Well I was in Boston this week and saw the signs from the Taxi. The one I saw had me scratching my head trying to figure out what they were implying.

I have to agree with Wille, I am for ownership but responsible ownership. In my mind the NRA does not differentiate between the two.

I also have seen data manipulation to prove a point, on the anti regulation side. When you work with human studies data you must consider the hundred of other factors. My favorate was plotting of the data for new regulations in Britain. They showed that after the tough new regulations were introduced that hand gun deaths had increased. Naturally the plotting of the data showed the small increase. If you did the math the increase amounted to 3 new deaths per year in the UK. The time period was over the fall of the Eastern europe, which any idiot knows released tons of guns on the world black market and a new sources for organized crime. The source for the article was the Faser Institute, a far right wing non-think tank in the Fraser Valley. Naturally this was passed to me by my boss and former quality control person. See stats don't lie.

The other aspect of the 10 year old article that was disturbing, which has increased recently was the incorporation of Christian principles also manipulated for their point of view.

Ex 21:28-30 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull must be stoned and the owner also must be put to death. However, if payment is demanded of him, he may redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.

They took the first verse and argued that their was no way that the gun owner knew it would kill. To me it bespeaks to the fact that you know the gun has the potential to kill. Most are not ignorant of the fact that it can easily kill and without proper handing will. A good portion of the gun deaths in the US are miss handling (see Dick C. fire). You need to keep it safe. If you do not keep it safe and out of the wrong hands you are liable, in my mind.

In the last few weeks this analogy has been brought to life in our family. My mother's neighbor was in the pen with the Holstein bull. Something he had done numerous times. Suddenly it attacked him and tossed him. He was nearly killed. Having no family the neighbors have spent the last few months nursing him back to life. He will not turn his back on the bull again and it will be penned.

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