Everyone over 18. BUY A GUN!, page 5

Originally posted by Karma2600
reply to post by ohyeahdavid

The gun gives over confidence and the environment of fear.

Noooo.... The gun gives some degree of confidence, but most gun owners hope they never have to find out how good they are with a gun. "Over confidence" is what a bully feels when he thinks no one else is armed.

And actually, fear is reduced, with people feeling somewhat safer knowing that at least they have a fighting shot (pun intentional) at protecting themselves from a rogue government.

The confidence you have a gun the fear they also have a gun too. The fear you need to use your gun before they overcome their fear and have the confidence to use theirs.

The concern that others are armed actually enhances people's behavior toward one another. Except when an armed military goon is coming to drag you off to a FEMA camp, you are likely to try civility first. And in the case of a goon, you're justified in pulling the trigger.

Killing anything with a gun is easy as the gun holder doesnt really need to kill. They can accidentally pull that trigger and the gun does what a gun does. It hates.

Ok. This had me laughing. The gun "HATES!?!" Ah, c'mon now, dude. How many inanimate objects are you aware of that have emotions? Do rocks have crushes? Do cars experience ennui? Fence posts get butterflies in their...er...hmmmm.

IF - that's IF - a gun is accidentally fired, it does what it does. It fires. No emotion involved. And yes, sometimes that can happen, but sometimes cars can hate - er... malperform because they slip on unseen ice, slide to the edge of the road and cause death. Shall we throw the babies out with the bathwater? Get rid of any tool that MIGHT cause death? Gimme a break.

Point it at your kids your mom your dog yourself

WHAT!?! Oh, now this is just foolishness. Unless any of the above were attacking me with intent to kill me (as if!), I would NEVER point a gun at any of them - or anybody else who is not threatening me.

- as long as confidence or fear gives you the ability to - click - then your involvement in the issue is taken over by the physics and velocity of a projectile traversing feet per second towards its target.

I'm beginning to think that maybe you're one sick puppy. Do you envision yourself doing this stuff??? Man, if so, you need help. Seriously.

So when those guns fail, jam or even get knocked away in whatever scenario or situation of random probability, what then?

Then you work with what you have left. What about it? Are you saying you are WORSE off having had the gun and it failing, or for whatever reason cannot be used, than never having it the first place? This is prime lack of logic.

The confidence over fear issue is suddenly open to greater factors when it has to be done manually. The physical and mental endeavours enforced upon each party to strangle, choke, stab, beat, claw, bite, suffocate, drown or even bore the other party to death.

Frankly, I have no clue what this above is trying to say but that it adds reinforcement to the concept that you harbor some rather twisted thoughts by virtue of the string of ugly verbs...

[edit on 10/12/2008 by Amaterasu]