tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post116172508373285655..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Guns Part II: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, KidDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1162329264605281322006-10-31T16:14:00.000-05:002006-10-31T16:14:00.000-05:00Unrelated, but I know you've read about the Derb i...Unrelated, but I know you've read about the Derb in the past. Sad:<BR/><BR/>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDBmYzcyZTgzNzNkYWM0MzY3YjE1ZThhZGJiMDRiZWE=TShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118362963139092279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1162089168825888742006-10-28T22:32:00.000-04:002006-10-28T22:32:00.000-04:00Good research & post. I, of course prefer a less...Good research & post. I, of course prefer a <A HREF="http://minoroutside.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-shootin-bull.html" REL="nofollow"> less scholarly approach,</A> but that's just me.CMinorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305306030099439903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1162081067070177672006-10-28T20:17:00.000-04:002006-10-28T20:17:00.000-04:00My kids are all involved in shooting sports throug...My kids are all involved in shooting sports through 4-H and YHEC. Both great programs. YHEC is the NRA's youth program. My kids love it and they know more about gun safety than most adults.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01306638938982553941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1162069990409036042006-10-28T17:13:00.000-04:002006-10-28T17:13:00.000-04:00Very interesting stuff - thanks for putting this t...Very interesting stuff - thanks for putting this together.Amberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12689104216675201913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1162022427133640512006-10-28T04:00:00.000-04:002006-10-28T04:00:00.000-04:00Well done, Darwin.Decades ago I went through EMT t...Well done, Darwin.<BR/><BR/>Decades ago I went through EMT training, and being pro-gun already, I really paid attention to the figures on accidental poisoning. Small children, household chemicals, early 1980's: Over 500,000 incidents PER YEAR. Over 12,000 deaths of small children PER YEAR from accidental poisoning.<BR/><BR/>For "Accidental poisoning" read "Children of the 1-3 year range who are too young to know better get into household chemicals and try them out, because kids that age always want to taste stuff." Also their taste organs are underdeveloped and something an older person will spit out, they will swallow. It's heartbreaking.<BR/><BR/>And it's not "accidental"; it's NEGLIGENT. Got it, anti-gun liberals? There's no way a single one of those 500,000 poisonings should have happened. No kids ever get into those household poisons "accidentally." If they are properly secured the kids can no more get them than they can go to the Moon. The same, of course, goes for guns. Properly secured, they can no more hurt a careless child than one of the bricks mortared into the wall.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and there's another aspect to the bogus statistics about gun safety: The vast majority of times a firearm is used successfully to ward off an assailant, it is by the DISPLAY, not the DISCHARGE, of a firearm.<BR/><BR/>In the aftermath of hurricane Andrew, there was a lot of looting, including, sadly of homes with the occupants still there. Gangs of looters just threatened the occupants with violence if they resisted. There were, however, no lootings of homes where the occupants had firearms which they displayed. There were essentially no shootings. <BR/><BR/>Now the anti-gun people don't report the statistics on display-only incidents. <BR/><BR/>There's also the fact that in many circumstances, the majority of these confrontations are never reported. This skews the figures even further.<BR/><BR/>I spoke to a man--he did a trigger job on my .357 magnum--who is a retired police officer. During the Rodney King anti-white riots, I mean "pro-freedom uprising", a gas station less than a block from his home was torched by a mob of several hundred. He lives in a cul-de-sac. The mob appeared at the opening to this cul-de-sac. Halfway down the street my interlocutor was standing there, shoulder to shoulder with two neighbors. Another retired peace officer and a retired soldier. All three had gray hair. Two cradled assault rifles, and one a shotgun. Presumably they also wore sidearms. The did not aim their weapons at the mob. Nor did they seek cover. Not one member of the mob took a single step down their street. Also, though a number of them were doubtless packing firearms themselves, not a single shot was fired at these three gray-haired men.<BR/><BR/>Back to the accidentally-shooting-your-children scare: Please note that there are tens of millions of homes with firearms, and--what was it? Less than a thousand fatalities? Whereas there are many times that number of fatalities from homes with poisonous chemicals.<BR/><BR/>Apparently Americans who keep firearms at home are orders of magnitude more responsible about their children's welfare than those who keep ant poison and the like. <BR/><BR/>The truth is that the anti-gun movement in this country is dominated not by principle but by ideology and pathology. Ideology, because it's a way to attack their enemies, and it's a way to deprecate individual self-reliance and responsibility at the expense of big government and people with social-science degrees. Pathology, because too many people are afflicted with hoplophobia--that's a pathological and irrational hatred and fear of weapons, especially firearms. No, you won't find the term in the psychiatric literature. It was coined by the late Mel Tappan, who wrote a little gem called "Survival guns", about how to arm yourself to protect yourself in disasters.<BR/><BR/>Again, Darwin, well done.<BR/><BR/>--LERLogEyed Romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13889437392169618869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1161926865526054612006-10-27T01:27:00.000-04:002006-10-27T01:27:00.000-04:00As the old saying goes... "Gun control is using tw...As the old saying goes... "Gun control is using two hands." Mind you, if it is a rifle or shotgun, you might want to include the shoulder as well. :-)<BR/><BR/>I wonder what the percentage is for kids actually being mischievious and playing with their parents guns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1161910635268929642006-10-26T20:57:00.000-04:002006-10-26T20:57:00.000-04:00I have searched long and hard for a portrayal of c...I have searched long and hard for a portrayal of cool headed common sense. I believe this breath of fresh air is just what the respiratory therapist recommended,(Speaking metaphorically of course.) In this world of alarmist second hand and sensationalist smog.<BR/><BR/>Teach people. What a novel idea....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1161890279756015472006-10-26T15:17:00.000-04:002006-10-26T15:17:00.000-04:00Interesting. I don't think the problem is gun saf...Interesting. I don't think the problem is gun safety, so much as training your kids.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to see what the breakout of gun accidents is in rural states where kids are exposed to guns and trained early, and urban states where a kid finds a gun and has never held one before.<BR/><BR/>I think I'm going to take my girls out into the woods and give them a lesson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-1161889776943366992006-10-26T15:09:00.000-04:002006-10-26T15:09:00.000-04:00Excellent work, sir.Excellent work, sir.Rick Lugarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957595491409017184noreply@blogger.com