Firearms. Yea or Nay?

[Lady's Human]

No, there wasn't ice involved, and I've never accused you of being a barnyard animal.

Nice attempt to smear, ES, but it just isn't going to work. The Lott studies and FBI stats (raw statistical data from the FBI, not massaged by someone) have been discussed, you poo-poo'd the data.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Nice try LH...look it up in your dictionary. Biddy is a barnyard animal.

And I am still waiting for your high moral indignation at the denigation of a candidate's speech pattern. Being as how you take great offense at discussion of non-issue -- personal type stuff.

Yeah...right.

[sparks19]

http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp

* Americans use firearms to defend themselves from criminals at least 764,000 times a year. This figure is the lowest among a group of 9 nationwide surveys done by organizations including Gallup and the Los Angeles Times. (16b)

* In 1982, a survey of imprisoned criminals found that 34% of them had been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim." (16c)



* Washington D.C. enacted a virtual ban on handguns in 1976. Between 1976 and 1991, Washington D.C.'s homicide rate rose 200%, while the U.S. rate rose 12%. (1)

[sparks19]

Oh good lord... now this is just getting ridiculous.

Why don't you just go meet at the monkey bars after school (no teachers) and settle this schoolyard nonsense like most kids.

and lets get back to the debate.

[Lady's Human]

Give it up, Sara. You're flailing and failing.

There hasn't been a discussion in here involving firearms and gun control which you haven't inserted yourself into, and you remember remarks made by people months, sometimes years after the fact, yet you can't remember something as central to the discussion as FBI raw statistical data and the Lott studies.

As to Biddy, the colloquial definition is:

biddy
Noun
pl -dies Informal a woman, esp. an old gossipy one

which is the definition I was clearly using in the earlier discussion.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sorry Joe. I think that is passive -aggressive behavior you are exhibiting!

Telling me I am failing and flailing because you don't want to answer a question!

Okee dokee!

Sparky is playing nice. Why can't you?

[Lady's Human]

What question would that be, Sara?

[RICHARD]

As to Biddy, the colloquial definition is:

biddy
Noun
pl -dies Informal a woman, esp. an old gossipy one

Male-en The male form of a biddy.

[Edwina's Secretary]

bid·dy 1 (bd)
n. pl. bid·dies
A hen; a fowl

A hen...is a barnyard animal.

When tossing insults at people it is best to know what they mean.

When I was in college there was a term I thought meant "jerk." I used it at dinner with the parents of the guy I was dating.

When he walked me back to my dorm he asked me to bring down my dictionary. I did and he showed me the dictionary definition of the term I used.

That was the end of that relationship!

Noun 1. biddy - adult female chicken

[sparks19]

Well... I've been called a lot worse than a HEN in my lifetime. that's pretty low on my "offensive" list

[Lady's Human]

Gee, Sara,I pulled my definition out of a dictionary, too!

Whichever one is correct?

Again, Sara, have you looked at the Lott studies? FBI statistical data?

Or are you going to just pretend that what I stated is incorrect?

Care to get back on track, or are you just going to admit that you're wrong?

[king2005]

I don't care who is to blame, so can this immature argument just stop (for all parties involved). This was a decent thread up until the last 1+ page where it is now about people fighting with each other.

1 thing I have learned is to ignore people I think are ignorant of facts, IMO. I ignore them, then they have no fuel to feed off of, so nothing really gets started... Thats 1 reason I stay out of the Seal Hunt threads, as so many people are ignorant & refuse to acknowldge that many of the seal hunters are actually breaking the laws.. & that Peta is good for making their own videos of themselve breaking the Seal Hunting laws... but I'll stop there... (please don't cont'd the seal hunt thing, it was purely an example of ignorance, IMO)

So lets all grow up & get back to having a decent chat about guns & ignore people who we don't get a long with (why you haven't blocked the other is beyond me) so things can remain civil... No matter if you are for or against guns.. but you need to present good reason & evidence for both sides...

So lets all ignore that fight & cont'd the FRIENDLY debate after this post please

[JenBKR]

Aww Richard, ya know we love ya (Just think of what we'd call you if we DIDN'T like you )

[RICHARD]

Aww Richard, ya know we love ya (Just think of what we'd call you if we DIDN'T like you )

You'd call collect?