Armed America

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by jinx

If I felt the need to own a gun, to protect myself and my children, while my husband works long hours in a different state, why would you argue with me? Keep in mind that we don't have local police - just the state police about 1/2 hour away. Why do you think I should, hypothetically, give up my handgun?

Sorry, but one more thing. If you plan to protect yourself from something like a home invasion, you'd better have your handgun with you, ready to fire. If your gun is in the bedroom, or locked in a safe, before you can get to the gun the invader will have bashed in your skull with Jim's old bowling trophy.

Now, if you are carrying the gun around the house, or keep it in a convenient place, it's much more likely to be gotten a hold of by the kids, with the result possibly being injury or death. That's a risk I'm not willing to take, in my house with my family. The likelihood of a home invasion is much less than the likelihood of misuse or accident.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Now, if you are carrying the gun around the house, or keep it in a convenient place, it's much more likely to be gotten a hold of by the kids, with the result possibly being injury or death. That's a risk I'm not willing to take, in my house with my family. The likelihood of a home invasion is much less than the likelihood of misuse or accident.

That's precisely the point, I'm not telling you what to do in your house. You don't seem to feel the same.


But yes, guns can be such a bother. Now I have to drive all the way to Boothwyn, must be 3 or 4 miles, to pick up another gun I've won. The 7th I've won IIRC.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's precisely the point, I'm not telling you what to do in your house. You don't seem to feel the same.
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How many times have I said V-O-L-U-N-T-A-R-Y?

[xoxoxoBruce]

How many times have I said no? :p

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

How many times have I said no? :p

Then recant this:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's precisely the point, I'm not telling you what to do in your house. You don't seem to feel the same.
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Since it's precisely NOT the point, as I'm not telling you what to do in your house.

I'm appealing to reason. You don't have to see reason.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You appeal is not reasonable. It's also not logical nor would it be effective.
Use your head...you want me to voluntarily give up just my hand guns. Ok, how do I do that?

If I sell them, then someone else will have them, so how does that help? The guy that buys them might live next door to you.

Maybe I should put them in the Goodwill or Salvation Army collection boxes. That would get them into the right hands, huh?

How about beating them into plowshares? Nope, don't farm anymore.

Are you suggesting I destroy $11,000 worth of hand guns, that aren't hurting anybody, that are safely locked away, that don't make a stinkin' bit of difference in your life or anyone else's but my own, and if destroyed still wouldn't make a damn bit of difference to anyone but me?

Is that what you want, bunkie? Would that put your mind at ease? Would that let you sleep better?

Get a fuckin' life, Hillary.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I'm appealing to reason. You don't have to see reason.

Maybe you're being funny, maybe you aren't, but as a reasonable man I assure you you are appealing not to reason but to unreason -- and your own at that.

I am losing patience with you.

You're asking the rest of us to please be victims -- to satisfy your incomplete notion of civilized behavior. That's bullshit, that's immoral, and you need to be struck across the face. You're a pro-crime guy, Spexx, not a civilized man as a martial artist or a Heinlein fan would understand the term. You prove this with every post you make in pursuit of your monomaniac immorality here. We, the civilized, reject your anticivilization viewpoint and all its arguments. Our moral position -- that resisting evil actively is a mitzvah, regardless of how much violence evil may bring into the contest -- is so immeasurably superior to yours that we can keep you in a condition of defeat without effort, and for all time. You may die in your error, Spexx, but you cannot take us in with you.