Re: Not always joking, it seems

John Schilling wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:20:08 GMT, "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>> "John Schilling" <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:39:36 GMT, "Karl Johanson" 
>>> <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>
>>>> 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?
> 
>> No, but I'm moderately well trained in firearms use. And I don't
suggest 
>> every one would, or would in every case. 
> 
> Ah, so *you* can be trusted with guns, it's just everyone else that we
> have to be careful about.
> 
> This is a surprisingly common view among gun-control proponents.
> 
> 
>> As I said, "it can go lots of ways".
> 
> And yet it never, ever, ever *has* gone the way you describe, in spite
> of the fact that there have been and still are many human cultures in
> which a large fraction of the population goes armed.
> 
> But why bother letting pesky little facts get in the way of the bit
> where you imagine you're so much better than everyone else?
> 
> 


How many countries do you know of where "a large fraction of the 
population *goes armed*?"

Countries with high percentages of gun owner****p don't necessarily 
equate to the citizens actually _carrying_ the guns on a day to day 
basis.  ("go armed")

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Jette Goldie
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