I question the timing

You know the US banned* Assault Rifles 10 years before they were invented?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

* Taxed and registered, but most people don't understand the difference.

This Is My Rifle

My rifle and my cousin

There are many like it but this rifle is mine.

It is a Ruger 10/22 my dad gave me when I was 16 years old.

Would a "universal background check" make it illegal to give a gun to a child or other family member?

Dishwasher Safety

The Black Sunday Society 

Presents

A Short Video On

Dishwasher Safety

...

Please note the implication that you should take responsibility for your physical safety at all times by having the means to defend yourself and others up to and including carrying a concealed firearm are wholly coincidental.

Buckle Up for Safety

It is impossible to prove a negative.

You will often hear a news story about someone's life being saved, either through an act of heroism, or blind luck, or by something as common as a seat belt.

Everyone knows seat belts save lives. It is a Universal Truth.

And if you don't know it there are TV ads to teach you.

But how many lives are saved by seat belts? Again you can't really prove that someone is alive when they could have been killed...

But the best number I could find online comes from the CDC:

Seat Belts Have Saved an Estimated 255,000 Lives Since 1975

255k lives saved in 33 years? Am I the only one who thinks that number is shockingly low?

How low?

Well Dr. Gary Kleck, at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, did a study on guns and their use in self-defense in 1993. And from that study he extrapolated that guns are used for self-defense 2.5 million times each year.

But wait... We still can't prove that someone is alive when they could have been killed. And we don't need to.

All we need are 10% of one year's worth of defensive gun use to be a life saving event, to equal the lives saved by seat belts each year... Oh, I'm sorry that is not correct. All we need are 10% of one year's worth of defensive gun use to be a life saving event to equal the lives saved by seat belts in 33 years.

That seems like a very low bar to reach.

You will often hear the poorly informed mantra that we need to treat guns like cars.

Instead of treating guns like cars, we need to treat guns like seat belts.
  

Black Sunday

“Do you want to hear a happy song? I’m sorry homie, we don’t do no happy songs.”
—     Mike Ness

Not a Sheep

Not like she will post it on her own blog...

From the Squirrel Report


Edit: New Jovian Thunderbolt has Words.

1976

I have lived in Kentucky almost my whole life. My folks moved here before my first birthday.

Before that they lived in Dodge City, Kansas the place I was born.


I recently found this photo which was taken in Dodge City in 1976.

The other thing I have from Dodge City that came from 1976... The Ruger Mark I my father bought there.

What is funny is that I had the gun for several years before I noticed the writing on the top.

MADE IN THE 200TH YEAR OF AMERICAN LIBERTY