I’m not one for an elitist standard of decency in dealing with authoritarian tribalists with selfish, narrow, rednecked paradigms.

You know, sticks and stones…

I’m happy to go toe to toe with you if you like, as long as I don’t have to smell you. From your picture on Technorati, I’m guessing the pile of flesh you carry around is commensurate not only with the strength of your conviction, but also the myriad of odors one finds in a meat packing plant.

You must know that the need to cite unscientific polls conducted by mindless, gun toting zealots to defend an absurd position (people need and guns to defend themselves in America) reflects the very desperation that position.

The claim that 400,000 people per year use a gun to save their lives, is on the order of a statistic that would have been implausible even in World War II. Thats why no one has bothered to prove the “professor” wrong.

But since you like dealing with absolutes, like when my bullet enters your brain, you are definetly dead, lets do the same here.

Can you give me ANYTHING more bankable than some professor did a poll? How about a link to the poll, or the questions asked or the methodology used. How about some peer review (do you know what that is)?

I think your statement, “totally pwned in the process by people who rely on facts and statistics instead of blind emotion.” is a bit pre-mature.

IOW, saying it, doesn’t make it true. True to me is something on the order of, you know, a bullet to the brain.