I'm not even sure if you're being genuine but in case you are here's a tip:

In the multiple choice question "how cautious/wary of other people should I be" there are more than two options

goofy slamming on the report post button while flaunting his immunity makes me warm and fuzzy.

Anyone else catch Bob Costas going off on guns in reference to the Kansas City murder-suicide on the Eagles/Cowboys halftime show?

Just came to post this. He was quoting this article.

Bob Costas confirmed meathead assclown who's depth of knowledge extends to who can run fast and throw balls good.

One of the forum's most frequent users of the post report function saying this makes me lol

I've recently discovered how great the report post button is.

there is one piece of crap that should have been perma'd long ago that I reserve the button for.


eta: well... sometimes I report my own poasts as an alternative to PMing the mods

Chiefsplanet.com is naturally having the gun conversation now:

You complain about my posts ITT when this is the way you speak of other posters in this forum you don't like? That's rich bro

Alright you guys, save it for the festivus thread

Having been through an awful divorce from an evil beast of a woman who tried to **** my best friend and did all sorts of nasty things I can relate to the sentiment but the dude is off base.

I have stood in a ring of bouncers and broken the nose of a dude who was screwing my ex and then turned to challenge the rest of them. I had a gun in my car at the time but would have never used it. I contemplated lots of ugly dark things during that time but LDO I didn't do it... and he would not have either.

While the guy didn't have a gun he was living with her in a house with easy access to knives, machettes, crowbars, poisons, stairs, cars etc etc. The reason he didn't kill his ex is not because he did not have the means. He didn't kill her because he's not a murderer.

This idea that a gun somehow makes murder easy or accessible is just pure nonsense. Crushing her skull while she slept or drowning her in the tub would have been 100% more certain, silent, etc and yet it didn't happen.

Dude your fine, your a troll on occasion and can be annoying but you do contribute to the group and can have a conversation like a human. The poster I am talking about has never once contributed anything but deliberate derisive garbage.

/tangent this is not the place

+1

Just tossing some random stats out:

Population of Toronto in 2011: 6mm
Firearm homicides in 2011, all ages: 26

Population of Newark, nj in 2011: 277k (that's what google says, is that right?)
Firearm homicides for 2006, just for children ages 10-19: 38

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/statistics/ytd_stats.php
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6018a1.htm

Not enough info to draw a reasonable conclusion.

More food for thought than, "look how this proves x."

well yeah, reasonable people can talk about all sorts of things that might cause more or less gun crime (including numbers of guns). But as you know this sort of thing is typically posted as "look at the murder machines killin peoplez HERP DERP"

gun nuts gonna gun nut

One estimate I read said there are essentially more guns in Toronto than people in Newark, and somehow torontans (?) manage to kill way fewer people with guns

Magical bullet fairies? We may never know.

(Didn't post that estimate cuz I couldn't confirm reliably)

But how many are handguns?

That's cool. I like random data points as well

Per Capita income
Toronto $38,997 (Canadian)
Newark $$16,131

Household income
Toronto $90,603
Newark $33,372

Education levels
Toronto 46% only have up to a highschool diploma
Newark 70% only have up to a highschool diploma

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/to...extfmt=default
http://www.clrsearch.com/Newark-Demo...ent-Statistics
http://www.investtoronto.ca/Business...July-2010.aspx
http://www.areavibes.com/newark-nj/employment/

Just some stats to think about.

Well of course there are.

You've always struck me as a bit naive on this topic.

You clearly haven't thought of how gun control would actually work, and you use the magic wand theory too much.

I long for the day when talking heads discussing the violation of others civil rights openly in that manner are stopped mid-sentence and escorted out by security in hopes that will appease civil rights leaders from attacking the network with boycotts, response ads, nasty letter writing campaigns and protests.

Nothing will happen to Costas, because we as a nation have grown soft and comfortable and it shall be our downfall.

Owning a gun is not a civil right. Jesus.

I don't need to guess at what gun control looks like. I see it in action in nearly every other civilized country.

goofball, do you yet understand that it's not the amount of guns that cause crime, it's who has them?

For instance, do police personnel use their guns to commit armed robbery very often?