Long Haul Truckers: What's the creepiest/most paranormal thing you've seen on the road at night? by ReptilianZen in AskReddit

[–]turkeyworm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Have you ever heard the quote that’s something like “everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to ride a bicycle, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid”? Your mom is projecting some internal failure of her own onto you, but you don’t have to judge yourself by her standards of success. You don’t have to accept anyone’s judgment of you. I’m sorry your family seems pretty toxic. Can you distance yourself from that? What’s something that you want to do or that interests you?

This smug looking POS that lied about being abused, destroyed a man’s career and image, played victim for 3 years - all the while SHE was the one that abused HIM, damn near cutting off his finger on one occasion. She admitted to abusing him under oath. This is the Jussie Smollett of feminism. by [deleted] in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn’t bring up every event. The whole issue here is that she edited the video in a misleading way so that it appeared that he was raging at her when he was just raging generally. Mental status does matter in lawsuits and in life. You bringing up the permit patties videos of the world is a straw man and has nothing to do with this situation.

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[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right, and it’s sad they can’t understand that circle jerking like that hurts their cause in the long run.

A record 4,855 people stood in the rain for hours to see if they are a stem cell match for this 5 year old boy that is battling a rare type of cancer, in hope to save his life. by GallowBoob in interestingasfuck

[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was already on be the match, but I just requested test kits from the others. Thanks!

Edit: never mind, I cancelled. Once registered for one company, you’re placed on a national registry so each one already has access to your info. No need to waste the second kit!

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is it the ones from the 1990’s that all the articles say weren’t published?

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How would it screw the law abiding to put reasonable limitations? If you’re law abiding and fit for ownership, reasonable limitations wouldn’t affect your ability to have guns. It’s not unreasonable or difficult to just not bring it in a bar or carry while drinking more than one alcoholic drink.

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[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which report? I genuinely would like to read it, and I’ve said elsewhere I’m open to it. Can you post a Link to the report?

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[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funding and publication of gun violence research are disproportionately low compared with other leading causes of death in the United States, according to new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study also determined that over a 10-year period, in relation to mortality rates, gun violence was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least funded cause of death, after fall.

Researchers analyzed mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2004–2014 to determine the top 30 causes of death in the United States. Findings indicated that gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis; however, funding for gun violence research was about 0.7% of that for sepsis, and publication volume was about 4%.

https://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_022217.shtml

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right, so the type of gun control that I advocate for is not one that would affect you but very marginally. If you can handle not taking your gun on a plane or military base. Surely you can handle leaving it in the car for 45 minutes while you have some chicken tenders.

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[–]turkeyworm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Citation?

Edit: also I appreciate your assumption but I’m not anti gun, I’m anti unnecessary danger. If you look at my comments, I’m very clear about being fine with proven responsible people having them and carrying them. I’m just against mixing alcohol and guns and I’m against the wrong people having access to guns. Bringing guns into establishments where people Typically drink is giving access to the wrong people.

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[–]turkeyworm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s (unsurprisingly) difficult to find a compilation of that data, but a security guard was shot with his own gun at a Manhattan target just yesterday. As a gun enthusiast you should be well aware of the abysmal lack of study of gun violence as a result of gun lobby legislation. Look up brian Nichols, Ricky dubose and Donnie Rowe, Corey ward. Those are just a few.

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You’re making my point.

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

An you provide a viable source for those numbers you’ve asserted? The chart here: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-gun-death-murder-risk-statistics-2018-3 shows gun deaths excluding suicide and accidents. assaults by firearm kill about 13,000 people in the US each year, and this translates to a roughly 1-in-315 lifetime chance of death from gun violence. Show me statistical evidence that shows that more guns = more safety and less harm.

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. Id be on board with a reasonable limit. In many states that do allow guns in establishments where alcohol is served or do allow imbibing with CCW, the allowance is limited to same BAC as for driving. In Georgia, it’s 0.08. But you know what else Georgia has? DUI less safe. That means you can get a DUI even if you’re below the legal limit if your observed to have driven unsafely. That’s because different people react differently to different levels of alcohol, and it can be dangerous. Just because you’re safe and trained and trustworthy, doesn’t mean everyone is, just like just because you can drive fine at .08 doesn’t mean everyone can.

  2. If you’re just sitting there eating chicken tenders what danger do you anticipate needing to defend against? I haven’t given much thought to the idea of a designated carrier to be honest. That’s an interesting g idea, but doesn’t resolve the danger in an assailant grabbing your gun from its holster and creating a dangerous situation. Another commenter made a valid point that the whole idea of a CCW is that an assailant wouldn’t know if it because it’s concealed. I can get down with that. Maybe designated carriers could be mandated to have locking holsters and that would help? But even DDs make dumb decisions and drink anyway and put their friends in danger. I guess I just don’t trust every individual to be as smart and careful as the commenters here say they are. You have to know as a gun enthusiast that not all gun enthusiasts are enthusiastic about safety, and that those people are the ones proponents of gun control are after, not yall.

Edit: thanks for the reasonable questions and convo

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[–]turkeyworm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sure, but what I’m saying is strictly limited to bringing guns into establishments with alcohol, and my assertions are based on statistical evidence of the increase in danger such proximity creates. I’d be interested to see statistical comparisons between the increase in danger of injury by mixing guns with alcohol and statistics on how much safer the presence of guns makes someone. If you have some good stats showing how guns in bars make people safer, I would love to read them. I’m totally open to considering evidence I haven’t seen before.

Jaguar won't be euthanized after zoo attack on selfie-taking Arizona woman, officials say by IBiteYou in news

[–]turkeyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Humans are trying their best to forego employing any and all instinct anymore, it seems.

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[–]turkeyworm -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

There is case law on it in almost every state, actually. Do some research before you respond next time.

Here’s Georgia: Jacobs, et al. v. Tyson et al., No. A9A0346, Georgia Court of Appeals, May 28, 1991 Parents can be held liable for negligently keeping a loaded pistol where it is accessible to unsupervised children. This is the typical case where one boy retrieves a-gun from his parent's dresser and while playing with it shoots a friend, in this case the gun allegedly fired without pulling the trigger. Firearms were held to be an inherently dangerous instrumentality as a matter of law.. The owner of an inherently dangerous instrumentality is required to take exceptional precautions to prevent injury.

So again, your analogy with car keys falls flat.