Originally Posted By skinnerbox I feel as though Donny has shown up at my virtual doorstep with the Book of Mormon in his hand, preaching about the evils of alcohol. It's as if the only thing we should be concerned about is alcoholism. Forget about poverty, homelessness, unemployment, underemployment, depression, chronic illness, etc. The only thing we need to worry about in our society, according to him, is not being sober. BTW... still waiting for his excuse as to why texting while driving is no big deal.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>This thread is driving me to drink.<< It's much easier if you skip Donny's posts and just read the responses.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>It's much easier if you skip Donny's posts and just read the responses.<< But I can still drink, right?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder It occurs to me that I'd like to see Donny try this alcohol crap on the parents of the Sandy Hook children. I'd pay money to see that.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Donny really, really doesn't seem to get that every time he makes a post about the dangers of alcohol, he is inadvertently making the case for stronger gun restrictions. We have greatly reduced the number of deaths from alcohol, specifically by introducing commonsense restrictions on a governmental level. And yet alcohol remains a perfectly legal product, and any adult that wants to get some can get some. Even our experience with Prohibition should show any objective thinker that there's no way we're going to try to completely outlaw anything that so many people want to have. So let's review: there are no serious proposal to seriously ban the thing in question. Any adult who wants it can still get it. Sensible government restrictions do not prevent that, but they do prevent thousands of deaths a year. Keep going, Donny. You're making our case for us.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>But I can still drink, right?<< That's why you skip his posts. Ignorance of the law is a good defense. >>Donny really, really doesn't seem to get that every time he makes a post about the dangers of alcohol, he is inadvertently making the case for stronger gun restrictions. << But he sure does get a lot of responses. It's like Groundhog Day.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>It's worth pointing out; not even necessarily for Donny. << How many times?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle What's hotter than mustard and milder than cream What best wets your whistle, what's clearer than crystal What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam What'll make the lame walk, what will make the dumb talk, The elixir of life and philospher's stone And what helped Mr. Brunnell to build the Thames Tunnel Wasn't it poteen from ould Inisowen
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Disneyland was designed and built by men who drank. And I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Rolly Crump didn't stop there.
Originally Posted By Donny Celebrity Gun Owners: Stars Who Are Packing Heat <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/celebrity-gun-owners-license_n_1557203.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...203.html</a>
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Wow... just wow... <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://awesomegifs.com/2012/07/beating-a-dead-horse/">http://awesomegifs.com/2012/07...d-horse/</a>
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Donny, ultimately it boils down to this: When you drive a car, you know there is a risk that there are drunk drivers out there. There are also plain bad drivers. But far more auto deaths occur in regular accidents than drunk driving. Everyone knows that driving a car is risky as we are reminded of every day by the flowery memorials along the road. We are taught to drive defensively for this reason. We have government mandated seatbelts and airbags in cars and we are required to carry insurance. Why? Because everyone knows this is a risky activity. Now, when I go to the mall or a movie or send my kids to school, those should all be safe places. There should be no risk of death. But there is because of the proliferation of guns out there and the innumerable thousands of irresponsible gun owners. Many of us think this is unacceptable. I think my right to live trumps your right to carry a gun wherever you want in the very same way that it trumps your right to drive drunk. If we restricted guns like we restrict alcohol (just think about the police checkpoints looking for drunk drivers and imagine that set-up for unregistered gun owners!) we hypothesize that gun deaths would drop dramatically. All we ask it that you gun owners either figure out a way to reign in your own or let us test our hypothesis of tighter gun regulation. The status quo isn't acceptable.
Originally Posted By Donny The problem is that I have pulled my weapon 4 times in my life and only called the police for two of them.Most people I know who are being honest have never or only one time pulled there weapon and never fired a shot and no police are called. so getting statistics on that is difficult.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>The problem is that I have pulled my weapon 4 times in my life<< Please stay away from my family.
Originally Posted By mawnck More "drunk driving", this time at Purdue University. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/police-confirm-shooting-at-purdue-university/">http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...versity/</a>
Originally Posted By RoadTrip What were the circumstances where you felt it was necessary to do that? I'm almost 62-years-old and I've NEVER felt like I was in a situation where a weapon would be of benefit to me. And that includes walking at night in the downtown areas of Chicago, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles. Somehow I suspect that people who carry weapons are constantly looking for an occasion to pull them to justify their paranoid fears.
Originally Posted By Donny 1. a guy was mugging a girl at a mailbox He had her in a choke hold.Later I found out they were room mates. 2. a guy tried breaking into my home with my 1st wife and kids around 3am (cops called) 3. a road rage situation two guys jumped out and tried to get in the passenger side of my car. (cops called) 4. a guy who's kid bullied a 5 year old kid came to my house and charged me. (cops called) I was justified in all cases.
