That’s cute, putting gun culture in quote marks, the same week the Governor of Texas signed a bill, while sitting in a gun shop and surrounded by gun enthusiasts, allowing open carry on campuses. I guess signing the bill at his desk wouldn’t have sent a clear enough message.
ten million to one odds sound reasonably safe to me.
As the Master himself said “essentially the same sort of calculation goes into estimates of death from coal dust”.
Only someone convinced that the utility of gun ownership is zero could take your absolutist stand. We beg to differ.
Is that what they are? :dubious:
We need coal, at least for now, and we do everything we can to minimize exposure and danger to it. We do not need handguns, and any effort to minimize exposure and danger to them is fought by the likes of you.
But you know that, don’t you?
Only someone very unsure of their own position tries to hide that by pretending it’s his opponents who are the absolutists. If you beg to differ, show us the utility you claim (assume?) to be present, how it outweighs the risks and costs and damage (not something you can do by inventing numbers, like “ten million to one”, btw), and show what you support that would minimize them. IOW, show us your responsibility, not your obstinacy. Can you?
I’m not pretending. I’m absolutely dead serious that I think you are an absolute disaster as a human being.
And you would know exactly what an absolute disaster as a human being looks like.
Damn those mirror things.
Well, some people may indiscriminately use it to apply to anyone that wants greater gun control, I do not. You can indiscriminately use the term homophobe and anti-Semite as well. I see the term anti-Semite being applied to people who criticize Israel and I see the term homophobe being used to describe people who oppose making homosexuals a protected class.
That doesn’t make those terms useless.
To be fair, I think what happens is folks Like Elvis do not actually have a lot of interaction with gun owners and develops his impression of gun owners from liberal sources and naturally thinks that gun owners are unhinged and just aching to kill someone. Its the result of an echo chamber without a reality check.
Its like Japanese tourists who watch movies like Death Wish and come here thinking that black men are inclined to be rapists and murderers.
Why would use by anyone other than a gun enthusiast make the word any less valid?
I can’t think of many instances where someone who is NOT in favor of gay rights accuses someone else of being a homophobe.
When did I use the word “accuse”? For example, here is a site that uses the word “homophobia” in a clinical setting. No accusations or insults involved, and I can provide more examples easily if asked, because it’s a condition that was been studied by varied professional/scientific groups.
Now, without your bizarre misinterpretation, can you answer my original question:
Can you link to sites where “hoplophobia” is used by someone other than a gun enthusiast?
Because if it is only used by gun enthusiasts, then it is an insider term that is of use(and interest) only to gun enthusiasts. Duh.
Just another example of why no one will take you seriously. We can never tell if you are just too lazy to correct your woeful ignorance or if you’re being deliberately dishonest in spreading FUD to promote your agenda.
I apologize for getting it all wrong.
It wasn’t a gun shop-It was a gun range in Pflugerville.
That seemed like a clever insult to you? This is your idea of a cutting remark? Wow.
The campus carry bill is for concealed carry.
But don’t let significant details distract you.
And many are. They’re in the news every day. On occasion, in your rare lucid moments, you have even admitted they even sometimes exist, although you quickly proceed to calling them “acceptable”.
What do you use for *your *reality checks?
The counterexamples to your fantasy number in the tens of thousands every year. To deny it is to admit mental illness, however.
You fancy yourself as being one of the “good guys”, one of the “law-abiding citizens”, but in fact you’re part of the problem, aren’t you? There is no way to convince anyone else you’re not ever going to be a threat, because you don’t even know it yourself - in fact, deep inside that still-remaining sane core that may exist, you know you’re not. Yes, you may be less of a threat than that posed by an emotionally-disturbed child like Scumpup, but that’s only a matter of degree, isn’t it?
Yeah, **esch **(can I call you esch?) can’t you come up with something a little more clever and erudite? Like accusing him of wanting to rape toddlers or something?
I know this was directed at Damuri Ajashi, but I have to question your meaning here. Are you saying that, as a gun owner, I am more likely to go on a killing spree than someone who doesn’t own a gun?
Of course. People with the means to kill, at the moment they want to, are more likely to kill than those who lack the means.
How is that unclear? Are you of the view that having a gun makes you *immune *to anger?
And I know you’re not addressing ME with this, but…Not necessarily. But if you were to go on a killing spree armed with your weapon of choice then you would almost certainly be able to kill a LOT more people in a given period of time than you would be if you were armed with a baseball bat or a knife or a shard of glass.
Cop murders ex-wife while child looks on: Off-Duty New Jersey Police Officer Charged With Murdering Ex-Wife in Front of Daughter, 7: Prosecutor – NBC New York