“An armed society is a polite society.”
Michael Che on SNL: “The Constitution is a lot like our grandfather: He’s wise, we love him and he means well, but he’s getting really, really old. And every once in a while, he says something crazy, and we gotta go to the other room and discuss what we gon’ do about it.”
Snark aside, I can’t be too upset about this. Too many people don’t realize that the ancient instincts about what to do when faced with anger and confrontation don’t apply when guns are involved. An armed society needs to be a polite society; I’d chalk this up to the Darwinian selection still ongoing since the invention of repeating arms about 150 years ago.
I manage to be polite, and to be treated politely, with no guns.
If guns do cause politeness, it’s an artificial and insincere kind based on fear rather than goodwill.
Well said.
Big difference between manners and stark terror.
This can be logged as TWO successful instances of defensive gun use.
Win - win!
I’m not sure it can be called a successful defensive gun use. You haven’t defended yourself if you die. But each of them sacrificed their lives in order to take out a dangerous person, so they are heroes.
Actually, each of them was involved in the elimination of two dangerous people, so they’re even more heroic!
This seems to me to be a natural result of stand your ground.
If your armed and so is your antagonist, and you suspect your antagonist is crazy enough to shoot you then he is a threat and you are justified in shooting him first.
Meanwhile this thinking means that you are a threat to him and so he is justified in shooting you.
In fact you can go all meta and say that the fact that you think that he thinks that you think that he thinks that you are going to shoot him, means that you should shoot him.
Everyone better start practicing their quick draw skills.
This reminds me of the Blue Eyes puzzle which was recently discussed in the Game Room.
“In a village in America (it has to tbe America for the puzzle to work) all fifty people have guns. An outsider appears amd announces ‘One of you is thinking of shooting somebody.’ Fifty mornings later all the villagers go to the OK corral and massacre each other.”
… And all the corpses are acquitted. Self defense! Second Amendment!! Yay, America!!!
So now the argumet for guns is that it helps evolution? :rolleyes: Especially amusing since many or most gun owners think that God created the world 6000 years ago.
I suppose one could say this was gun stupid multiplied by Facebook stupid multiplied by selfie stupid. Stupid cubed.
Oscar Otero
Playing with guns while drinking isn’t safe at any age. Oscar Otero, 21, pointed a .45-caliber pistol for a selfie he later planned to post on Facebook. He accidentally pulled the trigger and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Kansan, to celebrate the state’s changed concealed carry law, shoots himelf in the leg.
Speaking of concealed carry, over in the Mundane and Pointless forum someone proudly recounts a day when he carried concealed, and no one ever knew! Does anyone have a clue what he’s talking about? Does he think objections to concealed carry are that the concealment will fail? :smack:
You don’t know how many of the people you’ve passed by were carrying concealed, because none of them shot you. Feel better now? 
I’m sure there’s something very cutesy about your snark, but it still leaves me baffled.
What was the Mundane thread about? Why do gun lovers think gun haters object to concealed carry? (i.e., what is the gun haters’ reason?) For that matter, do gun haters object especially to concealed carry? Do gun lovers think they do?
Father charged with felony child endangerment when three-year-old is shot and killed by his six-year-old brother:
Now that we know that it is not unconstitutional to charge gun owners with a crime when their guns are misused, we can expand it to hold other gun owners liable whenever they fail to maintain control over the use of their guns.
VICE: How Scared Should I Be of Getting Shot?
Lots of statistics in that article, including:
Although again, even though the rates are broken down by demographic group, they still presume that the distribution of gun deaths within groups is random, which is almost certainly not the case.
From another source, I learned that THE FATHER ACTUALLY TOLD THE SON WHERE THE GUN WAS. So of course the six year old would get the gun at the first opportunity.
Idiot.
Please answer my questions, Lumpy (and others). I really am baffled.