Well clearly there would not be any rape, or robbery, or violent crime at all if we all were armed at all times. We can divert those funds that we no longer use for art or music in school and train the kids in target shooting while we are striving for a safer country.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Dec 21, 2012 7:59:52 am PST #5307 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
msbelle - Dec 21, 2012 8:08:27 am PST #5308 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do not think they know what smaller government actually means. stupidheads.
Burrell - Dec 21, 2012 8:22:54 am PST #5309 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'd be up for meeting up with you Sparky, with the same crazyballs caveat as Kat gave. The holidays are NUTS!
I've done a massive purge of old toys this holiday season. DH freaks if things need to be thrown out, so I saved all the best toys and have been hoping to find a taker. Our cleaning lady has 4 kids, 3 boys and a baby girl, and so she was happy to take the Duplo blocks, toy cars, and groovy wooden castle. And I am happy to have a bit more space. Win-win!
beekaytee - Dec 21, 2012 8:27:10 am PST #5310 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Not that I'm expecting logic from a special interest group but it seems as if no one at the NRA is recognizing the important distinction between deterrent and prevention.
The argument that everyone should have guns suggests that criminals will think twice before putting themselves at risk. This clearly holds no water. The availability of assault rifles does not make anyone safe from assault rifles.
Whereas, no common citizens having assault rifles pretty much immediately reduces the number of gun deaths possible in any given time frame.
I don't consider myself a great thinker, by any means, but this just seems like a given to me.
Burrell - Dec 21, 2012 8:27:51 am PST #5311 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
PS thought I'd just add that I have many thoughts about the need for rational gun control, most of which have already been said by others so I won't bother reiterating them.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2012 8:39:49 am PST #5312 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If any folks want to argue with anyone espousing the "More guns will solve our gun problem" might want to check out this:
It shows there was a police officer stationed at Columbine the day of the massacre. Which didn't help.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2012 9:03:26 am PST #5313 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Dec 21, 2012 9:10:58 am PST #5314 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
sumi - Dec 21, 2012 9:34:22 am PST #5315 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
WTF? - another mass shooting.
Jesse - Dec 21, 2012 9:39:29 am PST #5316 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In avoidance news, I just broke down and ordered a bunch of stuff from Sephora and also remembered to order my grandmother's Christmas flowers! So that's done.