Thoughts after Sandy Hook

[Rolyo85]

As the JFPFO notes, it would have been better to have gone down fighting.

And as I noted down, that's bullshit. It was better to not go down at all and go on living. Which many of them managed to do, and wouldn't have if they had resisted. It's a simple fact and I don't see anyone trying to deny it.

 

[Kulindahr]

And as I noted down, that's bullshit. It was better to not go down at all and go on living. Which many of them managed to do, and wouldn't have if they had resisted. It's a simple fact and I don't see anyone trying to deny it.

"Many"?

Compared to the six million, just how "many" was it?


Besides which, that's not your call to make -- you don't own them. If I'd rather go down taking some enemies with me rather than go to a concentration camp, that's my choice; it's not anyone else's to make for me.

And that's the root of the problem: all this "gun control" talk tends to rest on the proposition that people are property.

 

[Rolyo85]

"Many"?

Compared to the six million, just how "many" was it?

Besides which, that's not your call to make -- you don't own them. If I'd rather go down taking some enemies with me rather than go to a concentration camp, that's my choice; it's not anyone else's to make for me.

And that's the root of the problem: all this "gun control" talk tends to rest on the proposition that people are property.

Yeah, and all of your talk tends to rest on the proposition that you're a cowboy vigilante superhero and that every sane person should think like you.

 

[chrisrobin]

^Bump

Would you buy a firearm for this person?

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Would you sell a firearm to him? After all, it's just business.

 

[TX-Beau]

It's also foolish to think that our gun control laws are ineffective because gun control is ineffective, lobbyists paid a lot of people to make sure our gun laws were ineffective.

Eradicating gun violence is one thing, mitigating the damage is another. The first - while a commendable goal is not possible, the second is only common sense.

 

[TX-Beau]

Oh and yeah - once again - discussion of the 2cnd amendment is just a red herring - it is ALREADY legal for the Gov (and it already does) to regulate firearms. The ONLY thing in question is the type and amount of regulation.