Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:39:36 GMT, "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:


>It can go lots of ways. ...he's suicidal and/or psychotic, so he shoots 
>anyway. 100 people start firing their shot guns at the stage. Some are 
>bad shots, some are only good shots when they aren't full of adrenalin 
>(and these are side arms, not sniper rifles). Some audience members are 
>hit. Students in the hall hear hundreds of gunshots and burst into the 
>room with their sidearms, looking to put an end to whatever nastiness is 
>going on in the auditorium. Some shoot at the shooters in the audience 
>(seeing the hamburgered guy on stage, and lots of screaming and bleeding 
>audience members). Students in the audience shoot back, thinking the 
>ones who came from the hall might be with the guy they shot on stage.

Is this truly how you expect you would react yourself, if for whatever
reason you happened to be carrying a gun?  

You'd shoot into a crowd, in the general direction of a villain, even
as other armed men and women have a clear field of fire to engage him
without risk to bystanders?  And then shoot any armed man who came to
the scene of the crime, on the grounds that he might be in cahoots with
the original villain?  Or, if you weren't there from the start, you'd
respond to the sound of gunfire by ru****ng in and shooting every armed
man you saw?

Interesting.  Where do you live again?


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