Archive for the ‘death’ Category

Having Fun with Electricity in Honduras | Johnny Vagabond

johnnyvagabond.com11/22/11

Based on a design by Ben Franklin, the heating element is actually built into the shower head. Knowing that the only thing shielding me from certain death is a pair of wire nuts hanging just six inches above the spraying water makes me think “You know, maybe those smelly hippies have the right idea…” Having Fun … Now, if you've been here before you may know that I tend to give anything remotely dangerous the “of Death” suffix, but this thing really was frightening. …

Electric shock from shower – All About Circuits Forum

forum.allaboutcircuits.com12/4/11

I can see now that it is called a shower head heater. And I can see that experts think they are very dangerous. So probably they only use it here because they want hot water, right? And they don't know that it is dangerous, …

I have met many people that told me to turn off the water heater when I take a shower, because if I don’t don’t, they say I that I could get electrocuted.

But if you ask these people to explain how this might happen, they look kind of blank and speechless like a deer that’s been caught by your headlights.

You ask them “Is it possible to spray electricity in water”, and they look pensive and sometimes attempt to explain how it might be done, but I’ve yet to hear a valid explanation, so I don’t think that it’s at all possible.

Can it happen, and if, “yes”, then how?

Reasons for gun control | 6o8

6o8.org11/21/11

This matter has raised many questions like those involving the required restrictions and by the constitutions, the connection about the crime control and gun control as well as the rates at which the gun control have on vices …

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime | Star-Exponent

www2.starexponent.com8/18/11

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime. By: Richmond … More guns might not lead to less crime; deterrence is a very hard thing to prove. But this much is clear: More guns do not lead to more crime. Virginia's …

Do more handguns equal more or less violent crime?

I was recently surprised to read that,

"States with Higher Percentages of Gun Owners Have Less Violent Crime".

And even more surprised to read that …

"Most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws, States reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%.

And if those states that did not permit concealed handgun in 1992 had permitted them back then, citizens might have been spared approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies.

To put it even more simply: Criminals, we found, respond rationally to deterrence threats!".

I’d always been against people having guns, but if the above is true then I was wrong.

So would it really be better if our civilan societies were armed with guns?