throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop) wrote in
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>:: (again, as there are no schools where all the students are
>:: required to pack side arms).
>
>: Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>: And never, ever will, and no one has ever proposed that it
>: should.
>
> Well... Willie Mookie,
Yeah, that's a credit source.
> as a hypothetical
Which sup****ts what I said.
>
> From: Willie.Mookie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> om> I was imagining what might have happened in a Heinlein
> version of events - where all the kids packed side arms.
>
> (of course, that's "did" not "required", but still)
>
> So, as far as "this would happen in the real world if Charlton
> Heston gets his way", it's a straw man. As a response to WM,
> not as much straw.
Just irrelevant, in the way anti-gun arguments always are?
>
> In the hypothetical, the claim was that the potential berserk
> with a gun has only two choices: he doesn't brandish it
> threateningly, and zero people die, or he does, and one person
> dies (that is, his own self). It's fairly legitimate to point
> out that there are intermediates.
It's also fairly legitimate to point out that we have real world
data, and the intermediates that were hypothesized simply don't
happen.
> I find the specific proposed
> intermediate where (slight exageration) "all die, oh the
> embarassment" to be particularly unlikely. None of the examples
> of friendly fire or panic fire into innocents were *that* bad,
> to my initial impression.
Nor even remotely similiar in circumstance.
> But still, it's a legitimate point in
> response to the WM hypothetical.
To the extent the hypothetical was legitimate, which it wasn't on
accounta being stupid.
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Terry Austin
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