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02-07-2013, 02:51 PM
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The goal of advertising is to modify behavior. And the motivation is not altruistic.
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02-07-2013, 03:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d-ray657
The goal of advertising is to modify behavior. And the motivation is not altruistic.
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Last I looked, businesses had competition and lacked enforcement power. Government, by definition, lacks both.
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02-07-2013, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Swimming pools.
Another to ad to the list of weapons more deadly than a semi-automatic rifle.
I wonder how many robberies have been committed at the point of a swimming pool?
"Hand over the cash or I'll over chlorinate!"
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That wasn't the point. Icenine used an example of a father leaving a gun on a table. His son subsequently shot himself. The parallel with the pool is salient in this context. That is, more irresponsible parents lose kids to drowning than accidental shootings. The use of a gun to commit a crime is an entirely different issue.
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02-07-2013, 03:08 PM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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The governments role is supposed to be to do what we tell them, not the other way around.
Pete
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02-07-2013, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
There's armed guards in many schools now. Why is it suddenly a problem? Or is it OK for the inner city but not the 'burbs?
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There was an armed guard in Columbine, fat lot of good he did.
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02-07-2013, 03:44 PM
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BH, I'd like to ask you to back up your assertion that most homicides here are related to the War On Drugs. I think that's flat out wrong but I suppose your libertarian mind would like to merge those two phenomena so that you could claim that ending one would take care of most of the other.
John
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02-07-2013, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
The governments role is supposed to be to do what we tell them...
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And I -- and the majority -- are telling them to restrict gun ownership.
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02-08-2013, 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Zeke
And I -- and the majority -- are telling them to restrict gun ownership.
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So let's all join Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly, I just sent them some money.
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02-08-2013, 06:18 AM
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AKA Sister Mary JJ
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02-08-2013, 10:50 AM
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So let's all join Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly, I just sent them some money.
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I've been in since they announced.
John
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