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TPaine7

(4,286 posts)
21. I think I speak for the vast majority of gun rights proponents when I say
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 05:31 PM
Aug 2012

that I am not for forcing anyone to own, keep or carry a gun (except for police, soldiers and armed security, of course).

Rather than introduce and ridicule a position that almost no one supports, why don't you address the obvious issue?

How did relying on the police to save this business owner work out? Had you been in the same position, would you have preferred to have a gun-free establishment or to have the fighting chance a gun could provide?

It's better to be a victim, than be rude and impolite to society. ileus Aug 2012 #1
While ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #2
If you read the article: Kaleva Aug 2012 #7
Yes ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #9
And your evidence that isn't actually what happened is? Kaleva Aug 2012 #12
None ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #16
so basically backwoodsbob Aug 2012 #31
If that is what you call ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #33
So it was the victim that did something that got himself shot? Not the fault of the kelly1mm Aug 2012 #61
Your intuition is not data TPaine7 Aug 2012 #18
And I can probably google up ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #34
Your categorical statement was demonstrably false and convenient to your argument. n/t TPaine7 Aug 2012 #36
Okay 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #37
The last line of the article is comedy gold. NewMoonTherian Aug 2012 #3
Sounds like something to go on a tombstone--"The Brady/VPC Special Engraving", 35% off. n/t TPaine7 Aug 2012 #20
Why didn't SHE have a gun on her person? HockeyMom Aug 2012 #4
she was not in the same town gejohnston Aug 2012 #5
Jeez. Maybe she should have gone to WalMart and bought one of those $100 guns shadowrider Aug 2012 #6
Where was the store owner's gun? HockeyMom Aug 2012 #10
How am I supposed to know? shadowrider Aug 2012 #11
Did you get that from the NRA poster? 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #35
A thousand gun carrying people is an equally target rich environment, true that shadowrider Aug 2012 #38
You forgot one ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #39
No, Tucson does NOT disprove it. GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #40
First ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #41
he was actually across the street gejohnston Aug 2012 #42
Okay ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #43
If he had been at the scene he would have had no difficulty knowing who was the bad guy. GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #45
not at all gejohnston Aug 2012 #46
How about several cites? GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #44
LOL bongbong Aug 2012 #54
But ... But ... 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #56
Rambo uses a bow and a big assed knife gejohnston Aug 2012 #58
Yes bongbong Aug 2012 #63
14.3 vs 2.3 HALO141 Aug 2012 #76
Logic fail HALO141 Aug 2012 #59
More laughs bongbong Aug 2012 #62
If you want to be HALO141 Aug 2012 #66
lol bongbong Aug 2012 #72
Please demonstrate one proof you've made. HALO141 Aug 2012 #75
In each case the armed citizen prevented more deaths. N/T GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #67
False bongbong Aug 2012 #73
If you want to bet that heavily against the odds, then... GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #79
"patently and provably false." HALO141 Aug 2012 #55
SO hilarious bongbong Aug 2012 #64
Put down the crack pipe HALO141 Aug 2012 #65
More laughs as always bongbong Aug 2012 #71
Whatever. HALO141 Aug 2012 #74
If every citizen carried a gun, there would be no need HockeyMom Aug 2012 #48
not at all because gejohnston Aug 2012 #49
So then you agree it is everyone for themselves? HockeyMom Aug 2012 #52
a sad false choice gejohnston Aug 2012 #57
It is what it is. HALO141 Aug 2012 #60
You are waking up to a sad reality. GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #68
Then I suppose I will probably be a dead victim HockeyMom Aug 2012 #69
I respect your right to make that choice, but not the choice itself. GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #70
Probably not. HALO141 Aug 2012 #77
He'd have been better off with a gun than a phone. NewMoonTherian Aug 2012 #13
Sounds like a very bad idea. I'd oppose a requirement to own a gun - whether petronius Aug 2012 #17
I think I speak for the vast majority of gun rights proponents when I say TPaine7 Aug 2012 #21
There is a town, forget where, HockeyMom Aug 2012 #22
Kennesaw, Georgia gejohnston Aug 2012 #23
That law is toothless, it is basically ceremonial since it doesn't apply to anyone who objects TPaine7 Aug 2012 #24
I would use whatever was in my environment HockeyMom Aug 2012 #25
Interesting, but I was hoping for an answer to my question. n/t TPaine7 Aug 2012 #28
I can't think of anyone arguing that people should be required to own a gun 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #14
Would that not have been better in your mind? Union Scribe Aug 2012 #32
Did you even bother to read the story? CokeMachine Aug 2012 #47
Reading is fundamental. HALO141 Aug 2012 #53
And we are told that gun toters can save the day. How about gun toter who shot clerk in head Hoyt Aug 2012 #8
How about the OP? friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 #15
If the point is not in your favor, avoid the point. It's an elementary anti tactic. n/t TPaine7 Aug 2012 #19
I think they miss the wild wild west. n/t Ed Suspicious Aug 2012 #26
The wild, wild west was much tamer than CCW holdout and former gun free paradise of Chicago n/t TPaine7 Aug 2012 #29
you need to take a history class gejohnston Aug 2012 #30
Denizens of the wild west would be horrified at the violence in our modern civilized cities 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #78
The 911 operator needs a new job... Historic NY Aug 2012 #27
Why didn't she just call the cops . . . 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #50
She needs to program her speed-dial with the relevant number. Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2012 #51
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