Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Collectivists never miss a chance to hammer home the party line. Frank Bruni of the New York Times says don't worry about Ebola, worry about firearms.

Tighter restrictions on firearms. More than 30,000 Americans die from gunshots every year. Anyone looking for an epidemic to freak out about can find one right there.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where do these clowns get their figures from? I just went to the FBI stats and he's slightly off; by about 20,000! And as for vaccines he should speak with parents that have had their kids die or end up permanently destroyed because of them. And the flu shot is never, ever the right one for whatever the current strain of flu is...Maybe it's good he writes for the Times. People who follow him in lock-step will get exactly what they deserve.

RogerC said...

All it's going to take is one infected person developing symptoms on public transport or in a public building and he's going to see a *lot* more than 30,000 deaths from Ebola over the following year. Typical collectivist though, ignores the facts to hammer home the ideological dogma.

The best way to survive an outbreak is not to catch the disease in the first place. If it gets loose here, I intend to bunker down for as long as I possibly can.

Anonymous said...

The author turns common sense on its head, repeatedly. First, many deaths we are "cavalier" about, auto wrecks, etc., are often the result of reckless or under the influence driving. And we do freak out when intoxicated offenders take the lives of innocents.

Re: gun deaths, many of those deaths occur due to the gangs conducting the drug business. That being illegal, those who are burnt by others cannot sue for breach of contract, but must administer private "justice" or else exit the trade.

Most of us accept these deaths as part of the background noise, because we are thinking we can avoid them most of the time by living more sensibly and safely than those unfortunate others. Drive safely, don't do drug deals, etc.

What freaks us out about Ebola is that this transmission can effect innocents everywhere, living normal and safe lives. If it turns out that droplets from sneezes in a grocery aisle that lingered on surfaces of the can of tuna for hours before we picked it up can transmit the illness, its spread to any large city in the US is disastrous.

Moreover, while policy issues re: the right to keep and bear arms and safe speeds have long been debated and mostly resolved with the accent on freedom, not security, the Ebola outbreak is a new policy ground, and we may well be concerned that the outbreak here is the result of a recklessly insane politically correct policy from the Federal government.

When Mad Cow disease is verified in certain countries do we not prohibit its importation here for security reasons until that outbreak is dealt with in the host countries? Yet Duncan could hop on a plane from an effected country and come to a major American city with no worries. That is just cause to freak out.

Anonymous said...

Where is this asshat getting his numbers? "So many deaths from XYZ cause!" Seems awfully high and non-credible to me. Another case of Progressive Panic.
But I could be wrong. Anyone want to point me to a source for this Libtard's numbers?

B Woodman
III-per

Anonymous said...

Democrats are pathological liars. Their life motto is "the ends justify the means", and I mean ANY MEANS up to and including murder. This guy is in dire need of a 'blanket party'.

RogerC said...

"Where is this asshat getting his numbers? ... Seems awfully high and non-credible to me."

He's about right, *if* you factor in suicide. Of course, he's assuming you'll read it as accident-or-violence and not question the stat itself.

Funny thing, the US suicide rate is about the same as the British one. I'm sure suicide has a lot of different causes, but easy access to firearms doesn't seem to be a major contributing factor.

Anonymous said...

B Woodman, I suspect you know where he pulled his numbers from.
And of course never mind that those who died in auto crashes that were not wearing their seatbelts were breaking established law..............
His 'reasoning' is typical of the left: do what we tell you to do. Period.

Anonymous said...

Typical leftists, trying to point people in any direction that doesn't result in harm to them and their interests.

THESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE IF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DIE, JUST AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH THEIR VOTER IMPORTATION AND NULLIFICATION PROGRAMS, that aren't conspiracies or anything like that.

Sorry but that is EXACTLY what this is.

Anonymous said...

CDC Ignores Centuries Old Protocols for Infectious Deieases

I was trained to set up and run decontamination stations in the military for NBC type situations. While we most definitely need to be decontaminated from the propaganda of the network with the same an acronym it actually stands for Nuclear, Biological & Chemical.

The entire protocol for handling such situations was one of complete isolation. A virus is an animal. If it cannot feed it cannot grow and spread. Unfortunately this common sense approach is lost on the trappings of gushing patronizing of institutions and degrees and we have the inmates running the asylum. Stupid will get you killed, it looks like when we entrust our lives to stupid we have no call to get our knickers in a twist.

The very first thing the CDC head did was to rationalize why closing borders was a bad thing. Ebola does not care about rationalization. The very protocol used to contain the disease in a hospital is to isolate the patient. Evidently they can't control Ebola in a controlled environment, what does that tell you?

Now isolating diseases has been a protocol since the plague hit Europe. Evidently these bozos haven't made it past high school history. Take this for instance:

The Middle Ages
The practice of quarantine, as we know it, began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics. Ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing. This practice, called quarantine, was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni which mean 40 days.

Early American Quarantine
When the United States was first established, little was done to prevent the importation of infectious diseases. Protection against imported diseases fell under local and state jurisdiction. Individual municipalities enacted a variety of quarantine regulations for arriving vessels.

State and local governments made sporadic attempts to impose quarantine requirements. Continued outbreaks of yellow fever finally prompted Congress to pass federal quarantine legislation in 1878. This legislation, while not conflicting with states' rights, paved the way for federal involvement in quarantine activities.

Late 19th Century
Outbreaks of cholera from passenger ships arriving from Europe prompted a reinterpretation of the law in 1892 to provide the federal government more authority in imposing quarantine requirements. The following year, Congress passed legislation that further clarified the federal role in quarantine activities. As local authorities came to realize the benefits of federal involvement, local quarantine stations were gradually turned over to the U.S. government. Additional federal facilities were built and the number of staff was increased to provide better coverage. The quarantine system was fully nationalized by 1921 when administration of the last quarantine station was transferred to the U.S. government.

Sorry about being long winded but there is a point. These blocks of text were taken off the CDC Web Site, I KID YOU NOT!

http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html

Copy this use this but hammer these Bozos during this election time. Lets use this example to make a reasonable argument about why political agendas don't matter in the real world.

bondmen said...

Let's just tell these "progressive" collectivists we're not worried about guns in the hands of the good guys, we're worried about guns in the hands and monopoly control of Fascist politicians!

Anonymous said...

To my way of thinking, theres only one thing that can trump the death toll of outbreaks of disease- and thats genocide.

And whether or not grabbers want to claim its just a coincidence, history shows us that weapons laws have always been an integral part in such mass murders.

Anonymous said...

No Dummy.. dont worry about firearms, worry about a nation full of pissed off Americans with firearms fed up with scumbags like you and yours