Epidemiology
Every once in a while, some bonehead comes along and compares guns to disease. Here’s a fisking of the latest boneheads.
I think we should start considering teh st00pid a disease and get some grant money to study it.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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May 30th, 2009 at 10:07 am
How about guns as medicin to cure the disease. . . they are an imunization in a way. They help to keep us safe.
IF they are so bad that they are a disease then why is a cure called a silver bullet??? sounds like they got thing turned aournd a bit. . . .
May 30th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Markie Marxist sez: “Private gun ownership is a social disease that threatens the ascendancy of our Marxist totalitarian agenda! It must be eradicated! Where’s the CDC and WHO? We’ve got to get doctors, nurses and hospitals involved! Gun owners must be identified and eradicated! It’s just common communist sense!”
May 30th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Don’t really see a fisking of the epidemiological nature of gun violence in the post you link to, nor in the ones linked from that one subsequently.
Anyhow, there’s this stinker:
“Again, I call bullshit. Yes, we have a high homicide rate involving firearms for an industrialized nation, but we rank 24th in the world for homicide, far behind Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, and Venezuela – countries not known for their lax gun-control laws.”
Think about that assertion.
The followup was the correct citation of gun violence among blacks, but for the wrong motivations.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
No way they’d fund st00pid research. No one wants to recognize a widespread common condition that is incurable.
Ah, our fine medical establishment, mistaking superficial symptom for the underlying condition, i.e., the dissolution of personal responsibility create a condition where individuals will do harm to others. Still, it is important to quash this BS. They’ve made about everything illegal in Britain due to health and safety concerns. They are making inroads here with the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act, which has taken hands on science out of the hands of the children, No handling rocks as who knows what is in them and no potato clock kit as that recycled vinyl insulation on the wires might have some lead from where it was used before.
May 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Anyhow, there’s this stinker:
“Again, I call bullshit. Yes, we have a high homicide rate involving firearms for an industrialized nation, but we rank 24th in the world for homicide, far behind Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, and Venezuela – countries not known for their lax gun-control laws.”
Think about that assertion.
What about it?
Seriously.
May 31st, 2009 at 9:22 am
“What about it?”
They cherry pick Mexico, Colombia (why can’t people spell it correctly?), South Africa, and Venezuela. Here’s an exercise: What countries are we WORSE than in that list. It’s pretty shocking given our level of economic development.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:20 am
Jamaica is #3.
The top ten are
#1: Colombia
#2: South Africa
#3: Jamaica
#4: Venezuela
#5: Russia
#6: Mexico
#7: Estonia
#8: Latvia
#9: Lithuanaia
#10 Belarus
Most of those in the top 20 are former Soviet satellite nations. This isn’t “cherry picking.”
You followed up your intitial criticism with this:
“The followup was the correct citation of gun violence among blacks, but for the wrong motivations.”
Why “wrong motivation”? I thought the idea was to save lives? Don’t epidemiologists concentrate on identifiable “hot spots”?
May 31st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
The traditional way to stop a raging epidemic is to quarantine those who have the disease. Low-tech, but it works.
Now, to identify the genes which help spread teh st00pid…