Time Warner Cable Bans Some Gun Ads > TWC needs to highlight medical industy incompetentcy first.

TWC needs to highlight medical industy incompetentcy first.

Only a Floridian could make such an absurd comparison and actually assume they are the same. To think that a doctor in surgery, working on a complex human body, is apparently the exact same thing as a weapon designed to kill or destroy.

These sort of ridiculous comparisons are the poster-child of gun control, as no one with that sort of a warped rationale, should be allowed to own anything that can harm another American.

"The gun issue is simply a red herring to cover up all the other faults of corporatist America." -- Um. One guess who 'profiteers' off guns, ammo, fear, paranoia etc etc etc... lol Hint: who do you think the NRA really represents...

reply to Mr Matt
They should be looking at our mental healthcare system and the laws relating to it. You will never stop every mass shooter, but there are at least two instances (VA Tech. and Tucson) where the authorities knew that the person was mentally ill but nobody did anything about it. The Tucson shooter was even kicked out of his college by the campus police because of his issues, but they didn't do anything more than that. Once he was out of their jursdicition they adopted a "Not our problem" mentality.

The really sad thing here is these people aren't evil, they are just very ill. With early intervention they would have been treated and cured, instead they kill other people, and either off themselves or wind up in the express lane to death row/life without parole.

One might also argue that it's stupid to legislate based on high profile events that are statistically rare. My wife is a teacher and has gone through all manner of training and preparation because of this. Statistically speaking, her school is much more likely to be leveled by a tornado, but the extent of their preparation for that is a single drill once a year.

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reply to Crookshanks
This argument doesn't really work, since the weak don't want to be equal, they want universal weakness, enforced through an all-powerful government.

reply to Seaboogers
I'm not sure that this is true. Liberals love the psychiatric industry, and will support any measure that "protects people from themselves". But...they also can't criticize an obviously incompetent female psychiatrist. Personal responsibility is not a concept, and they always look for group and "cultural" solutions.

reply to Telco
Jealous you are not here? I mean seriously what does his or anyone else location has to do with who he is?
Besides he is more than likely talking about direct negligence which is preventable manslaughter; not non-preventable deaths during surgeries or in ER.

What since those people were not killed by guns that makes it somehow OK and less important?

And from what I understood his main point was not exactly straight comparison but more of how guns get demonized and blamed for everything but any other thing killing "kids" and destroying lives is just in the shadows and part of everyday life.

A gas can, fertilizer and a flare can take out more people than a gun so what we should become a sissy state and make everything "dangerous" banned?

reply to Crookshanks
I still live in NYS and the way the law was written among the other foolishness is that pistols (semi-auto) are now considered assault weapons. This also covers a lot of pre 70's collector weapons because it used to have 2 features to be an assault weapon, now it's one (like for instance does it have a pistol grip).

Also, much less than 1% of deaths from guns are committed by real "assault weapons", so the law is more of an annoyance than anything else for law abiding citizens, because if you own a pistol this is just going to wreck your day by having to replace your mags.

Humans are pretty stupid, because fear and logic do not mix. Do you pass a law that is likely to impact much less than 1% of the crime, even if assuming criminals don't follow the law to begin with, just because some white people in the burbs were killed by their own? More people are killed or stabbed in 3 months in Buffalo than the last two white suburban shooting sprees.

So somehow killing 50+ people in shooting sprees is worse than 8,000 people spread out.

BTW, the SUICIDE RATE is 2x the murder rate in the US: Problem?

And now homocide rates are almost the lowest in 100 years, even with the population many times larger:

»www.breitbart.com/Big-Government···Year-Low

For instance in Mexico it is largely illegal for citizens to carry guns, they yet over 55,000 citizens were killed last year by violent criminals. They are now creating local posse to deal w/ this.

Now onto Time Warner:

This is funny because the liberals watch movies and have no idea of what a semi-automatic weapon is or how it works, so some "authority" is making these decisions. Now the only guns I see in commercials are from beer commercials and these guns are more deadly than zip guns . This is just some liberal dork again who is lacking logic, making a "rule" that is likely to impact 0.00001% of commercials just because it makes them feel good about themselves.

But by the same token TW will create shoot-em-up movies and magazines no problem because that makes $$$ and well you can't impact the bottom line, so lets get a headline on a no-op.

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I learned differently in my upbringing. These so-called strong people that you cite as taking advantage of the weak are also usually self-destructive. They do not consider the repercussions of their actions. This fact should be obvious.

Having a gun does not bring you to a stalemate. A stalemate requires a logically thinking person. These people are anything but or we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

Typical result here is a shootout.
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dnoyeB
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16

reply to Ghoul
Let me get this straight, you guys have this bizarre love affair with guns, yet it's the rest of us, including every single country in the developed world that has it all wrong and apparently run on "feelings".

Instead of living it up in blue states, how about you pack up and move to the red states that espouse your views first. Nothing more laughable than someone who talks up republicanism yet lives in a blue state.

reply to Crookshanks
Well of anyone that stupid yes, automobiles are ironically well regulated after all.

Where does the 2nd amendment specifically give you the right to kill another American 'you' deem a threat?

Firearms are an equalizer for cowards and do not make anyone safer, as guess what, the "bad guys" have guns too. Every single developed nation with gun restrictions or bans have lower homicide rates and that is fact.

The rest are just gut-feelings and cliches, which are a dime a dozen and not based on actual facts or reasons.

reply to Wilsdom
Wow, that's a well thought our RWer argument /sarcasm. Even through in the "guvmint" angle.

reply to Seaboogers
Didn't realize that DC had setup up borders and customs points. To prevent people from driving the full 6 minutes into Virginia and buying whatever guns they like.

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Dude, you guys did free Casey Anthony. Even someone frozen from 10,000 years ago who just learned about law and order, would have seen that she is guilty.