On 5/24/2011 12:48 PM, harry wrote:
On May 24, 1:02 pm, wrote:
harry wrote:
Which anti-government terrorist organisation is that and why do you
feel qualified to intervene?
Typical Yank ****bag. Watches too much Hollywood and imagines these
ficticious situations with himself in the starring role.
Hello! You're in cloud cuckooland. A fantasy world created in your own
warped mind that does not exist, terrorised by government inspired
phantoms that don't exist.
You only have to look at the Tucson/Gifford incident when all the
heros with guns ran away and a little old lady disarmed the wouldbe
assassin.
Hah! Gun freaks! Cowardly arseholes. Frightened of shadows. Probably
wet himself as a kid imagining the bogeyman under the bed.
It's usually not necessary to intervene. The deterrence factor in the mind
of the goblin is that somebody MIGHT intervene.
According to best estimates, there are several million defensive gun uses in
the US annually. That is, no shots were fired but the stink-eye rightly
concluded that withdrawal from the scene was the life-preserving choice.
I have, for example, chose to draw my weapon three times since 1995 (twice
in Home Depot parking lots!) after being accosted by squints armed with a
crow-bar or a piece of rebar. In all three cases the do-bads did not heed my
command to "Stop! Come no closer!"
In the case of Tuscon, bear in mind that only about 2% of the population of
Arizona (165,000 out of 7 million) has a concealed handgun license (CHL).
The crowd at Gifford's rally numbered approximately 80 people.
Statistically, that's less than two people in the crowd with a weapon.
Further, the crowd was quite likely pro-Gifford (Democratic) and, overall,
more inclined to singing kumbaya than putting holes in a non-sillohette.
Bear in mind, the usualy purpose of a CHL is to protect the bearer's life,
not a third person.
Even after all that, a CHL holder was quickly on the scene, ready to do
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Yeah, right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_vio... lated_to_guns
Four times higher in the USA than comparable countries.
I suspect that if you exclude the urban Skinner box areas (where, IMHO,
no sane person lives), the rates would be a fraction of that.
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aem sends...