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And using ryoder's link and this, the percentage of the US population that lives in states with such laws that at least attempt to make owners secure their firearms aways from minors is about 71% (226.4M/318.9M) Maybe so, but those states amount to only, um, 38% of the total landmass in the US. Why don't you want to protect all children? Strike your colors.

I don't know about all of them, it was a fast google search. It seems intended to address scenarios where, for plausible example, if you keep a gun in your unlocked bedside nightstand drawer (and assuming you generally don't have juveniles in your home), and then a burglar unlawfully enters your premises and steals the gun out of your nightstand, you're not nailed under the statute if the burglar happens to be a juvenile. Seems legislatively reasonable.

In college I knew another student who had spent time as an exchange student in Germany, working in a bank. At that time, there were a lot of skinhead gangs roaming around looking for foreigners to beat up. Here is how he explained his tactic to avoid that: He had become very fluent in German, but still had enough of an accent that locals would know he was not one of them. So he practiced learning *other* regional German accents. i.e. in Northern Germany, he would put on a Southern German accent, and vice versa when in the South. 27 states and the District of Columbia have child firearm storage laws similar to Minnesota's, expressly prohibiting storing or leaving firearms where they can be accessed by juveniles outside of parental/guardian supervision. Idaho, where our little Stewie managed to gun down Lois, is not one of them. Nor are there child firearm access/storage statutes at the federal level. So, that's 45% of the United States where children are not protected by firearm access/storage laws. No, it isn't 100%, but it is what it is. ETA: RYoder posted same while I was googling & typing.

You know, I'm not really convinced it was accidental: I think the little bastard .... well, let's just say There's precedent for this kind of thing.

You are, as RMK wasn't asserting an absolute rule, either, as you mischaracterized him doing. I thus stand by my post.

If you need to mischaracterize someone else's point, you're already behind the 8-ball. That, or maybe you just misunderstood him. TK didn't say that all swimming pools everywhere in the US are government regulated, nor was that his principal point. It was an illustrative example, an analogy, if you will. Pointing out that some kinds of swimming pools, in some place, are not regulated is hardly a rebuttal to his point.

That's bullshit, too.

Yeah. I want all my money back.

There has been more than just armed robberies at churches] Indeed. If all altar boys were armed, imagine how many dead priests there'd be.

On this New Year's Eve, this has to be one of the dumbest-assed threads of the year. I hope it means you've all started drinking. Have a Happy.

LOL, that's quite the commercial. You should be a travel agent!

That's cuz we called them Mae Wests.

I rather doubt there's a statistically-significant number of people in N. Korea who can make use of DVDs or USB sticks.

Hey, fuck you! We are polite!

Shouldn't even be reported. What happens in Wal Mart stays in Wal Mart.

It's supposed to be blue, not green. What's your problem?

In fact, "we" have. Scholarly studies estimate that between 50% to 90% of the ethnic Native American population (especially in North America) that existed prior to Columbus's expeditions was wiped out as a direct consequence of European contact, conquest and colonization. It might not be unreasonable to characterize it as genocide.

Merry racist Christmas everyone. Oh, and despite all the artwork, Jesus wasn't a white guy. That's why The Man lynched his ass: he was too uppity.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 http://www.mintpressnews.com/can-someone-be-too-smart-to-be-a-cop/192106/ It seems at first blush - but if you stop & think about it, many employers decline applicants who they think are over-qualified for particular positions, for basically the same reason: to avoid too high a risk of rapid voluntary turnover.

or the DFL, or the RNC, or organized environmentalists (and other big biz), etc etc ad nauseum But not the City Council of Ames, Iowa.

Racist. Classist maybe, but racist? Nope, not even close. All things in full context. I thus stand by my point.

Racism: The belief that a race is, by virtue of its genetics, inferior to another, and a member of that race cannot change the view of the racist. This doesn't mean that the racist is necessarily cruel, but simply cannot see a person of the "other" race as an equal. Prejudice: Literally, pre-judging. Taking the measure of another without complete information. The opinion of the person who has pre-judged can be changed with additional information. Often the pre-judging is based on prior experience or the experiences of others. Bigot: "A person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions." In other words, someone who doesn't like a person because of their thoughts. Now, can we please start using the right words at the right times? Very little of what is, in the popular discussion, called "racist" is actually racist. Eh, I think you're being too technical. For example, a fucking asshole can technically be defined as sexual intercourse with the anal orifice of an Equus Asinus. And yet, when spoken, people generally have no trouble understanding what it means.

You're just unabashed about your blatant racism.

Racist.