18 Children Dead From Reports

Yeah, I know the accent is a dead giveaway. Hell I got comments on it when I lived in Houston, for crying out loud.

Tie? Maybe. Haircut? I dunno. I'm not young enough to try to keep up with hairstyles. It's pretty much been the same for about 20 years, standard white guy business cut.

One thing I've noticed over the past couple of years, both when I'm up there or dealing with professionals from there down here, is that brown shoes seem to be acceptable with dark suits. That just sort of blows my mind. I've always been of the school of thought that dark suits (navy, gray) = dark shoes; earth tone suits (browns, olives) = brown shoes.

 

To say that owning a gun is a net negative is simply false. Your premise is flawed because you are only considering the potential outcomes of when the gun is fired at a person. Most guns are never even pointed at a person. Most are only shot at a gun range, or at a deer or squirrel, or are never fired at all. So if you own a gun, the most likely thing that will happen is the gun will sit in your closet or gunsafe until you get it out to clean, or go to the range, or go rabbitt hunting.

I have 15 rifles and shotguns in my house. I use one rifle twice a year or so, and I use two of the shotguns fairly regularly. The rest are only touched to be cleaned. I have one pistol which is only touched when I go to my grandfathers old homeplace to shoot snakes.

 

You really need to talk to me about this. Any brown can be worn with anything south of charcoal. The right color brown can be worn with any color. A pair of brown suade antiqued shoes looks really good with black.

Navy and brown while acceptable looks shitty. I hate to see that look, and it is getting more popular. To me you should only wear cordovan or cordovan and black saddle oxfords with navy.

For the record, the cordovan and black saddle oxford is the best looking men's shoe of all time. They are a real lady killer, and look good with anything.

 

This is such a well known and obvious fact, and so commonly reported, I didn't think it would need links. I just googled it and I was rewarded with a zillion example. I maintain that it is self apparent that guns ownership is less safe than not owning, and unless you have silly hero fantasies it is apparent to you as well.

 

Ah, I was rewarded with a zillion examples of guns saving lives. Thanks for the google tip.


Your move.

 

i cant make you trust me, or be honest. i tell you the facts, i cant be bothered to do the research. if you feel like that makes you right, so be it.

 

new yorkers dont wear shorts in the city unless it really really hot. we dont wear obama jeans with light washes. we buy our jeans full on dark indigo and let them fade, we dont buy em pre-faded. we dont wear oversized clothes like every other idiot in america. we dont wear corporate middle manager dockers khakis. we dont wear anything pleated, ever. we dont wear running shoes unless we are running. we wear dark colored wool coats in winter, lots of peacoats. we wear shirts with collars, and rarely polo knit type shirts. we dont wear the brand polo with the horse on it. our clothes fit correctly. in the winter we wear scarves to keep warm. we dont wear new balance sneakers with jeans. we carry nice man purse messenger bags instead of backpacks. we dont carry cameras around our neck. we walk like we know where we are heading. tourists do the opposite of these things. and look perpetually confused and pay for rides in the stupid pedicab.

 

I have researched.

"Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker." --

Kleck and Gertz, “Armed Resistance to Crime,” at 173, 185.

92% of the time a crime is thwarted. AKA safer..

"States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%" -- One of the authors of the University of Chicago study reported on the study’s findings in John R. Lott, Jr., “More Guns, Less Violent Crime,” The Wall Street Journal (28 August 1996). See also John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard, “Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns,” University of Chicago (15 August 1996); and Lott, More Guns, Less Crime (1998, 2000).


"In research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, in which almost 2,000 felons were interviewed, 34% of felons said they had been “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim" and 40% of these criminals admitted that they had been deterred from committing a crime out of fear that the potential victim was armed."

"Statistics from the FBI’s Uniformed Crime Report of 2007 show that states with right-to-carry laws have a 30% lower homicide rate, 46% lower robbery, and 12% lower aggravated assault rate and a 22% lower overall violent crime rate than do states without such laws. That is why more and more states have passed right-to-carry laws over the past decade."

"But since adopting a concealed carry law Florida’s total violent crime rate has dropped 32% and its homicide rate has dropped 58%. Floridians, except for criminals, are safer due to this law. And Florida is not alone. Texas’ violent crime rate has dropped 20% and homicide rate has dropped 31%, since enactment of its 1996 carry law."

http://www.humanevents.com/2009/01/26/concealed-carry-permits-are-life-savers/



What research do you have?

 

first you need to understand that a million successful crime preventions would be offset, if there were 2 million negative events like preventable suicides or accidents that meant a net of negative events for gun owners. unless you understand that i cannot help you.