RicodJour wrote:
On Jan 10, 12:04 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
harry wrote:
I see that six people have been killed by some loon in Arizona.
I feel really sorry for that poor little girl and her family. Some
judge killed too but who likes lawyers anyway?

As for Gabrielle Giffords I hear she was a gun advocate. Big friend
of the Palin nut?

Well there's, a good outcome at least. If still capable of cognisant
thought when/if she recovers, I wonder if she'll have a change of
heart.

I notice that no -one was able to "defend themselves" with guns and
the gunman was disarmed by a little old lady and a couple of passing
youths who sat on his head.

Sick half wits you gun loving lot are.

What happened to the poor folks in Tuscon was regrettable indeed.
Our hearts
go out to them.

Still, it's the price we must pay so that our ability to defend
ourselves
remains available. Here's an interview with a citizen carrying a
weapon who
helped subdue the
shooter.http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/01...onceal-carry-d...

As for Giffords being a gun advocate, hardly. The NRA rated her "D+"
(up
from an "F" during her tenure as a state legislator). Of course a D+
rating
in Arizona would be a flogging offense in the UK.

Ancient bumper-sticker:
"If Vince Foster had had a gun, he'd be alive today."

Ah, yes, nothing like starting off the New Year with the same
simplistic thinking for which you're famous.

Scenario: Wacko in a crowd with a gun starts shooting. People all
around him have guns, too, and they start shooting at the wacko. How
many bystanders get shot by the people in the crowd defending
themselves?
Answer: Too many.
Moral: The wacko with the gun will always "win".

Same canard that's never been substantiated. The scenario you posit has
never happened and probably never will happen.

Here's an interview with one person who was carrying a gun at the Gifford's
event who helped subdue the shooter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmmOWL05r8

In a crowd of any size in Arizona - and several other states - there will
quite likely be several people carrying a concealed weapon. We didn't see
ANY return fire at the Giffords event.

The only reason I can muster for the fear that "all the people carrying guns
will start shooting..." is that the person making the claim is projecting.
That is, the claimant believes that were HE carrying a gun, HE would start
shooting everbody in sight, either operating in the belief that if he kills
everybody he's bound to get the goblin, or he thinks that's what he would do
in a panic.

In real life, responsible gun owners do not act as you claim.

And as for "simplistic thinking," Ronald Reagan once said: "People who think
there are not simple solutions to complex problems just haven't tried hard
enough." (Or maybe he said: "There are simple solutions, just not easy
ones." I forget.)