Comments on: A Gun Nut Wish List

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:52:10 +0000

Stop it, haters.

I didn't see "memetic". Ernest, are you unwell?

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:10:18 +0000

The author is a pistol-minded fellow, undoubtedly. But we must admit the bugger extremely cultured. Observe “Anti-statism”, “transcendental”, “memetic”.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:35 +0000

It certainly will, Ernest. Therefore, I happened to see the initial post as a display of pistol-minded nincompoopery commonly found in the provinces.

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:38:44 +0000

Jim,

1.) Your first two points lack context, thus a gun nut like myself could take the first one to mean that my chances of killing an intruder are triple what they would be without a gun. I could take the second to mean that an intruder, upon discovering that I am armed to the teeth and more than willing to unload some hot lead into his ass, would be five times more likely to take his own life.

2.) I don't have any kids.

3.) I don't really know what to say to this, other than there are a number of convenient ways to take one's own life should one feel so compelled.

4.) Again, not sure what to say to this.

5.) My partner and I have a healthy and violence-free relationship, and we both love to go to the shooting range on the weekends.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:33:15 +0000

Yes, the presence of guns will complicate matters even further.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:34:36 +0000

The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide in the home. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1993)

The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide fivefold. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1992)

Half of gun-owning households don't lock up their guns, including 40 percent of households with kids under age 18. (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2007)

States with high household gun ownership have more suicides than states with low household gun ownership. The excess suicides are almost entirely due to firearms. (Journal of Trauma, 2007)

A gun in the home is more likely to be used in a suicide than to be used in self-defense. A gun in the home is 11 times more likely to be used in an attempted suicide than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense. (Journal of Trauma, 1998)

The presence of a gun in the home made it 6 times more likely that an abused woman would be murdered than other abused women. (National Institute of Justice Journal, 2003)

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:24:19 +0000

Say, those are swell little guns. I always wanted to own something of this sort.

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:00:38 +0000

joelogon: Choice 1 was about cost (Glock's ain't cheap). Choice 2 was about nostalgia (and I've fired a .357--it hurt my poor wittle wrists).

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:59:30 +0000

I don't dig riggs... anymore: Forgive my regional fellows for their ignorance, and please don't hold it against me. I'm as forward-thinking a former Floridian as ever you'll meet.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:18:01 +0000

also: yes I will.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:17:18 +0000

The Sexist officially does not condone fisting by firearm.

By: joelogon

joelogon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:01:18 +0000

I would guess that you're the only self-professed gun nut who would put a Ruger P95 on a wish list over, say, a Glock 19.

As to the .38 Special (remember: hold on loosely, but don't let go), you might as well get a .357 for even more Manly Power (and you can shoot .38 rounds out of it, too)

By: I don't dig riggs... anymore

I don't dig riggs... anymore — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:18:47 +0000

"for many people, especially Southerners..." "Owning a gun...speaks to a tradition of self-sufficiency and independence from bureaucracy" = confederacy, klan militias, paranoia, succession, black helicopters, race war, sexism, racism, christian-extremism, pro-life, pro-death penalty, headupassism. i'm quittin' you riggs, plain quittin' you.

By: Arthur Delaney

Arthur Delaney — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:12:50 +0000

Mike Riggs is also a haircut nut.

By: Mike Riggs

Mike Riggs — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:04:54 +0000

Let me say what you won't: Libertarians are a little kooky.

If I send you some pictures of me making man-love to my new firearm, will you post them on The Sexist?