Muzzerino.com: 11/08

Friday, November 14, 2008

You live in Nova Scotia when....

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through
May, you live in Nova Scotia.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and
they don't work there, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you
live in Nova Scotia.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with
someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Nova Scotia.

If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of
Yarmouth for the weekend, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you measure distance in hours, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than
once, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you have switched from "heat" to
"A/C" in the same day and back again, you live in
Nova Scotia.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a
raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you install security lights on your house and garage,
but leave both unlocked, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to
use them, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over
a snowsuit, you live in Nova Scotia.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are
filled with snow you live in Nova Scotia.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still
winter and road construction, you live in Nova Scotia.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car,
you live in Nova Scotia.

If you find 10 degrees F "a little chilly", you
live in Nova Scotia

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to
all your Nova Scotian friends, you live in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia / Jokes

Sunday, November 02, 2008

The Right to Bear Arms

Ive always thought that if you saturate society with guns, then you are asking for trouble.

Americans are no more angry or stupid than anyone else, incidents of road rage, fights and problem neighbours happen everywhere. It happens here in Auckland all the time. But the difference is, people get a chance to cool down and walk away, but in the States, it seems all to easy to reach for a gun in the heat of the moment and fire.

The quote "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is certainly true, it is the people after all that commit the crime, but even the most intelligent and educated of us still succumb to rage, one moment you are a pillar of society, the next you are a murderer.

The point is, remove the temptation. Remove the weapon from the mix and things will be surely better. In Scotland and in New Zealand, the police are not armed, except for the armed response unit (ARU) in Scotland and the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) in New Zealand. This works well in both places where gun crime is really not an issue.

Take away rage and you are still left with stupidity. Take the recent "accidents" in the US where an 8 year old boy shot himself with an Uzi Machine Gun

"Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Connecticut, pointed the deadly weapon at a pumpkin under the eyes of an instructor and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.
But the recoil of the automatic weapon was too great and he lost control of the gun.

He was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday after the incident at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman's Club"
(from Sky News )

...and just the other night a 12 year old boy was shot dead when he went trick-or-treating for Halloween in South Carolina, tragic and crazy.

In the US, many Americans hold precious their right to bear arms and in theory this is fine, but given the massive amount of shootings in the US, how can owning a gun brings anything positive to society.

Recipe for disaster:
Recipe ONE: