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Comment on A Proposal For Enacting Firearms Accountability by Broofa

Broofa — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:45:08 +0000

@gordon – I brought up the mentally ill because they are at the center of the current gun debate. Guns in the hands of irrational people is, fundamentally, why we have the kinds of headlines that have been in the news lately.

I’m genuinely struggling for a way to express the relative numbers of guns and mentally ill that isn’t alarming. I used the numbers and phrasing more for brevity than anything else. Admittedly, I’m not particularly interested in down-playing the severity of this problem, but neither do I think it needs someone to fan the flames either.

Comment on A Proposal For Enacting Firearms Accountability by Broofa

Broofa — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:17:24 +0000

@gordon – I’m comfortable with what I’ve said. Yes, it might be (mis)interpreted as the mentally ill being gun-crazy, but that was not my intent. Please feel free to suggest a more appropriate way of comparing these two hot-topic issues (guns and mentally ill) and I’ll be happy to update here.

Comment on A Proposal For Enacting Firearms Accountability by Gordon Yutzy

Gordon Yutzy — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:08:53 +0000

Ray, the point of the first paragraph was to point out that we as a country are armed to the teeth. Why bring up the group of mentally ill unless to make an emotional argument?

Comment on A Proposal For Enacting Firearms Accountability by Ray Ryan

Ray Ryan — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:18:56 +0000

I can’t imagine anyone reading that simple ratio as an implication that the mentally ill are armed to the teeth.

Comment on A Proposal For Enacting Firearms Accountability by Gordon Yutzy

Gordon Yutzy — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:51:34 +0000

Robert, while I don’t disagree that much with your proposal, I do take issue with the fast and loose insinuation based on the inarguable statistics. You don’t specifically say that each mentally-ill adult in the US has 4.7 guns, however the implication is there. This is a sloppy emotional argument that is used by modern journalists. Why not use a different group, say racing cyclists. There are 70,829 of them, (http://www.usacycling.org/forms/media/2012-Fact-Sheet.pdf). By your logic that works out to 3318 guns per racing cyclist. While I know plenty of racing cyclists who own handguns and semiautomatic guns, I don’t know any of them who own 3318 guns of any kind. Let’s leave the hyperbole for the professionals.

Comment on Facebook .vs. Blogging by I Want My Friend Back

I Want My Friend Back — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 03:40:10 +0000

How do I click the “like” button for this one??

Comment on SOPA Author Still Violating Copyrights? by Broofa

Broofa — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:17:27 +0000

@TJeanson: Thanks for the comment. My apologies for the mixup in honorific; I’ve updated the post. If all you require for use of your work is permission, you might consider using a Creative Commons license like Mr. Schwen does. More info here: http://creativecommons.org/

Comment on SOPA Author Still Violating Copyrights? by TJeanson

TJeanson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:30:10 +0000

Just came across this today. The photo of the Hays County courthouse is mine (that’s Mr. Jeanson, not Ms.) and was given to the editors of texasescapes.com for use on their website. I did not give anyone else permission to use the photo. I find many of my courthouse photos elsewhere on the internet, most with credit. If they don’t ask permission, they can at least give me credit. That’s all I ask.

Comment on SOPA Author Still Violating Copyrights? by Dschwen

Dschwen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:37:20 +0000

Hey, first time I hear of this. No, he did not have a special license. Interesting.

Comment on Katy Perry’s 15 Seconds of Fame by Matt

Matt — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:37:27 +0000

Admit it dude – you were really just taking a picture of your bike…