I realize that it's just for amusement, but that's an improper comparison. In this case, the physician is analogous to the gun, not the gun owner. It should compare the number of people who see a physician to gun owners.
Even if you assume that everyone in the country sees a physician, gun owners still come out ahead, but not nearly as dramatically.
There is not, however, a complete superiority of the US Constitution over all State law.
The Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution says otherwise. Different states have different laws, but if any state law conflicts with federal law or the Constitution, it is overridden.
You're completely ass-backwards. It's the isotopic ratios which prove that the increased CO2 is anthropogenic as our emissions differ from known natural sources.
Here's the music: the sun's output is weaker than expected and yet 2010 looks like one of the hottest years on record. What is this solar minimum proving again?
Okay. Time for a (bad) analogy.
A boy is riding his bicycle and is struck by a car and killed. It appears that the car's brakes failed. During the course of the investigation, it is discovered that the driver's mechanic had told him that his brakes were bad and could fail at any time, but the driver was too cheap to get them fixed.
Is it possible that he would've killed the boy even if his brakes didn't fail? Yes.
Would you really be sitting here saying: "Why all the hate on this guy? He totally paid for the funeral even though no one asked him too!?"
I don't think most people are questioning BP's response. I think they've done the best they could given the situation. It's the events leading up to the disaster that have people angry.
It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground. -- Daniel B. Luten
