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Termyn8or -> RE: GUNS (1/1/2011 2:30:48 AM)
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Catching this last page I think I'm glad I missed some of the hoopla. But you're turning me on. Like I'm Marshall Dillon walking in the bar and Kitty has a few guys at gunpoint, making them clean up the mess they made last night and fixing up the bar. This is where I sit down and, unfortunately have to wait a minute for my drink. However I do sit, knowing that the situation is under control. "How you doing Kitty ?", "Just fine Matt".
Now it's my turn. Look, all the whiney asses listen up. The allure of a gun, in anything but the mechanical sense, of superiority is not the issue. Gun owners believe everybody should have a gun, with the appropriate exceptions. I am talking about what is above the "feeling" of security when packing, because it simply doesn't exist if everybody is packing. Do we have that straight ?
No Ladies and Gentlemen, it is not the Godlike hubris and quest for easy power that it is made out to be. It is related to the quest for power though, in the game. We are (were) a competitive species, we don't mind a fair fight. What good is my gun if you have a gun ? Then it comes down to who is better at USING the gun. Sometimes it comes down to who has the bigger gun, but not as a rule.
I knew a Man, his name was Don, same name as my Father. Owned a bar called Marielle's. One relatively quiet night as a customer left he heard a ruckus outside the door. His customer was being robbed. He went outside and found out, and tried to thwart the attempt, but the robber had a gun. A puny .25 that I wouldn't wipe my ass with. But at close range the punk shot and killed Don. Hit him with a gut shot from a lower elevation, putting the bullet's trajectory from below the rib cage, up through the heart.
Do I believe the assailant should not have had a gun ? I guess so. Do I believe that we should have made sure the assailant should never have been able to get a gun ? Believe it or not no, and Don was a friend. What I believe should've been is that Don had a gun and blew the punk's head off. It beats his family going to the parole hearings every so many years to make sure the asshole doesn't get out.
Better yet if the customer had a gun. He could've shot the thug himself, wlked back into the bar and said "Don, sorry I made a mess out front........" .
They say don't take the law into your own hands. They are fucking absolutely wrong. The Law belongs in our hands. Each and every one of us. And I don't mean IRS code or no parking zones. There are some things that human beings just don't do.
Kudos on that not getting raped at gunpoint. Don't you wish it was like that for everybody ? I tried to get my Mother to carry a gun but she just won't do it.
On the anti gunners' side is the fact that there are two kinds of people. One kind, their wrath will make them reach for a killing machine, others only reach for a killing machine when they absolutely need it. The former should not be. The latter should.
When you are unable to defend yourself you will be controled one way or another. You will be absolved of responsibility for your own well being. Is that what you want ?
T
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