If David Frum explanations for shootings aren't dumb enough for you, the Arizona Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights group, has written up legislation to end assassination attempts directed at legislators: make "members of Congress and people who work for them" from Arizona undergo "firearms training, using firearms confiscated by the state." Sounds like fun!
The pervasive "if more people had a gun" scenario is seductive. I could draw my firearm and take out the perp with a clean shot to the chest. Just like in that movie with Bruce Willis or Mark Wahlberg or whoever.
In a real life stressful situation, things would never go so well. Hell, I usually have trouble answering my cell phone if it's not already in my hand.
In the actual event, Loughner emptied his gun in a matter of seconds -- lets say 30 rounds, 1 second each. Then bystanders hit him with a chair and tackled him to the ground. And those were retiree bystanders who probably don't hit the weight circuit every day. My point is we need more people to carry folding chairs and a couple of elderly people with them at all times.
...well, considering the fact that these numb nuts masturbate to old Dirty Harry movies explains it all! In their imaginary shyt for brains world; if you hand a senile grandma with advance stage cerebral palsy a .50 cal she will magically be able to shoot the testicles off of a flea!!!
AND there's no way that a real or false alarm in class could go wrong with everyone in the class shooting randomly and bullets flying everywhere, deflecting off those cinderblock walls.
AND people who aren't careful about getting their work done and turned in, or getting help when they need it would be very cautious about maintaining the guns, keeping the safety on, etc.
This reminds me of the call here in Virginia after the shootings at Va Tech to mandate that every college professor carry firearms. Wouldn't that be an interesting classroom? I've never get my Glock (or whatever) out fast enough to shoot down a student who had the first draw and was 30 years younger. BUT if someone didn't answer a discussion question correctly, I could pull it out and muse aloud as to whether the safety was on or not.
The pervasive "if more people had a gun" scenario is seductive. I could draw my firearm and take out the perp with a clean shot to the chest. Just like in that movie with Bruce Willis or Mark Wahlberg or whoever.
In a real life stressful situation, things would never go so well. Hell, I usually have trouble answering my cell phone if it's not already in my hand.
In the actual event, Loughner emptied his gun in a matter of seconds -- lets say 30 rounds, 1 second each. Then bystanders hit him with a chair and tackled him to the ground. And those were retiree bystanders who probably don't hit the weight circuit every day. My point is we need more people to carry folding chairs and a couple of elderly people with them at all times.
...well, considering the fact that these numb nuts masturbate to old Dirty Harry movies explains it all! In their imaginary shyt for brains world; if you hand a senile grandma with advance stage cerebral palsy a .50 cal she will magically be able to shoot the testicles off of a flea!!!
...and a communist flea at that!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
You sound knowledgeable...
AND there's no way that a real or false alarm in class could go wrong with everyone in the class shooting randomly and bullets flying everywhere, deflecting off those cinderblock walls.
AND people who aren't careful about getting their work done and turned in, or getting help when they need it would be very cautious about maintaining the guns, keeping the safety on, etc.
This reminds me of the call here in Virginia after the shootings at Va Tech to mandate that every college professor carry firearms. Wouldn't that be an interesting classroom? I've never get my Glock (or whatever) out fast enough to shoot down a student who had the first draw and was 30 years younger. BUT if someone didn't answer a discussion question correctly, I could pull it out and muse aloud as to whether the safety was on or not.