http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/12/late-night-notes-saber-rattling-lawyer-rattling Comments On: Late night notes— saber rattling, lawyer rattling by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
As the U.S. does more research on more current statistics the gap will widen as the firearm proliferation you sponsor and embrace proceeds.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:13:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
Another point of fact for you, dott, actually the study has been done, and re-done when it was challenged. Gary Kleck did the study years ago. He was trying to prove your point, and in the end found out that the opposite was true. The incidence of guns used for self defense where the gun was not fired was quite high. Kinda meshes nicely with my experience and the experiences of those during the L.A. riots.
Posted by Steven E]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:06:28 -0600 Arkansas Times
I was able to track down gun death statics for the US and these countries for 2008-10 (so can you). US had 32,163 gun deaths the other countries combined 3,721. However, by total number of gun deaths and gun death rate the United States, with roughly the same population, is ten to eight times worse. I don't think that U.S. citizens are more homicidal and/or suicidal than those other countries' citizens. They are just reaping the rewards of more guns in circulation and looser gun control laws.

P.S. To the best of my knowledge those countries have not suffered a coup or overthrow because of a lack of privately owned firearms in the last 100 or many more years.

P.P.S. ". . . show the number of times a gun was used to save someone, yet wasn't fired? . . ." Steven E. I can't, Steve and neither can you, but I would be willing to place a wager with you, that a higher number of people who showed a gun to an armed robber or assailant got shot or shot at than the ones who didn't.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:51:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:33:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Figures never lie, but liars often figure" Samuel Butler.

SP, your being nebulous, again. What is so delusional about quoting what a LEO says about the need for people to take some responsibility for their own defense. Guess you couldn't be bothered to read the link to defend yourself against being foolish.

Your marooned in constant ignorance.
Posted by Steven E]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:20:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:04:25 -0600 Arkansas Times “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin” argument,
the shame.


“No two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.”
The Pauli Exclusion Principle
Posted by Zatharus]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:01:21 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/chehalis-h…

To be a completely honest representation, will Slate show the number of times a gun was used to save someone, yet wasn't fired? If not,t hen it will suffer the same flaw that scuttled Kellerman's ridiculous report.
Posted by Steven E]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:11:45 -0600 Arkansas Times From Slate: How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_pol…


“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.”
Jack Handey
Posted by Zatharus]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:50:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/201…

His seat was in the nosebleed section of the House.

Apparently Nugent doesn't own a necktie, but I would bet money he was wearing reasonably clean underwear.

Sitting next to Nugent is Thomas Lauderdale. Sweeeet! An Occupy supporter (and a lot of other progressive causes). I don't know who did the seat assignments, but that was pure genius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lauder…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Martini
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:38:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
The response to the inevitable gaffe will tell all.

Being vetted by the media is not something you can master without bright lights and a microphone in your face. Roll playing and study don't cut it.

I have an inkling the reason Cotton is getting on the shows is 2 things.

1 Nobody else wants to get lured out and pinned down at this point.

2 Handlers want to see if he can cope while they have plenty time to go find sonmeone else when the fall comes.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:10:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:15:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

" While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing "an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow."[2] One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life."[2] Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work strongly. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in."[2]"

Weren't we silly in the 1950's? Aren't we still?
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:19:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
Don't let your pushy advisors push you out front too soon. You're young, you've got plenty of time. And don't be afraid to change your mind about things as needed. As the poet said, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:58:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
That said, he is seriously risking national media over-exposure, apparently advised by overly-ambitious consultants whose primary interest is not necessarily the Fourth District. He's only been in D.C. for a month, and they're already bringing him on the TV talk shows weekly. It's the recipe for a career-ending gaffe by a neophyte politician. He'd be better off spending the next few years commuting back to his district on weekends.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:34:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:28:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:55:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:34:53 -0600 Arkansas Times