Dear Gun Loving Idiot from Jay Lake's Blog

[daveon]

1) If you can't find information about the facts of what Tony Martin did - learn to use Google(1)
2) Go away and learn some basic maths.  You're off by quite a lot in your maths - and, btw, the UK homicide rate is 1.5 per 100,000 not over 4
3) So the fact that 79% of the population don't want more guns trumps some fuck wit on YouTube?
4) And I'm going to say this slowly.  THE GUN OWNERSHIP RATE IN THE UK PRE-1997 WAS TOO LOW TO AFFECT CRIME RATES EVEN IF SUCH A CORRELATION EXISTS, WHICH IS NOT CLEAR

Basically, you're an idiot.  Stop while you're behind.

Oh and if you want me to take you seriously.  Stop posting from an anonymous account and sign your fucking name.

(1) But I'm kind so here's a link - http://www.mail-archive.com/cybershooters@mail-it.com/msg00033.html

The things about Tony Martin is there are actually very few states in the US where what he did wouldn't have landed him in court.  You don't get to shoot someone, leave the scene of the crime and return the next morning and find a dead body where they won't arrest you on the spot.

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You forgot 5: attend remedial English.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

My English can have issues, but I was giving a by on that one just in case they aren't an English speaker... which is what I hope.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Grocer's apostrophes seem to be something that's peculiar to native English speakers; it's certainly not something I see from any of my overseas students.

[t--m--i.livejournal.com]

Why do you do this to yourself? Why oh why (etc).

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Dave figuratively beats his head against a brick wall so that we don't need to. And for that, I am most grateful.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

:)

[daveon.livejournal.com]

It's strangely cathartic. And helps clear my head of mundane stuff like putting off Client X whom we're 3 weeks late on a deliverable to, and scrapping a bunch of reviews from the web to put into another system so I can write the delivery documentation and send it off.