find out that it is not! I think it is
good that your incorrect notions are exposed for being incorrect, then
we can work on figuring out what is the truth. Your notions may be
comforting, and make you feel all warm and fuzzie, but if they are
false, they will eventually get you in trouble.

For example, if you were getting ready to go on a boat trip, and were
going to rent a boat. Now, I knew the guy that ownes the rental fleet,
rents boats that were poorly maintained. Would you rather have me tell
you that the boat you are going out in had a hole that had been patched
with paper-mache. Or would you rather have me not dampen the excitement
of your trip, and let you get out in the deep water, where the paper
mache gets wet and falls out, and exposes the hole. And the boat fills
with water, and things go from bad to worst?

Now if you were operating on misconceptions about God, would it be
right for me to let you continue, without at least trying to warn you.
You may find that some very long held misconceptions, get disturbed,
but hopefully, you and your boat do not end up at the bottom of some
very deep water.

Now, obviously if you are content to paddle around in the farm pond, a
little hole may not be anything to worry about. A lot of Christians
like to paddle around in their little ponds, and they may even be the
best boater in the pond. Not that I would want to trust them, and their
experience in deep water!

Now all that I have addressed so far is why it is good to have our
notions disturbed. As to the exact nature of those notions, and maybe
more important, the true notions, that may take a bit longer to
consider. Suffice to say that the Scriptures say that "God is Love", so
if you have already jumped to a conclusion that "God is not Love," then
I would expect that your conclusion is incorrect, due to incomplete
data, and probably other continuing silly notions.


Tink wonders:
====================
I definitely agree that you have some silly notions about
the kind and caring prophet, and I would be interested where
you got those ideas.

====================

I must get these notions from the society around me. I'm a
non-believer, but I have some intellectual curiousity about the

people
around me (some of whom purport to be Christians). They tell me of a
kind, caring, loving, forgiving JC. I guess I've believed them in the
past because, in my non-believer mind, the only way I could come even
close to accepting this religious stuff, is if it offerred a life
philosophy worth emulating: kindnees, peace, charity etc.

Now you've explained to me that it isn't so. In your words, they were
"silly notions".


The silly notions were primarily in your understanding of the nature
and character of God. The apparent expression ot peoples faith is
another matter, which I must tell you many Christians have a few silly
notions about as well. So if you end up with some accompaning silly
notions about how Christians are, and maybe should be "from the society
around me", I am not surprised!

However, what am I to replace those silly notions with? What, then,

if
not love and peace, is the true nature of JC?

frtzw906


Let me start to answer your last question, by asking you a question. I
am going to go out on a limb here and make a big assumption, If I am
wrong, please let me know. Have you ever heard the Scripture, "Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"? Would you say that this phrase
sets a high mark to strive for in the New Testament? Do you think we
should try to live according to this Scripture today?

Actually that is three questions, I was never that good with math!
Answer these questions for me, and I will be able to answer your last
Question above. BTW, I appreciate your intellectual honesty and
curiosity! TnT

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KMAN wrote:
"rick" wrote in message
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snip continuing boring crud

my interpretation of that story is correct or not, we know
what it does not say: that no one in Canada is waiting for

treatment.
Since
it is obvious that everyone in every health care system has to

wait for
treatment (that's why they have waiting rooms) I neither said, nor


believe,
that no one in Canada is waiting.

You know I never said any such thing. You are making a deliberate

false
accusation, and you are a scumbag and coward for continuing to do

so.
==================
You should know all about being those things


Only what I have learned from watching you, as you continue in our

lies and
cowardice.


There may be the proverbial Freudian slip! TnT

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