The Argument 5
Jul22
In the immortal words of Spider Jerusalem, “moo hoo ah ha ha ha.”
Yurgh. As I pull out of the illness nosedive and get my shit together, this week is going to be nothing but madness. MADNESS.
Yes, it’s fucking political: Please tell me how gun control laws would have stopped this. I’m dying to know how keeping me from having a 20 round mag, or registering all my firearms, would have stopped any of that.
It wouldn’t have stopped it. Most people know this. Nothing short of a blanket ban and full confiscation would stop shootings, and it would take 50 years or more to get all the guns back, if it’s even possible. Then instead of 40 people shot you’ll have 25 beaten to death or stabbed. Probably mostly women and elderly, since the physically strong will be able to do whatever they please until the cops show up… if they show up.
Blanket confiscation is not physically possible: It is just too easy to make guns. Seriously, watch the documentaries about how Khyber Pass copies are made.
Boiled down to their simplest, guns are just tubes that are sealed at one end in order to launch a projectile with expanding gasses. Any competent user of tools can make functional guns.
More cops on the street that can enforce existing gun laws
Well, if the law-abiding subjects of Chicago were permitted by their betters to have some _control_ over whether or not they had _guns_, return fire might have thinned out the human predators some by now, resulting in less shootings.
But apparently my kind of attitude is racist, or something.
…and probably Bush’s fault….
Not to worry, by the end of the year it’ll only be around a dozen shot with Rahm’s new math.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
Oh gee, that kinda looks like smoke emanating from a gun store no doubt full of ammunition.
Something tells me we’re looking at someone trying to cash in on insurance while framing someone at the same time.
It sure looks like smoke to me. Oh my!
It’s either Bing, Bang, or Bong, and I don’t see any search engines setting up shop in there, if you know what I mean.
(It’s OK, I don’t know what I mean.)
Actually, that shadow on the front of the store looks to me like a small plane getting ready to crash into the building…
Especially since he said “Illness nosedive…”
I’m totally in favor of banning all guns across the board. C’mon, we did that with alcohol, right? And look how great that turned out!
..oh, wait…
40 people shot, and 4 dead. Sounds pretty safe all things considered. The article had a link to an accident on I55 where five people were killed. Statistically, you were better off inside Chicago than fleeing the city this weekend. (and that was just the one traffic accident)
What happened to “Argument 5″…..it goes from 4 to 6…..
You know, I’m a terrible person. I see “40 shot, 4 dead” and I think “Man, they have some shitty aim.”
I guess I’m a terrible person too. I was all like “so many rounds fired, so few people dead… Either they need some range time, or a more effective caliber.”
Actually, the reason why gunshot lethality has declined so much is mostly due to medical care getting better and faster.
Of the survivors, how many arrived at hospitals in police cars, and how many in ambulances? Generally speaking, if you get in a gunfight, EMS isn’t going to get near you until after the cops have cleared the scene; If you’re seriously wounded, you’d better hope that the cops are willing to scrape your ass off the ground and get you to the hospital post-haste in the back of a cruiser.
There is a piece of advice that Vexxar could give to Mick: Do not goad the universe!
HOWW exactly did you pull out of the illness nosedive?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Whiskey…….Or Vodka……… Or Rum for that matter
It doesn’t make you better, but if you take enough you DGAD 😀
I went to the doctor and got pumped full of painfully super-strength antibiotics. It was not cheap.
0_0
C’mon, RAIN! Dammit..
Rut roh, Raggy. Is Ms. Sparkles not just a burner, but mayhap also a bit of a firebug?
I’m thinking maybe a certain angry “coffee monkey”.
Why do I think Mick’s gonna end up applying for Sparkledark’s old job at Bass Pro?
You know, I… um.
This is going to drive me nuts now: Is there a comic missing here? We kinda seemed to miss a number.
Ezell v. Chicago & McDonald v. Chicago :
Overturned the Chicago gun registration ban….and overturned the City of Chicago ordinance that banned gun stores and gun ranges within the City Limits.
Moore v. Madigan:
Required the Illinois Legislature to modify existing State law to adopt a concealed carry law to allow the denizens of Illinois the right to bear arms outside of the home.
As for 40 shot, 4 killed…
Well emergency medicine has helped with numbers like this. And the fact that the shooters are not spending time at a range firing legal ammo helps also.
Re: 40 shot 4 killed:
A lot of it also has to do with the realization in first-responded circles that EMS aren’t really able to do a whole lot for the patient en route to a hospital. For a gunshot wound, they’re probably going to throw a bandage and/or tourniquet on the patient and then run to the hospital. In the grand scheme of things, that is a level of first aid best handled by the police: First, they need the knowledge and tools in case *they* ever get shot, and second, EMS isn’t going to go near a shooting scene until the police have cleared it.
In other words, having the police take on limited EMS duties (quick bandage/TQ, get wounded to hospital) is ideal, because it gets the patient somewhere they can get REAL care much sooner.
What Happened to “The Argument – 5”?
“Have you been smoking weed in the back room?”
“No, I vape.”
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“Heidi, where are you taking my new hire?”
“On a magic carpet ride!”
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“If she gets hit for possession we all go down!”
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“We need to make her a full time employee!”
“What? No, fuck that. She needs to be fired!”
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“She’s an asset to the shop!”
“More like an asset to getting you high!”
“Says the drug junkie.”
“Bitch I will end you.”
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Calling it for arson meant to implicate Stacy, by implying she got stoned and started a fire by accident, only Mick (and by implication Heidi) knows she vapes, so calls bullshit. The obvious suspect is Alex, since A) she’s pissed, B) she’s hypervigilant because of her own drug past, and C) she’s extremely wary of violating the terms of her Top Shooter contract and invalidating her prize.
Therefore, I assume it’s Tom. Because Fuck Tom.
Did we miss an episode today?
ul 15, 2014 – The Argument 1
Jul 16, 2014 – Rolling Stoned
Jul 17, 2014 – The Argument 2
Jul 18, 2014 – The Argument 3
Jul 21, 2014 – The Argument 4
Jul 22, 2014 – The Argument 6
I’ve noticed that happens sometimes. Is there some kind of lesbian poly three way going on in #5 while we’re watching Mick drink? STOP HIDING THINGS FROM US!
I have no idea what any of you are talking about, and I totally didn’t fuck that up due to cold medicine. Everything is fine. Shhhh. Look! Over there! A Bunny!