Posted on 11/24/2018 1:11:24 PM PST by Kaslin
When it comes to inane hot takes on social issue, the Left never fails, and neither do their publications that peddle drivel on a daily basis. Yet, while Russian collusion hysteria has taken over the left wing blogosphere, anti-gun hot takes will always rise to the top. Right now, we’re being told by the CDC to stay the hell away from romaine lettuce. The warnings are pervasive, with health updates, breaking news alerts, and the blaring sirens: don’t eat romaine. Over at the left wing Think Progress, they’re wondering why there aren’t any such updates about gun violence. Yeah, it’s comes to this: health updates about salad being twisted into some anti-gun screed:
On Thanksgiving Day 2018, Americans couldn’t buy romaine lettuce because of a CDC recall linked to an E. Coli outbreak. But even though gun violence is so mundane that a shooting at a mall in Alabama Thursday evening barely made national news, guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
The Centers for Disease Control issued a food safety alert on Tuesday afternoon, urging Americans to refrain from eating, and retailers from selling, any romaine lettuce, “until we learn more about the outbreak.” Five people died from an E. coli outbreak in June, and nearly two hundred people got sick.
Food safety is certainly an important thing to get right, but the number of Americans who die from foodborne illness every year — 3,000 according to the CDC — is dwarfed by the 30,000-plus annual fatalities caused by guns in America.
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Every day in America, 96 people are killed by guns and hundreds more are injured, according to Everytown for Gun Safety. It’s not something that has to happen. America’s gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of other high-income countries.
Well, first, Everytown was cited, so you know the data is predicated on shoddy statistics. How shoddy? Even The Washington Post called their school-shooting figure for 2018 “flat wrong.” In 2015, the group’s claim that there’s been a school shooting every week since Sandy Hook was given four Pinocchios. In other words, not only is the data point straight trash; it’s totally false. Any paper with Everytown’s research has more utility wiping your rear end or cleaning up a kitchen spill than being cited in a serious discussion. Also, as some have already noted (mockingly), like Erielle Davidson, eating lettuce is not a constitutional right. So, this argument was another instance of the anti-gun Left getting hit in the mouth with the belt buckle.
But romaine lettuce is in the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/vCcUB6vAMz— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) November 24, 2018
What does romain lettuce have to do with guns?
Yeah, uh, so which amendment is it again that guarantees us our freedom to eat romaine shall not be infringed?
[What does Romaine lettuce have to do with guns?]
I guess guys are carrying fully-auto Romaine Lettuce. Liberals have their own logic which makes perfect sense to them.
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Their ultimate goal is to establish a national romaine lettuce registry. Reasonable romaine lettuce control...
Not a single one is caused by guns. They are caused by people who used guns. Many ore fatalities are caused by people who use other objects like hands, feet, clubs, cars and scalpels.
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OK, that sounds fair, but I think assault lettuce should be banned immediately.
I looked at Romain Lettuce at Wal*Mart the other day, but the serial numbers had been filed off.
I was suspicious. So I picked up a bunch of bananas. I’ve seen a training video on how to attack with a banana.
Banana clips, anyone?
Background checks and thirty day waiting periods for romaine lettuce. Romaine lettuce doesn’t kill people, people eating it kills people.
We need reasonable romaine lettuce control.
An excellent accessory. I put blue and red tape on them in an alternate fashion.
That way John McClane won’t figure out what’s going on.
Darn flatfoot.
When guns are outlawed, only Romainians will have guns? ;)
This is a hilarious thread! I am laughing out loud all by myself! :-D
Guns aren’t on the menu, dip $#!zen
They can both blow your stomach wide open
Uh, maybe don’t laugh so much. Pushing gun control as a public health issue is a standard tactic of the gun grabbing left, and has been made operational down to the personal level of one’s physician and goes beyond him/her asking patients if they own guns & are they properly stored.
For example, there’s “Docs vs. Glocks”, then there’s the debate whether banning the quizzing of patients about guns COMBINED WITH pointed questions about feeling depressed or suicidal somehow violates physicians’ First Amendment rights. The case is beginning to build against the gun owner.
Now add in making it a matter of record when patients reply “None of your business” or “I’m getting another doctor” as grounds for suspicion of pre-crime tendencies. One’s attitude has been noted.
Still with me? Now fold into the mix the recently rammed through Red Flag laws. The usual drill is citizen denounces gun owner as dangerous followed by police goes to judge for a warrant to confiscate guns without due process or a professional evaluation.
The disarmed gun owner now demands an evaluation to prove he is not a menace to others. The doc comes forth with his/her documented suspicions about the owner’s `stability’ and it’s not going to be helpful to him getting his weapons returned to him.
Physicians as government spies? What’s to prevent it?
Back to romaine: we went out to dinner the day of the CDC announcement; our server informed us that all the romaine in the kitchen had already been thrown away. I like Caesar salad. A Federal decision has directly affected my personal choices. Quite a reach from on high into one’s life, in my opinion.
On Thanksgiving Day 2018, Americans couldn’t buy romaine lettuce because of a CDC recall linked to an E. Coli outbreak. But even though gun violence is so mundane that a shooting at a mall in Alabama Thursday evening barely made national news, guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
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Pre-Thanksgiving snow fell in the Northeast accumulating up to 8” in NYC, but guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
A recent study says 2 eggs a day are actually good for your cholesterol, but guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
Shoppers lined up in pre-dawn hours for Black Friday sales at malls, but guns were still freely available at stores like Walmart across the country.
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