CaliforniaPeggy
CaliforniaPeggy's JournalThis Doctor says don't buy into the myth of owning a gun for self-defense:
By Steven J. Sainsbury, M.D.
During my more than 25 years as an emergency medicine physician, I treated hundreds of patients with gunshot wounds. I treated criminals who shot each other. I treated gun owners who killed their family members in drunken rages. I pronounced dead suicide victims who shot themselves with an easily accessible handgun in their home.
Yet in all those years of emergency medicine, I never treated a single patient who was shot by a law-abiding citizen in self-protection. Not one.
Multiple reputable studies and surveys bolster what I observed: Choosing to have a gun in your home, because it will keep you safe, is a myth. And a deadly one at that.
Yet surveys of gun owners show they consistently cite self-protection as the primary reason for 67% of gun purchases. Suppose you have the same fears and obtain a handgun. Which of these two scenarios is more likely?
The whole article at the link: https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-thinking-buying-gun-110527770.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
I have some photos on my iPhone 11 that were airdropped onto it.
How do I get them transferred off my iPhone onto my non-Apple computer? It's a Dell windows machine.
TIA!
Playing with Exposure Compensation:
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Photo #2:
Photo #3:
My new Olympus camera Mark IV has a feature that I just love to use. It's called Exposure Compensation and it allows you to adjust (in real time as you look through the viewfinder) how much light to allow in your photo. Only mirrorless cameras can do this. Since there is no mirror, there is nothing to obstruct your view of the desired photo at the time you take it. It's great!
The Mayor of San Jose, CA holds forth on gun control:
Op-Ed: My city’s new gun control laws will help more than waiting on Congress to do somethingA gunman holding four people hostage at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue this weekend provides another reminder of the daily threat of gun violence to our local communities. San Jose, where I am mayor, is hardly immune: Our 1 million residents have endured three mass shootings in three years, along with hundreds of gun-inflicted killings, suicides and serious injuries.
Last June our City Council unanimously approved my proposals that will mitigate gun harm in our community — and a final vote on Jan. 25 should turn them into law. The proposals include two requirements for gun owners that no city or state in the U.S. has ever implemented: the purchase of liability insurance and the payment of annual fees to fund violence-reduction initiatives. We anticipate that a barrage of lawsuits from the firearm industry and gun rights advocates will follow.
Why should any city subject itself to litigation? Because now-common horrific reports of shootings throughout the nation do little more than elicit a performative parade of prayers and platitudes from Congress. Because problem-solving must be elevated over political posturing.
Because, as one grieving mother urged as I hugged her at her son’s memorial, “we just need somebody to do something.”
My proposals take a page from public health approaches that have reduced auto-related deaths, tobacco use and teen pregnancy in the U.S. They incentivize responsibility, draw on multi-disciplinary learning and invest in proven harm-reduction initiatives with the guidance of experts.
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The rest at the link:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-01-19/op-ed-new-gun-control-laws-help-congress
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