Karl did away with Doyle in Slingblade with a lawnmower blade.

According to the Business Insider article the beds themselves are quite dangerous.

Realism defines the wise man.

When a group or a person becomes more polarized and brings up things that are far fetched, debate goes out the door, just like when name calling is used.

Where would you hear any name calling in this country ?

So far in this thread there's been maybe one "name calling" Gun nuts

I find the whole gun control debate out of focus when car accidents, poisonings, suicides etc outrank student homicides by gun by large margins.

Want to save the students? Pay attention to major causes.

And one of the largest causes of death? Doctors..

Outlaw guns and sociopaths will just switch to renting 2 ton trucks and mowing down people like they have in Europe.

Not again!!??!! One more time I have to totally rethink my position! ;)

I'll take a good ole' AK-47 anyday of the week.:popcorn:

Should Ford and GM be boycotted for manufacturing products that kill and maim?

Ban automobiles?

Increase driving age to 21?


Annual United States Road Crash Statistics

Over 37,000 people die in road crashes each year
An additional 2.35 million are injured or disabled
Over 1,600 children under 15 years of age die each year
Nearly 8,000 people are killed in crashes involving drivers ages 16-20
Road crashes cost the U.S. $230.6 billion per year, or an average of $820 per person
Road crashes are the single greatest annual cause of death of healthy U.S. citizens traveling abroad

Definitely not GM

Point is that if these kids wanted to be more effective in saving lives they should advocate for raising the driving age to 21. Thousands of teens are killed every year in auto accidents, far exceeding those killed by guns. These kids are being manipulated for political purposes at a very fragile time in their lives. So sad.

To those who make such inane arguments...does INTENT not matter at all to you??

Dead is Dead, whatever the cause. Why don't you make a "non inane" argument for why death by lawnmower is less important than death by AR 15 even though lawnmower deaths are greater. We all realize murder is bad, but outlawing guns will not stop murders. Getting chewed up falling off a lawnmower is also bad even though there is no intent on the part of the machine.. What you find evil is human intent to kill. This is against the law already. Trying to outlaw the instruments humans use to kill is useless.

About three years ago my lawnmower started acting sketchy and came after me. It's now double locked in a storage facility, spark plug removed, and people mow our lawn. Their mower is much larger and powerful. When they're here I do a head count, keep the windows closed, doors locked and stay inside.