Comments on: Anti-gun piece at Vandy

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:02:20 +0000

I’ve been dancing in Apache Junction, thought I might need rescue. No cell phones in those days, either.

By: Nylarthotep

Nylarthotep — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:12:13 +0000

I’m a gambler of this sort:

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

Thomas Jefferson

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:06:02 +0000

Linoge Says:

October 16th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Sorry, but first off, I generally do not gamble, and secondly, I think I am more willing to gamble on my accuracy than the odds of everyone in America suddenly getting along and criminals not raping/murdering/robbing/mugging/assaulting/etc. other people.

Believe it or not there are people who acually believe that criminals WONT go after unarmed, defensless people!

In July 2006, when I was hiking in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona and was carrying a rifle, I encountered 2 other hikers who asked me why I was armed. I told them that since I was waaaaay out in the middle of nowhere it seemed like a good idea to have the means to defend myself. They said that they didnt have to worry about that since they could call for help on their cellphone and what’s more no one would attack them like criminals would me. I asked how they figured that crooks would be more likely to attack me than them and they said “because you have a gun and we dont”.

Now what kind of reasoning is that? That criminals are going to go after a ARMED person who most likely would fight if attacked over unarmed people who’ll just attempt to call for help on a cellphone? This conversation totally blew my mind.

BTW, the nearest place any called for help could have come, assuming the cellphone could connect with anyone, from was Apache Junction and even by helicopter would’ve been at least a hour.

By: Ron W

Ron W — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:02:49 +0000

I was just wondering if Soo Yang may be Chinese? I think it was Mao who said, “the Communist Party must control the guns” and “power comes out the barrel of a gun”. The gamble of allowing the state to control the guns has been demostrated to be a very bad one for citizens; especially in the 20th Century (like China) where Mao murdered about 50 million of his own people in the “Cultural Revolution”.

By: Ron W

Ron W — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:11:17 +0000

So let Soo Yang, the anti-gun gambler gamble that criminals will respect his unarmed pacifism…something he’s quite free to do. But he evidently wants to enforce his way of gambling with hired guns taking away my guns.

By: Linoge

Linoge — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:51:18 +0000

Sorry, but first off, I generally do not gamble, and secondly, I think I am more willing to gamble on my accuracy than the odds of everyone in America suddenly getting along and criminals not raping/murdering/robbing/mugging/assaulting/etc. other people.

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Call me Ahab » Blog Archive » I love college kids — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:08:40 +0000

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