Well, I've noticed no one has bought or borrowed my book of last year's posts or either of my academic papers in the last three months, so I've removed them from Amazon.
I wish every American were forced to pass a statistics class before graduating high school and college, it would eliminate much of the BS we are fed on a daily basis.
Big news this week, 500 murdered in Chicago this year. Now I don't mean to minimize all the innocent people killed, but if you would look back to the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's and compare, 500 would have been a great number in those years. In the 1970's, there were several years 3X of this years numbers were achieved per year. Yep, once upon a time, not so long ago, Chicago regularly saw over 1,000 murders a year.
So what is the big news story here? That the city that doesn't allow law abiding citizens to own guns has so many murders each year? But it's really not that big a number compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
But the chorus in the media and politics is the ban of assault weapons, except, news flash, assault weapons are already banned. See, an assault gun has two settings; one for when you hold down the trigger and it just keeps firing and the other for one bullet for one trigger pull. It is already illegal to have a fully automatic gun. A semi automatic is when you need to pull the trigger for each bullet. But the media won't explain this, they just keep showing pictures of scary looking military type guns and don't explain you have to pull the trigger each time you want to fire one bullet.
And the debate about how many bullets a gun should be able to hold at one time is the latest debate. Why would anyone need a 30 round magazine? It's a good question. Banning them won't stop anything, though. If a person is a nut and can't buy a gun with a 30 or 20 round magazine, but only 10 round magazines, what do you think the nut will do? He will buy 3 or 4 guns with 10 rounds and just drop and pull out another gun.
In other words, limiting rounds in a magazine won't stop a nut from going on a shooting spree.
On the other hand, think about these mini riots where large numbers of people show up and raid a store. Wilding in Clockwork Orange. They all run in, 30 or 40 of them, and clean out the store. What happens when these groups decided to move from stores to homes? Imagine 50 people busting down your door and you are standing there with your family and they will rush in and take whatever they want, do whatever they want.
Now, imagine them kicking in the door and you are standing there with a 30 round magazine in your gun. Guess who gets to keep their stuff and their family safe that night. Now, what are the odds of that happening? I think it will be going up in the near future.
That is why I've never wasted money on a gun that holds more than 10 rounds, one day they will be illegal.
But the point of all of this is statistics. Everyone hates to hear of these shootings. Many are mocking the idea of armed personnel, yet, think about this: these mass shootings never occur in the inner city because inner city schools ALREADY HAVE ARMED COPS ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES.
Facts are a bitch. But never underestimate the politicians and media to ignore facts and keep an uninformed public in the dark. By the way, did you know Ghandi wrote in his autobiography that the darkest day in India was the day the British banned Indians from owning firearms?
Well, we won't make church today, dad fought tooth and nail today over his shower and sure enough this is his crapping day. It's like one long crap that slowly exists over a 10 hour period. I figure he has about 4 hours left. I finally realized that all of this will end when pigs can fly. I sure hope he doesn't pass away until after the first, we have 20 bucks in the bank until the first of the year.
Oh yea, his whopping cost of living increase will be 45 bucks a month. I'm sure that more than covers the increase in food, energy, etc. That is on top of the 52 bucks last year and the 0 dollars the two previous years. Ninety seven bucks in four years for the elderly. And in those negotiations in DC, rumor has it they are going to change the cost of living calculations for SS so as to further lower the increases. I would hate to have been a member of congress on judgment day, God is not going to look kindly on them making themselves rich while screwing the poor, elderly, and disabled.
If I don't talk to all my imaginary and not so imaginary readers again, have a safe New Year.
Oh, Belladonna, never knew the pain
Maybe I'm crazy, maybe it'll drive me insane
The open letter just carelessly placed
And your moving silence, the tea so delicately laced
Came from passion and you gave it a name
The fingers of poison like needles in the drivin' rain
So smile discreetly as you watch with such grace
Now I must slip away but can you forget my face
Out of reach, out of touch
How you've learned to hate so much
UFO
I wish every American were forced to pass a statistics class before graduating high school and college, it would eliminate much of the BS we are fed on a daily basis.
Big news this week, 500 murdered in Chicago this year. Now I don't mean to minimize all the innocent people killed, but if you would look back to the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's and compare, 500 would have been a great number in those years. In the 1970's, there were several years 3X of this years numbers were achieved per year. Yep, once upon a time, not so long ago, Chicago regularly saw over 1,000 murders a year.
So what is the big news story here? That the city that doesn't allow law abiding citizens to own guns has so many murders each year? But it's really not that big a number compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
But the chorus in the media and politics is the ban of assault weapons, except, news flash, assault weapons are already banned. See, an assault gun has two settings; one for when you hold down the trigger and it just keeps firing and the other for one bullet for one trigger pull. It is already illegal to have a fully automatic gun. A semi automatic is when you need to pull the trigger for each bullet. But the media won't explain this, they just keep showing pictures of scary looking military type guns and don't explain you have to pull the trigger each time you want to fire one bullet.
And the debate about how many bullets a gun should be able to hold at one time is the latest debate. Why would anyone need a 30 round magazine? It's a good question. Banning them won't stop anything, though. If a person is a nut and can't buy a gun with a 30 or 20 round magazine, but only 10 round magazines, what do you think the nut will do? He will buy 3 or 4 guns with 10 rounds and just drop and pull out another gun.
In other words, limiting rounds in a magazine won't stop a nut from going on a shooting spree.
On the other hand, think about these mini riots where large numbers of people show up and raid a store. Wilding in Clockwork Orange. They all run in, 30 or 40 of them, and clean out the store. What happens when these groups decided to move from stores to homes? Imagine 50 people busting down your door and you are standing there with your family and they will rush in and take whatever they want, do whatever they want.
Now, imagine them kicking in the door and you are standing there with a 30 round magazine in your gun. Guess who gets to keep their stuff and their family safe that night. Now, what are the odds of that happening? I think it will be going up in the near future.
That is why I've never wasted money on a gun that holds more than 10 rounds, one day they will be illegal.
But the point of all of this is statistics. Everyone hates to hear of these shootings. Many are mocking the idea of armed personnel, yet, think about this: these mass shootings never occur in the inner city because inner city schools ALREADY HAVE ARMED COPS ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES.
Facts are a bitch. But never underestimate the politicians and media to ignore facts and keep an uninformed public in the dark. By the way, did you know Ghandi wrote in his autobiography that the darkest day in India was the day the British banned Indians from owning firearms?
Well, we won't make church today, dad fought tooth and nail today over his shower and sure enough this is his crapping day. It's like one long crap that slowly exists over a 10 hour period. I figure he has about 4 hours left. I finally realized that all of this will end when pigs can fly. I sure hope he doesn't pass away until after the first, we have 20 bucks in the bank until the first of the year.
Oh yea, his whopping cost of living increase will be 45 bucks a month. I'm sure that more than covers the increase in food, energy, etc. That is on top of the 52 bucks last year and the 0 dollars the two previous years. Ninety seven bucks in four years for the elderly. And in those negotiations in DC, rumor has it they are going to change the cost of living calculations for SS so as to further lower the increases. I would hate to have been a member of congress on judgment day, God is not going to look kindly on them making themselves rich while screwing the poor, elderly, and disabled.
If I don't talk to all my imaginary and not so imaginary readers again, have a safe New Year.
Oh, Belladonna, never knew the pain
Maybe I'm crazy, maybe it'll drive me insane
The open letter just carelessly placed
And your moving silence, the tea so delicately laced
Came from passion and you gave it a name
The fingers of poison like needles in the drivin' rain
So smile discreetly as you watch with such grace
Now I must slip away but can you forget my face
Out of reach, out of touch
How you've learned to hate so much
UFO
Well shucks, I didn't know you had academic papers on Amazon. Sorry to have let you down --really. Especially re: statistics -- liars are definitely figuring these days!
ReplyDeleteWishing you and your Dad a peaceful new year.