Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:47:43 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <25f4ce0df00f34ba0ff392f4feee9c6f@www.novabbs.com> <3QuLP.2006953$OrR5.1186843@fx18.iad> <9eOLP.2071462$eNx6.1284025@fx14.iad> <680012b0$5$14$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <680022dd$1$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:47:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8f86c59cea064f726bcb30177a15ebf"; logging-data="3406372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dsPBnMwnXuH/xhpR7m3zjG50QkT6vZiY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sfbvLDyeD2ZXAuHIbgUZJQm50EA= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3410 Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-04-16 5:36 p.m., Graham wrote: >> On 2025-04-16 3:00 p.m., Dave Smith wrote: >>> On 2025-04-16 4:27 p.m., Graham wrote: >>>> On 2025-04-16 2:10 p.m., Ed P wrote: >>>> >>>>> Florida wants to make it easier for 18 year olds to buy guns. >>>>> Every night on the news there is a shooting.  A 14 year old shot >>>>> and killed a 13 year old. >>>>> >>>>> Stupid gun owners leave them in the car for kids to steal too. >>>>> >>>>> There is that BS line that a good guy with a gun can stop the bad >>>>> guy with a gun.  Where is he though? >>>> >>>> And what happens when the good guy turns bad? >>> >>> Does that scare you as much as the guys who get guns with lots of >>> stopping power and just can't wait for the opportunity for  protect >>> themselves? >>> >> Aren't they the type that consider themselves the "good guys"? > > > Perhaps.... but as things stand in this country, they are not the people > who are causing problems. The vast majority of shootings and murders are > in  a small number of demographics, and they are not the legally > licensed gun owners. They are the demographics that our government likes > to refer to as racialized and want to reduce impose reduced sentences > on.  Some say they are over represented in the criminal justice system. > Some of us see them and being over represented in criminal incidents. > Dammit, quit beating around the bush, Officer dave. Just come right out and say it; You're talking about brown and black people, right? (Maybe you call them niggers.)