A mildly positive column in the NYTimes

I think its a fine article written by someone on the left for the left. However...

The comments on the article are crazy. What I do not get is that the same people that want to tell me that I cannot tell a women what she can/cant do with her body (and I agree with them) want to tell me that I cannot protect myself, even though the constitution gives me that right. I just dont get their logic. The issue is that they have never fired a gun, they dont want them, so they feel that I shouldnt either. It makes no sense. I swear that half of the issues the extreme right and left in our country take up defy all reason.
 
People look at the world with their frame of mind. So a person that believes that the average person will do something stupid, or criminal with a gun means that they feel that they themselves would do such acts. They can't comprehend someone being safe and responsible with a firearm, because they can't comprehend themselves doing so.
 
Nathan
Suicides: So, what should we do? Some say we need a 3 - 7 day wait.
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I've often wondered if there's any data behind the wait period. Maybe a CDC study on 'gun violence' will uncover that people who commit suicide with firearms have actually owned those firearms for much, much longer than t he wait period. Maybe it's the same with homicides by gun: the wait period perhaps doesn't apply in 99% of the cases. Not that this would ever trump the "if we can save just one [fill in the blank]" argument.

DaleA
What? What?

Some of Mr. Blow's Best Friends are gun owners!!!
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Not quite, you choose your friends. Mr. Blow's gun owner foil is family. We're all stuck with family... (I do see the deep social history references in the humor in your statement, though...very nicely done.)
 
I actually converted a Mr Blow once. It continues to be a slow and painful conversion, but he does like to shoot and it all starts there!
 
Suicides: So, what should we do? Some say we need a 3 - 7 day wait.
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If strict gun laws prevented suicides, then Japan should have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, instead of one of the highest.

Japan – 18.5 (26.9 men – 10.1 women) per year per 100,000 population.

U.S. - 12.6 (20.2 men - 5.5 women) per year per 100,000 population.
 
I saw a documentary that showed a forest at mt. Fuji where people go to commit suicide and it's almost a full time job to get the victims out.
I don't think guns were involved in any of them
 
BLE
Japan should have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, instead of one of the highest
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That's cuz it's too late to ban tall buildings...
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Well not to damn your comparison, but Japan DOES have a cultural heritage of honorable ritualistic suicide...
 
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