Guns urban vs urban?

[mrnoodle]

Something happens to people where they exist in high concentrations. They start thinking they're inherently smarter than those who live in the country. You might think that you know something about guns just because you've lived around them your whole life and you are familiar with what they can and cannot do. But you're just a hick. While you're at home whittling sticks, city folk are going to see The Vagina Monologues and listening to smooth jazz. They read thick newspapers, and as anyone knows, the thicker the paper is, the more smart it contains. I bet your newspaper isn't thick.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

Something happens to people where they exist in high concentrations. They start thinking they're inherently smarter than those who live in the country.

'Cause we are

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

You might think that you know something about guns just because you've lived around them your whole life and you are familiar with what they can and cannot do. But you're just a hick. While you're at home whittling sticks, city folk are going to see The Vagina Monologues and listening to smooth jazz. They read thick newspapers, and as anyone knows, the thicker the paper is, the more smart it contains. I bet your newspaper isn't thick.

Listen, Uncle Jed, I'll bet my newspaper is thicker than your newspaper.:p

[glatt]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

They read thick newspapers, and as anyone knows, the thicker the paper is, the more smart it contains. I bet your newspaper isn't thick.

I know your post is sarcastic, but you are right with the newspapers. The thicker newspapers of a big city are far far superior to the crap they print in small town papers. There's simply far less news in a small town paper, and it's mostly fluff.

[mrnoodle]

Originally Posted by glatt

I know your post is sarcastic, but you are right with the newspapers. The thicker newspapers of a big city are far far superior to the crap they print in small town papers. There's simply far less news in a small town paper, and it's mostly fluff.

I disagree. Smaller newspapers aren't beholden to mega-advertisers to drum up buzz and sell copies. They talk about things that are of immediate concern to the readership, whether it's a "big" news day or not. There's plenty of fluff, but that's because fluff is what's happening. In a 8-inch thick newspaper, 4 inches of the thickness is advertisements, 2 inches is the editorial board attempting to indoctrinate the reader into its personal political viewpoint (invert the previous 2 numbers for the Washington Post), 1 inch is sports, and the last inch is divided between actual news and information about which Hollywood debutantes are catfighting that week.

Out of 100 pages, maybe 16 contain anything you might actually need to know. If you're an investor, add 8 for the stock report.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

I disagree. Smaller newspapers aren't beholden to mega-advertisers to drum up buzz and sell copies. They talk about things that are of immediate concern to the readership, whether it's a "big" news day or not. There's plenty of fluff, but that's because fluff is what's happening. In a 8-inch thick newspaper, 4 inches of the thickness is advertisements, 2 inches is the editorial board attempting to indoctrinate the reader into its personal political viewpoint (invert the previous 2 numbers for the Washington Post), 1 inch is sports, and the last inch is divided between actual news and information about which Hollywood debutantes are catfighting that week.

Out of 100 pages, maybe 16 contain anything you might actually need to know. If you're an investor, add 8 for the stock report.

Now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and also making stuff up. I've read both small town newspapers (almost certainly not the same ones you have) and large city newspapers. They are like night and day. Small town papers don't even come close. They just regurgitate a small number of AP stories, and even truncate most of those stories. Having said that, if you live in a town, you should get the local paper, just so you know what is going on in that town.