This fucking scares me...
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Yea, highly improbable that someone is the victim of a violent crime where the use of a firearm might get them out of it without harm. Hey numbnuts, this law is based on that highly improbable situation.Ryoki wrote:Nice, i see you use the same type of reasoning that republican politicians so often use: make up a highly improbable (but not quite impossible) scenario and use it as a means to justify something totally outlandish. :icon14:tnf wrote: So if are attacked on the street, in an alley, whatever, by a guy with a weapon and retreat puts you at more risk than shooting the guy...that is idiocy?
That's why I kept emphasizing the fact that we are talking about THAT HIGHLY IMPROBABLE SITUATION. And in that HIGHLY IMPROBABLE SITUATION THAT THIS LAW IS REALLY DEALING WITH the potential victims should not have to prove an attempt to retreat before protecting themselves.
The pacifistic anti-gun side is settled just as much in fantasy land about the whole thing. I notice that not one of you bring up the fact that if some dumbfuck criminal didn't decide to attack someone this wouldn't be an issue...because as long as we can jump on some bandwagon about the streets of the U.S. being the 'wild wild west' we all feel good about ourselves right?
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And who said the solution was to arm everyone? All I am saying is that if someone chooses to arm themself, and they find themself facing a situation where they can either: 1) shoot the attacker and avoid an unpredictable amount of personal injury, or 2) try and escape, and in doing so potentially find themself in an even worse situation....that they should have the right to opt for #1.
Of course that situation is going to be relatively improbable - there is almost always a chance to get away or run...but if that chance doesn't exist, a person should not fear prosecution for protecting himself.
That's how I read this law - a law protecting folks who happen to be in that relatively unique situation.
Let's hear the alternative. Explain to me why the victim doesn't have the right to protect himself in a situation like this.
What should you do?
Of course that situation is going to be relatively improbable - there is almost always a chance to get away or run...but if that chance doesn't exist, a person should not fear prosecution for protecting himself.
That's how I read this law - a law protecting folks who happen to be in that relatively unique situation.
Let's hear the alternative. Explain to me why the victim doesn't have the right to protect himself in a situation like this.
What should you do?
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Yea, at times the anti-gun crowd seems to be as ideological in their arguments as anti-choicers are on abortions. Exaggeration and hyperbole can make it sound really insane to support everyone's right to bear arms.tnf wrote:Yea, highly improbable that someone is the victim of a violent crime where the use of a firearm might get them out of it without harm. Hey numbnuts, this law is based on that highly improbable situation.
That's why I kept emphasizing the fact that we are talking about THAT HIGHLY IMPROBABLE SITUATION. And in that HIGHLY IMPROBABLE SITUATION THAT THIS LAW IS REALLY DEALING WITH the potential victims should not have to prove an attempt to retreat before protecting themselves.
The pacifistic anti-gun side is settled just as much in fantasy land about the whole thing. I notice that not one of you bring up the fact that if some dumbfuck criminal didn't decide to attack someone this wouldn't be an issue...because as long as we can jump on some bandwagon about the streets of the U.S. being the 'wild wild west' we all feel good about ourselves right?
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one question, where the hell would you go that's better? Canada?jester! wrote:"*kzzzkzz*eerrrrr hes coming right at us!"
Blam!
Cant wait to hear about all the new murders. It seems every day there is another reason to be happy not to be in the US. :icon26:



actually, the preliminary step into this, the so-called 'right to carry' has been shown to control increase in violent crime rates since being put in place in '87 in fla, for example.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2004/6mosprelim04.pdf
I'm more concerned with the number of accidental shootings, with kids and such than some big prick shooting a bigger prick on the street over bruised egos.
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Re: This fucking scares me...
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Zingtnf wrote:The pacifistic anti-gun side is settled just as much in fantasy land about the whole thing. I notice that not one of you bring up the fact that if some dumbfuck criminal didn't decide to attack someone this wouldn't be an issue...because as long as we can jump on some bandwagon about the streets of the U.S. being the 'wild wild west' we all feel good about ourselves right?
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YOU LIVE IN SWEDENreefsurfer wrote:Just by reading nightshades argument makes me scared shitless.. talk about brainwashed.
yanks shoot other yanks all the time because they're yanks. the canadians and swiss have even more guns per head of population but you don't see them shooting the place up every five minutes. it's culture that makes the difference
i don't really care if gun ownership is supported by rightwing freaks from the GOP and NRA. the issue is separate from those crazies. i just don't buy this statist crap about the state having a god-given right to a monopoly on force, especially not when they abuse that assumed right on a regular basis and to the cost of tens of thousands of innocent lives, many times more than are shot by individuals
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