An increased bias toward gun use. Which is what I said in the first place.
OK, umm …
I mean, bleaugh.
“twist” is right.
Hardly the first fairy tale the NRA has told. In reality, of course, the wolf would be carrying too.
The appropriate response, where the characters accidentally shoot themselves or their kids or spouses, would be too grim for a fairy tale, even though it’s far more likely to be the outcome than scaring off a burglar or murderer. And given how the murderer is often a family member in the first place, putting a gun in the house just increases the odds your murderer will be coming at you with the weapon you purchased. Or how about a nice fairy tale about an entire school being shot up because teenager decided to take the weapons he acquired from home and get revenge on some bullies.
Not only are these stories not very suitable for children, none of them are fairy tales.
But, if you wanted to combat the delusion that guns make people safer, resulting in writing books for kids explaining how great they are, the contrary books written for kids explaining how terrible they are wouldn’t be very kid-friendly.
All you need to do is look at countries where guns are less commonplace and you’ll see fewer people get shot. It’s not a coincidence. People are generally dangerous or clumsy animals and should not have guns. Even in the “right” hands, the wrong hands are nearby.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Or not having firearms everywhere in the first place. And sometimes the good guy with a gun becomes a bad guy, or a negligent guy, and people die anyway.
Could we make sure to include how safe and powerful people feel when having guns, leading them into more confrontations that they would have avoided being in in the first place if they weren’t packing?
Some guy just cut me off in traffic, I’m going to deliberately try to piss him off because what am I afraid of? I have a gun! That means I can be a dickwad to people and nothing bad will happen, DIES THAT DAY BECAUSE STUPID.
Remember though that “less legal” is not the same as “less commonplace”. And if you think making guns illegaler will eliminate the “gun culture”, you’re starting at the wrong end of the population.
Which is why anyone who carries who is not an imbecile remembers that the other guy can be carrying too, and behaves as such.
“Shoots him first.”
Runs away.
People carrying are generally less likely to “run away”.
Huh. Some of the not-so-stupid:
NRA board member, Second Amendment scholar, and leading hoplophile intellectual Ted Nugent recently took a break from his busy schedule of policy research to throw some support to a Detroit entrepreneur.
Today on his Facebook page, the gun rights leader praised the business Two Niggers and a Stolen Truck. Mr. Nugent wrote:
You can learn more about this business that caught the attention of gun rights hero Nugent at the link:
The way to stop a bad man with a gun is with a good man who won’t sell him the gun in the first place.
That’s a “positive gun news” story. Hooray for responsible gun sellers!
Also less likely to be shot in the back?
And people not carrying at all are less likely to become mass murderers. Unlike all of these guys.
As always, the comments below the article are a mess of claims and counterclaims and the usual internet shitshow.
OK. Do you have anything that might support those claims? Other than the fact that its hard to use a gun unless you actually have a gun?
I mean isn’t that kind of like saying that people who have umbrellas are more prone to use them than people who don’t have umbrellas?
cite?
And how frequently does that gun save your life from criminals with guns (you realize that most gun murders are committed by people with a criminal history, right?
And what percentage of murders does this account for?
Cite.
No idea what you mean here.
And if you look at countries where cars are less commonplace, you’ll see fewer vehicular homicides. Most of those homicides are committed with a gun. Most of those gun homicides are committed with a handgun. most of those gun homicides are committed by someone that has a criminal history.
So what is your proposal to get all the bad guys with guns to turn them in? Or are you just saying that if we get everyone else to turn them in the criminals will feel some sort of pressure to turn in their guns as well?
Yes, everyone is born a relatively innocent baby and doesn’t become a criminal or murderer until later on. So how many of those gun crimes are committed by people who are already criminals and how many are committed by people who are legally allowed to purchase guns?
This is almost exactly the opposite of what I have seen happen to ordinary citizens who carry guns. Having a gun doesn’t give them police power and pulling out a gun has pretty dire consequences in every jurisdiction I can think of.
Considering the fact that CCW holders are more law abiding than the general population… considering the fact that they are more law abiding than police officers (at least they are in Texas), where do you get the notion that having a gun turn people into gunslingers?