Guns, hot sauce and testosterone a spicy mix
In 2006, researchers at Knox College in Illinois performed a study on college men ages 18 to 22. Here’s how the study abstract reads:
“We tested whether interacting with a gun increased testosterone levels and later aggressive behavior. Thirty male college students provided a saliva sample (for testosterone assay), interacted with either a gun or a children’s toy for 15 min, and then provided another saliva sample. Next, subjects added as much hot sauce as they wanted to a cup of water they believed another subject would have to drink. Males who interacted with the gun showed significantly greater increases in testosterone and added more hot sauce to the water than did those who interacted with the children’s toy.”
The men were told that they were being studied to determine whether paying close attention to a task altered their later sensitivity to taste. They were tested for initial testosterone levels, and half were then asked to dismantle and reassemble the old “Mousetrap” game, writing a set of instructions on how to do so.
Desert Eagle handgun
The other half were asked to do the same with a pellet pistol, an exact replica in size and weight of a Desert Eagle handgun. Finally, after being tested again for testosterone, they were given a glass of water and bottle of hot sauce and asked to prepare a “sample” for the next study subject.
According to a description of the study at WebMD:
This hot-sauce trick has been used before. The more aggressive a man is feeling, the more hot sauce he tends to put in the next guy’s drink.
Sure enough, testosterone went up about 100 times more in the men who handled the gun than in the men who handled the children’s toy. And the gun handlers put three times more hot sauce in the water — on average, about a half ounce — than the toy handlers.
The more a man’s testosterone went up after gun handling, the more hot sauce he put in the water.
And since a story like this just wouldn’t be the same without a chart:
Make of it what you will. I report; you decide. But as we’ve seen, the good people at Bushmaster have already made their decision:
– Jay Bookman
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516 comments Add your comment
getalife
January 17th, 2013
10:41 pm
I know the gop are moving left on immigration to try to get the Latino vote.
That will probably be all the change for the gop.
TBS
January 17th, 2013
10:42 pm
td
FL shortened the voting days. How did that work?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
10:45 pm
Advertisement in Texas:
“Bring your guns and come here !”
Brosephus™
January 17th, 2013
10:47 pm
td
Nah, that’s nothing. Y’all righties have always been anti-bussing. That rule change is more like cutting early voting in half, cutting hours in urban areas, and then whining about someone stomping on military voting rights because they’re trying to get equal ballot box access for ALL voters.
Y’all conservatives know how to cheat with class and style. Must be one of those principles things.
Brosephus™
January 17th, 2013
10:51 pm
TBS
I doubt td needs much of anything else. His peacock displays already shows that he believes regardless to what everything else shows.
Simple Truths
January 17th, 2013
10:52 pm
After reading this, I’m really craving chicken wings now.
Brosephus™
January 17th, 2013
10:55 pm
Way past quitting time. Catch y’all later…
Aser706
January 17th, 2013
11:03 pm
Jay:
If I went out of my way to be a sample for the study and was handed a toy when the others got guns…. I’d pour less just to be done with it…
Forseti
January 17th, 2013
11:03 pm
Gun companies making a mint selling to the government overpriced guns due to sudden run on inventory.
getalife
January 17th, 2013
11:04 pm
“As President Obama tries to persuade a reluctant Congress to pass new gun laws, the poll found that a majority of Americans — 54 percent — think gun control laws should be tightened, up markedly from a CBS News poll last April that found that only 39 percent backed stricter laws.” NY Times.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 17th, 2013
11:05 pm
Recon:
“Chis Christie is a bloviating Northeastern left-winger.”
He’s such a lightweight (no pun intended). He got his “jollies” just because Obama let him fly over the storm damage in Marine One and ever since he’s had stars in his eyes !!!
Geez !
Thulsa Doom
January 17th, 2013
11:08 pm
I guess that’s why I’ve never owned a gun and don’t plan to. Already got way too much of that testersterone stuff already.
moonbat betty
January 17th, 2013
11:38 pm
Thulsa,
Your fists should be considered deadly weapons!
Oscar
January 17th, 2013
11:50 pm
Doom – Try spinging more time playing ith baby toys. Should reduce your t. level tp somethin manageable.
Oscar
January 17th, 2013
11:51 pm
spending more time
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
12:06 am
Oscar, you should be ashamed of your misspelling .
Weakling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLGhPHzxjc
moonbat betty
January 18th, 2013
12:40 am
Sorry, Oscar, that was rude.
I kid I kid
nite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYlS_kmxES0
ODD OWL
January 18th, 2013
4:11 am
American men have become fat, weak and completely out of shape… They can’t defend themselves in a fight without weapons… The neo-con gun nuts “believe” that they need an AR-15 with a 100 round ammo drum attached to it, so they can defend themselves… The big scary gun has become a phallic symbol for some men who lack confidence in themselves…
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
6:02 am
When your ideology sucks and voters know it, you try to change the rules to narrow the votes to your likening. And think of all the conservatives who accuse Dems of election tampering…
What’s really troubling is that we’re seeing the last bits of what might be thought of as handshake agreements the opposing sides used to have. You never know when the next shoe’s gonna drop. Wed., it was the notion that a President’s kids were off limits for attacks. The past few years, it’s the notion that you don’t just routinely filibuster a nominee because you don’t like the nominee’s boss. and so forth.
and now, it’s the notion that, as sucky as our winner-take-all electoral college is vs. a simple popular vote election, it’s certainly better than making the thing subject to district gerrymandering. But hey, like you said, when you’ve lost the majority and need to cling to power somehow, you start getting desperate.
Who knows what the next shoe to drop will be.
/drive-by
Redcoat
January 18th, 2013
6:10 am
It’s obvious most on this blog have never been in a situation that their life has been threatened. They live in a dream world of being so over confident that they are so much smarter than a potential criminal that would possibly threaten them or their family, that a criminal would be intimidated just because of who they are and wouldn’t dare approach them because of it. Just an impression I’m getting.
Jonmaguire22
January 18th, 2013
6:16 am
Jay, the article has no point nor did yours? What are you trying to convince your audience of?
Also, I’ve never heard of Knox college?
What about a similar study with baseball bats, knives, play swords, breasts, or any other objects besides mousetrap game.
This study or article is just noise, both lack any real thought or conclusion.
Redcoat
January 18th, 2013
6:19 am
decibels…….liberals got desperate and look what has happened..success!…..also liberals never have gone after conservative kids and changed any rules in their favor…….right?
Dekalb's finest...
January 18th, 2013
6:45 am
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-hank-johnson-nra-they-still-cannot-get-over-obama-black
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
6:59 am
Jay,
This is a prime example of a post that should not be wasted on a Republican. It contains a hint of science and we all know that Republicans do not do math or science.
Chris Matthews
January 18th, 2013
7:00 am
Guns are for protection from the federal government!
Insider
January 18th, 2013
7:03 am
Our government sells guns to Mexican drug lords but don’t want you to have one!
GTBob
January 18th, 2013
7:07 am
I think Jay got turned on by this article…liberal men get turned on by real men!
Jefferson
January 18th, 2013
7:14 am
Point a weapon at a cop or military and they will shoot you, they can point at you but you will get shot if you point at them
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:17 am
liberals got desperate and look what has happened..success!…..also liberals never have gone after conservative kids and changed any rules in their favor…….right?
Note to self–compose a long winded rant about how Internet shorthand has rendered many adult humans into gibbering, poo-flinging man-apes.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:21 am
Have I mentioned that I quite like Hank Johnson, and hope he gets a speaking slot at the 2016 convention, not just to watch the aforementioned man-apes go into full blown shrieking fits (amusing as that can be), but because he’s actually quite erudite and perceptive, and because, to quote Joel Hodgson, “the right people will get it”?
Rightwing troll
January 18th, 2013
7:29 am
What’d I miss? Did Doomy threaten to beat up the blog again?
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:31 am
If I went out of my way to be a sample for the study and was handed a toy when the others got guns…
I keep meaning to ask–you guys do know that this was a pellet gun, yes?
(I know, I know, it was a replica of a scarier bang-shootie–I had a friend who owned such a piece many moons ago–but it’s still a pellet gun, and if you were tasked with dissembling it, I think it’d be pretty obvious that this piece wasn’t offering much in the way of stopping power.)
GT
January 18th, 2013
7:36 am
To me this explains a lot. Armstrong was said to be a bully and he soaked this stuff in like it was water and he lived on a desert.
School yard bullies are a problem pushed under the rug in most of America. There should be some attention placed on this area. If a kid makes an F in school that grade follows him for quit a while, yet he and every once in a while she, can be a holly terror in behavior and little if anything is done as long as the grades stay in tack. If they don’t he or she is just kicked out of school to be someone else’s problem.
Now you take that kid and encourage him with the NRA propaganda that life should be lived aggressively. You have two types, one who finds heaven on earth scaring people with his macho behavior and the other a suppressed superiorly intelligent but physically inferior being who ultimately says if you are going to allow this kind of behavior then I am going to play by your rules, or the rules he perceives are getting the green light. The problem is obvious, the solution is there, but no one wants to do the work it will take to clean up the mess, and some do not want it cleaned up.
Travis McGee
January 18th, 2013
7:38 am
I have had an hypothesis for quite some time that those who insist on carrying concealed have small penises and have to have a gun in their pockets to feel something hard. Perhaps the good people at Knox College could engage in some research project to prove or disprove my hypothesis.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:41 am
Did Doomy threaten to beat up the blog again?
I dunno, think I saw something where he was reduced to claiming that his fists were registered as a legal weapon…
Speaking of That Guy, I want to replay something from around the time of the Newtown massacre. I had just stumbled upon the first news coverage that afternoon, and posted this, utterly ignorant of the depth of what had happened, beyond the “shots were fired” reports–I simply saw a picture of some scared children being told to line up and walk to some destination:
First story I clicked on, had a painful picture, but maybe we all ought to force ourselves to look:
And here was Doom’s reply:
Why should we all force ourselves to look at this tragedy? Cause you think its good for us and have deemed it necessary? Or is it because you want to use this tragedy to make some kind of political point- possibly about guns?
This isn’t evidence of the guy being the Worst Person in the World; it’s not even all that offensive. But–the defensiveness is just palpable, isn’t it? We knew nothing about the specifics of the attack, and yet he’s already accused me of exploitation.
by the way, it wasn’t actually a “picture,” so much as a still/thumbnail from a video. Which, for the record, I never actually clicked on, because it was too painful to even look at the fuzzy still of that video. I just had a look at the link, it’s still there, if anyone wants to see what caught my attention, here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57559229/person-shot-at-conn-elementary-school/
alex
January 18th, 2013
7:47 am
stupid report as ususual, chart is increase in picagrams, what if baseline is 2000 pica, incease of 15 means what, Jay your getting worse, need to chnge to a gardening or bbg op piece, getting pretty bad….
Citizen of the World
January 18th, 2013
7:48 am
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
7:50 am
2000 pica.
Someone please dispute my claim that Republicans don’t do math or science.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:51 am
stupid report as ususual [sic]
What part of Make of it what you will. I report; you decide do you not get?
Jay your [sic] getting worse, need to chnge [sic] to a gardening or bbg op piece, getting pretty bad….
Thanks, Joseph Pulitzer.
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
7:54 am
I keep meaning to ask–you guys do know that this was a pellet gun, yes?
Clearly it is the size of the gun that peaks the con’s interest–not the load it packs.
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
7:55 am
Was the I Report, You Decide a poke at Andy.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:01 am
TP @ 7.54, point taken, but it’s “piques,” not peaks.
Well, probably. I guess one’s interest could peak, but I don’t think that’s you meant in this context.
/nitpicker
Granny Godzilla
January 18th, 2013
8:01 am
Oh please…it ain’t just guns.
Men are soooooo EZ.
Guns, Cars, Trucks, 4 wheelers.Cigars, Breasts, Green Eggs, Bowl Games,
Big Bertha’s, Hardware week at Sears….
We love you and all your little idiosyncrasies.
bookman parrot
January 18th, 2013
8:03 am
must be Friday, Jay is being lazy with this one and the lib follow up is missing everything but the very simplistic nonsense statements. .. come on libs, you can do better than that…
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:03 am
Green Eggs
that particular fixation is a tad annoying, I’ll admit.
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
8:03 am
sfd,
“peaks” carries it’s own connotations.
GT
January 18th, 2013
8:06 am
Travis McGee I think old men that drive Porches with toupees match up with the small penis theory even better.
I really believe the suppressed nerd eventually mutates into this country’s worse nightmare. I picture Newt one of those knee socked, short pant, lollie pops that now is a womanizing bully freak. This is the heart of the mental illness that diseases the country. Everybody is out for revenge, the so call Christians are the most afflicted in the group. Judgment day is all about the other guy getting his.
Granny Godzilla
January 18th, 2013
8:09 am
Here ya’ go parrot!
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:10 am
Was the I Report, You Decide a poke at Andy.
I was going to post “‘We Report, You Decide’ is still a motto in use at Fox News.”
But for laughs I went to their website and did a search for instances of that exact phrase, and found that (at the site, at least) it hasn’t appeared for nearly a year. Which is somewhat interesting. (the obvious wisecrack is to say that they’re not even pretending to “report” any more, but I don’t think they ever really did…)
Citizen of the World
January 18th, 2013
8:12 am
I can’t believe after the horrific Newtown tragedy that there are still those who fall on the “status quo” side of the gun control debate. We can’t just do nothing.
Can you not hold at least a fraction of those parents’ pain in your hearts instead of insisting on your right to hold some macho machine gun in your hand?
Living With Open Eyes
January 18th, 2013
8:17 am
I remember when I was growing up all the young men who could not or would not fight were the first ones to buy guns and then suddenly they became badasses.
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
8:18 am
Can you not hold at least a fraction of those parents’ pain in your hearts instead of insisting on your right to hold some macho machine gun in your hand?
You read their comments and decide. I think they make their black hearts quite obvious.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:19 am
“peaks” carries [its] own connotations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastaurant
Also, this.
JamVet
January 18th, 2013
8:20 am
You should be happy.
If you mean that I should laugh at people’s laughable and sophist delusions, I do.
Speaking of which, poor parrot – needs his daily Jay slapdown.
Hang tough little bird, crushing cons ain’t just for breakfast anymore!
beautiful state, beautiful people....
January 18th, 2013
8:21 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx5qke8XzS4
detritusUSA
January 18th, 2013
8:24 am
I could give a rat’s anus less about this study. From the ages of 19-22 I interacted intimately with a rifle while in the Army and I never felt this testosterone crap this supposed researcher talks about. The crap I felt was usually fear.
Living With Open Eyes
January 18th, 2013
8:26 am
Why does everybody think that there’s an underground store on the street that makes its own guns and sells them to crooks. All the guns came from “law abiding” citizens or businesses at some point and time.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:28 am
If I can get somewhat serious for a moment:
From the ages of 19-22 I interacted intimately with a rifle while in the Army
this dynamic has been covered earlier, but to revisit–obviously, the sort of sober education one receives as part of firearm training is hell and gone from the kind of marketing campaigns deployed by the likes of Bushmaster (and, of course, countless movie/tv depictions of gun usage). That’s the greater point, at least that is my take-away, from this otherwise teeny weeny c. 2006 data point.
Erwin's cat
January 18th, 2013
8:29 am
more gun talk…yawn…back later when there’s something new to talk about >^..^<
Mick
January 18th, 2013
8:30 am
granny
You forgot legs!!!
GT
January 18th, 2013
8:31 am
Level headed people are misunderstood in this country. Even the press has gotten to the point of correcting even tempered individuals as emotionally unattached. What we have is a lot of people taking lessons on how to have a personality. Use your hands more, look the interviewer in the eye, don’t say the N word, be slick. From our art to our social channels there is no originality in this country any more, people are scared to have a sense of humor or show their real selves, someone may disapprove. I even feel Obama slipping away to the pain of fighting the world of superficial is too great, the gains too little, being a robot too easy. We need mentally healthy odd balls; it is what makes this country great. What we are getting is genetically engineered odd balls that fit some human scale far inferior to the one God made.
DownInAlbany
January 18th, 2013
8:31 am
The “evolutionary neuroandrogenic theory” focuses on the hormone testosterone as a factor influencing aggression and criminality and being evolutionary beneficial during certain forms of competition. In most species, males are more aggressive than females. Castration of males usually has a pacifying effect on their aggressive behavior. In humans, males engage in crime and especially violent crime more than females. The involvement in crime usually rises in the early teens to mid teens which happen at the same time as testosterone levels rise. Research on the relationship between testosterone and aggression is difficult since the only reliable measurement of brain testosterone is by a lumbar puncture which is not done for research purposes. Studies therefore have often instead used more unreliable measurements from blood or saliva. Most studies support a link between adult criminality and testosterone although the relationship is modest if examined separately for each sex. Nearly all studies of juvenile delinquency and testosterone are not significant. Most studies have also found testosterone to be associated with behaviors or personality traits linked with criminality such as antisocial behavior and alcoholism. Many studies have also been done on the relationship between more general aggressive behavior/feelings and testosterone. About half the studies have found a relationship and about half no relationship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone
Testosterone Does Not Induce Aggression, Study Shows
Dec. 9, 2009 — New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects has shown that the sexual hormone with the poor reputation can encourage fair behaviors if this serves to ensure one’s own status.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132241.htm
Folks usually get blasted on here for citing a single case study. I guess it’s ok when it supports your perspective?
Granny Godzilla
January 18th, 2013
8:31 am
Mick
Womens, Chickens or Lambs?
In the middle
January 18th, 2013
8:33 am
Once again there is a complete absence of critical thinking. It is assumed at the outset that testosterone is bad. Is that fact? It also doesn’t include any context to the activity. Were the subjects competing? Competing and establishing dominance also increases testosterone, What toys were they playing with? Was it the activity that increased the testosterone or the object.
How do you tell a liberal, They are the ones that leap to an emotional response based on a superficial analysis of incomplete data.
skipper
January 18th, 2013
8:33 am
New experimet results:
The more hot coals you dump in somebody’s pants, the hotter their a$$ gets………
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:34 am
“I dunno, think I saw something where he was reduced to claiming that his fists were registered as a legal weapon…”
Stands for decibels,
Well if you’re going to lie then lie big. Its right up there at the beginning ma’am. I never said that. Moonbat Betty did. Pay attention sport.
As for the Newtown tragedy I think it sucks and is a terrible tragedy just like everyone else does. The difference is that I can still look at the situation objectively and rationally and not let my emotions get in the way of critical thinking skills about what if anything can be done. Liberals seem to lack that ability. And btw tragedies happen all the time and they happen to children. One sensationalized tragedy doesn’t require that we throw all reason and rationale out the window concerning the gun debate. Everyday kids get snatched, raped, murdered, abused, etc. somewhere in the U.S. and in the world in general. There is constantly evil and tragedy in the world.
I can’t figure out if liberals in general are just too stupid to realize this or if they do realize this and in a sick manner have no problem with taking isolated tragedies involving children and using them for political purposes. Which is it ma’am?
skipper
January 18th, 2013
8:34 am
thats “experiment”…not enough coffee yet!
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:37 am
And for MY pet “holy crap, get a load a’ *that* subtle approach, mrs. sfd!” point-at-the-TeeVee moment…
I think one could do a doctoral dissertation on the depiction of driveshafts in truck ads, alone.
To say nothing of the guys they get to do those voice-overs. “That was great, Danny, but we need it just a little deeper, and a little more Western…”
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 18th, 2013
8:38 am
Wow, compared to viagra which costs $8 for wood, these guns are not a good value…
Doggone/GA
January 18th, 2013
8:41 am
“these guns are not a good value…”
Oh, I don’t know. You don’t need a prescription and you only have to buy the gun once
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:44 am
“What’d I miss? Did Doomy threaten to beat up the blog again?”- Rightwing troll
Well it seems like some of the libs are up to their usual lies. I never threatened to beat up the blog. What happened was Soothsayer said was that we should stage a cage match with me and another con against keep up and kam. I played along and said I’m game for that. And that I wouldn’t need headgear or a partner- which I wouldn’t. If you have a problem with that you should take it up with the person who suggested all that- sooth.
Furthermore if you have a problem with people making threats then perhaps you should take it up with Adam. The young man lost his cool one night and in a threatening manner demanded my address with the suggestion that he was going to come up here and do something. I let him off the hook though. Young men full of bravado make all kinds of mistakes and asking for a physical confrontation with the Doom is about as big a mistake as he could make. Its all cool though. Doomy aint out to hurt the boy. Or a little girl like you for that matter.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:44 am
Well if you’re going to lie then lie big. Its right up there at the beginning ma’am. I never said that. Moonbat Betty did. Pay attention sport.
That link is a direct quote of yours. It’s right next to your handle. Moonbat Betty has one comment in that entire thread, and none of that paragraph I’d quoted is in it.
I don’t take kindly to being called a liar, by the way. I’ve been pretty tolerant of you because you’re a) not a racist and b) not stupid. But that tolerance is subject to change if you’re going to be deliberately dishonest.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 18th, 2013
8:44 am
Stands, are you crying and just wholly lost? I mean someone called you “ma’am”. Just devastating to be the object of that childishness.
How will you survive the day?
GT
January 18th, 2013
8:48 am
“In the middle” the assumptions in this blog are 180 degrees different than the mass’s assumption that aggressive behavior is model behavior. Heroes seldom are academic; they are Rambo or John Wayne. The movie always has one Duke and the rest of the world is shorter, by casting, dumber, which really dumbs down the cast, clear right and wrong themes. In the real world there are many, many people who think they are the Duke, and the gun makes up for the shortness. If Wayne has acted in this world like he acted in the movies one of them would have just walked up behind him and popped his with a bullet, end of subject. Aggressive behavior is a short term solution, it takes character to come up with the real solution which this country is a little short on lately.
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
8:49 am
sfd,
A gun show at Hooters would apparently be Utopia for our resident cons although I suspect the mere sight of the guns would tend to leave them with more of a lack of blood flow to the upper extremity.
Granny Godzilla
January 18th, 2013
8:50 am
GT
Aggressive behavior is a short term solution, it takes character to come up with the real solution which this country is a little short on lately.
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Very well said.
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:51 am
Citizen of the World
January 18th, 2013
8:12 am
I can’t believe after the horrific Newtown tragedy that there are still those who fall on the “status quo” side of the gun control debate. We can’t just do nothing.
So what law would have prevented the young man from taking his mother’s legally owned guns and shooting her and going on a rampage? And since I didn’t get an answer from any of the libs the other day on the proposed new gun law I’ll ask it again and see if any of them can answer it. If the new proposed law were in effect before Newtown please explain to me how that law would have prevented the Newtown massacre? Any lib care to take a stab at that one??? Buehler???
scotchbonnet
January 18th, 2013
8:52 am
So few people smoke nowadays – it’s now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabasco and Firearms.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:52 am
I guess it’s ok when it supports your perspective?
DownIn, while I generally agree with your premise that testosterone oftimes gets a bad rap in common discourse, I think you’re missing the point of Jay’s post, which was basically a “new afternoon thread, mix it up, lads.”
Which is his prerogative, and given the stale alternative on these pages (cough Kyle cough), I think it’s a reasonable one.
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:53 am
“In the real world there are many, many people who think they are the Duke, and the gun makes up for the shortness”
And the liberal pop psychologists come out of the woodwork en masse.
Elections Have Consequences
January 18th, 2013
8:53 am
The President’s job council hasn’t met in a year-and we’ve got another column on guns?? One would think the priorities for the country would be a bit clearer at this point. Guess not.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:55 am
Stands, are you crying and just wholly lost? I mean someone called you “ma’am”
Given that I’ve long been presumed to be black, gay, female, communist…
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:55 am
kreep he cracked corn and I don’t care…
kreep he cracked corn and I don’t care…
itpdude
January 18th, 2013
8:56 am
The first time I went to a range and bought my first, all my own, firearm, the inner-jolt was incredible. The adrenaline really got pumping for some reason. But the feeling subsided and anymore, handing a firearm is not that big a deal. I suspect the fellows tested had not handled real firearms before, or if so, rarely.
Do this same test on, say, policemen. I suspect it would give a different result.
Granny Godzilla
January 18th, 2013
8:56 am
Thulsa
You are asking questions that really can’t be answered.
That however must not prevent us from trying.
and trying
and trying
Nobama
January 18th, 2013
8:57 am
Anybody dont carry a bigass gun is a wussy
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
8:57 am
“Given that I’ve long been presumed to be black, gay, female, communist…”
Shoulda added foolish to the end of that. Would made a presumption quite true indeed.
Donovan
January 18th, 2013
8:57 am
Think I will weigh in. This nugget of information from the elite ranks of academia that your liberal mentor found is absolutely asinine.
The mere fact that you gun control lunatics are discussing its merits speaks volumes about the capacity of your rationality.
Looks to me that you emotional whips need to confiscate hot sauce also.
How do you talk to a liberal? YOU CAN’T!
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:59 am
Shoulda added foolish to the end of that.
Thulsa, you going to own up to what you posted or not?
alex
January 18th, 2013
9:00 am
Oh “taxpayer” please inform the ignorant in this blog what pg stands for oh math wizard, the implication still stands and refute that oh graduate of esteemed KNOX college, sheesh, an academic imbecile, Please inform us of the “science ” of the chart in the blog, ……relative reduction, absolute, throw in the accuracy of saliva testosterone concentrations, don’t forget the P value….repub or Dem you’re full of it and it isn’t testosterone (free or total)
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
9:01 am
Granny Godzilla,
I’ve no problem with doing whatever we reasonably can do to prevent another Newtown. To date though I’ve seen no credible solutions from the liberals. I have seen just a bunch of heated rhetoric about guns. And I still don’t see how the new law being proposed would have stopped the Newtown massacre. So I ask again. What good is the new law if it wouldn’t have done anything to prevent the very massacre that brought about the law?
Dharma Bum
January 18th, 2013
9:04 am
Correlation does not prove causation
TaxPayer
January 18th, 2013
9:06 am
Poor alex and his pico-length, errr, umm, sense of humor. Nano, nano.
curious
January 18th, 2013
9:07 am
Fox News:
“We report, you decide”
They reported, I decided
Changed channels.
Thulsa Doom
January 18th, 2013
9:08 am
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:59 am
Shoulda added foolish to the end of that.
Thulsa, you going to own up to what you posted or not?
stands for decibels,
What is there to own up to? I said what I said and when taken in the proper context of everything else that was said my only point is that a lot of emotionalized rhetoric isn’t going to change what happened. And nor is it going to prevent any new massacres done by madmen. If you can’t understand that then I simply cannot help you.
BTW are you going to be a man and admit that you lied with your statement above about me below. You’re sitting here with a straight face saying that you didn’t lie. And yet here it is in black and white with you stating for everyone to see that I claimed that my fists were registered as lethal weapons. I never claimed that as your lying ass damn well knows. Moonbat Betty said that. You are a LIAR and your own freaking post proves it.
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
7:41 am
Did Doomy threaten to beat up the blog again?
I dunno, think I saw something where he was reduced to claiming that his fists were registered as a legal weapon
DownInAlbany
January 18th, 2013
9:08 am
stands for decibels
January 18th, 2013
8:52 am
Jay’s blog, Jay chooses the topics. I try to mix it up, too! My point is, for every study that supports increased testos levels = increased aggressiveness, there is one that refutes the notion. Some studies say that using saliva to test for testos are not accurate. I’m not supporting my links nor refuting Jay’s.
curious
January 18th, 2013
9:09 am
Unfortunately, there really isn’t much anyone can do to prevent another Newtown.
All we can do is minimize the odds it will happen again.
DownInAlbany
January 18th, 2013
9:10 am
Elections Have Consequences
January 18th, 2013
8:53 am
The President’s job council hasn’t met in a year-and we’ve got another column on guns?? One would think the priorities for the country would be a bit clearer at this point. Guess not.
I saw that too. I refrained from linking it. It’s Friday and I don’t feel like being attacked.
barking frog
January 18th, 2013
9:16 am
How could Newtown have been prevented ?
Deny the shooter access to the victims.
This could have been done by:
1.
barking frog
January 18th, 2013
9:16 am
How could Newtown have been prevented ?
Deny the shooter access to the victims.
This could have been done by:
1.