Real Fiero Tech

Uh, hello? <-- Gun owner I think of myself as careful and responsible. I've never pulled the trigger and NOT known where the slug buried itself... Not always exactly where I aimed it (still a crap marksman) but always in a safe area. Fact of the matter is that we are both idealists. You'd like to b...

Alberta is a little like Texas or Nevada. Nobody here wants gun control, and the less the government is involved with our daily lives the better. I have guns, I love to own them and shoot them and if it comes down to it, I'll use them to defend myself and my home. <--- For guns :thumbleft: like tex...

Just because I don't carry a peice doesn't mean I'm not responsible for my own safety. What you and other pro-gun folks don't seem to realize is that "reactionism" isn't the same thing as "responsibility," or even "protection." By the time the gun comes out, the situat...

the writing itself isn't important, its just a good compilation of the statistics. most of it is talking about the biggest issue being marylands lax judges who don't uphold the current laws but instead just create new ones. whatever man - tell that to all the people on that greyhound bus in canada, ...

Mach10 wrote:Canada has a gun-related violence rate of 0.54/100,000 The US has a gun-related violence rate of 2.94/100,000

Interpret those all you want. :scratch:

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canada does not have the same borders we do, nor does it have the same culture or polulation density

meh a lot has changed since 2003 law wise Fair enough... So I looked up the 2006 stats... Which say more-or-less the same thing. :salute: as a whole the crime in the US went down - in the areas with the tightest gun laws it went up, and it wasn't legally owned guns causing gun crime. nuff said end ...

I'll just leave it as you interperate the data a lot differently than I do.

Mach10 wrote:I quoted from a 2003 crime survey right from the FBI... Google it.

meh a lot has changed since 2003 law wise

here is a little tidbit using the FBI statistics for the year Although the national figures show a decline, not all cities followed that trend. Murder was up in Cleveland, Washington D.C. and Baltimore. In the nation's capital there were 181 murders in 2007 compared to 169 in 2006; Cleveland saw a j...

Didn't we just go over this? There never was a "steady crime drop" that wasn't already happening both in the US *AND* Canada. You can't blame that on gun control/liberty. localized crime increases and drops that happen in US areas don't correspond to canada in any way nor do they correspo...

yeah I have an indirect hot water tank and water tubes under the floors for hot water radiant heat. I've got a high efficiency propane boiler for my hot water and heating but am considering adding a solar heater for it and leave the boiler as the backup heater. but I also insulated my house with spr...

We got that beat here in Salinas. A woman with a history of epilepsy was acting in an odd manner, reportedly stabbing herself in the neck with a pointed object. No blood was seen. Family members called an ambulance, and the police responded. When the cops showed up, she allegedly made a movement to...

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baltimore and DC have some of the worste crime in the country and also the toughest gun control laws, yet are they more urban than NY? Cause and effect; many jurisdictions clamp down on gun ownership in an effort to curb gun crime. But that's an ineffective and thoroughly misguided effort. Legal gu...

won't be long now and i'll be plunkin down some money for solar panels for my roof.

Then you have firing order issues. A square crank V8 is two V4's end-to-end, NOT two inline 4's on a common crank. true, using an existing v8 would do that. but if designing from scratch it would seem to me to make more sense to build it as two engines with a common crank, one a full time engine, a...

FIEROAJ wrote:This is what Americans want so they can be safe. LOL

we'd be a lot safer if the gov't let us protect ourselves a little more instead of watching over us like overprotective parents

I agree--but the backwards thinking rests pretty much on the vocal majority of pro-gun activists. All the "reasoning" that comes from pro-gunners is outdated, medieval thinking that lost it's relevancy when the US became a thriving urban society--not a frontier of wilderness pioneering. A...

Paranoia is never a justification for militarization. Fact of the matter is that guns in the US are rarely used for protection. If they were, you'd see a significant statistical drop in crimes per 100k... Reality is that the US is up there for some of the worst crime rates--significantly higher tha...