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Re: "Tonight, it's been a year; he killed the others here..." by Hans Clastorp 01/09/2012, 9:58am PST
Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) wrote:

Oh, it isn't? You see some crazy pull out a gun and start shooting. He gets one, maybe two people before you and several others put a bullet in him and take him out. End result: he kills two people instead of seven. Tragic, but a reduced tragedy.


What bullshit. You hear shots and see some people drop, and now you have fifteen people all waving guns around. Was the dude you just saw blow someone's head off the crazy person, or was he the hero putting down the crazy mass murderer?

There was a story a few days ago that was essentially the perfect storm of an argument for gun ownership -- a young woman home alone with an infant, and two drug addicts attempting to break in to her trailer to steal her late husband's pain meds. It took them 20 minutes to get in, during which time she was on the phone with 911, holding a shot gun. Eventually one of them did get in and she blew his ass away. THAT is the kind of situation where a gun maybe saved lives: there was plenty of warning, no confusion about the facts on the ground, and no crowds of scared people freaking out or general mayhem. In a panic, the last thing I would want is a bunch of heroes with handguns who think they are Dirty Harry.
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"Tonight, it's been a year; he killed the others here..." by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 01/08/2012, 5:49pm PST NEW
    You're comparing apples to olives. Israel is an openly religious society, of by course it would have less violence. 01/08/2012, 6:26pm PST NEW
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    New York has a higher crime rate than Vermont?!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!? NT by YOU DON'T SAY 01/08/2012, 7:19pm PST NEW
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