[CLUE-Talk] Slashdot Gun Control

[djperkins at americanisp.net]

> 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?
> :) 
> 

I'm in favor of gun control.  Anyone who owns a gun should control it.