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Top seven definitions of 'Spray' given in UrbanDictionary.com: automatic gunfire released into a group of people I'm going to go back to the club and spray that whole place. Explosive diarrhea. Man, no more 3 a.m. Chalupas for me, I spent all morning on the can taking a spray! to shoot rapidly I'm not a marksman when I spark it, so I SPRAY random. a noun to describe nitrous oxide which is to be used in a car. popular in the import and street racing world. ""i need mo spray" "do we have any mo spray lying around?" Shit is NOT fly (my niggas...) Layin' down dat bogus smack, chuuch. When my homey curbed his 20's, he said "Man, this sheet is spray, chuuch." To Graffiti on something.. To use spraypaint and spray on a building. Lets go spray the town tonight To ejaculate, cum, release spunk on a female or other object I love it when she LETS me spray her beautiful globes

Mr Chockstone That's a blanket statement if I ever heard one. Russia pulled away from the Kyoto Pact ( news link ). "The Kyoto Protocol places significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia," presidential aide Andrei Illarionov has announced in Moscow. The protocol would have entered into force when 55 signatories had ratified it, including industrialised countries responsible for 55% of the developed world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 1990. Throughout first the US and now Russian refusal to ratify the protocol, the European Union has remained an enthusiastic advocate of its potential. The EU Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom, commenting on an announcement by the European Environment Agency that the EU was on course to miss its targeted emission cuts, remained resolutely hopeful.

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Gun rights is correct. Interestingly, the Supreme Court recently refused to confirm the constitutional right to bear arms (Silveira v. Lockyer, 03-51). Excerpts from news article concerning their standing: "The Supreme Court disappointed gun rights groups Monday by refusing to consider whether the Constitution guarantees people a personal right to own a gun." "The court has never said if the right to "keep and bear arms" applies to individuals." "Although the Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights, it did not encourage the justices to resolve the issue in this case, involving a challenge of California laws banning high-powered weapons." --snip-- "A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the amendment's intent was to protect gun rights of militias, not individuals. A more conservative appeals court in New Orleans has ruled that individuals have a constitutional right to guns." "Justices refused without comment to review the 9th Circuit's decision." --snip-- _________________________________________________ The last instance of the High Court reviewing the Second Amendment was in 1939, when the Court upheld a ban on the interstate shipment of sawed-off shotguns. Possession of those firearms, the Court Ruled, had nothing to do with maintaining a well-equipped militia. Most lower courts interpreted that ruling as a rejection of the right of individual gun ownership until Attorney General Ashcroft and the New Orleans Court announced contrary conclusions in 1991.

Bubba Sparxxx Country and hip-hop and the 'new South' "The self-proclaimed country boy from LaGrange, Georgia, had tremendous success with his first rap CD, "Dark Days, Bright Nights," which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard chart in 2001. It was propelled by the video for "Ugly," starring several scantily clad babes and a whole bunch of naked pigs."

That's the best shit in the universe for flossing.

What part of Idaho did you grow up in, you fucking rascist? who mentioned anything about race? Who are the predominant listeners of Hip-Hop and Urban Contemp? I'm calling reverse discrimination, automatically categorizing someone as racist based on their geographic origin.

Yeah, RZA is on the soundtrack for Kill Bill. Nick Cannon sounds familiar but I'm probably just confusing him with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

"The others -- the living -- are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to do when it came time to choose between Now and Later." --Hunter S Thompson, Hell's Angels

"The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." --Hunter S. Thompson

Beck, you should get yourself a little pussy.

Here's some interesting evidence, effectively a case study: United Press International--Crime Plunges in Pro-gun Town The results: "...But Kennesaw's crime rate plummeted. In fact, the number of some crimes declined amid soaring population growth. For example, in figures the city provided to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, Kennesaw had 54 burglaries in 1981 – the year before the gun ordinance – with a population of 5,242. In 1999, with a population of 19,000, only 36 burglaries were reported." "The rate of violent crime is approximately four times lower than the state and national rates, Kennesaw's Crime Statistics Report said. "Violent crime is almost nonexistent in residential neighborhoods," Graydon told UPI. The detective, who has been with the police department since 1986, said the isolated exceptions take place in motels or in commercial areas." Everyone is not specifically required to be armed: "Similarly, Kennesaw's law provides so many loopholes that, in effect, no one is compelled to obey it. Convicted felons are, of course, excluded. Also exempt are those "who suffer a physical disability [undefined] which would prohibit them from using such a firearm" and those who "conscientiously oppose firearms as a result of religious doctrine or belief [also undefined]." Inhabitants may claim exemptions for moral or financial reasons, said Detective Cpl. Craig Graydon, a Kennesaw Police Department spokesman, in a phone interview Tuesday." "According to a National Rifle Association document, the law was not expected to increase gun ownership. "It was expected that publicity surrounding the ordinance would warn criminals that residents were capable of protecting themselves and their community and would do so with the government's blessing," the document said."

Ummm, that's a document that was written 227 years ago. I supposed you also don't believe in messing with other important documents, such as "the earth is flat", and "blood-letting: a cure-all" Your comparison is ludicrous and erroneous. Ludicrous because all educated people know certain basic facts concerning the earth and physicians are trained in the causal nature of disease and illness. Suppositions such as 'the world is flat' are clearly wrong. Your comparison is erroneous because one can't compare those suppositions with the articles which express our basic underlying political beliefs concerning liberty and human nature. They're apples and oranges. The only way you could equate the two is if you take scientific facts and political tenets as assumptions used to form the basis of a theory. Let me just say that the test of time is the measure of a theory and our Constitution has seen the test of time.

True dat. Check the statistics on numbers of innocent by-standers killed by stray stranglings, or who got picked off by some guy hiding in the trunk of a car knocking people off with a baseball bat from across the street. I tell ya, it's outta control. Drive-by knifings are an increasing problem in many urban areas. In fact, cutlery-related homicides are so prevalent, they've even found their place in popular culture: remember that Boom-Town Rats song - "I Don't Like Mondays" - about that guy who killed all those students with a spoon from up in the clock tower? Yeah, a gun makes it easier to kill but it also makes it easier to defend yourself against an assailant. It's whether more good comes out of it than bad. Sometimes the mere sight of a weapon will prevent attacks. There will always be people with bad intent or people who are socially irresponsible. Restricting law abiding ownership of firearms is bad policy. Here in the States, I don't believe in messing with the US Constitution which guarantees in the 2nd Amendment, the citizen's right to bear arms.

Requiring someone to own a gun is just as wrong as outlawing them. What's important isn't the guns themselves, but the freedom to make the choice of gun ownership myself. Kansas Town Requires Homes to Have Guns Residents of this tiny south-central Kansas community have passed an ordinance requiring most households to have guns and ammunition. Those who suffer from physical or mental disabilities, paupers and people who conscientiously oppose firearms would be exempt. "This ordinance fulfills the duty to protect by allowing each individual householder to provide for his or her protection," said Councilman John Brewer. "This is simply using the U.S. Constitution — Second Amendment in particular — to the city of Geuda Springs' advantage." Whitney Watson, a spokesman for Attorney General Phill Kline, declined to comment on the legality of such an ordinance, which is similar to one passed in Kennesaw, Ga., 21 years ago that is still in effect. --excerpts from news article

Christ, you couldn't attack the guy because it'd be two strikes against you. This event identified him with the troops and with Thanksgiving. Damn astute of his PR people. I guess this photo op was definitely worth the risk. Seems he took a page out of his father's gamebook: 'Bush's father visited U.S. troops at a desert outpost in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day 1990, in the runup to the Gulf War. "We won't pull punches. We are not here on some exercise. And we're not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of Kuwait," he told the troops. At one point, he climbed into a bunker to chat with troops. Bush's father shared lunch with U.S. troops 65 miles from Kuwait, occupied at the time by Saddam Hussein's forces. George H.W. Bush had been the first U.S. president to visit a front-line area since President Nixon went to Vietnam in 1969.' ( Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq )

Catbirdseat, maybe you should look at your own mind. You wouldn't recognize the depth of your own indoctrination because you're too busy thinking for others. What if the data and its interpretation are true? Would you look beyond your own preconceptions? I almost believe that the political parties are designed so that you don't have to think. All you have to do is identify a few core beliefs that the party supports and "Bam!", instant affliation.

Yeah, the example I gave was anecdotal but it supports the deterrent effect of the presence of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens. The anecdotal evidence could be used to argue against restricting the right to firearms. If I remember correctly, gun control laws would be the independent variable and the reduction of crime would be the dependent variable. There are many other variables that may have an effect on crime reduction. For instance, one hypothesis I heard was that as the population ages, one should see a decrease in crime coincident with the majority of the baby boomers moving beyond the age of impulse. There could be other factors such as the nature of our police enforcement, etc. I think the bottom line is that support for gun control as a crime deterrent fails to measure up.

Here's a recent incident where the presence of a gun prevented a violent burglary: St Louis Post Dispatch . Yeah, this sounds just like an endorsement straight out of the Armed Citizen page of NRA's American Rifleman. An intruder, 26, broke into the home through a basement window and tore down a curtain to tie over his face as a mask. The woman encountered him in the basement and he forced her up the stairs to confront her husband. Police said the husband, 73, was watching the movie on TV when the stranger approached, demanding money and holding 4-inch shears to the throat of the woman, also 73. The homeowner told the intruder he had to get his wallet from the bedroom, but he got a handgun instead. When he emerged, she pulled away and he opened fire. The robber grabbed the wife again and pulled her through the front door with him, but then let her go and ran. He collapsed across the street, where he was pronounced dead.

I didn't dig into this study but assume that the data is sound and that the statistics generated from the data are representative. Isn't the pattern exhibited more significant than the total number of crime incidents with respect to interpreting the effectiveness of gun restriction on crime?

Hmm...I'm not familiar with Cleland's voting record. I did notice that Cleland was part of the 911 panel. As part of the panel, Cleland was one of the more outspoken members of the commission, accusing the administration of delaying access to vital documents in an effort to run out the clock on its investigation. Bush recently nominated Cleland to serve on the board of the Import-Export Bank ( New job takes Cleland off 9/11 panel--Washington Times ). I wouldn't be surprised to find the machinations of politics are largely driven by personal vendetta and such, rather than grand visions or ideals.

Is the raw data of crime statistics faked? If the data is accurately recorded then what does it matter who financially supports the study? Does the data through time show a pattern?

Gun Laws do Not Reduce Criminal Violence According to New Study Restrictive firearm legislation has failed to reduce gun violence in Australia, Canada, or Great Britain. The policy of confiscating guns has been an expensive failure, according to a new paper The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, released today by The Fraser Institute. “What makes gun control so compelling for many is the belief that violent crime is driven by the availability of guns, and more importantly, that criminal violence in general may be reduced by limiting access to firearms,” says Gary Mauser, author of the paper and professor of business at Simon Fraser University. This new study examines crime trends in Commonwealth countries that have recently introduced firearm regulations. Mauser notes that the widely ignored key to evaluating firearm regulations is to examine trends in total violent crime, not just firearm crime. The United States provides a valuable point of comparison for assessing crime rates as that country has witnessed a dramatic drop in criminal violence over the past decade – for example, the homicide rate in the US has fallen 42 percent since 1991. This is particularly significant when compared with the rest of the world – in 18 of the 25 countries surveyed by the British Home Office, violent crime increased during the 1990s. --excerpts from linked source

"The history of the last three years has demonstrated that the Bush strategists will stoop to any level to get their way. They are the masters of the last minute smear campaign. When Republican Senator John McCain posed a threat to George W. Bush's nomination for President in early 2000, dark suggestions were planted in the press that Senator McCain, the highly decorated Vietnam war hero, might have committed treason in the Vietnamese prison (where he languished for five years), and that he had fathered a child with a black prostitute (Senator McCain's adopted daughter, Brigitte, is from Bangladesh.) As the race for Senator from Georgia was tightening, President Bush's political strategist, Karl Rove, ran TV commercials accusing the sitting Democratic Senator Max Cleland of being soft on national security. Interesting, because Senator Cleland is also a much decorated war hero who lost both his legs fighting for his country in Vietnam. President Bush, on the other hand, avoided service in Vietnam through his father's influence, enlisted in Texas Air National Guard, which he left eight months early, and where his attendance was erratic. For Karl Rove, there is no shame in character assassination; the only shame is in losing an election."