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     Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 534 Registered: 7-2005  |
I guess I'll really get started with this blog thing in May when I'm out of school...  | ||
| SO Ref Citizen Username: So_refugee Post Number: 1688 Registered: 2-2005  |
"My daddy was a pistol and I'm a son of a gun." - Lewis Grizzard | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 3394 Registered: 5-2005  |
That's SO it needed some humor. Is he for real? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 540 Registered: 7-2005 |
Yes, I am for real. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 555 Registered: 7-2005 |
I hate the create post box. It's so drab. Just a big white box with a blue border..and then all this blank, empty space around it. I wish it wasn't so boring. I feel like I have loads to write...and then I see this box and my mind shuts down. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 558 Registered: 7-2005 |
 So I'm hooked to caffeine. Not that gross Starbucks stuff...or even Tea and all of that  | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 6177 Registered: 12-2001  |
"White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge: bring order to the whole through design. Composition. Balance. Light. And harmony.” --Sondheim | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 596 Registered: 7-2005 |
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| mjc Citizen Username: Mjc Post Number: 1082 Registered: 10-2004 |
It really was a cool moment. I'm glad someone (read: someone your age) remembers it. cheers - MC | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 644 Registered: 7-2005 |
Rap Videos: The Effects On Black Girls By Randy Dotinga, HealthScoutNews Rap music videos often portray a world teeming with sex and violence. But can they make teenage girls do bad things? While the authors of a new study say the answer to that question remains elusive, they add their research has uncovered a potential connection. The study found that black teen girls who view more rap videos are more likely to get in trouble with the law, take drugs and become infected with sexually transmitted diseases. "We can see there is some link, some association," says study co-author Gina Wingood, an associate professor of behavioral sciences and health education at Emory University in Atlanta. "Maybe they see what's on the rap music videos and think that's how teenagers act, and that's how I should act." While sociologists have devoted plenty of time studying how music affects teenagers, rap videos haven't gotten much specific attention. "We said, 'Let's look at adolescent females and ask them questions about rap music and other media venues, like gospel, hip-hop and music videos in general," Wingood says. The study findings appear in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Phone calls seeking comment about the study were not returned by spokespersons for Island Def Jam, a record company that releases rap records, or the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites), the main trade group for the recording industry. Wingood and her colleagues went to health clinics in Birmingham, Ala., and studied 522 black girls from 1996 to 1999. All were sexually active and between the ages of 14 and 18. Girls who watched the most rap videos (more than the average of 14 hours a week), were three times as likely as the other girls to have hit a teacher (7.1 percent versus 2.4 percent). They were also 2.5 times more likely to have been arrested (17.3 percent versus 7.2 percent), and nearly two times more likely to have had sex with multiple partners (19.3 percent versus 11 percent). The researchers then followed the girls for a year. Forty-one percent of those who watched the most rap music videos developed a sexually transmitted disease, compared to 33 percent who didn't watch as many videos. Wingood and her researchers looked at several factors that could affect behavior, such as age, income level and extracurricular activities, including church attendance. However, only two factors other than rap music viewing boosted the rates of promiscuity, drug and alcohol use, and violence among the teens. Those factors were lack of employment and lack of parents who monitor teen activities. Wingood acknowledges she doesn't know whether the watching of rap videos directly affected the girls' behavior or merely reflected interests they already have. "Maybe they want to be independent and autonomous adolescents, and this is how they express it," she says. Michael D. Resnick, director of the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center at the University of Minnesota, says sociologists have found plenty of evidence that the media -- including music and television -- affect the health, attitudes and behaviors of teens. "Young people are listening and observing," says Resnick, who is also a professor of pediatrics. "Adults may think they are not, but they, like adults, are social beings and respond to the environment around them." "When that environment is one that desensitizes us to violence and to treating each other with caring and respect, we see predictable results in young people and in ourselves." http://www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc1153a.html  | ||
| Scully Citizen Username: Scully Post Number: 324 Registered: 8-2005 |
Nice link!!! Thanks! | ||
| jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 516 Registered: 1-2006  |
Glock, How would you explain your interest, as a young Black Man, in guns? J.B. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 661 Registered: 7-2005 |
What does my interest in guns have to do with my race? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8877706463891333135&q=airsoft+47&pl=tru e http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4583911371457335027&q=airsoft&pl=true | ||
| Scully Citizen Username: Scully Post Number: 328 Registered: 8-2005 |
I can explain. Since apparently all human life evolved out of Africa we ALL have common ancestors. One species, one race, different shades. So I guess we can modify the question to: 'How would you explain your interest, as a young Man, in guns?' Whatever... | ||
| jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 531 Registered: 1-2006 |
Glock 17, I asked the question in earnest following your post about the negative effects rap videos have on Black girls. I don't understand what those videos have to do with my question. Your blog is about you. You are Black and your on-line name is a gun's name. You posted about the effects rap videos have on Black girls. I'm curious about your opinion about rap videos effect on Black boys (to use an equivalent term, although I think Black men would be more appropriate.) Specifically regarding guns. Those videos beg my question. They don't answer it. J.B. | ||
| Gregor Samsa Citizen Username: Oldsctls67 Post Number: 498 Registered: 11-2002  |
Let me add his online name is a gun known on the streets as a "cop killer" Nice. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 685 Registered: 7-2005 |
On the other side of of that you could call it Brother Killer....given it's the choice of NYPD and various other police forces across the nation. | ||
| jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 539 Registered: 1-2006 |
I was wondering if you were a cop. Am I right? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 688 Registered: 7-2005 |
No, I just know these things. | ||
| jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 544 Registered: 1-2006 |
Being a cop would have been a more reassuring answer. J.B. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 737 Registered: 7-2005 |
What happened to no negative vibes? | ||
| catmanjac Citizen Username: Catmanjac Post Number: 157 Registered: 2-2004  |
  I'll stick with this or this. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 738 Registered: 7-2005 |
smith and wes on the left? walther ppk on the right? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 739 Registered: 7-2005 |
 I'd take this over a smith and wes anyday | ||
| catmanjac Citizen Username: Catmanjac Post Number: 158 Registered: 2-2004 |
Smith & Wesson? Hell, no. Browning BR9 (the model that was used to shoot the Pope). Walther PP, not PPk. An old war era gun. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 740 Registered: 7-2005 |
Yeah the pp became the ppk and the Colt 1911 is the model that spawned both the browning and smith &wes copies | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 583 Registered: 1-2006 |
Sorry if I was sending negative vibes. They were questions. I find non-law enforcment people with "Brother Killers" non-reassuring. That's all. I guess there isn't any problem with gun deaths among young Black men in the United States that you want to talk about. But those rap videos are really screwing up the girls... J.B. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 743 Registered: 7-2005 |
I don't own a handgun, and probably never will. If that's the impression you are getting. I don't know though. I watched a show on rampage killers. I don't want to be getting my eat on at McDonalds and have some fool come in and smoke my dumb self. THat's what concealed carry permits are for. | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 586 Registered: 1-2006 |
Glock, That's more reassuring. I used to be very confused about the need for the "right to bear arms" in modern society. If the rampage killers didn't have them, YOU wouldn't need one. But, I had a long talk with a Libertarian friend of mine (not THE Libertarian, at least I don't think...) The argument was that "the right to bear arms" is to insure the populice is at least as well armed as the police and military, so that if the Government get's out of control, we can rise up and overthrow it. It's one of the checks and balances. That was an idea I could accept. BUT, I see that gun sales and use are having a very different effect on our society. Your username is Glock, and you posted a picture of a gun on you blog. I figured you wanted to talk about guns. Did I get the impression that you owned a handgun? Absolutely. Do you wonder if I'm from Jersey? J.B. | ||
| catmanjac Citizen Username: Catmanjac Post Number: 161 Registered: 2-2004 |
Being under twenty-one prevents you from owning a handgun. But once of age, there is nothing wrong with a responsible, law-abiding person owning. I would have figured with your obvious interest and knowledge of firearms that you would be a target shooter and eventually an owner. But if you do, do it within the laws of the state you live, and NJ has some of the most stringent laws in the country. Having been an owner and carry permit holder for more than twenty-five years, along with having worked in Irvington and spent my time in areas subject to crime makes me wish that more people were armed legally. Maybe we wouldn't have so much violent crime. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 757 Registered: 7-2005 |
Yep Yep. Much truth | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 600 Registered: 1-2006 |
I saw a bumpersticker on a car in Maplewood that said, "If only outlaws have guns, only outlaws will accidently shoot their children." It's a resonse to "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." J.B. Glock, regarding the videos you posted, I'm not sure what your point is. Children with guns is GOOD or BAD? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 759 Registered: 7-2005 |
No one was a black child with an AIRSOFT gun one was a white child showing that it transcends race | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 602 Registered: 1-2006 |
Glock, You're right: http://www.childrensdefense.org/education/gunviolence/gunreport2005/tables/FARAC E_detail01.pdf Is this good? Or bad? J.B. You brought up guns. You brought up race in our society. I brought up the connection. What did you think people would post about when you started a blog with a picture of a gun? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 763 Registered: 7-2005 |
It was supposed to be a compilation of random web-based things...and whispers from the far reaches of my mind..but alas | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 613 Registered: 1-2006 |
Alas, other people are reading it... J.B. | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 766 Registered: 7-2005 |
I said what it was supposed to be . Big talk JB. | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 627 Registered: 1-2006 |
Big talk? | ||
| Glock 17 Citizen Username: Glock17 Post Number: 779 Registered: 7-2005 |
Grand words, big talk, hinkle finkle dinkle doo. You think you know what goes through my head, but I know that you don't have a clue. | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 630 Registered: 1-2006 |
I don't know what goes through your head. That's the point. You started this blog, and so far, I'm becoming the most frequent poster. Mostly asking questions because I don't understand you or the point of this blog. Why am I here? I don't know. I guess I'm trying to figure you out. You seem interested in guns, yet you don't own one and don't ever intend to. I've read your posts on some of the threads about race and I'm interested in what you have to say. But it seems like on YOUR BLOG, you don't have anything to say at all. Big words? I guess I'm trying to make this blog interesting to me and it's not working. I'll leave you alone. I look forward to reading your posts on other threads. J.B. |
