# Guns don't take hostages, peoeple do. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887 "2006-02-24T04:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/21 "2006-02-24T13:39:10Z")
> [@bannerrefugee](#): > > Ariz. Gunman Takes As Many As 9 Hostages > > Guns don’t take hostages, peoeple do. Unless you mis-typed the headline, I don’t see where a gun did anything. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/22 "2006-02-24T14:12:05Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > People…people who take people…are the luckiest kidnappers in the world… People…people who post comebacks before other people…are the most sleepless people in the world… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/23 "2006-02-24T14:17:37Z")
How come you never hear about any gunwomen? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/24 "2006-02-24T14:17:50Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > I’ve got a rock. Can I use a rock? I’ve got an asbestos fiber. **Don’t** make me use it. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/25 "2006-02-24T14:24:42Z")
[Hostage situation ends peacefully](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11531871/). During the entire ordeal, apparently, the gun didn’t do anything, whether on its own initiative or due to outside influence. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/26 "2006-02-24T14:28:40Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > How come you never hear about any gunwomen? 'Cuz Annie Oakley’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/27 "2006-02-24T14:38:58Z")
Pies don’t take hostages. Okay, yeah they do. They can have my pie when they pry it from my cold dead hands. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/28 "2006-02-24T16:06:45Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > How come you never hear about any gunwomen? Because they prefer to be known as [gun molls.](http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/eastwood/311/jan2002/moll.htm) Do try to keep up, okay? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/29 "2006-02-24T16:07:45Z")
> [@Blackclaw](#): > > I’ve got a rock. Can I use a rock? _Drops a 16-ton weigh on Blackclaw’s head_ “First you force him to drop the banana, then you eat the banana, thereby disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/30 "2006-02-24T16:45:26Z")
The fact that people take hostages is reflected in the MAN part of GunMAN. The man took hostages _using a gun_. Did you have trouble understanding a compound word, **bannerrefugee**? It didn’t say “gun takes nine hostages.” ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/31 "2006-02-24T16:46:40Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > _Drops a 16-ton weigh on Blackclaw’s head_ > > “First you force him to drop the banana, then you eat the banana, thereby disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless!” “…We’ve DONE bananas…” ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/32 "2006-02-24T20:08:21Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > People do a whole lot of things. In fact they do just about everything we ever talk about, their involvement is pretty much a given. So why don’t we just remove this constant from the equation and see what we have left? E=MC[sup]2[/sup] Light always moves at the same speed. That involvement is pretty much a given. So why don’t we just remove this constant from the equation and see what we have left? Hmm, doesn’t work in this situation either. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/33 "2006-02-24T21:36:04Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] I hate when peoeple, take people as hostages. /QUOTE] How do you feel when guns take hostages? How about antelope? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/34 "2006-02-24T21:44:42Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > How do you feel when guns take hostages? How about antelope? > -Joe That’s gnus, not guns. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/35 "2006-02-24T21:52:10Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > That’s gnus, not guns. Hmm…outwitted by my own petard? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/36 "2006-02-24T22:22:30Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > I hate when peoeple, take people as hostages. > > How do you feel when guns take hostages? How about antelope? > -Joe I also hate when antelope take people or peoeple hostage, but when antoeoleoepe take antelope (or peoeple, or people for that matter) hostage, that’s the worst. Gnus on the other hand, they can take as many hostages as they want, as long as they don’t go off half-cocked! And they can take both you and **rayh** hostage for being too fast for me! ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/37 "2006-02-24T22:30:04Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > What if I take a hostage with a poin-ted stick? **_Stick_man Takes As Many As 9 Hostages** ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/38 "2006-02-24T22:35:27Z")
[Black Bart] _Nobody moves or the nigger gets it!_ [/Black Bart] ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/39 "2006-02-25T00:23:06Z")
> [@bannerrefugee](#): > > Ariz. Gunman Takes As Many As 9 Hostages > > Guns don’t take hostages, peoeple do. Why would you use an armed crime to defend guns? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/40 "2006-02-25T00:44:24Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > That’s gnus, not guns. So no gnus is good gnus? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887.md?page=3)