Posted on 04/13/2015 8:03:28 AM PDT by rktman
“The most common reason that people have a gun is because they have it for home protection,” he says. “Unfortunately, the data indicates that having a gun is associated with both an increased risk of homicide, but even more importantly, an increased risk of suicide. We know that, for example, if there’s a gun in the home, the risk of suicide among adolescents and young adults increases tenfold.”
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Good Friday, I paid 3.00 /lb live. $ 100.00 per sack. ...that's expensive.
The one I love is: “Participating in gun buyback programs is like castrating yourself because your neighbor has too many children!”
LOL! Pretty expensive for what some folks use as bait. There is franchise in Vegas called Hot & Juicy that does their version of crawfish with taters and corn. Not too bad but expensive. We dropped about $100 just for two of us last July when we down there.
Lots and lots of corporate events with crawfish boils.
We usually hit 3 or 4 that week.
Don’t make us come down there. LOL!
It's total bullshit.
You’d probably change your tune if it was the NY times. LOL!
Researchers: People who own cars more likely to die in automobile accidents.
You would think the over-population folks would see the light based on this new knowledge.
I lived in Bay St Louis. Closer to Waveland actually. Up 603 in the "fish camps".
Know them well. Had a house in Kiln for a while on the Jordan River.
This is really old news and really false news.
This really badly done study looked at two areas within Seattle to test the hypothesis of if a gun in the home increased the likelihood that someone in the household would be shot. Unfortunately one of the areas chosen to study had lots of murders because it was a prime drug dealing area in the City. The other little tidbit that is often overlooked is the “friends and family” included rival gang members.
So, let’s assume you live next to a crack house and feel you need a firearm for safety from some low life that needs a fix, doesn’t have money and decides to rob you to pay for the fix they need? Could your life be in danger just because of where you live or is it only because of the gun you have brought into your home? How about the chance of a drive by shooting have a few bullets aimed at the house next door hitting someone in your family? Was that caused by the crack house and gang activity or because you bought a firearm? Finally lets pretent you are a convicted felon in illegal possesion of a firearm living in a crack house and a rival gang comes by to steal your stuff? Are you at risk because of your line of business or is it because there is a firearm in the place you reside.
The study was BS and everybody in this part of the world knows it. It was so BS, it was easy to point out to Congress that junk science like this, even when peer reviewed should not be funded with public money.
“...Our research] underwent peer review and was thought to be very solid and worthwhile research,” says Dr. Fred Rivara, who was part of the team that researched gun violence. “The CDC stood by our research — they had funded it and they stood by it. Unfortunately, it raised the attention of the National Rifle Association, who then worked with pro-gun members of Congress to essentially stop funding firearm research.”....”
It would seem to follow then that our combat forces should be unarmed in facing the enemy as well.
Pure unadulterated crap, folks.
I lived at the end of Teal St. Take Central Ave off 603 about 6 blocks in, left on Teal. Talk about a laid back place to live. The family that owned the house across the canal lived in Slidell. They’d take me out on their boat quite often...
Nice. We had an older place near the Catholic church on River Road just off the Kiln-DeLisle road near where they used to load up logs on the river. About an acre with a spring fed pool. It’s still standing and as far as I know it was high enough that it didn’t get wet during Camille or Katrina.
I kinda miss the slow paced atmosphere of the Deep South. I live in the Houston area now. Much more chaotic.
Having a grand piano suspended by a rope over a sidewalk astronomically increases the odds that someone will be killed by it (as opposed to it resting on the ground_
Roger that.
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