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Flabbergasted

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16. I've given your reply a lot of thought.

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 07:22 PM

Dec 2012

This is totally off topic and an extremely broad reply. We could spend hours hashing out these links and I'm really not an expert anyway. I really wanted to discuss the psychology and sociology of guns.

That said I understand people feel a need to protect themselves and I'm not going to pretend that I can discern a practical solution to our "self defense" issues.

I think that often political discussions are misguided. I think there are vast areas that the majority of citizens can agree on but public discourse is easily subjected to the whims of the elite on either side of a debate. Ultimately it comes down to mistrust, authority and ego.

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The self defense myth. [View all] Flabbergasted Dec 2012 OP

Kick Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #1

Why does someone have to die for it to be a successful self defense incident? hack89 Dec 2012 #2

Just fire the gun in the air and it will scare off 99% of burglers davidn3600 Dec 2012 #3

That is both dangerous and illegal as hell hack89 Dec 2012 #4

Happened here in July, 2011 proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 #6

what goes up must come down melm00se Dec 2012 #5

Whoosh. Nt Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #13

I read and understood your OP hack89 Dec 2012 #14

That is not the point either. I'm not trying to insult anyone. Nor am I saying that guns don't Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #15

Makes sense and ban spare tires at the same time. nt jody Dec 2012 #7

Op is a sociological premise not an anti-gun position. Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #9

Say whut! An individual's right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is a "sociological premise"? jody Dec 2012 #10

Your twisting my words. I'm not suggesting anything about gun control at all. I'm just suggesting Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #11

Flabbergasted I would give my life and all I own to prevent another Sandy Hook Tragedy and all jody Dec 2012 #12

I've given your reply a lot of thought. Flabbergasted Dec 2012 #16

Sorry if I've already called this to your attention. If not, please consider my thread below. jody Dec 2012 #17

If you're serious about discussing "the psychology and sociology of guns", please become a regular jody Dec 2012 #18

I agree. gulliver Dec 2012 #8