# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/41 "2006-02-25T01:01:33Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > So no gnus is good gnus? Depends if you are taking an antelope hostage. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/42 "2006-02-25T01:36:12Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > Depends if you are taking an antelope hostage. Or anteleope. ---
**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 25, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/43 "2006-02-25T01:53:29Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Or anteleope. Or “peoeple”. ---
**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, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/44 "2006-02-25T02:13:00Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Or “peoeple”. Here is the cheurch Here is the steoeple Open the doeors And see all the peoeple ---
**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 25, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/45 "2006-02-25T02:29:25Z")
This is my rifle! This is my gnu! This is for fighting! This is for fnu! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/46 "2006-02-25T03:05:53Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > This is my rifle! This is my gnu! > This is for fighting! This is for fnu! WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, GNUMGNUTS? ---
**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 25, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/47 "2006-02-25T03:39:22Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > This is my rifle! This is my gnu! > This is for fighting! This is for fnu! Tears of laughter, man, tears of laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/48 "2006-02-25T03:45:46Z")
What if I take a hostage with a fish? Just for the halibut. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/49 "2006-02-25T04:31:05Z")
Just wait till the bears show up. Number one threat to this nation. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/50 "2006-02-25T05:17:11Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > What if I take a hostage with a fish? > Just for the halibut. Stop baiting us; I’m getting a haddock. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/51 "2006-02-25T07:06:22Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Stop baiting us; I’m getting a haddock. Take a calomel. I’d walk a mile for a calomel… ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/52 "2006-02-25T07:18:54Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > What if I take a hostage with a poin-ted stick? The hostage would get Stickholm Syndrome? mm ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/53 "2006-02-25T15:58:29Z")
> [@The Long Road](#): > > Just wait till the bears show up. Number one threat to this nation. Only if they are armed, but I don’t see how we can avoid that; after all, the right to armed bears is in the Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887/54 "2006-02-26T14:18:28Z")
> [@Doctor Jackson](#): > > 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? You have Energy and Mass. Which is the significant part if every other equation also uses C. (They don’t, so your analogy doesn’t really work, does it?) What’s most significant about the OP? That people are involved or guns? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-dont-take-hostages-peoeple-do/345887.md?page=2)