Posts by AndDontCallMeShirley

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HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...

by DATA-DOG in

1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

suggestions welcome.. .

dd.

AndDontCallMeShirley

BOTR: It also strikes me that this is particularly male behavior.

BOTR believes she's intellectually superior and obviously a sexist...awesome combination.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

As the youngest person to ever represent the U.S. on the Olympic Shooting Team and the youngest woman for any country in the world to make an Olympic shooting team, Kim has worked hard to achieve her dream. The road to the Olympics began at the age of 10. Kim practiced every day after school, sometimes until 9 or 10 o'clock at night and getting up at 4 am to complete her homework. A typical day of practice is 4 to 6 hours every single day. She has been training for 21 years. Her early training put her in the history books as the youngest girl to break 100 straight in American skeet at 12 years old.

http://www.oaktreegunclub.com/spotlight/kim_rhode.asp

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What were these parents, coaches and Olympic officials thinking? Letting a 10 year-old girl anywhere within the vicinity of a firearm ! They should all be arrested. It doesn't matter that she was being supervised and trained by professionals.

There should be a law banning everyone from training to be an Olympic Team shooter until they are 21 years old. Period.

I wonder if she, as a skinny, weak 10 year-old girl, even had the strength to pull the trigger by herself ? Or, did she have to "fiddle" with it?

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

bohm:

a loaded uzi and a pair of skis are approximately equally dangerous in the hands of a 9 year old. got it.

that make perfect sense

That's not what I'm saying bohm, and you know it.

It's hilarious watching the strawman you've created kick the shit out of you.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

You can't be serious here. You're not really comparing an assault weapon with a skateboard right?

No, I am not making that comparison.

What I am saying is that there are a lot of children's/young adult activities are dangerous, some bordering on/or outrightly "extreme sports". But that does not keep parents from allowing their children to participate in those activities. Ever watch the Olympics? You'll see very young teens (or younger) doing aerobatics on skis off of jumps that are 50' high while they fly off them at 40 mph. Do you see anyone moving to ban young people from aerial skiing simply because it's dangerous? No.

Ever watch young teens at events similar to "X Games" doing extreme skateboarding? Motocross races? Highly dangerous, potentially lethal sports, yet no one is clamoring for laws to be passed to stop it by enacting blanket, one-size-fits-all bans saying no young person should be allowed to do it under any circumstances.

My point is that tragedies like this one invariably result in a knee-jerk reaction by people so polarized they shelve it into a category that;s unique unto itself. I try to find the middle ground, weigh the pros and cons, see it from both sides before painting the issue with a broad brush.

Where I grew up there were rural areas where children learned to hunt at a very early age. Sometimes hunting was the primary way the family provided food for themselves. Would anyone argue that those children should be banned from hunting or handling firearms until they reach age 18 or older, simply because no 11 year old should ever handle a firearm for any reason?

That being said, we don't know the family in this story's background. Maybe the parents are idiots. Maybe this is the first time the daughter has ever shot a gun. I don't know. Perhaps this was a stupid act based on some really bad decisions on both the parents' and instructor's part and could've been avoided by using common sense. Time will tell.

What I'm not into is using one accident like this one to promote agendsa that affect millions of people who are acting responsibly.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

I know of dozens of people who would think this story was totally fine. If you can't even drive until you're in the middle of your teens, you shouldn't be firing any guns

Agreed.

The problem is, when a story like this makes the news, the gun control advocates want to take firearms away from adults, too. I believe reasonable limits, or outright rules against children handling firearms, are not a bad thing.

I'd also like to clarify: I'm not saying handing this 9 year-old a gun was a good idea. But, reasonable precautions were taken to make sure she had instruction. It's always easy to run "they should not have done that" scenarios after an accident occurs.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Those are ridiculous analogies ADCMS. A person learning to ski can be supervised and given instruction that would limit any danger, for example, you would not send a beginning skier down a black diamond run.

I see, so if she had killed the instructor with a .22 pistol ("bunny slope") instead of an Uzi ("black diamond run") it would count only as an unforseeable accident?

You must not have read the story, LisaRose. Your argument falls flat, she was "supervised and given instruction that would limit any danger". As I said, had the parents handed their daughter an Uzi, or any other firearm, and told her to go play, all these arguments people are making would be completely valid when the inevitable accident occurred. The fact is she was being instructed by a licensed professional in a controlled setting, a firing range.

Accidents happen.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Flawed logic caedes.

Accidents happen, whether through deliberate misuse of something or if all safety precautions have been observed.

A firearm is a tool (whether for hunting, self-defense or target shooting) and has an inherent risk in using it. Power saws and air nailers are also tools that have an inherent risk in their use. And, even when done safely, accidents still happen.

The difference is when a carpenter accidentally cuts off a finger or hand with a power saw, no one begins clamoring for the banning of power saws.

If this girl was being instructed in the use of an air nailer, and she accidentally killed her instructor with that air nailer, would you use the same argument you used above??

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

"There are ways to reduce the chance a 9 year old girl will shoot someone in the face with an uzzi accidentally kill herself colliding with a tree while downhill skiing: Dont give her a loaded uzzi and ask her to shoot it pair of skis and tell her to slalom."

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So the next time we hear a story about a 9 year-old who gets into the driver's seat of the family car and accidentally kills her dad by running him over in the driveway, I expect to hear a lot of JWN posters call for the banning of automobiles. The only way to make cars safe is to make sure no one has one.

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9yr old girl kills her gun instructor with an uzi

by EndofMysteries in

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/us/arizona-girl-fatal-shooting-accident/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.

"a 9-year-old girl learning to fire a submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range when the weapon recoiled over her shoulder, according to arizona authorities.

another reason to go against those arguing that young children should be taught how to use guns.

AndDontCallMeShirley

It's not as if the parents just handed their 9 year-old an Uzi and told her to go out and play.

She was receiving instruction by a professional in a controlled setting.

Sometimes accidents just happen regardless of all the safety precautions taken.

Skateboards, archery, motorcycles, monkey bars, bikes, downhill skiing and gymnastics are also dangerous kid activities that carry varying degrees of risk (sometimes a high degree/potentially lethal).

Try as you might to make everything risk-free, it just isn't realistic. It's always easy to dissect, criticize and condemn in hindsight.

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Sept 1 service meeting mystery revealed

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

the letter has appeared at last - just for uk.

it is a money grab for the new bethel which has been approved.

there is a video to be shown - just watched it - brief summary of uk bethels, why current one is too small, why we need money to build a new one.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Finance - Watchtower Revenues Near $1 Billion Dollars

The Watchtower made it into New York’s top 40 corporations in 2001 with revenues touching $1 Billion dollars per annum. When you add this to the real estate they own, the Bethels and the Kingdom Halls, it probably makes them one of the richest printing companies in the world. Also see Donations.

Newsday.com, article on the top-40 New York corporations in 2001.

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No doubt WT's revenues are even higher now.

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w12 8/15 pp. 16-19

A Meeting Marked by Unity and Thrilling Plans

... Guy Pierce of the Governing Body spoke next and acknowledged that all present were curious about our construction projects in New York State. He introduced a video showing developments at Wallkill, Patterson, and recently acquired sites in Warwick and Tuxedo, New York. At Wallkill, a new residence due to be completed in 2014 will provide over 300 additional rooms.

There are plans to develop a 248-acre (100 ha) property at Warwick. "Although we are not yet certain of Jehovah’s will regarding Warwick," said Brother Pierce, "we are proceeding to develop the site with the intention of relocating the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses there." Plans are also being made to use a 50-acre (20 ha) parcel of land situated six miles (10 km) north of Warwick to facilitate the staging of machinery and building material. "Once construction is permitted, we hope to complete the entire project within four years," said Brother Pierce. "Then our property in Brooklyn can be sold."

"Has the Governing Body changed its mind about the closeness of the great tribulation?" asked Brother Pierce. "Not at all," he answered. "If the great tribulation interrupts our plans, that will be wonderful, absolutely wonderful!"

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Jehovah isn't sure what he's doing with all this real estate development, but go ahead and donate anyway...