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In reply to the discussion: Kleck actually making some sense on lenient gun laws [View all]Straw Man
(6,622 posts)98. Real vs. imaginary aggression.
Stopping real aggression with commensurate force is defensive. Using a gun against someone with a knife is only defensive if there is nowhere to retreat to.
So if an 80-year-old with a gun is attacked by a 20-year-old with a knife, the 80-year-old is supposed to run, and can only employ the gun if and when the 20-year-old catches up? I respectfully submit that by then it might be too late for the gun to have any practical effect.
Showing a gun as a deterrent is assault with a deadly weapon, which has now been legalized in many parts of this country. Another symbol of a crumbling civilization.
That's right -- it's far more civilized to be beaten, stabbed, raped, or shot than to commit the unpardonable faux pas of exposing a gun.
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When have I ever used that as a justification?!? Stop trying to put your fingers in my mouth, eh?
X_Digger
Mar 2012
#16
And, once again, how are you going to remove guns from the criminals. Full list please!
Logical
Mar 2012
#65
It's not the first incident of cognitive dissonance with this particular poster.
X_Digger
Mar 2012
#100
This post should be placed at the top of the main Gun Group page, in a nice frame or something. n/t
NewMoonTherian
Mar 2012
#8
It's obvious Kleck's not much of a criminologist- after all, he says things ST doesn't like.
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2012
#40
Honestly, if he'd said 500,000 I'd think the same. Kleck's survey is a joke.
Starboard Tack
Mar 2012
#79
"That's like doing a survey in an insane asylum and asking if anyone's seen Jesus of late."
Simo 1939_1940
Mar 2012
#90
IIRC again, most of the pro-restrictionists base their claims upon studies...
PavePusher
Mar 2012
#93
Let the record show that this member is willing to libel a liberal Democrat.
Simo 1939_1940
Mar 2012
#87
So by virtue of the fact that you're not disclosing where you "corrected" your libelous
Simo 1939_1940
Mar 2012
#99