2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How to shut up a gun nut about his Second Amendment rights. [View all]Mr.Pain
(52 posts)Pretend its a parallel universe and you need to travel by air. You pick up your boarding pass as usual, however you find yourself also given a special weapon, a gun, with a special type of bullet that will not penetrate the aircraft hull, and you are asked to step aside and receive a moment of training about how to use it. You are instructed that IF someone one the plane were to assault a passenger or crew member that you should act swiftly to render that person unable to continue an attack. What if everyone on the plane had the same "special gun" and the same instructions. My questions are as follows. Would it be considered a "level playing field"? Do you think that your safety would be at higher risk? If you were indeed a terrorist with a plan, would you reconsider? Would you treat the person sitting next to you with the utmost respect?
Personally, I would be on my best behavior.
As a science fiction nut I just couldn't help but imagine this scenario, while I was reading the previous posts.
Orwell would be proud!