White Pastie Faced Doughboys who think they are tough guys...

[braddy]

68. Again, you are creating a point of view that I don't have, a straw dog.

My point is that a weapon is a tool, I don't know where you get your obsession with weapons as an "identity", that seems to be typical of those who fear weapons, for some reason they see them not as tools, but as a statement, or a talisman of some sort, a political symbol or something tied to race, or gender, anything but merely a weapon, or tool.

Another constant of those fearful of weapons and who live in movie land fantasies of meeting robbers, rapists, and murderers in a karate battle is that they think everyone on the internet is like them, innocents with no or little hard core background or experience.

You do want him forever unarmed, that is what we are disagreeing about, that you want all the good guys to always be unarmed, to never grab, or possess, or carry, their familiar tools when the stuff hits the fan and when they are reading the situation accurately, as you say.

In your keyboard world, we merely Kung Fu the bad guys and win and save our wives and children, that is not exactly a soldiers thinking, and it sure doesn't fit the reality that lives outside your front door.

Weapons stop millions of crimes every year, and save countless lives in the world of reality.