Dang Martin

@Unseen I see there are stats for gun deaths. Is there a breakdown between intentional (murder) and accidental, like a gun backfiring and killing the shooter, or toddler accidents?

@Unseen. Yes, I’ll get back to you on that, @Umar may have better tools than me 🙂

@Unseen, I’m going to try to move this question over to the AZ Group (first time, thank you for allowing me to experiment on you muahaha)

Unseen wrote:

Strega wrote:
“The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance in a multivariable model. Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the w…

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@Unseen. Are there comparable statistics available for accidental deaths per capita from gun related incidents?

@Stutz, it’s not bad once you get used to it. There’s a Group here called Atheist Zone (same as the site name) where members can and are posting comments and suggestions and complaints, etc.

when @Umar first set up the site, he did it at basic level so that we all could have a say in which plug-ins he looks for and installs and in what order.…[Read more]

@Stutz great to see you :).

I had a fingerprint scan on my last laptop, which then meant I totally forgot the administrator password for it, and after a messy session involving a tube of gorilla glue and some recalcitrant dragon statue parts, I discovered it would have been a smart idea to have registered my pinkie finger as a fallback. The…[Read more]

When I first came over, I was staying with my fiancée (now wife). She had two teens, now older of course. I wonder if you can imagine how I felt in the morning when half-asleep, I slid my arm up under my pillow, only to find my hand curling around the cold metal of a handgun handle with the thing roughly aimed at my head. I sat up waving it…[Read more]

@SteveInCo. It is eminently possible that since there is a lot of genuine hunting available up here in VT, that guns are thought of as food collecting tools rather than self defense ones. No idea, but that’s a guess. We don’t really have cities in VT that compare to those in other states. Not a lot of us about, basically.

Laughs I don’t think Alan Watts is particularly logical, but it’s a nice view of our place in the universe. It’s all speculation, and if there were to be an afterlife there’s probably a huge beurocracy with eternal waiting rooms, a la Beetlejuice 🙂

You should perceive “reality” however it pleases you to do so. If you find life easier to…[Read more]

@Gregg. You can drink beer at 18?

Probably the cost-effectiveness, because we can pretty much nanochip these days. You could add it to the gun price and promote it as a feature, maybe :). You know, the more you pay, the more it’s worth – and all that.

@Unseen. My last laptop had a fingerprint scan mechanism which substitutes as a password. I wonder how hard it would be to transpose that mechanism onto a gun trigger. It was really easy to add other people’s fingerprints when there was need, and just as easy to delete them.

You could transfer gun ownership really easily with such a mechanism…[Read more]

I find it interesting that guns and people co-exist where I live now (Vermont, USA) because I didn’t grow up in a gun-friendly country, and I kind of half expected everyone around me to be toting guns when I moved over from the UK.

In fact, I rarely see anything resembling a gun, despite Vermonts open carry laws. I’ve been trying to be as open…[Read more]

I used to have this short video posted on my TA account Lily, of Alan Watts talking on “sort-of” spirituality without a god 🙂

Unseen wrote:

Of course, the other problem with Pascal’s Wager is which deity to place your bet on. What if it’s Ahura Mazda, Allah, or Odin and not Yahweh?

That’s a perfect rebuttal of Pascals Wager 🙂