In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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No--I'm not missing fundamental differences between the two societies--I'm pointing out one way in which we are becoming more like the failed states we used to deprecate.
And if you really think that even .0001% of my intent was to snark at two Black presidents, I'm disappointed, because you know better.
One might expect better-- can be therefore taken to mean that no critical editorial cartoons of Mr Obama will be considered in good taste if the only other person in the frame is Black?
It's you from whom I would expect better ... sense.