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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 21, 2012 -> 01:16 PM) Thornton is simply one of the most valuable lh pen guys on the market. Veal isn't even close. The fact that this is being stated is laughable. Which is something everyone other than our resident troll seems to understand.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 21, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) Do you really feel that it's worse for innocent people to be killed by guns than it is more a greater number of people to be killed by drunk drivers? In my view an innocent being killed is an innocent person being killed. I really don't care about how it happened. I care more about reasonable way to try to decrease them. I think it's without question that we'd be a safer society without the presence of alcohol.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:29 AM) And all of the violence shown on TV in America? I really think you're overestimating how "different" it is here as opposed to frequently compared countries like Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, UK, France etc...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:22 AM) Obvious problem with that setup is that you haven't prevented the person with no license from owning a car, and you might well have transformed them into a person who drives without a license. It might work for some people but not for others. If it reduces the incidence, it's a decent regulation, but it still leaves a "gun show used car purchase" loophole to fix. Well if they get caught operating a vehicle without a license due to an alcohol related suspension, send them to jail. That would hopefully help to deter it.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:18 AM) Is that a video game? Obviously, violent games & movies are available in other parts of the world. But nowhere else are they glorified in the media as they are here and IMO that definitely has an effect on the violence in this country. Those video games are much more popular in the East Asian countries, so I'm not so sure you can make a strong correlation there.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:16 AM) But by doing that you're restricting the right of 99.9% of people for the sake of .01%. We don't do this with any other issue where death is an unfortunate result and we know it'll happen. It's all based on people like Balta who fear they'll just be randomly shot by vigilantes in the streets. I'd imagine your odds are better at winning the lottery than being a victim of a stray bullet or intentional gun crime like Newton. Well that's not true. But your odds are better of being killed by a drunk driver, however.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 10:11 AM) but just because YOU'RE sane, doesn't mean we shouldn't make laws to help keep guns out of the hands of the insane! Why stop at guns? Shouldn't we attempt to make laws to make sure anything which can harm someone else be kept out of the hands of people who might misuse them, whether maliciously or otherwise?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 09:47 AM) I've also not seen people who snap go out of their way to steal cars or use their own to go on mass killing sprees to kill as many people as possible. They go for the true killing weapon of choice, guns,. (somewhat graphic)

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:24 PM) I don't think it is all that different. Alcohol related deaths outnumber gun related deaths so why is one OK and not the other? Because they aren't as different as people would like them to be. It's a valid similarity, but one that people don't take seriously enough. QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:28 PM) Because they like drinking and don't want the government telling them they can't do it anymore. Bingo. QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 11:23 PM) ALCOHOL KILLS YOURSELF, CIGARETTES KILL YOURSELF, DRUGS KILL YOURSELF GUNS KILL OTHER PEOPLE will you stop with the ridiculous fallacious arguments??? *Sigh* Unfortunately too many people believe this. Reality doesn't set in on it for most until they lose someone because some asshole decided to get wasted and drive home and change their life forever.

QUOTE (Joxer_Daly @ Dec 20, 2012 -> 06:16 AM) Celtic got Juventus in the last 16 of the Champions League. Tough enough draw but, at this stage, whoever we got was going to be a big challenge. Some cracking match-ups in this round, actually. Yeah, Milan-Barca, Man U - Madrid and Valencia-PSG should be fun

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 03:56 PM) You're much more likely to be successful with a gun it seems, though. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 04:02 PM) This is really not the case. Psychological studies on this one typically show that the real urge to commit suicide is a passing one. If someone has the ability to do so easily available, then that makes them vastly more likely to make the attempt. And reverting back to the fact that countries such as South Korea, Japan, Finland, Switzerland etc have a much higher suicide rate than the US, you can't really draw the correlation that gun control has much to do with it. Also, due to the nature and results of the act in question, I find it hard to believe that they can really, truly say that with much confidence

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) otoh: men are much more likely to attempt suicide with a gun and thus be successful http://www.afsp.org/files/College_Film//factsheets.pdf That's interesting, but I think lumping suicides in the gun conversation is kind of silly. If you want to kill yourself, you're most likely gonna kill yourself, whether you have access to a gun or not.

Pretty neat

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 01:27 PM) Ridley just scares the s*** out of me. f***ing Belichick. Yeah I'd sit Ridley. He fumbled twice last week and you can't trust Belichick, especially since he has Vereen, Woodhead and Bolden to play with

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 10:45 AM) Japan is WAY higher than the US, even with those strict gun laws.m Their rate is about double the US. South Korea, Japan, Finland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway all are and I'm pretty sure all those countries have much more stringent gun laws

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 10:12 AM) And yet you ignore the article from Australia where homicide and suicides plummeted significantly and there were no more mass shootings after the laws changed. I don't really think there's much of a correlation between gun laws and suicides

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 12:02 AM) The number 1 and 2 seed are playing for third in my league too. #3 (me) vs. #6 in the championship. I'm the #2 seed in one league and playing for 5th (the #1 is playing for 3rd) and I'm the #3 seed in my other league playing for 1st.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 01:57 PM) In rankings, at any given time, there will be teams who were beaten by another team, that might end up ahead of them. They are comparing a whole field and the resumes of each team. Just beating someone doesn't guarantee that your resume is better, though it usually helps. Yeah this. I haven't even looked at the latest rankings but whenever anyone has the argument of why so and so is ranked ahead of another so and so even though they lost to them I just roll my eyes. Especially in a sport like college basketball where teams are losing all of the time. Head to head matchups help the voters gauge how good each individual team is and it obviously affects their rankings, but just because team A beat team B does not mean team A will be ranked ahead of them.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 11:42 AM) Not that it matters at all, but how can anyone possibly justify putting Butler #6 and over Illinois when Illinois killed Butler on a neutral court? Because people don't rank teams based on single games?

Courtesy of the one and only Jimmy Clausen

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) I saw that earlier and that is just full of awesome

I did not read through this entire thread, but my opinion on this is that there is no reason a regular citizen needs an assault rifle - none. Handguns, however, can have many personal uses and I believe fully in American's right to own them. That being said, I also think it is currently way too easy to acquire the license to do so and have no problems with stricter regulations and background checks before granted someone that privilege.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 10:32 AM) If you aren't going to call those on GB's WRs, then don't call it against Chicago, that right there makes them bad calls. The Peppers "late hit" was crap, so was the PI on Conte. In the end, GB is the better team, they don't need refs helping them out... No it does not. The OPI calls were correct calls. Not calling them in the other instance was incorrect but does not impact the validity of the others. And yes, the late hit was ridiculous, but that is getting called all around the league this year. The "defenseless receiver" penalty in the CIN-DAL game last week was the worst personal foul call I've ever seen

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 09:39 AM) Danario getting zero for me was painful. I also had him in my fan duel contest but was able to stave it off and still finish in the top half of my 50/50

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 09:20 AM) Are you sure there isn't anyone else in her life? For some reason I get the feeling that she is trying something new, and keeping you around just in case. Yeah it sounds like what one of my best friends has been doing to his current ex-but not really an ex-but definitely an ex when he wants-but really not because they continue to spend time together when convenient for him-girlfriend for the last 8-12 months.