Who do you support for Governor in Texas in 2010?

[waco1909]

Hezekiah wrote:

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No, the majority of deaths in the Civil War were from illness and infection. Huge numbers of recruits never even saw battle before they died in the camps.
I don't distinguish between the North and South dead. It was simply a bloodletting based in evil and ignorance. The tragic flaw in the American character that allowed it still hasn't been repaired even today.

You usually get an infection after you eat a bullet or some shrapnel.I think my facts are good.you seem to miss one fact.People like to kill each other.Reasons, be damned.That's why war isn't going out of style.

[Hezekiah]

That's a cynical view of humanity. The vast majority of people don't want to kill another person.

Wars are a way to organize the killing of innocents in order to accomplish the goals of evil and greed. Most people are too spineless and weakminded to resist. How else do you get normal human beings to kill someone they don't know and never did them harm?

[waco1909]

Hezekiah wrote:

That's a cynical view of humanity. The vast majority of people don't want to kill another person.
Wars are a way to organize the killing of innocents in order to accomplish the goals of evil and greed. Most people are too spineless and weakminded to resist. How else do you get normal human beings to kill someone they don't know and never did them harm?

Considering how people"hate"to kill one another, they sure have managed to do a lot of it.

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[Texan]

What's the difference between wrangler jeans and cacti?

On the cacti, the tiny pricks are on the outside!

What's the difference between nascar and a toilet bowl?

The pieces of shite make right turns in the toilet bowl!

The south will fall again.

[Noo]

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[waco1909]

Texan wrote:

What's the difference between wrangler jeans and cacti?
On the cacti, the tiny pricks are on the outside!
What's the difference between nascar and a toilet bowl?
The pieces of shite make right turns in the toilet bowl!
The south will fall again.

Another post by the"fake"Texan.what' s the difference between Texas and all the northern states? Texas has a huge budget SURPLUS...the northern states have huge budget DEFICITS...and, Oooohhh yeah.....Texas has JOBS!! HAAAA!!

[Defiant1]

waco1909 wrote:

<quoted text> Another post by the"fake"Texan.what' s the difference between Texas and all the northern states? Texas has a huge budget SURPLUS...the northern states have huge budget DEFICITS...and, Oooohhh yeah.....Texas has JOBS!! HAAAA!!

The worthless P.O.S. doesn't want to work anyway, so Texas doesn't need he/she/it around to stink up the place and cost taxpayers money.

I bet the 5 hardest years of the morons life was 3rd grade.

[Heavy Fed]

waco1909 wrote:

<quoted text> Another post by the"fake"Texan.what' s the difference between Texas and all the northern states? Texas has a huge budget SURPLUS...the northern states have huge budget DEFICITS...and, Oooohhh yeah.....Texas has JOBS!! HAAAA!!

I hate to break the news to you Waco, since you are so enamored with them... but BOTH of them are fake Texans.

[Texan]

Texan United States knows way too much about tiny p---ks, s--t, and toilet bowls. Had a lot of experiance with them haven't you. Your p---k's to small to impress the women, and you eat your own s--t out of your very own toilet bowl. that's got to be it. how else would you know so much about the subjects? HF you and Di need to get together and go to California, I understand it is the perfect place for you nuts and fruits.

[waco1909]

Told y'all Texan has an imposter following him around.Has happened to me as well.That's why I use an avatar.

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Deerhunter wrote:

It is broke, but who are we going to call...White,Glass, Shafto or Perry----Gotta go with Perry by default...

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[Texan]

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[Bruser]

Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive
I've just learned that Washington, D.C.'s petition for a rehearing of the Parker case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was denied today. This is good news. Readers will recall in this case that the D.C. Circuit overturned the decades-long ban on gun
ownership in the nation's capitol on Second Amendment grounds.

However, as my colleague Peter Ferrara explained in his National Review On line article following the initial decision in March, it looks very likely that the United States Supreme Court will take the case on appeal. When it does so - beyond seriously considering the clear original intent of the Second Amendment to protect an individual's right to armed self-defense - the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court would be wise to take into account the findings of a recent study out of Harvard.

The study, which just appeared in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694), set out to answer the question in its title: "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? emphatic no, showing a negative correlation: as gun ownership increases, murder and suicide decreases.

The findings of two criminologists - Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser - in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates, are telling:

Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).

For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland's murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe.

If the mantra "more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death" were true, broad cross-national comparisons should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates.(p. 661)

Finally, and as if to prove the bumper sticker correct - that "gun don't kill people, people do" - the study also shows that Russia's murder rate is four times higher than the U.S. and more than 20 times higher than Norway. This, in a country that practically eradicated private gun ownership over the course of decades of totalitarian rule and police state methods of suppression. Needless to say, very few Russian murders involve guns.

[P]er capita murder overall is only half as frequent in the United States as in several other nations where gun murder is rarer, but murder by strangling, stabbing, or beating is much more frequent.(p. 663 - emphases in original)

It is important to note here that Profs. Kates and Mauser are not pro-gun zealots. In fact, they go out of their way to stress that their study neither proves that gun control causes higher murder rates nor that increased gun ownership necessarily leads to lower murder rates.(Though, in my view, Prof. John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime does indeed prove the latter.) But what is clear, and what they do say, is that gun control is ineffectual at preventing murder, and apparently counter productive.

Not only is the D.C. gun ban ill-conceived on constitutional grounds, it fails to live up to its purpose. If the astronomical murder rate in the nation's capitol, in comparison to cities where gun ownership is permitted, didn't already make that fact clear, this study out of Harvard should.
Bruser

[waco1909]

Bruser, i'm pro-gun, but there were more gun murders in Houston than in the entire country of England.What gives?

[Defiant1]

waco1909 wrote:

Bruser, i'm pro-gun, but there were more gun murders in Houston than in the entire country of England.What gives?

Guns are completely banned in England, so they have to stick with knives and baseball bats to kill each other.

Here in Houston, the herd is self thinning as well, but they are able to use guns.

[waco1909]

Defiant1 wrote:

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Guns are completely banned in England, so they have to stick with knives and baseball bats to kill each other.
Here in Houston, the herd is self thinning as well, but they are able to use guns.

Actually, I think there are more total murders of all types in Houston, than the entirety of England. Must be cultural...