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[StephanieVanbryce]

Great post Desert Drifter ... thanks

[DrHarleyboy]

yes, there will always be murders, i suppose, but there will always be more dumbasses making bad decisions in gun storage, etc. and at some point as a society we have to decide which is better... safety for the innocent or security for the paranoid.

It has been decided since the dawn of human and animal kind. In the begining, rocks and sticks, later swords and arrows, now guns and bombs.

The point is, throughout time, there has always been killing, to blame the weapon is pointless. People will kill when they feel the need to, by whatever means they have. If it is not a gun, it is a bomb, or a knife.

Safety is a state of mind, not a state of being. Once you learn the difference, you will see the point the point crystal clear.

Dr H

[StephanieVanbryce]

NERDS

Tuesday, May 27, 2014


I often use the term nerd even when "geek" is probably the more precise one, because I think geeks have to some degree retaken the term, while nerd includes the implicit insult which is required. If geeks run the world and geekstuff is cool, then the term no longer has much derision attached to it.

But, anyway, dudes who show up to fast food restaurants open carrying automatic weapons (yes, gun nerds, they probably weren't technically automatic weapons or maybe they were but I don't care because big scary gun that can fire multiple rounds quickly is automatic enough for me, so stop being such a damn nerd about it) are nerds. They're mad that their little hobby of showing their external death penises to the world doesn't get quite the respect that it deserves, or more importantly they're mad that they don't get quite the respect that they of course deserve and are confused that their giant external death penis waving isn't giving them that respect. They want more adulation than they're getting, and don't get that their hilariously deadly hobby occasionally inspires a few eye rolls. Also, too, fear, but so what, nerd, any of us can buy an external death penis, because USA. It doesn't make you special.

I don't expect everyone to appreciate my hobbies, and certainly don't expect anyone to think they make me supercool or worthy of adulation. And walking into a Wal-Mart and plunking down a bunch of cash for giant external death penis isn't especially impressive, really. Waving them around is silly. Nerds.


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[3Saints]

It's a personal choice....why the war on men. They should give us free bullets with our Obamacare......preventive medicine

[F6]

Toddler Fatally Shot By 3-Year-Old Brother, Police Say


A police volunteer stands outside an apartment in Payson, Ariz., Tuesday, May 27, 2014, after a 3-year-old boy shot and killed his 1½ -year-old brother, according to Police Chief Don Engler. According to authorities, the boys found a handgun in a neighbor's apartment and took it to another room where the shooting occurred.
(AP Photo/Payson Roundup, Alexis Bechman)

Posted: 05/28/2014 7:22 pm EDT Updated: 2 hours ago

PAYSON, Ariz. (AP) — A 3-year-old Payson boy shot and killed his 1½ -year-old brother after the boys found a handgun in a neighbor's apartment and took it to another room, the eastern Arizona town's police chief said Wednesday.

Police Chief Don Engler said his department's investigation of the Tuesday shooting will take about a week. Results will be forwarded to the Gila County Attorney's Office for a decision on whether to prosecute anybody, he said.

"What we're taking a look at is the circumstances regarding the securing of the weapon" and how the boys were able to get ahold of it, Engler told The Associated Press. "We are continuing our investigation, and we haven't ruled out criminal charges at this point."

He said it was too early to say what recommendation his department might make to prosecutors.

The boys and their mother were visiting the 78-year-old neighbor in their apartment complex when the shooting occurred in a bedroom.

The brothers found the semi-automatic pistol somewhere in the living area where it was not in plain sight, the police chief said without elaborating. Neither adult knew the boys had the weapon, Engler said.

The boys were playing when they found the gun, police said. The weapon discharged, and the toddler was shot in the head.

Engler said the mother was just entering the bedroom when the shooting occurred and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

The younger boy was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Names of those involved were not released.

Engler said he didn't know whether the 3-year-old grasped what he had done. "That'd be a difficult stretch for me to make that assumption," the police chief said.

However, he said the shooting was a tragedy that was felt by many in the community, including members of his department. Payson is about 90 miles northeast of Phoenix and has a population of approximately 15,000.

Engler noted many of the department's young officers have children of their own. "Certainly it's difficult for our officers in those circumstances," he told KPHO-TV.

© 2014 Associated Press

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