“with such a mind set, every gun supporter should have a degree in philosophy”

If only there were more luftmensches around…

So, who are these immortals, and how did they acquire their immortality? This is new and truly amazing stuff here.

Gang members technically own/possess their weapons, but they are also the most likely group to be shot and killed. And it’s not because they own guns, it’s because they participate in violent, illegal activities. And their wives/girlfriends/children will also be likely of experiencing violence and murder.

If you take the statistics separately, and compare yourself to “at-risk” groups, your chances of being shot and killed are usually pretty low.

Anyway, I once had a professor try that whole “guns are bad because they are designed to kill”. Killing itself is not necessarily bad, since killing in self-defense is good, but murder is bad.

I’m sure there’s a Joyce Foundation-funded study behind it, although since you mentioned that the numbers were bullshit I’m pretty sure we have the same thing in mind.

Oh, and the classical response to your wife’s gun would be that of penis envy. No matter how often that tired response is destroyed by every psychological analysis for the last few decades, Freudian freaks will bring it out again and again.

Swords were extremely expensive and difficult to wield. Only the rich and well trained were able to use swords, and in a battle the best trained swordsmen usually won.

Guns on the other hand were fairly easy to obtain and learn. One of the reasons the aristocracy hated guns was that mere commoners could practice with them for a few hours and become quite proficient. Weapons of war were no longer reserved for those with wealth, land, or title, which made the peasantry that much more difficult to repress.

“I’m sure you never expected to hear this from a damned Yankee, but your state’s gun control laws annoy me”

However, the truth of the matter is, that Texas gun laws are no less lax than that of other states.

Really? Tried buying a gun in DC, Illinois, Massachusetts, NC, MD or NY?

Either you or the bonehead author appears to have choked on a double-negative. If his point was that the whole country has gun laws as “lax” (permissive) as Texas’s, then he’s as full of crap on this point as he is on every other point he made in the article. But if his point was actually what he said – that Texas’s gun laws are no less lax than those of any other state – then he’s about right. To say Texas’s gun laws are no less lax than those of Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York or North Carolina, to say nothing of everyone’s favorite non-state DC, is the height of understatement. Texas’s gun laws are significantly more lax than any of these.

one study showed that people who attempt to use a gun in self-defense are four times as likely to die.

That may be a half-truth, it’s hard to tell since he doesn’t identify the study or even complete the thought. Four times as likely to die as what? As people who have a gun but don’t use it to resist? Or four times as likely as those who don’t have a gun – an artificially low figure since people who don’t perceive themselves at risk of homicide are less likely ot own a gun for self-defense? By that logic, I’m sure he could find a study somewhere proving that people who go to hospitals are four times more likely to die than people who don’t.

I’ll go out on a limb here and surmise the only way this fellow can get a date is to be some uber-pussy radical lefty. Hey honey, I against guns, want to go out Saturday. No, how about next Saturday, no, can I have your number?

What do you bet that Seiber is studying Journalism? Another idiot wasting ink and trees.

It appears that the attention from Say Uncle has caused the Easttennessean college newspaper to require registration to view the Darren Seiber column.

Pussies.