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In reply to the discussion: Just when you think Bloomberg is as disgusting as he can be, he finds a new low. [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)101. "if you aren't going to be my personal bodyguard and bullet-catcher, your platitudes are worthless"
That says it all. Firstly, it is all about you and your fear of "criminals", then you judge my reasoning as "platitudes". Secondly, I never said a firearm was primitive, I said the behavior of people who point guns at others as a problem solving technique is primitive; in the same way that the US bombing the crap out of 2 countries as a reaction to a criminal act (Afghanistan) and a family feud (Iraq) was primitive.
I don't characterize any methods of self defense as primitive, I object to calling the carrying of a handgun an act of self defense. Carrying a gun, for no specific reason, is inherently an offensive act, conducted by those who, for whatever reason, expect to use it, at some point, to solve an imaginary problem.
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Just when you think Bloomberg is as disgusting as he can be, he finds a new low. [View all]
TheWraith
Feb 2012
OP
About 20 out of 600 mayors. So what's wrong with the other 580 mayors who recognize guns ain't good
Hoyt
Feb 2012
#31
He's wrong on the drug issue and I strongly oppose him. 9 out of 10 ain't bad for a politician.
Starboard Tack
Feb 2012
#49
Not liberal at all. Police work rarely is. Carrying a gun around isn't liberal either.
Starboard Tack
Feb 2012
#71
"before you can make up a fake claim to the contrary" - a bit rude, don't you think?
Starboard Tack
Feb 2012
#95
You appear to be trapped in the illusion that carrying a gun is in itself a defensive act.
Starboard Tack
Feb 2012
#99
"if you aren't going to be my personal bodyguard and bullet-catcher, your platitudes are worthless"
Starboard Tack
Feb 2012
#101
If someone is stealing the tools that are your means for earning a living....
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#104
Unless you can claim with a straight face (and you've already made some whoppers)....
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#111
You sound just like a religious person claiming what a TRUE believer is and is not.
cleanhippie
Feb 2012
#78
Thanks for that. I wish those who ridicule the 2nd Amendment would all read it...and think.
Fortran
Feb 2012
#94
What's your "net worth over/under" for armed security to be acceptable to you?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#45
What about the *rational* hatred for Bloomberg? 'Stop and frisk', OWS, the NYPD Demographics Unit?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#70
Who here has cozied up to Palin and Perry? Cites, or retract your slur.
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#82
I guess stopping people 'randomly' in the streets and searching them without a warrant now equal...
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#61
And let's not forget the NYPD Demographics Unit, aka 'COINTELPRO for Muslims'
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#68
He bribed the City Council into overturning term limit laws approved by the voters.
TheWraith
Feb 2012
#97
The end justifies the means, eh DrDan? How will you feel if and when Israel bombs Iran's nuclear...
slackmaster
Feb 2012
#22