NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website

ideonexus writes "The National Rifle Association has launched a website defending the use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations who argue that lead bullets are poisoning the environment and tainting game meat with a known neurotoxin. The rise and fall of lead levels from gasoline and lead-based paint are strongly correlated to the rise and fall of crime rates in communities around the world."

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[Anonymous Coward]

The servers must've had some problems with the lead-free solder joints.

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[Nadaka]

Gold of course.

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[Mitchell314]

Mercury. It's denser than lead, and can pass through many materials very easily, including metals [youtube.com].

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[laejoh]

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, public health, and their findings about lead and its toxic effects, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Re:non sequitur

[internerdj]

I've never tried it but I have it on good authority that when combined with the component gunpowder the dose of lead in a bullet is sufficiently lethal to the average human.

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[Anonymous Coward]

"Dense"? Can't we just use ground up NRA or Teaparty-members to replace lead?

Re:Decontamination

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

This, a thousand times this. When I'm around the loud anti-gubmint gun owners, I have exactly the same visceral "please, please just shut the fuck up, you're making the majority of us look bad" feeling I get as when I'm listening to some idiot go on and on about how he likes big tits and only women with big tits, and anybody who doesn't like big tits is stupid and women who don't have big tits aren't worth knowing...

It really only takes a few very loud idiots to create a stereotype.

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[osu-neko]

Gold of course.

Expecting a cyberman invasion?

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[plover]

Have you ever made an alloy of bullshit, steel, and bismuth? The bullshit adds too much carbon, making it brittle. It's completely unsuitable for bullets.

Semicolons; use them.

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[K. S. Kyosuke]

what have the Romans ever done for us?

Died off so that we could take their place, while keeping important tourist attractions such as the Colosseum intact to make money for us?

Re:The Romans found out about lead

[Darinbob]

I've tried hunting with plasma rifles, but the deer end up being just piles of faintly glowing ash, and you can't feed that to the kids.

Re:First slashdotted site I've seen in some time

[damn_registrars]

It appears we took down the NRA site that his summary linked to. Apparently the slashdot conservatives wanted to get the talking points from it before the slashdot liberal pointed out that lead is bad?

(yes, I know I'll be down-modded for this. let me have it)

But lead is bad. Surely even a slashdot conservative can recognize that.

Except that (to a slashdot conservative) guns are good, and anything that goes against guns in any way, shape, or form must be discredited. If Microsoft announced tomorrow that Windows 8 came with a free AR16 and a box of ammo there would be a front page story touting how undeniably stable, awesome, secure, awesome, and better-than-everything-else-ever it is. Hell all congress and hollywood had to do to make SOPA popular here was include guns in it - if there had been a measure written in to the bill that made every empty video rental store into a Sunday gun show it would have been the most popular bill ever.