[CLUE-Talk] Slashdot Gun Control

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 12-09 16:48, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> In light of our recent discussion about gun control (ostensibly about
> "Bowling for Columbine"), I thought I would point out todays Slashdot
> article:
> 
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/08/2135229&mode=nested&tid=103
> 
> If you would like to up the amplitude by an order of magnitude, and up
> the signal-to-noise ratio by 10 orders of magnitude :-)  go check it
> out.

Yikes. You aren't kidding. Almost 2000 comments, only 134 scored 3 or above.
Trying to get unbiased information on guns is like trying to get to the
bottom of who tried to steal the 2000 election [*], or getting to the
straight dope on the O.J. trial. It's going to be skewed a lot about what
you read, who you talk to, etc. 

I don't really see what the point was for Michael Moore to compare CA to US
in gun violence - it's totally apples to oranges. Besides the difference in
laws, there is also the demographics and culture - which is a lightning rod
I'm not going to get anywhere near. ;)

[*] I'm reading Michael Moore's book, Stupid White Men, and he thinks it's
an open-and-shut case that there was a conspiracy started by Bush months
before to steal the election, *in Florida*. What doesn't make sense to me is
that how did Bush or Bush's people know that Florida would be so important
months ahead? This seems to be a stretch, IMHO. Of course, everyone loves a
conspiracy theory, and the left certainly doesn't have a monopoly on them:
did anyone see that Arlen Specter called for an investigation into the OKC
bombing? Now I wonder which conspiracy theory spurred him to call for that?
:) 

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