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Post by Armany on Dec 23, 2005 15:21:07 GMT -5
I hope to go to a local Christian college, one that seems to be genuine in its morals. Tuition, though, seems to be very expensive for private schools.
BTW, what does "concurrent enrollment" mean, TD?
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Post by New Titania (TD) on Dec 23, 2005 15:51:31 GMT -5
Concurrent enrollment means that I'm going to be taking college classes and getting a high school AND college credit for them. I'm gonna be taking Chemistry, trig, calc, and some other things.
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ashbash
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if u want to know, that's a wine bottle, top down
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Post by ashbash on Dec 28, 2005 0:38:27 GMT -5
WHEN the chinese invade? sheesh, america's been BRAINWASHED
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Post by Geberia on Dec 28, 2005 7:09:11 GMT -5
Hm, what do you mean by that? I can answer any questions you have, but I do understand what you mean by being too far away from home. Catoepia, Titanian, and I are all going to go to ORU. I'm starting concurrent enrollment next year, and Catoepia comes down the next. Wow, what does this have to do with gun control?.... Well I'm used to more rigid church services, and am not fond of the praise and worship stuff.......not that I'm calling it BAD, mind you. But that's the way it looked in the pamphlet and maybe I'm wrong about it so tell me if I am TD. Plus I want a college I can check out aforehand and Oklahoma is a little too far away for my parents to drive me
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Post by Aslan the Great Lion on Dec 28, 2005 17:12:47 GMT -5
I think it is okay to have guns, as long as your not a criminal.
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Post by falklands on Dec 28, 2005 18:52:24 GMT -5
Well I'm used to more rigid church services, and am not fond of the praise and worship stuff.......not that I'm calling it BAD, mind you. But that's the way it looked in the pamphlet and maybe I'm wrong about it so tell me if I am TD. Any praise and worship is fine with God, so long as it remains praise and worship.
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Post by christian on Dec 29, 2005 15:19:53 GMT -5
Friday, April 17, 1998 U.S. Leads Richest Nations In Gun Deaths
BY CHELSEA J. CARTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA -- The United States has by far the highest rate of gun deaths -- murders, suicides and accidents -- among the world's 36 richest nations, a government study found. The U.S. rate for gun deaths in 1994 was 14.24 per 100,000 people. Japan had the lowest rate, at .05 per 100,000. The study, done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the first comprehensive international look at gun-related deaths. It was published Thursday in the International Journal of Epidemiology. The CDC would not speculate why the death rates varied, but other researchers said easy access to guns and society's acceptance of violence are part of the problem in the United States. ``If you have a country saturated with guns -- available to people when they are intoxicated, angry or depressed -- it's not unusual guns will be used more often,'' said Rebecca Peters, a Johns Hopkins University fellow specializing in gun violence. ``This has to be treated as a public health emergency.'' The National Rifle Association called the study shoddy because it failed to examine all causes of violent deaths. ``What this shows is the CDC is after guns. They aren't concerned with violence. It's pretending that no homicide exists unless it's related to guns,'' said Paul Blackman, a research coordinator for the NRA in Fairfax, Va. The 36 countries chosen were listed as the richest in the World Bank's 1994 World Development Report, with the highest GNP per capita income. The study used 1994 statistics supplied by the 36 countries. Of the 88,649 gun deaths reported by all the countries, the United States accounted for 45 percent, said Etienne Krug, a CDC researcher and co-author of the article. Japan, where very few people own guns, averages 124 gun-related attacks a year, and less than 1 percent end in death. Police often raid the homes of those suspected of having weapons. The study found that gun-related deaths were five to six times higher in the Americas than in Europe or Australia and New Zealand and 95 times higher than in Asia. Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994: United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15; Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05. i know its kinda old
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Post by christian on Dec 29, 2005 15:21:10 GMT -5
HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Violent death among children clearly linked to home firearms: Children in 'high-gun' states at far higher risk of harming selves, others A new study from the School of Public Health (SPH) has found that in states and regions with higher levels of household firearm ownership, many more children are dying from homicide, suicide, and gun accidents. The differences in rates of violent death to children across states are large. The higher death rates in "high-gun" states are due to differences in deaths from firearms. This elevated rate of violent death to children in high gun states cannot be explained by differences in state levels of poverty, education, or urbanization.
The article "Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide among 5-14 Year Olds" is published in the February 2002 issue of The Journal of Trauma (http://www.jtrauma.com), and a table from the study appears on the journal cover.
Matthew Miller, associate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at SPH and lead author of the study, said, "In states with more guns, more children are dying. They are dying in suicides, in homicides, and in gun accidents. This finding is completely contrary to the notion that guns are protecting our children."
This study focused on children aged 5 to 14, and compared data across all 50 states over a 10-year period (1988-97). In one table, the authors compare the five states with the highest gun ownership levels with the five states with the lowest levels. While these states have equal numbers of children, they have very different rates of violent death. In the 10-year period, 253 children died from firearm accidents in the "high-gun" states, compared with 15 in the "low-gun" states. While the numbers of nongun suicides were similar, 153 children killed themselves with guns in the five "high-gun" states, compared with 22 who committed suicide in the five "low-gun" states.
Children in the high-gun states were also at much higher risk of being murdered with a firearm. During this 10-year period, 298 children aged 5 to 14 were murdered with guns in the "high-gun" states, compared with 86 in the "low-gun" states. The nongun homicide rates were fairly similar (a little more than 100 nongun homicides in both sets of states).
Miller emphasized that, while no study that is a snapshot of the United States over a short period of time can prove causation, the strong and robust association between gun ownership and children's violent death is compelling. These results are also consistent with international comparisons. The U.S. level of private firearm ownership is much higher than in other developed nations and U.S. children aged 5 to 14 are far more likely to be murdered, commit suicide, and die from gun accidents than children in other developed countries. Indeed, for children aged 5 to 14 in the United States, death from firearms is the third leading cause of mortality, following only motor vehicle crashes and cancer.
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Post by christian on Dec 29, 2005 15:25:10 GMT -5
evertime i read of a child blowing there head all over the wall im with banning guns
and i would be dead if are house had a weapon iv tried to kill myself 3 times but a bullet threw my head would have worked pretty easly and you cant reverse that
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Post by steelsheen on Dec 29, 2005 18:04:47 GMT -5
Death is generally not reversible, Chris.
I'm an EMT in training, and guess what? CPR usually don't do diddly squat. Dead is dead.
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Post by christian on Dec 30, 2005 1:02:22 GMT -5
of course death is not reversible but bringing death with a bullet threw the head then a overose which can take awhile is what i mean
its the weapon thats used shotguns are eaiser to suicide with then pills its not saving its preventing the person from reaching death is what im talking about
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Post by Armany on Dec 30, 2005 15:52:26 GMT -5
Concurrent enrollment means that I'm going to be taking college classes and getting a high school AND college credit for them. I'm gonna be taking Chemistry, trig, calc, and some other things. Ah, I know what you're talking about. We call classes like that "Post-Secondary" courses in my school district.
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Post by Siko Michael on Jan 5, 2006 14:49:22 GMT -5
hmm....gun control, im for it to an extent, like automatic weapons should be banned(they were until bush didnt renew the bill , another of his flaws, but lets stay on gun control)....i believe people should have the the right to own a gun(not automatic) for self-protection, simply if you take away guns from "normal" people "criminals" will still have the guns "illegally" and "normal" folks will be defenseless against robbery, etc..... im sorry to hear that you have, but it pretty much re-enforces the point, "People Kill People, Not guns" , in your case it would have been someone killing themselves not techinally the gun killing you, because the gun has no mind. But if you dont own a gun or if you do own a gun, it really doesnt matter as our first amendment says "we have the right bear arms" the day that gets repealed is the day that we have a 2nd Civil War, which is very unlikely, so it appears Guns are to stay no matter what you think.
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Post by awaz on Jan 23, 2006 20:34:19 GMT -5
I would like to point out that China is a Communistic country.
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