Me too.

Yeah.. I was hoping the part of the title that was cut out went on to say "..tried to rob me and then 20 more clowns got out of my back seat.."

"WHERE'S MY DADBLASTED HILARITY?" I roared.

but it was all part of the ruse. a disappointingly low amount of clowns and jockularity in this clip

that's a fucking great tag

Ironically, when a black guy IS waving a gun around in a parking lot in broad daylight, cops will salute his patriotism.

Yes, this.

It probably helps that he waved them over and immediately put his gun away when they showed up, and also that it was being calmly filmed by an apparent white dude.

Yeah.. to each their own with guns, but the closest I was or ever want to be to a gun was when I was a kid and was at a friend's 10th birthday party. Unsupervised his older brothers were total assholes, and beat him with a belt 10 times (y'know, because he's ten.) And although he held back the tears as best he could, he showed me where his dad keeps his gun. I called my parents and decided not to play with him anymore, and a year or so later I heard he had shot his older brother, luckily non-fatally.

And I'm paraphrasing someone else, I think a comedian but can't remember who.. if your excuse is that you keep it in a "safe place" two things to consider. You have kids, and kids are curious. They will find that gun. And if you decide to get really creative and keep the gun in a locked safe and buried in the bushes somewhere, what good is that gun going to do if your home is actually invaded in the middle of the night?!? "Hold on, robbers, just.. uhh wait a minute or two, I have to do something first, then continue to rob our family.. HAHA freeze motherfucker!"

The "Tuck In Your Shirts" community has also hopped on this bandwagon.

frickin' shirties

I love you New Cena, you're a sensible guy.

Cena dropped his dumb conservative moron shtick a few years now. Cena is actually very likable these days, and not even under the assumption that he is really just Baleen.

I thought he was evilhomer, or both are John Holmes Mothfucker.. then again I've heard enough of these to rightfully assume there's only half a dozen real people on here..

I am also deducting a star for this reason.

That was supposed to be a response to the post above about expecting a real clown.

Anyway, I'm going to play devil's advocate here and point out that the "child dies in accidental shooting" scenario is actually incredibly rare. Even in this overtly pro-gun-control report, there are only about 100 incidents a year in the USA when accounting for underreporting (official statistics put it a bit over 50), which puts it into "getting struck by lightning" territory (an average of about 50 deaths by lightning annually in the US). For perspective, the chances of anyone in the USA, regardless of age, being killed by a tornado is about 10 times that of a gun owner's child dying in a gun-related accident.

A fairly recent Pew survey have shown that the percentage of households that own guns is at a record low, down to the low 30s. Even allowing for half of accidental child gun deaths going unreported, the odds of a gun owner's child being killed are over 26,000:1.

I'm on the fence about the whole gun control thing. There is so much ludicrous hyperbole (and obvious financial incentive) on both sides of the debate that I can't say I really have much respect for either side.

On the one hand, very few people who own guns actually have an practical need for them, but on the other hand if you want to really fight gun violence I don't believe gun control is going to do anything to treat the underlying causes of it: institutional racism, lack of effective social welfare of all kinds, social and political disenfranchisement of the poor, the prison industry and the caste of untouchables it creates, the way popular culture and the perception of the role of the individual in society has been molded by the rise of neoliberal economics, the shameful lack of proper care for the mentally ill combined with the massive overuse of psychiatric medications (the science behind which are often very shaky, SSRI's being a classic example), and fuck it I'm done but the list could go on and on. It's like the way crack was blamed for the collapse of the inner cities under Reaganomics.

If you want to save children your time, money and effort would be much better spent advocating for lower speed limits or something.


I am pretty much a full blown pacifist who has never owned a weapon of any sort and has fired one shotgun maybe half a dozen times three years ago at a farm but as little love as I have for the NRA I have yet to hear a really convincing argument come from the gun control lobby, either.



Commence shit show.

Once I walked into my girlfriend's housemate's room because we had just started dating, it was dark, every excuse I can think of. And she still hates my guts forever because of that. Another time I spent half an hour trying to get into a Jetta that wasn't mine, but was parked in the movie theatre parking lot where I thought I left it. I called triple a and everything.

About 8 years ago I was going to a housewarming party at a girlfriend's roommate's sister's new apartment and since I was coming straight from work, everyone else I knew who had been there before was already there. When I got there round 8:30 it seemed kind of quiet, but she'd said the door would be unlocked and I should just let myself in.

Anyhow, long story short, I must have got the address wrong because I walked right into the living room of an elderly couple who were watching TV in their pajamas. The party was a couple doors down (and was low key enough that you couldn't tell from the street).

That was dead sober. I'm sure a dedicated stoner would have no trouble getting in to the wrong car by accident.

A guy ( paul heenan) got shot to death in madison a couple years ago for making that mistake. Drunk. Found the wrong house. Fought with the homeowner and cop. Supposedly grabbed at the cop's gun. Got shot three times.

http://m.host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/newly-re leased-police-records-shed-additional-light-on-paul-heenan/article _315e18ac-82e0-11e2-b277-0019bb2963f4.html?mobile_touch=true

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-fatally-shot-by-madison-wis-po lice-officer-was-unarmed-chief-says/