Gun Control & RKBA

PavePusher

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38. "they think need to be able to threaten or kill anyone, anytime"

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:54 AM

Aug 2012

And you don't need a gun to do that. But it sure helps to defend oneself from it.

I have to ask: Have you volunteered to provide security for anyone outside your immediate family? If not, why should you have any legal or moral standing to question them providing for themselves?

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Gun violence targeted by doctors as a social disease [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2012 OP

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