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Callisto32

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33. It means some other people (think "active shooters") view people as targets,
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:17 AM
Aug 2012

and disarming everyone else via stupid "gun free zone" rules that only works on the folks NOT there to shoot the place up (kinda like how locks really only keep your friends out) and so when an active shooter type shows up, all the NOT there to shoot the place up folks become the targets.

Since gun free zones are often the places where people congregate in large-ish groups, they tend to be "target rich environments."

I thought that was perfectly clear.

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Today ends in a Y, so it must be time for another google dump n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #1
The root disease is paranoia and the irrational fear of others Bragi Aug 2012 #2
Legal gun owners do not "think they need to be able to threaten or kill anyone, anytime" shadowrider Aug 2012 #3
Your sig line makes my point better than I can. - NT Bragi Aug 2012 #4
You don't like my sig line, fine. You're not the first to say that and I doubt you'll be the last. shadowrider Aug 2012 #5
Not trying to disprove anything but geckosfeet Aug 2012 #9
Then I must be doing something wrong. For as many years as I've owned guns and carried shadowrider Aug 2012 #14
My concern is thinking of people as targets. geckosfeet Aug 2012 #30
It means some other people (think "active shooters") view people as targets, Callisto32 Aug 2012 #33
I always considered people shot in mass killings as crime victims. geckosfeet Aug 2012 #40
I think we are talking past one another. Callisto32 Aug 2012 #41
Well,,, I do think that I understand what your sig line means. And I find it offensive. geckosfeet Aug 2012 #42
Would the following change to the sig line make you happy? GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #44
My sig line means "hurry slowly." Callisto32 Aug 2012 #45
I do not consider my coworkers or myself as targets. Trunk Monkey Aug 2012 #36
+1 Hoyt Aug 2012 #28
so all the Missycim Aug 2012 #7
I'm sorry for your fear and paranoia Bragi Aug 2012 #8
Like most people do? Then he'll be living in a gun-free zone other than Chicago. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2012 #13
like Chicago . . .? Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2012 #15
whos said Missycim Aug 2012 #18
Infectious disease happens too Bragi Aug 2012 #22
i agree Missycim Aug 2012 #26
It's obvious... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2012 #20
As others have said Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #21
That sort of defines the function of a body guard? Remmah2 Aug 2012 #34
"they think need to be able to threaten or kill anyone, anytime" PavePusher Aug 2012 #38
The root disease is paranoia and the irrational fear of inanimate objects. cleanhippie Aug 2012 #39
Question for doctors: BigAlanMac Aug 2012 #6
More cigarette smoking safeinOhio Aug 2012 #10
Gun culture is a chronic disease, not an infectious one Bragi Aug 2012 #11
how is that so? Missycim Aug 2012 #19
Yet in America the patient is getting healthier hack89 Aug 2012 #31
Ah....more all gunowners are precriminals talk. ileus Aug 2012 #12
I wonder how many of those Drs have guns in their own homes? Every Dr I know is a gun owner. Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2012 #16
Don't you know Drs. have education and are responsible? Not like the every day riff raff. n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #24
but, but, And I quote from one of our more infamous anti2Aers -- Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2012 #27
The tools of the trade. discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2012 #17
Pre ban tools. Remmah2 Aug 2012 #35
A real assault hammer discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2012 #37
Interesting analogy, but it would help if the contributors knew something about firearms. aikoaiko Aug 2012 #23
To add, modern day firearms don't go off "accidentally". Someone HAS to pull the trigger. n/t shadowrider Aug 2012 #25
The fallacy that exposes the agenda sarisataka Aug 2012 #29
Trust me I'm a doctor. Remmah2 Aug 2012 #32
The "epidemic of violence" is in fact a pandemic of propaganda. Simo 1939_1940 Aug 2012 #43
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